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OFFICE OF TAX AND REVENUE
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
The Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR), pursuant to the authority set forth in D.C. Official Code § 42-1218 (2010 Repl.), Section 201(a) of the 2005 District of Columbia Omnibus Authorization Act, approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2019; P.L. 109-356, D.C. Official Code § 1-204.24d(9), (10) ( 2011 Supp.)) of the Home Rule Act, and the Office of the Chief Financial Officer Financial Management and Control Order No. 00-5, effective June 7, 2000, hereby gives notice of its intent to amend chapter 3, Real Property Taxes, of title 9 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR), by amending section 336, Fees.
The proposed amendment to section 336 would greatly simplify the recordation process with the Office of the Recorder of Deeds by providing for a uniform fee schedule that includes flat-fees. In the past, many recordations were impeded due to improper page counting and miscalculations of the per page fee. This proposed flat recordation fee should simplify the recordation process by eliminating user error. Additionally, the flat fees were generally calculated to not incur a positive or negative fiscal impact when compared to current fees, so the rulemaking should yield approximately the same amount of recordation fees as the current fee schedule.
OTR gives notice of its intent to take final rulemaking action to adopt these regulations in not less than thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.
Chapter 3 of title 9 DCMR is amended as follows:
Section 336, Fees, is amended by adding a new subsection 336.3 to read as follows:
336.3 Effective January 1, 2012, exclusive of any surcharge applicable pursuant
to D.C. Official Code § 42-1211 (2011 Supp.) or other provision of law, the following fees shall be charged for recording documents and obtaining copies of documents at the Office of Recorder of Deeds:
(a) One hundred fifty dollars ($150) for the recordation of any and all deeds of trust, mortgages, modifications to deeds of trust, amendments to deeds of trust, or amended and restated deeds of trust;
(b) Twenty-five dollars ($25) for the recordation of all other documents;
(c) Two dollars and twenty-five cents ($2.25) per page for a copy of a document; and
(d) Two dollars and twenty-five cents ($2.25) per document for certification of a copied document.
Comments on this proposed rulemaking should be submitted in writing to Robert McKeon, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Tax and Revenue, 1101 4th Street, SW, 7th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20024, not later than thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the D.C. Register. Copies of this rule and related information may be obtained by writing to the person at the address stated herein.
