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RI Gen L § 34-13-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13 - Recording Of Instruments|Section 34-13-7 - General recording fees.

§ 34-13-7. General recording fees.(a) The fees to the recording officers for recording the following described instruments relating to real estate shall be as follows:  Warranty deed $80.00   Quitclaim deed 80.00   Deed of executor, administrator,     trustee, conservator, receiver,     or commissioner 80.00   Mortgage 60.00   Partial release of mortgage 45.00   Assignment of mortgage 45.00   Foreclosure deed under power of sale     with affidavit 80.00   Lease 60.00   General assignment 45.00   Discharge of mortgage 45.00   Discharge of attachment or execution 45.00   Any other instrument not otherwise     expressly provided for by statute 45.00   Lien -- Federal tax 7.25   Lien -- Federal tax, discharge of 7.25   Maps, plats, surveys, drawings (not     attached to or a part of another     recordable instrument) 45.00   Bill of sale 45.00   Power of attorney 45.00   Lis pendens 80.00   Writ of attachment or execution affecting     title to real estate 10.00   Writ of attachment or lien affecting title to mobile     and manufactured homes  2.00   Notice of intention under the mechanics' lien law 8.00   Account under mechanics' lien law 10.00  (b) The recording officers shall be allowed to charge a rate of one dollar ($1.00) for each additional page or fraction over.(c) Ten percent (10%) of the recording fees provided for in this section shall be utilized by each city or town for the purposes of document preservation and technological upgrades.(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the recording fee for lis pendens and/or bail property liens recorded by bailbondsmen and the recording fee to discharge lis pendens and/or bail property liens recorded by bailbondsmen shall be ten dollars ($10.00).History of Section.P.L. 1927, ch. 1056, § 18; G.L. 1938, ch. 436, § 17; P.L. 1955, ch. 3568, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 34-13-7; P.L. 1960, ch. 147, § 3; P.L. 1970, ch. 205, § 1; P.L. 1972, ch. 63, § 1; P.L. 1985, ch. 86, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 325, § 1; P.L. 1987, ch. 33, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 209, § 1; P.L. 2003, ch. 376, art. 7, § 10; P.L. 2004, ch. 448, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 137, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 143, § 1; P.L. 2010, ch. 90, § 1; P.L. 2010, ch. 112, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 374, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 396, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13 - Recording Of Instruments|Section 34-13-8 - Repealed.

§ 34-13-8. Repealed.History of Section.P.L. 1927, ch. 1056, § 19; G.L. 1938, ch. 436, § 18; P.L. 1955, ch. 3568, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 34-13-8; P.L. 1970, ch. 205, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 79, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 331, § 3; P.L. 1989, ch. 209, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 2012, ch. 374, § 2; P.L. 2012, ch. 396, § 2, effective June 21, 2012.
RI Gen L § 34-13-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13 - Recording Of Instruments|Section 34-13-9 - Fees for copies of record.

§ 34-13-9. Fees for copies of record.Recording officers shall charge one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per page and three dollars ($3.00) for certifying of the record of any instrument described in this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1927, ch. 1056, § 20; G.L. 1938, ch. 436, § 19; G.L. 1956, § 34-13-9; P.L. 1970, ch. 205, § 1; P.L. 1971, ch. 174, § 1; P.L. 1985, ch. 86, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 209, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 156, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 323, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13 - Recording Of Instruments|Section 34-13-10 - Return of recorded documents.

§ 34-13-10. Return of recorded documents.Any instrument presented for recording in the records of land evidence, which original is intended to be returned to the person recording or to an address previously indicated, shall be forwarded within one hundred eighty (180) days of the date the instrument was actually recorded.History of Section.P.L. 1985, ch. 290, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13 - Recording Of Instruments|Section 34-13-11 - Change in name or status of owner of real estate.

§ 34-13-11. Change in name or status of owner of real estate.Any person, corporation or limited liability company owning real estate or having an interest therein whose name has been changed, any corporation which has been merged into or consolidated with another, and any general or limited partnership which has converted to a limited liability company, shall, within sixty (60) days after the change, merger, consolidation, or conversion file with the city or town clerk or the recorder of deeds of the city or town in which the real estate is located a certificate, duly acknowledged, notarized, giving the name before and after the change, merger, consolidation or conversion and the city or town clerk or recorder of deeds shall record and index the certificate in the land records.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 417, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13 - Recording Of Instruments|Section 34-13-12 - Conveyance of property acquired prior to change of name.

§ 34-13-12. Conveyance of property acquired prior to change of name.Any person or corporation who conveys property acquired prior to a change of name shall state in the instrument of conveyance the name under which that person or corporation acquired the property, and the city or town clerk or recorder of deeds shall index the record of the instrument in the name under which the property was acquired and in the name under which it was transferred.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 417, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-1 - Marketable record title - Definitions.

§ 34-13.1-1. Marketable record title — Definitions.As used in this chapter:(a) "Marketable record title" means a title of record which operates to extinguish such interest and claims, existing prior to the effective date of the root of title as are stated in § 34-13.1-4.(b) "Person dealing with land" includes a purchaser of any estate or interest therein, a mortgagee, an attaching or judgment creditor, or any other person seeking to acquire an estate or interest therein, or impose a lien thereon;(c) "Recorded" means recorded as provided by chapter 13 of this title;(d) "Records" means the Land Evidence Records of the town or city where the particular land is located;(e) "Root of title" means that conveyance or other title transaction in the chain of title of a person, purporting to create or containing language sufficient to transfer the interest claimed by such person, upon which he relies as a basis for the marketability of his title, and which was the most recent to be recorded as of a date forty (40) years prior to the time when marketability is being determined. The effective date of the root of title is the date on which it is recorded;(f) "Title transaction" means any transaction affecting title to any interest in land, including, but not limited to, title by will or descent, title by tax deed, by public sale, by trustee's, referee's, guardian's, executor's, administrator's, conservator's, Tax collector's, sheriff's, commissioner's, constable's warranty or quitclaim deed, by mortgagee's deed or by decree of any court.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 363, § 14.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-2 - Chain of title for not less than forty years creates marketable record title.

§ 34-13.1-2. Chain of title for not less than forty years creates marketable record title.Any person having legal capacity to own land in this state, who has an unbroken chain of title to any interest in land for forty (40) years or more, shall be deemed to have a marketable record title to that interest, subject only to the matters stated in § 34-13.1-3. A person has such an unbroken chain of title when the land records of the town in which the land is located disclose a conveyance or other title transaction, of record not less than forty (40) years at the time the marketability is to be determined, which conveyance or other title transaction purports to create such interest in land, or which contains language sufficient to transfer the interest, either in the person claiming that interest, or some other person from whom, by one or more conveyances or other title transactions of record, the purported interest has become vested in the person claiming the interest; with nothing appearing of record, in either case, purporting to divest the claimant of the purported interest.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-3 - Interest to which title is subject.

§ 34-13.1-3. Interest to which title is subject.Such marketable record title is subject to: (1) All interest and defects which are created by or arise out of the muniments of which the chain of record title is formed; provided a general reference in the muniments, or any of them, to easements, use restriction, encumbrances or other interests created prior to the root of title are not sufficient to preserve them, unless specific identification is made therein of a recorded title transaction which creates the easement, use restriction, encumbrance or other interest; (2) all interests preserved by the recording of proper notice or by possession by the same owner continuously for a period of forty (40) years or more, in accordance with § 34-13.1-5; (3) the rights of any person arising from a period of adverse possession or use, which was in whole or in part subsequent to the effective date of the root of title; (4) any interest arising out of a title transaction which has been recorded subsequent to the effective date of the root of title from which the unbroken chain of title of record started; provided such recording shall not revive or give validity to any interest which has been extinguished prior to the time of the recording by the operation of § 34-13.1-4; (5) the exceptions stated in § 34-13.1-7 as to rights of reversioners in leases, as to apparent easements and interests in the nature of easements, and as to interests of the United States, this state and political subdivisions thereof, public service companies and natural gas companies; and (6) the rights or interests arising out of any conservation or preservation restriction and or easement, created either: (i) if executed and recorded subsequent to the effective date of chapter 39 of this title entitled "Conservation and Preservation Restrictions on Real Property", any conservation or preservation easement or restriction granted or reserved in accordance with and pursuant to the terms and provisions thereof; or (ii) if executed and recorded prior to the effective date of chapter 39 of this title, a conservation and/or preservation easement or restriction granted or reserved for the same, or substantially the same, stated purposes as those set forth in § 34-39-2, although executed and recorded prior thereto, and which is held by an entity duly recognized in chapter 39 of this title to hold such restrictions and/or easements.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1; P.L. 1998, ch. 330, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-4 - Prior interest void.

§ 34-13.1-4. Prior interest void.Subject to the matters stated in § 34-13.1-3 such marketable record title shall be held by its owner and such shall be taken by any person dealing with the land free and clear of all interests, claims or charges whatsoever, the existence of which depends upon any act, transaction, event or omission that occurred prior to the effective date of the root title. All such interests, claims or charges, however, denominated, whether legal or equitable, present or future, whether those interests, claims or charges are asserted by a person sui juris or under a disability, whether that a person is within or without the state, whether that person is natural or corporate is private or governmental, are hereby declared to be null and void.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-5 - Notice of claim filed within forty (40) year period.

§ 34-13.1-5. Notice of claim filed within forty (40) year period.(a) Any person claiming an interest of any kind in land may preserve and keep effective that interest by recording, during the forty (40) year period immediately following the effective date of the root title of the person whose record title would otherwise be marketable, a notice in writing, duly verified by oath, setting forth the nature of the claim. No disability or lack of knowledge of any kind on the part of anyone suspends the running of the forty (40) year period. Such notice may be recorded by the claimant or by any other person acting on behalf of any claimant who is: (1) Under a disability (2) unable to assert a claim on his or her own behalf or (3) one of a class, but whose identity cannot be established or is uncertain at the time of filing such notice of claim record.(b) If the same record owner of any possessory interest in land has been in possession of that land continuously for a period of forty (40) years or more, during which period no title transaction with respect to the interest appears of record in his or her chain of title and no notice has been recorded by him or her on his or her behalf as provided in subsection (a) of this section, and the possession continues to the time when marketability is being determined, that period of possession shall be deemed equivalent to the recording of the notice immediately preceding the termination of the forty (40) year period described in subsection (a) of this section.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-6 - Contents of notice - Recording - Indexing.

§ 34-13.1-6. Contents of notice — Recording — Indexing.(a) To be effective and to be entitled to recordation, the notice referred to in § 34-13.1-5 shall contain an accurate and full description of all land affected by the notice, which description shall be set forth in particular terms and not by general inclusions; but, if the claim asserted under § 34-13.1-5 is founded upon a recorded instrument, the description in the notice may be the same as that contained in the recorded instrument. In addition, each notice shall clearly state the then owner or owners of record of the property involved.(b) Each notice shall be recorded in the land records of the town where the land described there is located. The notice shall be indexed in the grantors' index under the name or names of the owners of record as listed in the notice and in the grantees' index under the name of the claimant appearing in the notice.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-7 - Excepted interests.

§ 34-13.1-7. Excepted interests.This chapter shall not be applied to bar any lessor or is or her successor as a reversioner of his or her right to possession on the expiration of any lease or to bar or extinguish any easement or interest in the nature of an easement, or any rights granted, excepted or reserved by the instrument creating such easement or interest, including any right for future use, if the existence of such easement or interest is evidenced by the location beneath, upon or above any part of the land described in such instrument of any pipe, valve, road, wire, cable, conduit, duct, sewer, track, hole, tower or other physical facility and whether or not the existence of such facility is observable, or to bar, extinguish or otherwise affect any interest of the United States, of this state or any political subdivision thereof, of any public utility company as defined in § 39-1-2.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-8 - Other statutes not affected.

§ 34-13.1-8. Other statutes not affected.Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to extend the period for bringing an action or for doing any other required act under any statute of limitation, nor, except as herein specifically provided, to affect the operation of any statute governing the effect of the recording or the failure to record any instrument affecting land.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-9 - Notice not to be recorded to slander title damages.

§ 34-13.1-9. Notice not to be recorded to slander title damages.No person may use the privilege of recording notices under §§ 34-13.1-5 and 34-13.1-6 for the purpose of slandering the title to land. In any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the court finds that any person has recorded a claim for that purpose only, the court shall award the plaintiff all the costs of the action, including such attorneys' fees as the court may allow to the plaintiff, and in addition, shall decree that the defendant asserting the claim shall pay to the plaintiff all damages the plaintiff may have sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so recorded.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-10 - Construction.

§ 34-13.1-10. Construction.This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating land title transactions by allowing persons to rely on a record chain of title as described in § 34-13.1-2 subject only to such limitations as appear in § 34-13.1-3.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.1-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.1 - Marketable Record Title|Section 34-13.1-11 - Forty year period extended to all for recording of notice.

§ 34-13.1-11. Forty year period extended to all for recording of notice.If the forty (40) year period specified in this chapter has expired, or would expire, prior to two (2) years after the effective date of this statute, such period shall be extended two (2) years after the effective date of this statute to allow for the recording of notice pursuant to this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.2-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.2 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 34-13.2-1 - Short title.

§ 34-13.2-1. Short title.This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act."History of Section.P.L. 2018, ch. 101, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 113, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.2-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.2 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 34-13.2-2 - Definitions.

§ 34-13.2-2. Definitions.As used in this chapter:(1) "Document" means information that is:(i) Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and(ii) Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the recorder of deeds.(2) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.(3) "Electronic document" means a document that is received by the recorder of deeds in an electronic form.(4) "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document.(5) "Jurisdiction" means any municipality, city, or town incorporated in the state of Rhode Island.(6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited-liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.(7) "Recorder of deeds" means the officer who has authority under state law to accept documents for recording in the land records office. This could include such officers as the "registrar", "clerk", and/or the "recorder".(8) "State" means the state of Rhode Island.History of Section.P.L. 2018, ch. 101, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 113, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.2-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.2 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 34-13.2-3 - Validity of electronic documents.

§ 34-13.2-3. Validity of electronic documents.(a) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, be on paper or another tangible medium, or be in writing, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic document satisfying this chapter.(b) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be signed, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic signature.(c) A requirement that a document or a signature associated with a document be notarized, acknowledged, verified, witnessed, or made under oath is satisfied if the electronic signature of the person authorized to perform that act, and all other information required to be included, is attached to or logically associated with the document or signature. A physical or electronic image of a stamp, impression, or seal need not accompany an electronic signature.History of Section.P.L. 2018, ch. 101, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 113, § 1.
RI Gen L § 34-13.2-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 34 - Property|Chapter 34-13.2 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 34-13.2-4 - Recording of documents.

§ 34-13.2-4. Recording of documents.(a) In this section, "paper document" means a document that is received by the recorder of deeds in a form that is not electronic.(b) A recorder of deeds:(1) Who implements any of the functions listed in this section shall do so in compliance with the most recent standards and best practices.(2) May receive, index, store, archive, and transmit electronic documents.(3) May provide for access to, and for search and retrieval of, documents and information by electronic means.(4) Who accepts electronic documents for recording shall continue to accept paper documents as authorized by state law and shall place entries for both types of documents in the same index.(5) May convert paper documents accepted for recording into electronic form.(6) May convert into electronic form information recorded before the recorder of deeds began to record electronic documents.(7) May accept electronically any fee or tax that the recorder of deeds is authorized to collect pursuant to § 34-13-7.(8) May agree with other officials of other cities or towns within the state on procedures or processes to facilitate the electronic satisfaction of prior approvals and conditions precedent to recording and the electronic payment of fees and taxes.History of Section.P.L. 2018, ch. 101, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 113, § 1.