Recorder of Deeds: Fees
2010 Recording Fee Schedule (Effective January 1, 2010)
Instruments filed in the office of County Recorder include: a $16 recording fee, a $3 restoration charge, a $10 GIS charge, and a $10 surcharge for rental housing support fund, for a minimum of $39.00 per document (8.5 x 11). All documents are open to the public except military records.
| Item Recorded | Amount | Per |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum fee includes four (4) pages (8.5x11) | $39.00 | ea |
| Additional pages (8.5x11) | $1.00 | ea |
| Additional fee for oversize (>8.5x11)(1st 4 pages) | $12.00 | ea |
| Additional pages oversize | $2.00 | ea |
| Instruments referred to by doc #, book/page | $1.00 | ea |
| Additional doc reference #'s within instrument | $1.00 | ea |
| Assignments, mortgages, liens, leases etc | $39.00 | ea |
| Additional assignments within same instrument | $39.00 | ea |
| Assignment - oil gas minerals w/four (4) pages | $39.00 | ea |
| Additional pages, doc #'s, book/pages | $1.00 | ea |
| Corporation records/reports/amendments limitedPartnerships
etc filed by individual 4 pages |
$29.00 | ea |
| Corporation dissolutions, withdrawals, revocations filed
by the State 4 pages |
$29.00 | ea |
| Additional pages to corporation records | $1.00 | ea |
| All financing statements (UCC filings) original, amended, continued, assigned, released: $20 plus $3 document storage charge and $10 GIS charge | $33.00 | ea |
| Additional pages | incl | |
| Non-standard form (larger than 5 x 8) | incl | |
| Additional debtors, addresses, dba's partnerships | incl | |
| Cross reference debtors names/minimum | incl | |
| Filing in real estate records (ucc 2) noted on ucc | incl | |
| Search per ea debtors name/address | $10.00 | ea |
| Termination statements (automation/gis fee only) | $13.00 | ea |
| Secretary of State informational filing | $10.00 | ea |
| Liens, four (4) pages | $39.00 | ea |
| Additional pages to lien | $1.00 | ea |
| Liens referred to by doc #, book/page, no legal | $1.00 | ea |
| Liens filed by federal IRS, Illinois dor, certifications, notice | ||
| Refiles, discharges, releases, (one name) 2 pages | $18.00 | ea |
| Additional single name/pages/doc # | $1.00 | ea |
| Judgments, memorandums, releases | $29.00 | ea |
| Lis pendens notices & releases | $39.00 | ea |
| Notice of probate | $29.00 | ea |
| Ordinances-annexations etc require map/plat toAccompany ordinance; original and 1 copy minimum) | $39.00 | ea |
| Additional pages after four (4) or oversize | $1.00 | ea |
| Monument records | $39.00 | ea |
| Plats, subdivisions, condos - maximum sizes: mylar 30x42, blueline 16x22; submit mylar and 8 copies for county (7 for City) mylar and 1 blue line retained by Recorder; other copies stamped for files of others | $77.00 | ea |
| Additional quarter sections | $1.00 | ea |
| Reduction fee (oversized blueline) | $25.00 | ea |
| Tract survey - 16x22 maximum | $39.00 | ea |
| Amended or add-on condo - same as above | ||
| Releases | $39.00 | ea |
| Releases referred to by doc #, book/page | $1.00 | additional |
| Releases (filed by federal IRS) one name | $18.00 | ea |
| Releases with addl names, doc #, book/page | $1.00 | additional |
| Special assessments maps/rolls 8 1/2 x 11, 4 pages | $39.00 | ea |
| Special assessment releases | $39.00 | ea |
| Additional pages, doc #, book/page | $1.00 | additional |
| Veterans discharge records | no charge | |
| Copy of any document per page | $0.15 | ea |
| Certified copy of any document | current recording fee | |