**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  Wm~WUtdnoy J. Brom cf6ifiiv Ywslley Fort Bend County Richmond, Texan Dear 3lr: Opinion #o, O-7296

quoted ae follower Rer Whether County~Clerk Is requirod by law to record a gage on realty In b Mortgage Records an gage on 

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Reco feea shouldbo char

IIthe mortgagee wiehes the Chattel Xoctgage Records on
eetlon is this:

nort;;azes

u?on Fersonal pro?ert;- 2re rfq.:ired

**to** be recorded,in the oSSice 0,' the County Clerk b:j- the provisionsof A:*tlcle 51,3;,

V.A.C.Z., tiltpe:‘zi:.er,t ?al-tz 0," which **X0** quote below: ItEvery chattelmortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument of writing, intended to operate as a mortgage, or lien upon personal property Cud and every transfer theyeof which shall not be accox? ed b] an ixediate deliveryaon. Sidney J. Brown - Page 2

end be followedby an actual **and** contlnued change of possessionof the propertymortgaged,pledged, or affectedby such Instrument,shall be absolutelyvoid a8 against the creditor8of the mortgagor or person making same, as against absequent purchasersand 

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lien holder8 in good.faith unless such instrument,or a true copy thereof, ahad be forthwith depositedwith and filed in the offloe of the county clerk of.the countywhere the property shall then be eltuated,or if the mort bame be a resident of th fagor or'personmaking the a State, then, of the county of which he ahill at that time be .aresidenti.

. . ." Article 5494, P.A.C.S., establisherthe book to be kept ;;rit; County Clerk wherein chattelmortgage8 on pereonaltyare re-

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. Article 5498,V.A.C.S., then prOVide.8 for a classlfication of chattelmortgage8 defined a8 records of ahattelson realty and we quote below the essential prov&iom of that etatute:

W%.icle 5498; ‘Reo&da 

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When eni machil-ery or other manufactured auaceptble-of being atta&ed.to realty in such a way aa to becone a fixture thereto. . l and. , . there Is a lien 

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. . and such instrument is regleteredunder the provisionsof this Act.
. . then the registration.

. . . shall be notice.t.0 all persona. . . All euoh Instrument6 shallbe endorsed on the back thereof,to wit, ‘Liens on machinery eituated on realty’ and ahall be reCiet.erod in the county where the real estate is located in the manner a8 other chattelmortgage8 except that there shall be kept, indexed and recorded, a8 now herein provided for chattelmortgages,a senarate book to be endorsed *chattel 3ort;;a;e

records on realty’.
. .n (Znphasisac!de6) Thus, we have statutory ?rovisi ons for two books; oze w!:crein chat<elmortca=es on peraonalt;r are recorded and the other i.%lerelc rrort:c;e

E coverin; certain cbattcls attached to the realty are recorcec ;t* ic OL;” osirii=y.

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the separatebook 80 ?rovic!ed therein and endorsed “chattelxortL;aCe

recorcs on realty~~; that if the ?ersocslproxerty i.: not 23 rtxachedto the retllq cnC ccr.scquer.tly not coveredby &ticlsHon. Sidney J. 3rom - Pt;e 3

5496, thon it need be recorded in O&J the book providei for by Article 5494, supra. OS course, there my exist a sitxtion &erein a chattelmortgage includes both personal pro?ertjr and 8uCh personalproperty attached to the realty as is described by Article 5498, in which case the ill8trUQent involvf(: both kinds of property should be recorded in both book8 as provided for In Article 5494 and Article 5498, supra.
vided for Fee8 for the recordation of chattelmortga&es are proin Article 3930, V.A.C.S., as followsr *Article 3930. Comity Clerk "Clerks OS the County Court shall receive tho following fees:

"For filing and registeringand e.ntering satisfactionand rolease of each chattel nortgage . . . . .75" Only one fee is prescribedby the statute for the service8 listed with reference to each mortgage filed and the enount is fixed at sevent i-i -five (.75) cents. For the Bounty Clerk to properly perform t eae specific servicesv.dth reference to each such nortqage may require a recordation .intwo book8 as in the inetance we ate abovo. In our opinion, 

### this does not require the oharge of a double See and only one charge of seventqlve t.75) cents is cuthorized. Xe trust this satisfactorily

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