Fees for the registration of matai titles and land deeds, separation agreements and other services provided by the Territorial Registrar’s Office will go up February 11.
An announcement from the Office of the Attorney General says that after complete compliance with the American Samoa Code Annotated, all fees for the Office of the Territorial Registrar as enumerated in Title 02 of the American Samoa Administrative Code are now amended.
Land registration and or a letter of objection to any land registration shall be $50.
Registration of a matai title or objection to a matai title registration shall be $200, up from $12.
Registration of a land deed, now $5, would be $50.
That’s the same fee for registration of a land lease, house lease and/or any written objections to these filings.
The fee for separation agreements or objection to the same is $25.
Filing and recordation of any mortgage, lien, bank note, satisfaction or release and other documents of this nature shall be $25.
The fee for performing research of records of the Territorial Registrar’s Office shall be $15 per request.
Other fees in the schedule are execution of registar affidavits which will be $25 per affidavit, while miscellaneous items will cost $15.
The new fees are lower than fees that were initially proposed last year and were to go into effect, October 22.
The Senate called in Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale and advised him not to go ahead with the new fees, that they were too high.
KHJ News was then told that the fee increase would be put on hold.
Today we received the new fee schedule from the Office of the Attorney General, which will go into effect February 11.
Click here for the notice from AG’s Office.FINAL-Fees-signed-and-authenticated
