Section 37 – Records or Papers; Examination
Section 37. Every person upon whose application an examination of records or papers is made by direction of the state secretary shall pay to the secretary therefor the actual expense thereof, and of copying the manuscript or record required; but any person whom the secretary considers to be entitled to exemption from said fees shall […]
Section 50 – Salaried Officers; Limitation on Acceptance of Fees; Penalty
Section 50. No officer in attendance on any court, sheriff, deputy sheriff, jailer, constable, city marshal or other police officer who receives a salary or an allowance by the day or hour from the commonwealth or from a county, city or town shall, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, be paid any fee or extra compensation […]
Section 38 – Registers of Deeds' Enumeration of Fees
Section 38. Except as otherwise provided, the fees of the registers of deeds to be paid when an instrument is recorded shall be as follows: For entering and recording any paper, certifying the same on the original, and indexing it and all other duties pertaining thereto, $50; provided, however, that if the paper includes multiple […]
Section 51 – Criminal Cases; Additional Fees and Expenses
Section 51. The fees and expenses of officers, other than those named in section fifty, in a criminal case, shall be paid by the commonwealth.
Section 39 – Land Court; Numeration of Fees
Section 39. The fees payable under chapter one hundred and eighty-five shall be as follows: For the entry of every original petition, complaint or writ and transmitting it to the recorder, when filed with an assistant recorder, $240. For the entry of complaint to foreclose tax lien $200. An additional fee of $90 shall be […]
Section 40 – Registers of Probate and Family Court; Enumeration of Fees
Section 40. The fees of the registers of the probate and family court, shall be as follows: for the filing of an amended or substituted account, for a petition for the allowance of an account, $75; for the filing of an account, including a common trust fund account, if the gross value accounted for in […]
Section 40a – Child Support Collection Services; Fee
Section 40A. The probate and family court department shall impose a fee for child support collection services furnished under chapter two hundred and eight, two hundred and nine or any other chapter in which an individual may be ordered to pay support on behalf of another. The amount of the fee and the manner in […]
Section 41 – Notaries Public; Enumeration of Fees
Section 41. The fees of notaries public shall be as follows: For the protest of a bill of exchange, order, draft or check for non-acceptance or non-payment, or of a promissory note for non-payment, if the amount thereof is five hundred dollars or more, one dollar; if it is less than five hundred dollars, fifty […]
Section 42 – Commissioners in Other States; Enumeration of Fees
Section 42. The fees of commissioners appointed under section four of chapter two hundred and twenty-two shall be as follows: For administering oaths and certifying the same under their official seals, one dollar for each; for taking acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments and certifying the same under their official seals, one dollar for each; […]
Section 43 – Construction
Section 43. The fees of public officers for any official duty or service shall, except as otherwise provided, be at the rate prescribed in this chapter for like services.