Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the fees a county recorder may receive.

ThisbillamendsI.C.§31-3205establishingaflatrecordingfeeforallinstruments, regardlessofpagecount. The statute was amended in 2017 with predictable fees for recording certain documents being established, and was further amended in 2018. Application of those changes revealed differences in interpretation and continued challenges in implementation. The prior and existing fee structure relying on document size or type does not reflect the costs associated with recording using modern technology. The proposed single flat recording fee, for all documents regardless of type or page count, will remove the need for interpretation, simplify the fee structure for all parties, and align the fee to better reflect the costs associated with recording and historical archiving of documents.