Maryland Attorney General

DATE	DESCRIPTION
01/04/1990 File Size: 117KB	Land Records – Releases – assignments of mortgage do not have to be entered in same fashion as releases
01/25/1990 File Size: 246KB	Land Records – Releases – release of a deed of trust using paid or canceled note with affidavit pursuant to Real Prop. §3-105(d)(1)
02/06/1990 File Size: 94KB	Land Records – Indexing – partnership and partner names
02/15/1990 File Size: 563KB	Administrative – juror compensation should not be reported to the IRS on a Form W-2, but may have to be reported on a Form 1099-Miscellaneous if total compensation exceeds $600
02/16/1990 File Size: 477KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – agricultural credit associations are federal instrumentalities, such that deeds, mortgages, and deeds of trust to them are exempt under Tax-Prop. §12-108(a)(1)
02/19/1990 File Size: 136KB	Business Licenses – only licenses issued to palm readers, fortune tellers, and soothsayers in Cecil, Charles, and Calvert Counties are subject to the reporting requirements under the Federal Drug Enforcement Act of 1990
02/28/1990 File Size: 227KB	Administrative – courts are not required to provide remote access to electronic court records
03/02/1990 File Size: 495KB	Records – Access to Public Records – inspection and copying of an Initial Appearance Questionnaire completed by District Court commissioner
03/29/1990 File Size: 275KB	Land Records – Prerequisites to Recording – supplemental instrument that corrects a prior deed to add additional acreage must be processed like a new deed of the additional acreage
04/16/1990 File Size: 655KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – calculating recordation tax on supplements to mortgages and deeds of trust (SUPERSEDED BY 04/01/2005)
04/24/1990 File Size: 203KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – memorandum of lease does not have to contain statement of consideration payable, but underlying lease does
05/10/1990 File Size: 92KB	Land Records – Recordability – collateral assignment of yacht club membership is not recordable in Land Records
05/24/1990 File Size: 75KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – calculating recordation tax on supplements to mortgages and deeds of trust (SUPERSEDED BY 04/01/2005)
05/29/1990 File Size: 78KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – deed to the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) is exempt under Tax-Prop. §12-108(a)
06/06/1990 File Size: 162KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – reverse annuity mortgages may have tax paid on debt incurred plus a prepayment of debt expected to be incurred (or may pay on maximum amount secured)
06/13/1990 File Size: 162KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – both 30-day rules must be satisfied to claim purchase money mortgage exemption under Tax-Prop. §12-108(i)
06/18/1990 File Size: 112KB	Land Records – Releases – release must satisfy the requirements of one of the provisions of Real Prop. §3-105 in order to be recordable
06/18/1990 File Size: 112KB	Land Records – Recordability – instrument with new notarial acknowledgment and new legal description is a supplemental instrument, not a re-recording
06/29/1990 File Size: 45KB	Land Records – Recordability – certified copy of previously recorded instrument may be recorded in lieu of the original instrument
07/16/1990 File Size: 222KB	Civil – Foreign Judgments – foreign attorney may sign required affidavit and file foreign judgment, but must be admitted pro hac vice or have a Maryland attorney take over in order to take enforcement actions
07/16/1990 File Size: 222KB	Civil – Adoptions – Clerk to report all adoption decrees to Division of Vital Records, but is not authorized or required to forward adoption decrees to another state or foreign country (adoptive parents or their attorney is to obtain an appropriately authenticated copy and take it to the foreign jurisdiction)
08/03/1990 File Size: 390KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – partial exemption from state transfer tax is to be applied first to purchaser's tax liability, but any remainder can be applied against seller's tax liability once purchaser's liability reduced to zero
08/15/1990 File Size: 109KB	Land Records – Recordability – cable television service agreement is recordable in Land Records if it contains a grant of an easement
08/15/1990 File Size: 109KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – instrument granting an easement is subject to recordation and transfer taxes, and must have a statement of consideration
08/17/1990 File Size: 67KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – consideration for a deed in lieu of foreclosure of a junior mortgage includes not only the amount of junior debt forgiven, but also the amount of senior debt effectively assumed
08/20/1990 File Size: 401KB	Land Records – Recordability – license agreement is usually not recordable in Land Records
08/20/1990 File Size: 401KB	Land Records – Recordability – memorandum or other short form of an instrument is not recordable in Land Records in lieu of the original instrument, except as specifically authorized by statute
09/10/1990 File Size: 124KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – deed of trust granted to a federal credit union is not exempt from recordation tax
10/18/1990 File Size: 784KB	Records – Access to Public Records – criminal court records
10/25/1990 File Size: 135KB	Civil – Judgments – renewal of judgment usually must have a certificate of service for the Clerk to accept it for filing
10/25/1990 File Size: 135KB	Civil – Foreign Judgments – certified copy of foreign judgment filed in one county may be filed in another county in lieu of the original foreign judgment
11/08/1990 File Size: 82KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – instrument granting any estate or interest in real property, including an easement, is subject to recordation and transfer taxes
11/15/1990 File Size: 356KB	Land Records – Recordation & Transfer Taxes – deed from one partnership to another partnership composed of the same partners is subject to recordation and transfer taxes (SUPERSEDES 03/02/1978)
12/10/1990 File Size: 62KB	Land Records – Recordability – various notices and letters concerning the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver are not recordable in Land Records
12/10/1990 File Size: 563KB	Marriages – Licenses – Clerk may, but is not required to, ask for additional proof to verify statements made under oath in application for marriage license
12/12/1990 File Size: 60KB	Land Records – Prerequisites to Recording – certificate of preparation may be signed by certain persons acting on behalf of the entity-party that prepared the instrument
12/19/1990 File Size: 520KB	Land Records – Recordability – mortgage or deed of trust may not be re-recorded if modified and not re-executed or otherwise ratified by grantor (SUPERSEDED IN PART BY 04/12/1991)