Aroostook County Recorder

The Registry of Deeds is responsible for recording and maintaining real property records in Aroostook County.

First page - $19.00 plus $3.00 surcharge (state government and municipalities are exempt from surcharge)

Each additional page - $2.00 per page.

Names in excess of four to be indexed - $1.00 per name (please count all grantors, grantees, aka's, trustees, dba's, partners, nominees)

Marginal references to prior documents - $13.00 each after the first one.

Transfer tax - based on the value of the property as set forth in the declaration of value, $2.20 for each $500 or fraction thereof and imposed in equal parts on the grantor and grantee, unless transfer is exempt.

* A document should be submitted on 8.5 x 11 inch white paper.

* 1.5" top margin on the first page, 1.5" bottom margin last page, 1" top margin all other pages, .75" side margins for all pages.

* All deeds submitted for recording must be signed and notarized by a Justice of the Peace or notary public.

* Originals or certified copies of originals may be submitted for recording.

* Names should be printed or typed beneath all signatures in the document.

* An adequate description of the real property is required for a document of conveyance.

* The name of the current record owner of the property should be provided.

* A specific reference should be made by date of recording and volume and page number to the recorded deed or other instrument containing the exception, reservation, or recital.

* The name and address of the grantee is required for all deeds.

* Unless the transaction is exempt, the seller of residential real property shall provide to the purchaser a property disclosure statement containing the following information: water supply system, insulation, heating system or heating source, waste disposal system, hazardous materials, and known defects. For more specific guidelines on the property disclosure statement, interested parties are directed to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 33, Chapter 7.

* Deeds presented for recording must be accompanied by a completed Transfer Tax Form/Declaration of Value. This declaration form must identify the tax map and parcel number of the property transferred, unless a tax map does not exist that includes that property, in which event the declaration must indicate that a tax map does not exist. Title 36, part 7, chapter 711A of the Maine Revised Statutes gives a list of exemptions (also see supplemental forms).

* The Register of Deeds may reject illegible documents.