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corporations. The clerk shall, in addition to the fee or charge now
allowed by law, charge one dollar ($1.00) as an extra fee or charge
for failure to comply with the requirements of this subsection.

(d)    Paper and size of type. Any printed deed of OR other instru-
ment offered for recordation must have print in not less than eight
point type and in black letters and must be upon white paper of
sufficient weight and thickness to be clearly readable. If the deed
or other instrument shall be wholly typewritten or typewritten on
a printed form, the typewriting shall be in black letters, in not less
than elite type and upon white paper of sufficient weight or thick-
ness as to be clearly readable. The foregoing provisions shall not
apply to manuscript covers or backs customarily used on docu-
ments offered for recordation. The recording charge for any instru-
ment not conforming to these requirements shall be treble the nor-
mal charge. In those clerks' offices where such deeds or other in-
struments are photostated or microfilmed, no instrument upon which
a rider has been placed or attached in such a manner as to ob-
scure, hide or cover any other part of the instrument shall be
offered or received for record. An instrument not otherwise readily
subject to photostating or microfilming shall not be offered or re-
ceived for record until treble the normal recording charge is paid
to the clerk and unless an affidavit, black type on white paper, is
attached and made a part of the document stating the kind of in-
strument, the date, the parties' to the transaction, description of
the property and all other pertinent data. After any document has
been recorded in one county, a certified copy of the recorded docu-
ment may be recorded in any other county.

(e)    Local and special requirements.

(1)    Montgomery County. No fee-simple deed, mortgage, or deed
of trust shall be recorded in Montgomery County unless there
is a certification thereon that it has been prepared by an attorney
duly admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals of Mary-
land or under his supervision or by one of the parties named in the
instrument.

(2)    Prince George's County. Every deed recorded in Prince
George's County shall contain a reference to the election district
in which the property described in the deed is located.

(3)    Talbot County. Every deed or other instrument recorded in
Talbot County must have written, typed, or printed on its back,
to be readily visible when folded for filing in the appropriate
drawer or file, the names of the parties to the deed or other in-
strument and the nature or character of the instrument.

(4) Easements for public utilities or governmental agencies.
Every deed which conveys a right-of-way or easement to a public
utility, public agency, or a department of the State of Maryland
must contain an accurate and definite description as well as a ref-
erence to the liber and folio wherein the servient land was con-
veyed and a recitation of the grantors, grantees, and the date of
said reference deed.

3-105. Recording of releases of mortgages and deeds of trust.

Mortgages and deeds of trust may validly be released by any
of the following procedures: