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Formatting and Content Requirements:

2-1/2 inches down and 4-1/2 across the upper right corner of first page of  each recorded document.

A legal description and a parcel identification number are required on all recorded documents.

Common Document Errors:

• Missing legal description
• Missing parcel identification number
• Incorrect fee
• Grantor's signature different than typed name
• Missing grantee address
• Illegible documents
• Inadequate space for recorder's stamp (2-1/2 inches down and 4-1/2 across the upper right corner of first page of document)

Document Recording Fees:

Flat fee per recording: $40.00

Additional legal descriptions (over 10) $2.00 each

Subdivision and Condominium Maps Recording Fees:

Each sheet $50.00

Each lot or unit designation: $2.00

Mining Location Notice of Proof of Labor Recording Fees:

Flat fee per recording $40.00

Additional claims (over 10) $2.00 each

Certified and Standard Copies:

Recorded documents: $2.00/page

Ownership & description: $1.00 /page

Lined parcel plat or subdivision: $5.00

Lined parcel plat or subdivision (electronic TIFF format): $5.00

Certification of documents: additional $5.00

GIS Map Copies and Electronic Data:

Lined paper copy: $2.00

Property owner mailing list (sticky label sheet): $ 3.00

Property owner mailing list (plain paper sheet): $1.00

Custom map projects: $75.00/hour and $5.00/square foot

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Recording 

Recording Any instrument, paper, or notice otherwise provided for:

Flat fee for recording $40, Additional $2 fee for the following:

• each additional description (Each document fee includes ten (10) legal description(s).)
• each lot exceeding ten
• each parcel exceeding ten

Subdivision or any other plat or map:

Each sheet $50
Each lot or unit designation $2

ALL SERVICES NOT ENUMERATED IN STATE STATUTE SHALL BE COMPENSATED AT A REASONABLE FEE DETERMINED AND SET BY THE SALT LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL

COPY FEES Paper or Digital (Documents, Plats, Labels):

• Copies of documents per page $2*
• Copies of Vault documents per page $5*
• Certification per document (i.e. 2-page certified document-$9.00 (2 pages = $4.00 + cert @ $5 = $9.00) $5
• Computer printout ownership/descriptions per page $1*
• Copy of lined plat, subdivision plat or G.I.S. plat $5*
• Copy of 8.5” x 11” lined plat, subdivision plat or G.I.S. plat $2*
• Mailing labels (per sheet): $1* Print Out only, $3* Adhesive labels

Custom Map Projects

CUSTOM MAP PROJECTS: $75*/hour (charged in .25 hour increments) and $5*/square foot

Digital Services

For a document to be recorded in the Recorder's Office, it must meet the following requirements:

1.  It must be an original document or be an electronic document that satisfies the requirements under UCA 17-21a, Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act (UCA §57-3-106).
2. It must contain a brief caption stating the nature of the document (UCA §57-3-106).
3. It must contain a legal description (UCA §57-3-105).
4. It must contain the names and mailing addresses of the grantees (UCA §57-3-105).
5. It must be sufficiently legible for the recorder to make certified copies (UCA §57-3-106).
6. It must contain a notary certificate containing the words “subscribed and sworn” or the equivalent, that is signed and certified by the officer taking the acknowledgement, proof, or jurat (UCA §57-3-101).
7. The names of all persons whose signatures appear on the instrument must be typed or printed on the instrument (UCA §17-21-25).
8. When title to real property is granted to a person as trustee, the following terms of the trust must be included: the name and address of the trustee; and the name and date of the trust (UCA §75-7-816).
9. A court judgment or an abstract of a court judgment must be an original or certified copy and include the information identifying the judgment debtor as referred to in Subsection 78-22-1.5(4) (UCA §57-3-106).
10. Judgments, abstracts of judgments, and separate information statements of the judgment creditor do not require an acknowledgment or a legal description to be recorded (UCA §57-3-106).
11. A foreign judgment or an abstract of a foreign judgment recorded in the office of a county recorder must include the affidavit as required in Section 78-22a-3 (UCA §57-3-106).
12. To release or assign a judgment lien must include the name of any judgment creditor, debtor, assignor, or assignee; the date of recording; and the entry number creating the judgment lien (UCA §57-3-106).
13. The tax serial number of each parcel affected by the instrument should appear on each instrument, though it is not considered part of the legal description (UCA §17-21-20).
14. Document shall be an original or certified copy of the document unless otherwise provided by law (UCA §17-21-20).
15. Document shall be in English or be accompanied by an accurate English translation of the document (UCA §17-21-20).
16. Document shall contain a brief title, heading, or caption on the first page describing the document (UCA §17-21-20).
17. Document shall contain the legal description of the property that is the subject of the document (UCA §17-21-20).
18. Document shall be notarized with the notary stamp with the seal legible; and shall have original signatures (UCA §17-21-20).
19. Each paper, notice or instrument submitted for recording in the county recorder’s office shall be on white paper that is 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches in size (UCA §17-21-20).
20. Have a margin of one inch on the left and right sides and at the bottom of each page (UCA §17-21-20).
21. Have a space of 2-1/2 inches down and 4-1/2 inches across the upper right corner of the first page and a margin of one inch at the top of each succeeding page to provide room to affix recording data (UCA §17-21-20).
22. Shall not be on sheets of paper that are continuously bound together at the side, top or bottom (UCA §17-21-20).
23. Document shall not contain printed material on more than one side of each page (UCA §17-21-20).
24. Printed in black ink and not have text smaller than seven lines of text per vertical inch (UCA §17-21-20).
25. Be sufficiently legible to make certified copies (UCA §17-21-20).
26. Re-Recording Requirements (UCA §57-3-106).

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