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MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-202 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 2 - Priorities Based on Recording|Section 3-202 - Possession Under an Unrecorded Deed

    If a grantee under an unrecorded deed is in possession of the land and his possession is inconsistent with the record title, his possession constitutes constructive notice of what an inquiry of the possessor would disclose as to the existence of the unrecorded deed.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-203 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 2 - Priorities Based on Recording|Section 3-203 - Subsequent Deed; Priority of Deed First Recorded

    Every recorded deed or other instrument takes effect from its effective date as against the grantee of any deed executed and delivered subsequent to the effective date, unless the grantee of the subsequent deed has:         (1)    Accepted delivery of the deed or other instrument:            (i)    In good faith;            (ii)    Without constructive notice under § 3-202; and            (iii)    For a good and valuable consideration; and        (2)    Recorded the deed first.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-204 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 2 - Priorities Based on Recording|Section 3-204 - Interests in Rents or Profits

    An interest created by a deed granting, assigning, or otherwise transferring an interest in rents or profits arising from property is perfected upon recordation as provided in this title:         (1)    Regardless of whether, by its terms or otherwise, the grant, assignment, or transfer is operative immediately, or upon the occurrence of a specific event, or under any other circumstances; and        (2)    Without the grantee, assignee, or transferee having to make any affirmative demand or take any further affirmative action.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-301 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 3 - Record Books and Indexes|Section 3-301 - Record Books

    (a)    If the person offering a deed or other instrument affecting property for record first pays the recording fees, the clerk of the circuit court of each county shall record every deed and other instrument affecting property in well-bound books to be named “Land Records”, if that is the practice in the county, or on microfilm, if that is the practice. The clerk shall endorse on the deed or other instrument the time he receives the document for recording and the endorsement shall show in the Land Records. Any deed or other instrument affecting property which also affects personal property shall be recorded in the same manner in the Land Records only, and not in the “Financing Records”.    (b)    If an interested party so requests, the “Financing Records” provided for in § 9-402(9) of the Commercial Law Article shall include a notation that the instrument is recorded among the “Land Records”. The instrument also shall be indexed in the general alphabetical index provided in § 3-302 of this subtitle. The notation and indexing have the same effect as if the instrument were recorded in full among the “Financing Records”.    (c)    The clerk may not refuse to accept any deed or other document entitled to be recorded, solely on the grounds that the deed or document contains a strike-through, interlineation, or other corrections. The clerk may refuse to accept for re-recording, a previously recorded deed or document that has been corrected or altered by a strike-through, interlineation, or similar corrective measures, and that has not been re-executed, initialled, or otherwise ratified in writing by the party or parties affected by the correction.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-302 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 3 - Record Books and Indexes|Section 3-302 - Indexes

    (a)    The clerk of the circuit court of each county shall make and maintain a full and complete general alphabetical index of every deed, and other instrument in a well-bound book in his office. The index shall be both in the name of each grantor, donor, mortgagor, and assignor, and each grantee, donee, mortgagee, or assignee. It shall include the book and page of the recordation of every instrument designating these names. The clerk shall index every deed or other instrument retaining a vendor’s lien both as a deed and as a vendor’s lien, in the same manner as mortgages are indexed.    (b)    In every clerk’s office where land records are not recorded in book form, the clerk shall index every assignment of a mortgage, deed of trust, and release or partial releases of a deed of trust, whether in long or short form, in the general alphabetical index, and shall place an entry in the general alphabetical index where the instrument is indexed, on the same horizontal line, indicating the place of record of the original instrument being assigned or released.    (c)    The clerk of the circuit court of each county shall date each change or correction made to information in the general alphabetical index on the horizontal line on which the change or correction was made.    (d)    If a court of equity decrees a payment of cost or makes some other decree for payment of money by a plaintiff, the clerk immediately shall enter the plaintiff’s name in a separate index, known as the index of plaintiffs. Until the plaintiff’s name is indexed, no lien under the decree arises against the property of the plaintiff and no right of execution accrues on the decree.    (e)    (1)    The clerk shall include in the index each property identifier provided on an intake sheet under § 3-104(g) of this title or, if the space available in the index will not accommodate all of the identifiers, then as many as the space allows, giving priority to identifiers in the order in which they are listed in § 3-104(g)(3)(i) of this title.        (2)    The clerk shall rely on the instrument that is accompanied by the intake sheet for indexing of grantor’s and grantee’s names.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-303 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 3 - Record Books and Indexes|Section 3-303 - Copies to State Archivist

    The clerk shall make a microfilm picture or other copy of every document he records and transmit the microfilm pictures or copies to the State Archivist at the end of each year. When requested by the State Archivist, the clerk also shall make a microfilm picture or copy of the general index.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-304 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 3 - Record Books and Indexes|Section 3-304 - Plats

    The clerk shall fasten securely one copy of each plat described under § 3-108 in a book provided for that purpose or shall record the plat. He promptly shall send one copy of each plat to the supervisor of assessments of the county and one copy, with one half of the filing fee, to the State Archivist, who shall number and file the plat as part of the records of his office and shall notify the clerk of the number given. The Archivist shall mail or deliver, free of cost, to any supervisor of assessments of the State, a copy of the plat on request. Nothing in this section affects any recording fee of the clerk of the court under any local legislation prescribing recording fees for subdivision plats. The clerk and the Archivist shall keep accurate memoranda of the filing fees.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-401 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 4 - Maryland Revised Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act|Section 3-401 - Place of Filing Notices of Federal Liens

    (a)    Notices of liens on real property for obligations payable to the United States, and certificates and notices affecting the liens shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the real property subject to the liens is situated.    (b)    Notices of liens on tangible or intangible personal property for obligations payable to the United States and certificates and notices affecting the liens shall be filed as follows:        (1)    If the person against whose interest the lien applies is a corporation or a partnership whose principal executive office is in the State, as these entities are defined in the Internal Revenue Code, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county where the principal executive office is located;        (2)    In all other cases in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county where the person resides at the time of filing of the notice of lien.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-402 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 4 - Maryland Revised Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act|Section 3-402 - Certification Necessary for Recording Federal Liens

    Certification of notice of liens, certificates, or other notices affecting federal liens by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, his delegate, or by any official or entity of the United States responsible for filing or certifying of notice of any other lien, entitles them to be filed and no other attestation, certification, or acknowledgement is necessary.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-403 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 4 - Maryland Revised Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act|Section 3-403 - Federal Lien Index; File of Notices; Entry and Disposition of Certificate of Release

    (a)    If a notice of federal lien, a refiling of a notice of federal lien, or a notice of revocation of any certificate described in subsection (b) of this section is presented to the filing officer, he shall cause the notice to be marked, indexed, and recorded in an alphabetical federal lien index, showing on one line the name and residence of the person named in the notice, the U.S. government serial number of the notice, the date and hour of filing, and the amount of the lien with the interest, penalties, and costs. He shall file and keep all original notices so filed in numerical order in a file, or files, and designated federal lien notices.    (b)    If a certificate of release, nonattachment, discharge, or subordination of any lien is presented to the filing officer for filing he shall enter the same with date of filing in said federal lien index on the line where notice of the lien so affected is entered, and permanently attach the original certificate of release, nonattachment, discharge or subordination to the original notice of lien.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-404 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 4 - Maryland Revised Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act|Section 3-404 - Fee for Filing Notice of Lien; Billing

    The fee for filing and indexing each notice of lien or certificate or notice affecting the lien is $3. The office shall bill the district directors of internal revenue or other appropriate federal officials on a monthly basis for fees for documents filed by them.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-405 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 4 - Maryland Revised Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act|Section 3-405 - Interpretation and Citation of 3-401 Through 3-405

    Sections 3-401 through 3-405 of this subtitle shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact them, and may be cited as the Maryland Revised Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-501 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 5 - Miscellaneous Recordation and Indexing Rules|Section 3-501 - Land Recordation in Montgomery County

    (a)    (1)    The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County shall:            (i)    Assign to each parcel of real property in the county an individual parcel identifier, numerical or otherwise; and            (ii)    Record by parcel identifier in a parcel index any instrument or reference to an instrument presented for recording after June 30, 1981.        (2)    Information recorded by parcel identifier in a parcel index shall be the legal record of interests affecting any parcel.    (b)    (1)    (i)    Except as provided by subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, all interests created after June 30, 1981 that are enforceable against real property, shall be recorded in the land records by serial number (liber or folio, or other number as the Clerk determines) and by parcel identifier.            (ii)    The provisions of this subsection do not apply to:                1.    Contracts for conveyance of real property;                2.    Leases not required to be recorded under § 3-101(c) or (d) of this title;                3.    Liens of judgment created by § 11-402 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, and other actions in law or equity which constitute a claim against or encumbrance upon the property;                4.    Liens arising from nonpayment of real property taxes; and                5.    Claims of the United States not subjected by federal law to the recording requirements of this State.        (2)    An instrument may not be recorded after June 30, 1981 unless it is legible and contains:            (i)    The parcel identifier;            (ii)    The county tax account number for the parcel, if any, and if it is different from the parcel identifier;            (iii)    The record legal description of the boundaries of the parcel;            (iv)    The street address of the parcel, if any;            (v)    The full name and address of each party to that instrument and the nature of the party’s interest; and            (vi)    The name of any title insurer insuring the instrument.        (3)    An instrument is not rendered invalid by failure to comply with the requirements of this section.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-601 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 6 - Recording and Other Costs|Section 3-601 - Recording Costs

    (a)    (1)    In this subsection, “page” means one side of a leaf not larger than 8 1/2 inches wide by 14 inches long, or any portion of it.        (2)    Except as provided in paragraph (4) of this subsection, before recording an instrument among the land or financing records, a clerk shall collect:            (i)    $10 for a release 9 pages or less in length;            (ii)    $20 for any other instrument 9 pages or less in length;            (iii)    Except as provided in item (i) of this paragraph, $20 for an instrument, regardless of length, involving solely a principal residence; and            (iv)    $75 for any other instrument 10 pages or more in length.        (3)    The recording costs under this subsection shall also apply to instruments required to be recorded in the financing statement records of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation.        (4)    A clerk may not collect a fee for the recordation of:            (i)    A restrictive covenant modification executed under § 3–112 of this title; or            (ii)    An amendment to the common area deeds or other declarations of a homeowners association that deletes a recorded covenant or restriction that restricts ownership based on race, religious belief, or national origin in accordance with § 11B–113.3 of this article.    (b)    (1)    A person who submits a written refund claim for recording fees, including any recording surcharge, that have been overpaid to the clerk of a circuit court, is eligible for a refund of the amount overpaid from the clerk that collected the fees.        (2)    A claim for a refund under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be as required by regulations adopted by the State Court Administrator.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-602 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 6 - Recording and Other Costs|Section 3-602 - Certified or Reproduced Copies

    The fee for certification of a copy of any original paper recorded among the land records is $5. A reasonable fee may be charged by the clerk for reproducing a copy of the paper.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-603 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 6 - Recording and Other Costs|Section 3-603 - Counties, Municipalities, and Commissions Exempt From Fees

    (a)    The clerk may not charge any county, any municipality, any unit of State government, the Maryland–National Capital Park and Planning Commission, or the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission any fee provided by this subtitle unless the county, municipality, unit of State government, or respective commission first gives its consent.    (b)    No charge may be made against the Comptroller for any service performed in connection with the recording and indexing of property liens arising under the Maryland income tax or the Maryland sales and use tax laws.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-701 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 7 - Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 3-701 - Definitions

    (a)    In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.    (b)    “Document” means information that is:        (1)    Inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in perceivable form; and        (2)    Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the clerk of a circuit court.    (c)    “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.    (d)    “Electronic document” means a document that is received by the clerk of a circuit court in electronic form.    (e)    “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.    (f)    “Person” means an individual, a corporation, a statutory trust, a personal representative of an estate, a trustee, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint venture, a public corporation, a government, a governmental subdivision, an agency, an instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.    (g)    “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-702 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 7 - Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 3-702 - Electronic Methods for Satisfying Recording Requirements

    (a)    If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, in writing, or on paper or another tangible medium, an electronic document satisfying the requirements of this subtitle satisfies the law.    (b)    If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be signed, an electronic signature satisfies the law.    (c)    A requirement that a document or 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 required information is attached to or logically associated with the document or signature.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-703 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 7 - Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 3-703 - Responsibilities With Respect to Paper and Electronic Documents

    (a)    In this section, “paper document” means a document received by the clerk of a circuit court in a form that is not electronic.    (b)    In compliance with any standards established by the Administrative Office of the Courts, the clerk of a circuit court:        (1)    May receive, index, store, archive, and transmit electronic documents;        (2)    May provide for access to, and search and retrieval of, documents and information by electronic means;        (3)    Shall, if the clerk of the circuit court accepts electronic documents for recording, continue to accept paper documents and place entries for electronic and paper documents in the same index;        (4)    May convert into electronic form:            (i)    Paper documents accepted for recording; and            (ii)    Information recorded before the clerk of the circuit court began to record electronic documents;        (5)    Shall transmit documents in fully verified books to the State Archives for preservation and publication on a website maintained by the State Archives;        (6)    May accept by electronic means any fee or tax collected as a condition precedent to recording a document; and        (7)    May agree with other State or county officials on procedures or processes to facilitate the electronic satisfaction of prior approvals and conditions precedent to recording documents or the electronic payment of fees or taxes.    (c)    The State Department of Assessments and Taxation or a county may:        (1)    Accept by electronic means any fee or tax that the Department or county is authorized to collect as a condition precedent to recording a document; and        (2)    Agree with the clerk of a circuit court or other State official on procedures or processes to facilitate the electronic satisfaction of prior approvals and conditions precedent to recording documents or the electronic payment of fees or taxes.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-704 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 7 - Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 3-704 - Standards

    The Administrative Office of the Courts may establish standards to implement this subtitle.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-705 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 7 - Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 3-705 - Application or Construction of Subtitle

    In applying and construing this subtitle, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact laws substantially similar to this subtitle.
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-706 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 7 - Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 3-706 - Relationship With Other Federal Laws

    (a)    Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this subtitle modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act to the extent that Act is inconsistent with this subtitle.    (b)    This subtitle does not:        (1)    Modify, limit, or supersede 15 U.S.C. § 7001(c); or        (2)    Authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in 15 U.S.C. § 7003(b).
MD. Real Property Code Ann. §  3-707 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Real Property|Title 3 - Recordation|Subtitle 7 - Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act|Section 3-707 - Short Title

    This subtitle may be cited as the Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.