HB 5011 — AN ACT CONCERNING THE COPYING OF PUBLIC RECORDS UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT WITH A HAND-HELD SCANNER.

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5011 As Amended by House Amendment Schedule "A" Approved by the Legislative Commissioner May 20, 2021 AN ACT CONCERNING THE COPYING OF PUBLIC RECORDS UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT WITH A HAND-HELD SCANNER.

[The] Except as provided in subsection (g) of this sectionsection, and section 7-34a, as amended by this act, the fee for any copy of a record other than a land record provided by a public agency in accordance with the Freedom of Information ActAct: [:

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5011696 administrativesHB5011 functions,File shallNo. not exceed twenty-five cents per page;

696 state agency or a department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official of the state, including a committee of, or created by, such an office, agency, department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official, and (B)also Byincluding allany otherjudicial publicoffice, agencies,official asor definedbody or committee thereof but only in sectionrespect 1-200,]to its or their administrative functions, shall not exceed [fifty]twenty-five fifteen cents per page.page;

and (B) By all other public agencies, as defined in section 1-200, shall not exceed fifty cents per page.

Subsection (e) of section 1-212 of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing issubstituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2021):

(e) Except as otherwise provided by law, the fee for any person who has the custody of any public records or files for certifying any copy of such records or files, or certifying to any fact appearing therefrom, shall befor thefirst page ofsuchcertificate, or copyandcertificate, onedollar;

and for each additional page, [fifty] fifteen cents.

For the purpose of computing such fee, such copy and certificate shall be deemed to be one continuous instrument.

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Subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 7-34a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2021):

(a) (1) Town clerks shall receive, for recording any document, ten dollars for the first page and five dollars for each subsequent page or fractional part thereof, a page being not more than eight and one-half by fourteen inches.

Town clerksshall receive, for recording theinformation contained in a certificate of registration for the practice of any of the healing arts, five dollars.

Town clerks shall receive, for recording documents conforming to, or substantially similar to, section 47-36c, which are clearly entitled "statutory form" in the heading of such documents, as follows:

For the first page of a warranty deed, a quitclaim deed, a mortgage deed, or an assignment of mortgage, ten dollars;

for each additional page of such documents, five dollars;

and for each assignment of mortgage, subsequent to the first two assignments, two dollars.

Town clerks shall receive, for recording any document with respect to which certain data must be submitted by each town clerk to theSecretaryoftheOfficeofPolicyandManagementinaccordancewith section10-261b,twodollarsinadditiontotheregularrecordingfee.Any person who offers any written document for recording in the office of any town clerk, which document fails to have legibly typed, printed or stamped directly beneath the signatures the names of the persons who executed such document, the names of any witnesses thereto and the name of the officer before whom the same was acknowledged, shall pay one dollar in addition to the regular recording fee.

Town clerks shall receive, for recording any deed, except a mortgage deed, conveying title to real estate, which deed does not contain the current mailing address ofthegrantee, five dollarsinadditionto theregular recording fee.Town clerks shall receive, for filing any document, ten dollars;

for receiving and keeping a survey or map, legally filed in the town clerk's office, ten dollars;andforindexingsuchsurveyormap,inaccordance withsection 7-32,tendollars,exceptwithrespecttoindexinganysuchsurveyormap LCO {\\PRDFS1\HCOUSERS\BARRYJN\WS\2021HB-050113 of 4 R03-HB.docx } Substitute Bill No.

5011 pertaining to a subdivision of land as defined in section 8-18, in which event town clerks shall receive twenty dollars for each such indexing.

Town clerks shall receive, for a copy, in any format, of any document either recorded or filedin their offices that constitutes a land record, one dollar for each page or fractional part thereof, as the case may be;

for certifying any copy of the same, two dollars;

for making a copy of any survey or map, the actual cost thereof;

and for certifying such copy of a survey or map, two dollars.

Town clerks shall receive, for recording the commission and oath of a notary public, twenty dollars;

and for certifying under seal to the official character of a notary, five dollars.

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