From Deseret News archives:
15 counties to charge document fees
Most documents, which come from title companies, are filed on regular 8 1/2-by-11-inch white paper, but many documents that come from outside the state are filed on double-sided, colored or legal-size sheets, which make scanning documents more difficult and time-consuming.
Some documents fail to leave a space for the recorder's stamp, which shows a document was officially received.
Of Utah's 29 county recorders, those in Box Elder, Carbon, Davis, Emery, Iron, Juab, Millard, Morgan, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele, Utah, Washington, Wayne and Weber have given the required 90 days notice and will begin charging the fee for noncompliant documents.
Most recorders contacted by the Deseret Morning News said they would prefer not to charge a fee at all, because that wasn't the point of HB200, which was sponsored by Rep. Craig Frank, R-Pleasant Grove, and passed unanimously during the 2007 Legislature.
Various recorders also said since they began sending notice of the impending change to the companies they deal with on a daily basis, they've noticed a higher compliance and more standard documents.
Utah County Recorder Randy Covington said about 40 percent of the documents filed in his office don't comply because they are either too big, printed on both sides or don't leave room for a recording stamp.
For those infractions, Covington's office will charge the $2 fee per noncompliant page.
The move toward standardization began in 1998, Covington said, because various companies, in an effort to cram more information on pages, reduced the font size so much that documents became illegible.
Two national associations of recorders took up the issue and an industry group, the Property Records Industry Association, created a standard that has been adopted, in some form, by most states. In 2000, the most recent year for which data were available, 38 states had set standards. And Utah joined the group this year.
Covington said local title companies were the first to comply with the standard, adding that national companies won't seem to get the message until the nonstandard documents hit them in the pocketbooks.
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