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Miscellaneous Resolution # 84063 March 8. 1984
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: OPPOSITION TO HOUSE BILL 4816-
INCREASING REGISTER OF DEEDS FEES FROM $3 to $5
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the current fee charged by registers of deeds for entering
and recording a deed, mortgage, notice of attachment, or other instrument
is $3 for the first page and $2 for each additional page; and
WHEREAS, the Michigan Association of Registers of Deeds requested
the fee increase from $3 to $5 for the first page proposed in House Bill 4816
claiming that the current fee set by statute in 1973 is no longer realistic due
to inflation which has increased the cost of processing such documents; and
WHEREAS, while inflation has unquestionably increased the cost of
office procedures, inflation has also resulted in increased income for registers
of deeds because of the Revenue Stamp Tax of $1.10 per thousand dollars of
the sales price to record a deed; and
WHEREAS, it appears that any added cost of processing documents
experienced in recent years by registers of deeds would be more than offset
by the increased revenue from the Stamp Tax due to the inflationary trend
in real estate prices during nearly all of the past eleven years.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners takes a position opposing House Bill 4816 which has already
passed the House.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent
to the State Senators representing Oakland County.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
#84063 March 8, 1 984
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02.:I1 ,.0. ALLEN _—_
Lit Coun y Clerk/i-!egi7.ter of Deeds
Moved by Olsen supported by Perinoff the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Aaron, Caddell, Doyon, Foley, Fortino, Jackson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn,
Lanni, Law, McPherson, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Price. (17)
NAYS: Calandro. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of -
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Coalissioners
at their meeting held on March 8, 1984.
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my ofi'ice, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County nt Pontiac, Michigan
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