SECTION 1. Registry districts

SECTION 2. Election; qualification; tenure

SECTION 3. Oath of office; bond

SECTION 4. Assistant registers; appointment

SECTION 5. Assistant registers in Suffolk county and southern district of Middlesex

SECTION 5A. Second assistant register and administrative assistant for Norfolk county

SECTION 6. Assistant registers for districts of southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden county

SECTION 7. Chief clerk in Worcester district

SECTION 8. Assistant and temporary registers and clerks; powers and duties

SECTION 9. Removal

SECTION 10. Duties of new register as to unrecorded instruments

SECTION 11. Office hours

SECTION 12. Place of record

SECTION 12A. Refusal to accept certain instruments for recording authorized

SECTION 13. Recording of certified copies of instruments in more than county or district

SECTION 13A. Plans, rules for filing in registries

SECTION 13B. Plans; filing in registry of deeds; fees

SECTION 14. Registry book; contents of entries; instrument number; changes and corrections

SECTION 14A. Certification of historic or archeological site; recording of notice

SECTION 15. Method of recording documents; microphotographs

SECTION 16. Recordation; receipts of federal succession taxes

SECTION 17. Duplicate records; attestation; effect of copies; fees

SECTION 18. Attestation of records by volume

SECTION 18A. Illegible signatures

SECTION 19. Facsimile signatures

SECTION 20. Instruments affecting mortgages registered in different counties

SECTION 21. Marginal references on record of instruments affecting certain mortgages

SECTION 22. Instruments affecting interests created by delinquent taxes or assessments; recordation

SECTION 23. Recordation; certification of book and page number on instruments

SECTION 24. Recordation; federal liens; filing fee

SECTION 24A. Recordation; petitions, decrees or orders in bankruptcy

SECTION 24B. Records affecting title to real estate; copies to tax assessors; required information

SECTION 25. Indexes; number; form

SECTION 26. Entries in indexes; time and manner of making

SECTION 27. Recordation; instruments executed by agents; decrees in partition

SECTION 28. Classified copies of indexes

SECTION 29. New or copies of indexes; printing; selling price

SECTION 30. Estimates of cost of indexing

SECTION 31. Repealed, 1952, 250, Sec. 2

SECTION 31A. Notice to commissioner of revenue; recording

SECTION 32. Instruments creating interest in property; notice to department of public welfare

SECTION 32A. Identification of husbands and wives in documents and communications

SECTION 33. Salaries

SECTION 34 to 36. Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 12

SECTION 37. Compensation for title work

SECTION 38. Clerical assistants; compensation

SECTION 39. Fees; recordation; disposition

SECTION 40. Technology purchase's by register of deeds; compatibility with other registers

SECTION 41. Surcharge on fees of registers of deeds and assistant recorders; registries under control of county government; surcharge to fund improvements at registries; disposition of surcharge