Cass County Recorder Information

Land records in Cass County are recorded by the County Recorder. The office is held by Greg Larson.

Cass documents are fully indexed and searchable on NDRIN back to November 1984. For documents recorded prior to 1999, the county's historical index pages are at https://hindex.casscountynd.gov/. Public computers are available in the office for research.

Checked September 2026 against official publications. Sources: Cass County Recorder · N.D.C.C. Chapter 11-18 Recorder

These government fees are separate from any Deeds.com service fees. Confirm current charges with the recorder's office.

Other charges

Fee schedule effective July 1, 2017.

StatewideDocuments listing more than ten sections of land: $1 for each additional section listed to be recorded in the tract index. Three dollars of the fee collected for each instrument must be placed in the document preservation fund. Instruments satisfying, releasing, assigning, subordinating, continuing, amending, or extending more than ten previously recorded instruments: same page fees plus $3 for each additional document number or book and page after the first ten. Plats: $20 for twenty lots or fewer and $50 for more than twenty lots. Filing any instrument: $10. Certified copies: $5 for the first page and $2 for each additional page. Noncertified copies: not more than $1 per instrument page. Electronic data extracted from a recorded instrument: not more than 50 cents per instrument. If a 3-inch space is not provided across the top of the first page, the recorder adds a page and an additional page charge is levied.

Email document: $3 in addition to the per page charge. Filed documents (corner monuments, burial permits, wills for safekeeping, power of attorney): $10. NDRIN online access: monthly subscription $30, daily subscription $7, prints $1 per page.

Paying the office

All fee payments are due in advance except for documents eRecorded through the approved eRecording vendors.

Transfer tax

No transfer tax. None is collected when a document is recorded. (statewide, N.D. Const. art. X, § 27)

StatewideThe constitution bars the state and any county, township, city, or other political subdivision from imposing mortgage taxes or sales or transfer taxes on the mortgage or transfer of real property. A grantee or agent presenting a deed must certify on its face a statement of the full consideration paid or a statement designating a statutory exemption; the recorder may not record a deed that does not comply.

Checked September 2026 against official publications. Sources: Cass County Recorder · N.D.C.C. Chapter 11-18 Recorder · Constitution of North Dakota, Article X

Confirm current requirements with the recorder's office before submitting documents.

StatewideEach page must contain a one-inch top, bottom, or side margin for the placement of computerized recording labels. If a 3-inch space is not provided across the top of the first page, the recorder adds a page and charges an additional page fee.

StatewideWords must be considered legible by the recorder before a page will be accepted. Each real estate instrument must have a legal description considered adequate by the recorder. Deeds and contracts for deed with a metes and bounds legal description must show the name and address of the individual who drafted the legal description (instruments executed on or after January 1, 2000, within the state). The document and any acknowledgment must be executed with an original signature, except as otherwise provided by law. A document including a social security number may not be recorded unless a law requires it. Deeds and other instruments that change the property description require the county auditor's certificate of transfer showing taxes and special assessments paid, except instruments listed in section 11-18-03.

Documents must be an original or certified copy. Documents with exhibits or attachments containing a map, survey or drawing are not recorded unless they include the signature and seal of a registered professional land surveyor (Attorney General opinion 2017-L-03). All dates must be filled in. Mortgages require the address of the mortgagee(s); assignments of mortgage require the address of the assignee(s). Subdivision plats must be eRecorded; subdivision plat size is 22 x 34 inches and auditor plats no larger than 8.5 x 14 inches.

Forms filed along with a transfer

• Statement of full consideration (certified on the face of the deed) Statewide State Board of Equalization (prescribes the forms)
  Any grantee or grantee's authorized agent who presents a deed; also affidavits of affixation of a manufactured home acquired before affixation

Submitting documents

The cut off time to eRecord a document is 4:00pm CST; anything submitted after this time is recorded the following morning at 8:00am CST. All plats must be submitted via eRecording.

Checked September 2026 against official publications. Sources: Cass County Recorder · N.D.C.C. Chapter 11-18 Recorder · N.D.C.C. Chapter 47-19 Recording