Recording Fees

All recording fees are required to be paid at the time of recording. Documents presented for recording must be on letter or legal size white paper and must meet recording standards.
Please Note: The 2018 Oregon Legislature increased fees on many recorded documents by an additional $40.  This fee is collected by the county at the time of recording for the State Department of Housing and Community Services as per HB 4007.
 

Deed Records

Mortgage Records

Multi-instrument Documents

+$5.00 per additional first page transaction title listed

Lien Instruments

Other Documents

Plat Fees

Veterans' Documents (Restricted Access Records)

Notarization, Search, Copy and Transmission Fees

General Notes on Fees

• If you do not include sufficient money or include an over payment of the correct fee, the document(s) will be returned to you unrecorded. Recording may be completed and refund checks are issued for over payments over $10. Please, provide a phone number that will allow our office to contact you if we have questions or concerns about the document you have presented to us for recording.

• If you are unable to determine the correct fees from the information provided, you can call us or come into our office. Checks and money orders should be made out to Benton County. It is common practice for those with questions about the proper fee to include a statement in the check notation section, that the check is not to exceed $X (where "X" takes the place of the highest estimated amount authorized for recording fees). We will fill in the check with the correct recording fee and return the document(s) as indicated on each.

Note: The listing of documents in the above fee schedule is not all-inclusive. If you have additional questions regarding fees, please, contact our office at the following phone number 541-766-6831

A non-standard fee of $20.00 will be assessed on the following documents:

Trust Deed, Deed of Trust if the words “Lender is Beneficiary” does not appear on first page of instrument.

The $20.00 Non-Standard Fee may be applied to documents that do not fully comply with recording requirements. (e.g. Title of document, names of parties, poor legibility, return to info, consideration amount, etc.)

Contact our office at 541-766-6831 if you have any questions.

Notes on Fees and Recording Standards

Records and Licenses Policies: 041217

1: Space requirement, county recording ticket

1-1) The current space requirement is 2.25h x 3.0w in the upper right hand portion of the document.

If the document does not meet this requirement, the following may be applied:

1-1a) Recording cover sheet, an additional $5.00 fee will be charged.

2: Recording reproduced documents with original signatures

2-1) In accordance with the May 12, 1999, letter sent to title companies following a staff meeting decision, it was determined that staff will have the option to allow recording parties who present our office with documents of poor quality (photocopies/ facsimiles) for recording, with the option to attach a typed copy of the original page(s). The regular recording fee will be applied to each page. The attached page(s) should contain the following statement:

“Because the previous page(s) do not meet the recording standards for permanent records in Benton County, Oregon, the following is a typed reproduction of the original page(s)."

Signatures should be shown on the typed reproduction in the following manner: s/ John Doe

3: Covering information (area of recording ticket)

3-1) No information that is relevant to the document must be on the upper right hand portion of said document, if document is received with said flaw the following shall apply:

(a) Received in person; by title company, citizen, or others. The options will be that they must: 1. Provide a written statement to the effect of “permission for placement of county recording ticket authorized by.” 2. Complete a recording cover sheet.

(b) Received in mail; the document must be rejected.

Note: see definitions for some of the terms used on this page.