Pursuant to Section § 14-8-15, NMSA 1978, A County Clerk shall collect a recording fee of $25.00 for each document filed or recorded by the County Clerk. If a document being filed or recorded contains more than ten entries to be indexed, the County Clerk shall charge an additional $25.00 for each additional block of ten or fewer entries to the index from each document. All checks must be made payable to the Doña Ana County Clerk’s Office.

Determination of Recording Entries

All documents will be given a new method in determining filing fees, including plats/surveys. The County Clerk’s Office will review the Grantor/Grantee’s and legal description of each document and determine how many entries will be required for indexing. Every name indexed counts as one entry. For example:

Grantor/Grantee: Every name indexed counts as 1 entry

• Ben White, an unmarried man = 1
• Ellen White, Individually and Attorney in fact for Ben White = 2
• Ben White and Ellen White, husband and wife = 2
• Ellen White, aka Ellen Louise White = 1

Subdivided Lots: All lots within the same block are 1 entry

• Lots 1, 2, 3 Block 7 Aber Addition = 1
• Lot 1 Block 7 and Lot 1 Block 8 Aber Addition = 2

Lots and Tracts that are not inclusive of a block are indexed as 1 entry

• Lots 7, 12, 15, 78 of Hills Village Subdivision = 1
• Tracts A, B and C of Acres North Subdivision = 1

Non-Subdivided Lots: All parcels within the same section are 1 entry

• SE ¼ of Section 6, Township 11N, Range 30E = 1 (all in one section)
• SE ½, NE½, NW¼, SW ¼, Section 6, Township 11N, R30E = 1 (all in one section)
• SE ¼, Section 6, SW ¼, Section 7, Township 11N, R30E = 2 (two sections)
• SE ¼, Section 6, SW ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼ Section 7, All Section 8, T11N, R30E = 3 (three sections)