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MA Gen L ch 36 § 24b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 24b - Records Affecting Title to Real Estate; Copies to Tax Assessors; Required Information

Section 24B. The register, or said register as the assistant recorder of the land court, in each county except Dukes and Nantucket counties, shall, upon the request in writing of the board of assessors of any city or town in his county or district, furnish such board with copies of such instruments recorded or registered in his registry as affect the title to real estate in the city or town of such board and as may be necessary for the records of such board for the purposes of taxation of real estate.  The said register or said assistant recorder, may at his option, furnish said board with an abstract card or cards in lieu of said copies which shall contain the following information:—the name of the city or town in which the land is situated, the name or names of the grantor and grantee, the date, an abstract of the description, the lot number and description of the plan, if any, referred to, the book and page or certificate of title number of the record, and such other information included in such instruments as is necessary for said board of assessors for its records.  Said register or assistant recorder shall require from each person who appears before him to record a deed to real property, such information as the commissioner of revenue may deem necessary to assist the assessors in the performance of their duties under sections eleven and thirty-eight of chapter fifty-nine. Said information shall be collected on a form approved by the commissioner of revenue and each completed form shall be forwarded by said register or assistant recorder to the board of assessors of the city or town in which the property lies.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 25 - Indexes; Number; Form

Section 25. He shall keep two indexes, each divided into six columns, with headings in one as follows:  And in the other as follows:    In Suffolk county neither index need contain the last column.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 26 - Entries in Indexes; Time and Manner of Making

Section 26. He shall, within twenty-four hours after a deed or other instrument which he is by law required to record has been left for record, cause the name of each grantor, grantee or other party thereto to be entered at length and alphabetically in the appropriate index, and in the appropriate column, if any, the name of the town where the land described in the instrument lies, if the same is therein disclosed. Within a reasonable time after such instrument has been recorded, he shall affix to such entry the number of the book and leaf or page where recorded.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 27 - Recordation; Instruments Executed by Agents; Decrees in Partition

Section 27. When an instrument by which a person transfers or conveys by authority of law the real estate of another is left for record, the register shall enter in the entry book and grantor index both the name of the nominal grantor and that of the real party in interest, if appearing therein, otherwise he shall enter such party as ''unknown'', under the letter U. When notice of the filing of a petition for partition or of amendment thereof, or a copy of a decree in partition is left for record, he shall enter in the entry book and in both the grantor and grantee indexes the names of all persons whose estates plainly appear to be affected thereby.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 28 - Classified Copies of Indexes

Section 28. Each register shall annually, at the expense of the county, cause competent persons to make copies of the indexes of the preceding year, in which the grantors and grantees shall be classified by their respective surnames in alphabetical order, and arranged thereunder in the order in which the deeds and other conveyances to which they refer were left for record. He may also cause the Christian names of the grantors and grantees, as well as their surnames, to be arranged in alphabetical order in such lists. Such copies shall in other respects be in the form required for the original indexes.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 29 - New or Copies of Indexes; Printing; Selling Price

Section 29. A register may, with the consent of the county commissioners, cause a competent person, at the expense of the county, to make copies of the indexes or new indexes to the records, or of any part thereof. Such copies may be printed at county expense and sold at a price not less than the cost of printing, paper and binding.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 30 - Estimates of Cost of Indexing

Section 30. Each register, except in Suffolk county, shall annually, before January first, file with the county commissioners an estimate in detail of the character, amount and cost of indexing which, in his judgment, may be required for the ensuing year, and the commissioners shall include in the estimates for county taxes so much thereof as in their judgment is necessary. The amount authorized may, under the direction of the register, be expended for the purposes specified in his said estimate, and shall be paid to the persons actually performing the work, on approval of the bills by the commissioners.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 31a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 31a - Notice to Commissioner of Revenue; Recording

Section 31A. Within sixty days after the recording of any deed in which the grantee is described as a trustee, or of any declaration of trust, the register in whose office such deed or declaration is recorded shall send by mail to the commissioner of revenue a notification of the recording thereof, stating the name of the grantor and of the grantee or the trustee, and the date of recording.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 32 - Instruments Creating Interest in Property; Notice to Department of Public Welfare

Section 32. Whenever there is filed for record in a registry of deeds any deed of trust or other instrument creating or increasing an estate or fund for benevolent, charitable, humane or philanthropic purposes, the register shall forthwith send to the department of public welfare a statement noting the book and page of the record, with the name, if any, of the said estate or fund, and by whom the said estate or fund has been created or increased, and by whom it is to be administered.  If an individual is receiving medical assistance under chapter one hundred and eighteen E and is either a grantee or grantor of an interest in real property, such individual shall comply with the provision of section thirteen A of said chapter one hundred and eighteen E requiring notice to the department of public welfare of certain transfers of property.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 32a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 32a - Identification of Husbands and Wives in Documents and Communications

Section 32A. Whenever the register, in any communication, document or writing intended for use outside the registry, identifies a husband and wife, he shall use the name of both husband and wife and shall not use a legal phrase as a substitute for either name.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 33 - Salaries

Section 33. The salaries of registers of deeds and all assistant registers of deeds shall be paid by their respective counties; and the salaries of registers of deeds shall be in full for all services rendered as register and as assistant recorder of the land court.  The salaries of the register of deeds for the county of Suffolk, and his assistants shall be as follows:—  Register: A sum equivalent to seventy-five per cent of the salary of an associate justice of the superior court.  First Assistant Register: A sum equivalent to the salary of the first assistant clerk of the superior court department for civil business in the county of Suffolk.  All other assistant registers: A sum equivalent to the salaries of the assistant clerks of the superior court department for civil business in the county of Suffolk.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 37 - Compensation for Title Work

Section 37. No register or assistant register shall demand or receive, directly or indirectly, compensation for title work performed by him or under his direction, in his registry.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 38 - Clerical Assistants; Compensation

Section 38. Registers shall annually be allowed for clerical assistance in their respective registries, to be paid by their respective counties, such amounts as shall be approved by the county commissioners.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 39 - Fees; Recordation; Disposition

Section 39. Each register shall enter in a cash book, which shall be the property of the county, all fees received by him for all official acts and services; and he shall, on the first day of each month, pay to the county treasurer, or other officer entitled to receive the same, all fees received during the preceding month, and shall render to him a sworn account thereof.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 40 - Technology Purchase's by Register of Deeds; Compatibility With Other Registers

Section 40. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the state secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations to ensure that all technology purchases by registries of deeds are compatible with each other.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 41 - Surcharge on Fees of Registers of Deeds and Assistant Recorders; Registries Under Control of County Government; Surcharge to Fund Improvements at Registries; Disposition of Surcharge

Section 41. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the fees of each of the registers of deeds and of the assistant recorders, except as otherwise provided, to be paid when the instrument is left for recording, filing or deposit shall be subject to a surcharge of $5. The surcharge shall be imposed for the purpose of automation, modernization, operation and technological improvements at the registries of deeds. Only registries presently under the control of county government shall be subject to this section. From March 15, 2003, until June 30, 2025, all surcharges on fees collected pursuant to this section shall be forwarded to the County Registers Technological Fund established in section 2KKK of chapter 29. From July 1, 2025, all of the surcharges shall be forwarded to the General Fund as provided in section 2 of chapter 29.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 1 - Election

Section 1. A sheriff shall be elected in each county, as provided in section one hundred and fifty-nine of chapter fifty-four, for six years, beginning with the first Wednesday of January following his election, and until his successor is qualified.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 2 - Oath and Bond

Section 2. A sheriff, before performing any official act, shall be sworn and prior to being sworn, and thereafter, at intervals of not more than one year, so long as he continues to hold such office, shall give to the state treasurer a bond in such amount and with such sureties as the superior court shall order and approve, conditioned to perform faithfully his own duties and to be responsible for the official acts of his deputies. A default, malfeasance or misfeasance in office of a deputy sheriff or jailer after the death, removal or resignation of the sheriff by whom he was appointed, shall be a breach of the bond of such sheriff.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 3 - Deputies; Appointment; Oath

Section 3. A sheriff may appoint deputies, who shall be sworn before performing any official act.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 4 - Special Sheriff; Appointment; Oath; Bond; Powers

Section 4. He shall appoint a special sheriff, who shall be sworn and shall give such bond to the sheriff as he may require for the faithful discharge of his duties. A special sheriff shall have the authority of a deputy sheriff. Upon his qualification, the sheriff shall send a written notice thereof, giving the name and residence of the appointee, to the state secretary, who shall record such notice in a book kept for the purpose.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 5 - Special Sheriffs; Powers and Duties

Section 5. If, by reason of illness, absence, interest or otherwise, the sheriff is unable to perform his official duties, they shall be performed by the special sheriff, and compensation therefor, if not otherwise provided for, shall be paid by the sheriff. During a vacancy in the office of sheriff, the special sheriff, first giving bond as required of the sheriff, shall perform all the duties of the sheriff, and the deputies of the former sheriff shall continue to exercise the powers of deputy sheriffs.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 7 - Failure to Post Bond; Penalty

Section 7. A sheriff neglecting or refusing to give bond as required in section eighteen of chapter thirty shall forfeit one hundred and fifty dollars for each month's neglect, at the suit of the attorney general. The superior court shall forthwith certify the fact of such neglect or refusal to the governor and council and to the attorney general, and, unless the sheriff satisfies the governor and council that there was reasonable cause for such neglect and gives security to their satisfaction within twenty days after the receipt of such certificate, the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall remove him from office.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 8 - Suits on Bonds of Sheriffs

Section 8. The holder of a judgment against a sheriff or his estate, for a cause which constitutes a breach of the condition of his official bond, or a person who has obtained an allowance of such claim against his estate, if settled as insolvent, may, at his own expense, prosecute a suit on such bond in the name of the state treasurer, and the proceedings shall be the same as in a suit by a creditor on an administration bond.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 9 - Copies of Sheriff's Bonds; Source; Use as Evidence

Section 9. The state treasurer shall deliver an attested copy of the official bond of any sheriff to any person applying and paying therefor, which shall be received as competent evidence in a case relating to the bond; but if the execution of the bond is disputed, the court may require the said treasurer to produce the original in court.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 10 - Suits Against Sheriff; Procedure for Satisfying Judgment

Section 10. A sheriff shall not be arrested upon mesne process or execution in a civil action. If judgment is rendered against him, either in his official or private capacity, the execution shall issue against his goods, chattels and land, but not against his body. If such execution is returned unsatisfied, the creditor may file with the governor and council an attested copy of the execution and return, and notify the sheriff. If he does not, within thirty days after such notice, pay to the creditor the whole amount of his debt, with reasonable costs of the copies and notice, the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall remove him from office. After the appointment of his successor, the clerk of the court from which any execution against him has issued, upon the return thereof unsatisfied, shall issue alias executions in common form, as well against the body as against the goods, chattels and land.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 11 - Duties of Sheriffs and Deputies; Service of Precepts

Section 11. Sheriffs and their deputies shall serve and execute, within their counties, all precepts lawfully issued to them and all other process required by law to be served by an officer. They may serve process in cases wherein a county, city, town, parish, religious society or fire or other district is a party or interested, although they are inhabitants or members thereof.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 12 - Duties of Sheriffs and Deputies; Service of Demands, Notices and Citations

Section 12. They may serve by copy, by them attested, demands, notices and citations not required by law to be served by an officer, and their returns of service thereof shall be prima facie evidence.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 13 - Powers and Duties; Requisition of Aid

Section 13. They may require suitable aid in the execution of their office in a criminal case, in the preservation of the peace, in the apprehending or securing of a person for a breach of the peace and in cases of escape or rescue of persons arrested upon civil process.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 14 - Service of Writs and Precepts After Removal

Section 14. They may execute precepts in their hands at the time of their removal from office; and, upon a vacancy in the office of sheriff, every deputy in office under him, having a writ or precept in his hands, shall have the same authority to serve, execute and return the same, as if the sheriff had continued in office.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 15 - Service of Writs Against the Sheriff or Deputies

Section 15. If a sheriff is a party to a suit or other proceeding, any writ, precept or process therein, required to be served or executed by a sheriff or deputy sheriff, shall be served or executed by the sheriff of an adjoining county, or his deputy.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 16 - Attendance at Sessions of Courts

Section 16. Sheriffs, by themselves or by their deputies may attend any session of the supreme judicial and superior courts in their respective counties, as may be requested by the chief justice of the trial court, and when required, meetings of the county commissioners. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, sheriffs shall not be required to supervise any officers for attendance on the various courts.
MA Gen L ch 37 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 37 - Sheriffs|Section 17 - Salaries

  Section 17. The salaries of sheriffs shall be paid by their respective counties and shall, except as hereinafter provided, be in full compensation for all services rendered both as sheriff and as superintendent or keeper of the jail or house of correction. If a sheriff elects to act, or his deputy acts, as superintendent or keeper of the jail or house of correction and resides thereat, he shall be entitled to rent, heat and light, and such subsistence as he may desire out of the regular subsistence rations purchased for prisoners, together with such other maintenance as may be determined from time to time by the county personnel board.[ Second paragraph effective until July 1, 2021. For text effective July 1, 2021, see below.]  The sheriffs of the counties of Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk and of the former counties of Berkshire, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and Worcester shall each receive a salary of $151,709. The sheriff of the county of Dukes shall receive a salary of $119,771. The sheriff of the county of Nantucket shall receive a salary of $95,816.[ Second paragraph as amended by 2021, 24, Sec. 19 effective July 1, 2021. See 2021, 24, Sec. 149. For text effective until July 1, 2021, see above.]  The sheriffs of the counties of Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk and of the former counties of Berkshire, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and Worcester shall each receive a salary of $171,900. The sheriff of the county of Dukes shall receive a salary of $135,610. The sheriff of the county of Nantucket shall receive a salary of $108,870.