This is the web site of the County of Sonoma, California
This page is from the site of the Recorder Division of the Clerk • Recorder • Assessor Department. A few important links follow:
Fees for the various publications and services we provide to the public are listed below. Please make all checks payable to:
Sonoma County Recorder
You may mail checks to the following address:
Our offices are located at:
| Copy Fee for Standard Pages (not certified) | $1.75 per page |
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| Copy Fees for Standard Pages (certified) | $3.75 first page; $1.75 per additional page |
| Copy Fee for Maps (not certified) | $2.50 per page |
| Copy Fees for Maps (certified) | $4.50 first page; $2.50 per additional page |
| Recording Fees for Standard Pages | $8.00 first page (or part thereof); $3.00 per additional page |
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| Recording Fee for Double Documents | $8.00 each additional Title |
| Recording Fees for Maps | $9.00 first page; $2.00 per additional page |
| Recording Fees for First Claim Names | No charge for first page; $1.00 per additional Claim Name |
| Recording Fee for UCC-1 and UCC-2 Standard Forms | $10.00 each |
| Recording Fee for UCC-1 and UCC-2 Non-standard Forms | $20.00 each |
| Fee for Involuntary Lien Notice Notification | $7.00 each |
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| Fee for Preliminary Lien Notice Notification | $35.00 each |
| Penalty for Non-standard Page Size | $3.00 per page for every page of the document |
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| Penalty for Missing PCOR | $20.00 |
The following is an Important Notice...
The staff of the Recorder's Office are forbidden by California legal codes to practice law or provide legal advice; this prohibition includes giving advice about what forms you might need or how you should fill them out.
News Item 1. Searching Records: The Recorder's Index is now Available on the Internet!
You can search the Recorder's Index to Official Public Records that have been recorded in the Sonoma County Recorder's Office from January 1, 1964, to the present. To begin your search, please visit our page titled Search Records.
Legislative changes go into effect each year on January 1. Among changes for 2008 are: changes to a form commonly used by notaries and a new restriction pertaining to recording documents with social security numbers. For more information, please visit our page titled Legislative Changes.
News item 3. Fee Increases: There are some Document Recording Fee Increases for 2008
Some document recording fee increases go into effect on January 1. The increases are to offset the cost of implementing the social security redaction program established by the legislature pursuant to Assembly Bill number 1168. For more information, please visit our Fee Schedule and our page titled Legislative Changes.
You must use Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free utility that is already installed on many personal computers, to open and read most forms you download from our site.
Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded at no cost from Adobe's Acrobat Reader page or you can visit our Adobe Acrobat download page.
Our current featured artist is Jack Stuppin.
Sonoma Vines,
by Jack Stuppin, is an oil landscape depicting summer in Sonoma County. We stand on a slope under a quiet, hazy blue sky, gazing across a hillside vineyard into the distance at Mount St. Helena. The artist has used a tapestry of bright, rich blues, yellows and greens to capture the spectacular view before us. In the distance, at the foot of the mountain, lie chapparal-covered hills edged with dense evergreen forest.