Utah Judgments & Liens Search

Utah judgments and liens: court files, recorded instruments and the county search

A Utah search can produce a court judgment, a recorder's entry, a construction registry notice and a financing statement about the same debtor. Those records answer different questions. The court file establishes the judgment and later court orders; a county recording establishes the land-record entry; the State Construction Registry tracks notices connected to a project; and the central UCC system indexes financing statements and their later filings. Start with the debtor's identity and the property county, then preserve the identifiers needed to connect those records. A balance on a judgment, a lien amount when recorded and the current payoff can differ after interest, payments, costs or releases.

The following figures and access descriptions were checked on November 6, 2026. Utah's recording statutes were reorganized, and the current county-recorder fee provision is in Title 17, Chapter 71. Several county pages retain older statutory numbers or older rows beneath a 2026 notice. Their local entries below identify those conflicts rather than treating every printed amount as a current statewide tariff. A document's recording date, its underlying judgment date and the date an online image becomes available also need separate treatment.

Eight years, recording requirements and the renewal record

Under section 78B-5-202, effective March 13, 2026, the ordinary judgment period is eight years from entry unless the judgment is satisfied, renewed or otherwise stayed as the statute provides. A qualifying recorded judgment can reach the debtor's real estate in that county, including property acquired while the judgment remains effective. Recording several years after entry does not create a fresh eight-year judgment period. Small claims require the additional abstracting and recording steps specified in the statute. State-agency judgments have separate statewide property reach and a county-recording exemption. Child support has a separate rule tied to the youngest child's majority and the entry of a sum-certain judgment, so the ordinary eight-year shorthand should not be applied to every support obligation.

The current July 1, 2026 version of section 78B-5-201 describes the judgment information needed for a lien. For the modern recording route, obtain the judgment or abstract and the required identifying statement. The information includes the correct debtor name, last known and service addresses, the creditor's name and address, the amount and stay information. Specified additional identifiers are supplied if known; unavailable information must be identified as unavailable. A recording missing required information does not create the lien until the prescribed supplemental statement is recorded. The statute also requires a later release, assignment, renewal or extension to identify the original county recording and be recorded in each affected county. A court-file event alone does not complete that county step.

The renewal remedy must match the court that entered the judgment. The judiciary's renewal instructions distinguish a motion in a district court case from the new lawsuit required to renew a justice court judgment. The district court procedure calls for an accounting affidavit, service at the current known address and an opportunity to respond. A renewed judgment takes effect when the judge signs the order or when the original judgment expires, whichever occurs first. That date should be preserved alongside the original entry and recorder numbers, particularly when a search returns several renewals under similar party names.

For a court of record, section 78B-6-1802, effective May 7, 2025, requires the motion before the applicable original or renewed limitation period expires. The affidavit must account for payments, credits and lawful adjustments; the court must have the required notice and expired response period before renewal. The separate eight-year limitation in section 78B-2-311 covers actions on qualifying judgments or decrees and refers to renewal under the Renewal of Judgment Act. Neither provision supports replacing the original entry date with the date a researcher downloaded the judgment.

Interest needs its own check. The court's 2026 judgment interest table lists a 3.51% federal rate, a 5.51% general Utah rate and 13.51% for the specified goods-and-services category below $10,000. Those are not interchangeable rates. Under section 15-1-4, effective March 13, 2026, a lawful contract ordinarily supplies the agreed rate stated in the judgment, while the general statutory rate is fixed for the duration of the judgment. Deferred-deposit loans and the under-$10,000 goods-and-services category have separate provisions. The court's satisfaction guidance contains a renewal-rate statement that differs from its collection and renewal guidance; use the actual judgment and governing statutory category when reconciling the balance rather than automatically substituting the newest annual rate.

Payment should leave a visible record in the correct places. The judiciary's satisfaction procedure calls for an acknowledgment when the judgment, allowable costs and interest are paid. If the creditor does not provide it, the debtor can seek a court determination using proof of payment. Where the judgment was filed in another court or recorded in another county, the resulting certificate or satisfaction must also be taken through those separate records. For a search report, retain the original judgment, any renewal and the actual satisfaction or release instrument. A receipt for a payment is evidence of the payment; its existence does not establish that every public index has been updated.

Xchange, courthouse records and the cost of the requested product

Xchange provides public district and justice court case information from CORIS. Most district courts were using CORIS by the end of 1998, while justice court conversion dates and older converted information differ. The judiciary separately says that public electronic district court documents filed since July 1, 2010 are available through Xchange. That is a document-availability statement, not a promise of images for every older case. Information entered into the system becomes available without a separate public-index publication cycle. Sealed, expunged and juvenile material is excluded, and private family filings are not made public simply because the case history can be searched.

The Xchange access terms distinguish a one-time purchase from a monthly account. The one-time option begins with $10 credit and charges $0.35 per search, with one document included in that search. Remaining credit can be preserved through an account; a guest who leaves without doing so forfeits the balance. A monthly subscription has a $25 setup charge and a $40 monthly charge covering 500 searches, then $0.35 for each additional search. Reactivation costs $25. The published setup estimate is generally 48 business hours after the agreement is submitted, so an application is not itself proof that access is active. Government and specified public-defender arrangements have separate qualification rules.

A court copy order should identify the case number, court, document title and filing date, and should say whether certification is required. The court-record request instructions list $0.25 per paper sheet, actual postage and a $15 storage-retrieval unit charge. Email or fax costs $5 for up to ten pages and $0.50 for each additional page; the court will not use that route to send documents already available through Xchange. Audio or video costs $15 for each half-day requested. The first 15 minutes of staff time are free; listed hourly rates then differ by work, including $15 for a court clerk, $21.20 for a judicial assistant and $28.70 for a technician. Requesting an existing identified document can therefore have a different cost from asking staff to assemble material from a large file.

The separate court fee schedule, effective May 6, 2026, prices certification, filing and enforcement products. Its charge for filing an abstract from another Utah court or agency is not the price of an ordinary photocopy. A person obtaining a certified judgment for recording should ask for that product explicitly. The same schedule lists fee treatment for governmental entities; it does not make a private party's copy request free because the underlying case is public.

Utah's official district map provides the county assignments below. The linked directory filters were checked, but their returned bodies did not expose individual courthouse address rows. The district assignment is established; an address or clerk telephone number should be taken from the live location result rather than inferred from a recorder's address. Municipal justice court locations are also distinct from district courthouses, which matters when retrieving the original judgment or determining the renewal procedure.

Why the 2026 recording charge is not identical in every county

Section 17-71-407, effective May 6, 2026, sets a $40 base for the specified instruments and a $2 charge for each description beyond ten. It also requires an additional $5 for the specified services in second- through sixth-class counties unless the county has a balance in the restricted recording-fee account. This explains why a statewide statement of either $40 everywhere or $45 everywhere is insufficient. The local published schedules below establish the actual quoted county products. The statute permits local copy and subscription fees, gives a default $5 certificate-under-seal charge when the county has not set a different fee, and prohibits charging more than one recording fee merely because one instrument has multiple descriptive titles or attachments.

The charge is generally for an instrument, not a first page followed by a uniform per-page recording charge. Additional legal descriptions, plat sheets, lot designations and locally defined copy products are different units. For a judgment, the document and identifying statement should be assembled in the form the recorder accepts; splitting a transaction into separately recorded instruments can produce separate entry numbers and charges. Payment or authorized electronic payment precedes the service. A county's electronic submission cutoff can also precede its front-counter closing time, so sending a package near closing does not prove that it received that day's recording date.

What execution entries show and what property remains exempt

The judiciary's collection instructions describe accounting for the judgment, postjudgment discovery, garnishment and execution. A judgment creditor has to choose the procedure appropriate to the property. A recorded real-estate lien is not the same document as a writ directing an officer to seize property, and a court search may show one without the other. The same guidance explains that bankruptcy can stop collection of a discharged debt. A researcher should therefore read later case events and orders rather than characterizing an old money judgment as presently collectible solely because its original amount remains visible.

Under Rule of Civil Procedure 64, effective May 1, 2024, enforcement reaches nonexempt property through the relevant writ. Real-property writs go to the sheriff in the county where the property lies. The application and served papers identify the judgment, property and exemption-response procedure. A wrongful writ can be challenged, and a certified discharge order must be recorded where the seizure was recorded. Those additional records explain why a docket entry marked issued should not be treated as proof that the officer completed a levy or that a sale occurred.

Rule 64E governs a postjudgment writ of execution. The application describes the balance, property and other known claims; the debtor can respond and request a hearing within 14 days after service. The hearing is to occur as soon as possible and within the rule's 14-day limit, and the property may not be sold before the court decides the challenge. For land, Rule 69A requires the writ and property description to be recorded in the county, with service on the occupant or posting when appropriate and notice to other claimants. The county record therefore supplies a second place to check the legal description and the officer's action.

A sale record has its own timetable. Rule 69B, effective May 1, 2024, requires the land-sale notices to be posted at the specified locations for at least 21 days and published weekly for three weeks when the newspaper condition applies. A land sale produces a certificate, with a duplicate recorded for each parcel. Under Rule 69C, the usual real-property redemption period is 180 days, subject to the rule's exceptions. Redemption prices, allowable expenses and later redemption by a junior lienholder have distinct formulas; the first redemption includes the purchase price plus 6%, while a later redemption has a separate 3% component. The redemption certificate and any accounting dispute belong in the chronology before drawing a conclusion about final ownership.

Garnishment has different deadlines because a third party holds the property. Rule 64D generally gives the garnishee seven business days to answer and serve the required papers, and gives a party 14 days to reply to those answers and request a hearing. For ordinary judgments, the earnings limit is the lesser of 25% of disposable earnings or the amount above the federal-minimum-wage formula; child-support garnishment has its own 50% limb. A continuing writ is also subject to termination events and the rule's time limits. An employer's response, a debtor's exemption claim and the court's resulting order reveal more than the writ's issuance alone.

The homestead figure in the statute's older base text is adjusted annually. The State Auditor's data and statistics office page links the actual January 2026 homestead table: $53,700 for an individual's primary residence and $107,500 for the household primary-residence limit, with $6,400 and $12,800 respectively for the nonprimary category. These are exemption amounts, not statements that any property below those prices lacks a recorded lien. Equity, ownership and the type of obligation matter. A $5,000 primary-residence statement would confuse an older statutory nonprimary base amount with the current adjusted primary-residence figure.

Section 78B-5-503 defines the primary-residence category and its limits, including the reasonably necessary surrounding land up to one acre. Exceptions include specified property taxes and assessments, purchase-price obligations, child support and consensual liens. The statute also addresses qualifying sale proceeds for one year. Under section 78B-5-504, the signed and acknowledged declaration must be recorded or served on the executing officer within the stated procedure before the execution-notice deadline. It includes the property description, estimated cash value and claimed exemption. Failure to make the required claim can affect the execution purchaser's title, so the existence of a residence alone is not a substitute for checking the exemption papers.

Other property exemptions have separate scopes. The current May 6, 2026 text of section 78B-5-505 covers specified health aids, benefits, household items, support payments, retirement interests and other categories, with qualifications and restitution-related exceptions. Section 78B-5-506 separately provides the stated $1,000 category limits for certain household and personal items, a $5,000 aggregate trade-tools exemption and a $3,000 exemption for one qualifying motor vehicle. These figures should be attached to their statutory property categories. They cannot be added indiscriminately to a homestead claim or applied to every vehicle regardless of recreational use.

Construction registry notices and the lien recorded against land

The Department of Commerce's State Construction Registry office links the official SCR portal. Its notice categories include preliminary notices, construction loans, intent to complete, remaining to complete and completion. A registry filing is not the county-recorded notice of construction lien. The contractor instructions direct private-project searches by tax parcel ID and government-project searches by entry number; using an entry number alone on a private project can miss other filings. Save the parcel and project identifiers along with the notice date. The portal's fee screen did not expose its amount rows during this review, so no current SCR filing price is assigned from an empty table.

Section 38-1a-501 generally requires a preliminary notice within 20 days after construction work begins. A late notice has a narrower reach: the statute excludes work before the date five days after the late filing, and a notice more than ten days after a notice of completion is ineffective. Separate original contracts require their own treatment. The notice carries project, owner, contractor and location information, so an incorrectly associated parcel can affect whether a search finds the filing. The recorder's later acceptance of a lien does not establish that this preliminary-notice requirement was met.

The county-recording deadline comes from section 38-1a-502. Without a notice of completion, the usual limit is 180 days after final completion of the original contract. A notice of completion can reduce it to 90 days after that filing, never later than the ordinary 180-day outside limit. A subcontractor performing substantial work after the specified occupancy or inspection event has a separate provision. The claimant must also deliver or send the recorded lien notice by certified mail to the owner within 30 days. Missing that service step forfeits the specified costs and attorney fees against the owner; the statute does not describe that omission as automatically erasing the lien itself.

Priority is not determined simply by which contractor's county notice appears first. Section 38-1a-503 relates construction priority to the first preliminary notice and contains a construction-loan provision involving payment of preexisting claims. Section 38-1a-504 puts project construction liens on equal footing with one another, while preserving the separate treatment of the construction lender's mortgage or trust deed. A useful record set therefore includes the loan instrument, the registry chronology and the recorded claimant notices rather than a county index sorted only by the last filing date.

A notice of completion under section 38-1a-507 can be filed by the specified owner, contractor, lender, surety or title-company participant. It identifies the alleged completion date and method as well as the project location and relevant identifiers. That date is evidence to examine, not permission to replace the statute's definition of completion with the last invoice date. For an owner-occupied residence, the recorded lien must also carry the statutory information about the owner's removal procedure. A claimant's recorded amount remains an asserted claim until the relevant payment, release or court outcome establishes what remains enforceable.

The deadline to sue is separate from the deadline to record. Under section 38-1a-701, enforcement generally must begin within 180 days after the lien notice is filed. If the owner enters bankruptcy within that period, the statute supplies a 90-day period after the automatic stay ends. A notice of the pending action must also be recorded in each applicable county within the specified period. Failure to sue on time makes the lien void; failure to record the pending-action notice has the statute's distinct exception for parties and people with actual knowledge. The underlying personal debt action is preserved separately. A residence case also requires the statutory owner instructions and form, with a specified opportunity to seek a certificate of compliance.

Once the full amount, including the applicable costs and cancellation fees, is paid, section 38-1a-803 permits an interested person to request cancellation. The claimant then has ten days after receiving the request to submit the cancellation to every applicable recorder. The stated remedy for a failure is $100 per day after that deadline or actual damages, whichever is greater. Preserve the payment evidence, request, receipt date and cancellation entry. Those records distinguish a paid claim awaiting its public cancellation from a dispute about whether the amount was ever due.

A lien based on a missing timely preliminary notice has a specific challenge route. Section 38-1a-805, effective July 1, 2024, requires the prescribed certified-mail withdrawal request and ten business days before the qualifying petition. A district court petition belongs in the property county. The petitioner must meet the affidavit and service requirements; the expedited proceeding is limited to the notice and validity issues described in the statute. A granted order declares the lien void from its beginning and releases the property, while an unsuccessful petition can result in an award to the claimant. Either resulting order can be recorded. This procedure is more specific than sending the recorder an unsupported instruction to delete an entry.

Central financing statements, fixture filings and termination history

Utah's central filing agency is the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. Its UCC instructions identify the online filing and search route, the UCC-1 initial statement, the UCC-3 amendment, continuation and termination functions, and the UCC-11 search request. The division states $12 per page for the covered filings and no fee for a termination or UCC-5 information statement. Its currently linked Fiscal Year 2026 fee schedule, effective July 1, 2025, lists the UCC and central-filing products separately. A document stored under a 2023 upload path can therefore carry a later effective schedule; the printed effective date and current office link are the evidence, not the folder name alone.

The filing location follows the collateral. Section 70A-9a-501 sends true fixture filings, as-extracted collateral and timber-to-be-cut filings to the mortgage-recording office for the related land. Other filings generally go to the division, including a financing statement about goods that are fixtures when it is not filed as a fixture filing. Transmitting utilities have a separate central-filing rule. Under section 70A-9a-525, effective November 6, 2025, county filing fees follow the recorder statute rather than the division's central tariff. A central UCC search alone is consequently insufficient for a lien inquiry involving fixtures and land.

Section 70A-9a-515 sets the ordinary five-year financing-statement period, a 30-year period for properly designated public-finance and manufactured-home transactions, and different treatment for transmitting utilities and mortgage-based fixture filings. A continuation belongs in the six months before the applicable expiration and generally continues effectiveness for another five years from the former expiration date. A document submitted outside the allowed window should not be assumed to preserve priority merely because it appears in the history. Review the initial statement, every continuation, amendments and termination documents as one chain.

The division warns that a terminated financing statement may still display an active search status even though the termination makes it ineffective. The operative rule in section 70A-9a-513, effective May 6, 2026, supplies the termination requirements and exceptions. Consumer-goods statements have a one-month requirement after the obligation and commitment end, shortened by the specified signed demand; other covered circumstances use a 20-day demand procedure. The current section also directs notice to the secured party when the debtor files a termination. A search result's status label should therefore be reported together with the termination record and its filing date, rather than treated as a standalone legal conclusion.

Corrections and removal procedures are not interchangeable. An information statement under section 70A-9a-518 identifies the disputed filing and explains the claimed inaccuracy, but does not itself change the effectiveness of the financing statement. Section 70A-9a-513.5, effective July 1, 2024, supplies a different procedure for an allegedly unauthorized filing intended to harass or defraud, using a notarized affidavit and review or termination steps. That section excludes county recorder offices from its defined filing office. Established filers have a separate administrative-review route, and a secured party can seek reinstatement. The division's linked affidavit form should be used with the current statute rather than treating its older footer references as current law.

Tax liens, public access, redaction and disputed records

The Utah State Tax Commission's tax-lien guidance explains that the public judgment identifies the taxpayer, tax type and amount when filed. A payment agreement does not necessarily prevent a lien, although the commission describes its collection treatment while an agreement remains current. Release requires payment of the tax, penalties and interest or proof that the lien was erroneous. Certified funds can permit same-day release; other payment processing can take 30 days. A withdrawal remains visible as a set-aside public record rather than disappearing from history. The commission gives 801-297-7703 and 800-662-4335, extension 7703, for this work. A county index amount should not be substituted for an actual current payoff from the tax authority.

The judiciary's records-classification rule, effective May 18, 2026, begins with public access but specifies private, protected, sealed and safeguarded categories. Under subsection (4)(B), specified domestic-relations records are private while the case history, judgments, orders, decrees and public-hearing record remain public unless another restriction applies. That distinction matters when a divorce judgment establishes a money obligation affecting property. The inability to view a private financial declaration does not prove that the public decree is unavailable. The judiciary's nonpublic-record instructions also place responsibility on filers to redact protected identifiers; ordinary public access does not authorize requesting another person's full account or Social Security number.

Court-request timing comes from Rule 4-202.06. The normal response period is ten business days, with a five-business-day provision for the specified public-benefit or publication request. Extraordinary circumstances can justify additional time with an estimate. A denial must identify the authority, reasons and review route; a sealed-record response can avoid confirming the record's existence. A missed applicable response period can be treated as a denial under the rule. These are judicial-record procedures and should not be assumed to govern every county recorder or executive-agency request.

Rule 4-202.07, effective May 1, 2025, provides the court-record appeal sequence. A written appeal is generally due within 30 days of the decision or deemed denial and identifies the requested relief, facts, arguments and contact information. The route proceeds from the custodian to the state court administrator and then the Management Committee, with the rule's separate decision and hearing periods. The administrator ordinarily has five business days, with the specified 15-day provision where applicable. Management Committee review has its own 15-to-45-business-day initial window. Judicial review remains available as provided by law. Preserve the request, response, notice of extension and dates, because they determine which appeal clock applies.

For recorded land documents, section 17-71-406, effective November 6, 2025, allows a written request identifying the instrument and page for personal-information redaction. The recorder makes a redacted copy and retains the original; the procedure does not rewrite the recorded legal transaction. The original remains available through the statute's specified routes, including the subject, certain title-company and attorney requests, a valid subpoena, a qualifying records request or a court order. Local redaction charges differ under the current fee provisions. A request to conceal a protected identifier is different from a claim that the underlying lien is invalid.

The courts' wrongful-lien procedure addresses liens lacking the required statutory, court-order or owner-signed basis. It describes written removal demands, a district court petition and a hearing opportunity. The guidance distinguishes actual damages, the specified $3,000-or-treble remedy after refusal to remove following the demand period, and the $10,000-or-treble remedy for knowingly wrongful recording, with the stated fee provisions. These remedies depend on the legal findings and procedure; a recorder's acceptance is not a judicial finding that the claim is valid. Obtain the contested instrument and any resulting removal order, and connect the order to the county entry rather than treating an allegation or complaint as the removal itself.

For county and executive-agency records governed by GRAMA, section 63G-2-204 requires a written request with contact information and a reasonably specific description. Submit separate requests to separate custodians, even when seeking related records. The ordinary response period is ten business days; a demonstrated public-benefit request has a five-business-day route. The agency can approve, deny, identify the proper custodian or invoke one of the listed extraordinary circumstances with a stated availability date. Those exceptions have different limits: for example, legal consultation and extensive redaction are not assigned the same extension. A request sent to the wrong internal office can also change when the response period begins after forwarding. Keep the receipt and any extension notice.

Section 63G-2-203, printed effective March 17, 2025, permits reasonable actual-cost charges and preserves fees established by other statutes. It generally bars an inspection charge and protects the first quarter-hour of staff time, but has a specified exception for a non-Utah-media requester who made another request within the preceding ten-day period. Fees expected to exceed $50, or unpaid earlier invoiced fees, can support prepayment. A waiver is available for the statutory public-benefit, subject-of-record or qualifying impecunious-rights circumstances; it is not an automatic exemption from every recorder tariff. A fee-waiver denial can be appealed through the stated process.

The initial appeal under section 63G-2-401, effective May 7, 2025, generally goes to the entity's chief administrative officer within 30 days of the denial or applicable deemed denial. The appeal identifies the requester and relief sought and can include supporting facts and authority. The normal decision period is ten business days, with five-business-day public-benefit and twelve-business-day business-confidentiality provisions. The decision notice must explain the next route, including a local appeals board where one has been established, the director or district court, and mediation information. A county records dispute should therefore be routed from the actual denial notice rather than sent automatically to the court-record Management Committee.

The current May 6, 2026 version of section 63G-2-403 governs appeals to the Government Records Office director. It generally sets 30 days from the challenged decision, a separate 45-day provision for the specified extraordinary-circumstances situation, and suspension during qualifying ombudsman mediation. The director's hearing and order have their own timetable and exceptions; the ordinary order deadline is seven business days after the hearing. The office's current submission instructions require the request, denial, prior appeal materials and requested relief, with a copy to the governmental entity. They give 346 South Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101, and expressly exclude court and legislative records from the office's jurisdiction. Older references to the State Records Committee should not replace this current route.

County recorder access, prices and historical limits

The Utah Division of Water Rights' county recorder directory supplies routes for all 29 counties. Each route was followed during this review, including moved destinations and unsuccessful responses. The findings below distinguish a recorder's historical holdings from the dates established for a searchable online index or image collection. County-specific certifications, email delivery, subscriptions and recording cutoffs remain separate products. Where a local fee table or portal body could not be read, no amount or historical starting year has been supplied by analogy with another county.

Beaver County

The Beaver recorder says its records are not online and offers identified document requests by email to recorder@beaver.utah.gov. Its holdings extend into the late 1800s, with earlier losses attributed to fire. That makes the requested name, property description and any known book or entry reference particularly useful. The office quotes $45 per document from May 6, 2026, and does not undertake a title search for the requester. Visit 105 East Center, Beaver, or use PO Box 431 for postal mail; the telephone is 435-438-6480. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. to noon. Friday recording must arrive before 11:30 a.m.; the last business day of the month has a separate 4 p.m. recording limit. A noon Friday counter closing should therefore not be treated as the document-acceptance deadline.

Box Elder County

Box Elder's recorder office is at 1 South Main Street, Brigham City, telephone 435-734-3395, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It links Eagle Web for recorded documents and a separate map for parcel information. The 2026 schedule sets $45 recording from May 6, plus $2 for each description beyond ten. Letter-size copies cost $0.50, while certification adds $6 plus the copy charge, a local figure that differs from the statutory default. Electronic delivery is listed at $5, with mailed delivery at actual postage. Eagle Web products are $1.50 per document, $75 monthly, $200 quarterly or $800 annually. A credit-card charge of 2.5%, minimum $1.50, is listed with an Xpress Bill Pay exception. A free property-watch alert is a notification product and should not be confused with a complete historical search.

Cache County

The Cache recorder contact identifies Suite 101, 179 North Main Street, Logan, telephone 435-755-1530, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The office's CORE landing screen separates the free public tier, limited to 100 searches per day and basic tax information, from the $80 monthly subscriber tier with images, abstracts and unlimited searches. Those access levels should not be described as the same free lien-image service. The local tariff lists $45 recording and $2 for descriptions beyond ten. Unassisted paper copies are $1 for the first page and $0.25 thereafter; staff copies are $2 per page, staff email is $1 per document, and certification is $5 plus $2 per page. The schedule retains an older 2019 recording-fee label alongside the newer amount, so that label is not used as the effective date of the $45 charge.

Carbon County

The Carbon recorder operates at 751 East 100 North, Suite 1300, Price, telephone 435-636-3265. Its current tariff lists $45 per document, $2 for descriptions over ten, and $55 per plat sheet plus $2 per lot. An older $40 sentence remains elsewhere in the same body; a requester should use the current tariff and confirm any unusual instrument before sending payment. Standard recorded-document copies are $0.50 per page, with larger 11-by-17 copies at $1. The certification wording is $5 plus $1 for each additional page, so a multi-page certified-copy request should ask the office to quote the total rather than assume the first-page formula. Mailed work calls for a check and self-addressed stamped envelope. The office describes original-document return in about five to seven business days after processing, which is a return estimate rather than a promise about when an online index will be searchable.

Daggett County

Daggett's recorder maintains entry, grantor/grantee, mortgage, tract and lien indexes. Its current published recording amount is $45 per document. The office is at 95 North 1st West, with postal mail to PO Box 219, Manila, telephone 435-784-3180 and email recorder-treasurer@daggettcounty.gov. Published hours are weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., excluding holidays. The current office body does not state a certified-copy formula or an online image starting date. The recorder's role includes locating recorded information and maintaining ownership plats; it does not decide a contested lien's validity merely by assigning an entry number.

Davis County

The Davis recorder is at 61 South Main Street, Farmington, telephone 801-451-3225, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Current listed charges include $45 recording, $55 per plat sheet plus $2 per lot, $2 per document page and $5 certification plus $2 per page. Its historical discussion includes nineteenth-century holdings and computerization in 1981; neither establishes a universal online image starting date. The separate REDI-Web terms quote $25 monthly plus additional download charges, with the comparison table listing $1 per digital document. The same table describes in-person or mail fulfillment at five to ten business days. Its general historical description says decades of records without giving an exact first date, so a pre-computerization search still requires an index and image coverage check with the office.

Duchesne County

The state directory's older Duchesne route did not provide a usable current recorder body. The observed moved recorder route and its fee branch also failed during separate retrieval attempts. Accordingly, this review does not assign a local certification amount, portal coverage period or counter schedule to Duchesne. The county remains a separate recorder jurisdiction and belongs to the Eighth Judicial District; those established jurisdiction facts should not be confused with verification of the unavailable local tariff.

Emery County

The Emery contact page gives 75 East Main, Castle Dale, with mail to PO Box 698, telephone 435-381-3520 and recorder@emery.utah.gov. Office hours are weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fee schedule effective May 6, 2026 lists $45 for a covered instrument with up to ten descriptions and $2 for each extra description. Staff copies are $0.50 per page, self-service copies $0.25, and fax or email delivery $5 for the first page plus $0.50 for each additional page. Certification is described as $5 with $0.50 for each additional page. A separately listed research charge is not a promise that staff will perform a title search: the recorder's service description expressly distinguishes assistance locating records from conducting that work for the requester. Identify the particular lien, release or abstract needed before choosing the delivery product.

Garfield County

The current Garfield recorder destination says records begin in 1882 and are not online, despite the availability of parcel-map tools. The office is at 55 South Main, Panguitch, with mail to PO Box 77 and telephone 435-676-1110. Published weekday hours are 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. The table lists $45 recording, $2 for descriptions above ten, and $55 per plat sheet plus $2 per lot. Recorded-document copies cost $1 for the first page and $0.50 thereafter; ordinary Xerox and emailed-information products have separate charges, including $4 for emailed information. Its fee heading uses May 4, 2026, while the statewide provision is effective May 6. That discrepancy is preserved rather than assigning the heading's earlier date to the statute. No online name-search or image completeness claim follows from the parcel map.

Grand County

At the Grand recorder, the document charge is $45 with $2 for descriptions beyond ten. The published copy products distinguish a $0.50 in-office black-and-white copy on standard or 11-by-17 paper from a $1 email or mail copy in those sizes. Certification is listed at $5 plus $1 for each additional page. Large maps carry different in-office and delivery prices, so a plat or survey order should specify both size and format. The office is at 125 East Center, Moab, telephone 435-259-1381, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a noon-to-1 p.m. closure. Its record-delivery email is recorder@grandcountyutah.gov. A property-watch registration is an alert for later filings; it does not replace inspection of the existing judgment or lien and any recorded release.

Iron County

Iron's recorder office lists $45 recording from May 6, 2026, $2 for descriptions beyond ten, and $55 per plat sheet plus $2 per lot. Its table separately lists a $1 recorded-document copy, $0.10 Xerox copy and $5 seal; the recorded-document row does not clearly state a per-page unit, so it should not be relabeled as one. The office links Eagle Web for property accounts and separate collections for recorded and survey plats. Those are distinct search routes, with no single historical starting year established here. The mailing address is PO Box 506, 68 South 100 East, Parowan, and the telephone is 435-477-8350. Counter hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. to noon. A Friday afternoon visit suggested by a generic county schedule would miss the recorder's published hours.

Juab County

The Juab recorder at 160 North Main, Office 110, Nephi, telephone 435-623-3430, publishes Monday-through-Thursday hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is closed Friday through Sunday. Its May 6, 2026 schedule lists $45 recording, $2 per description beyond ten, $1 per copy page and $5 certification plus $1 per page. Email delivery is $10 per document; map delivery is separately priced. Web access is $10 daily, $100 monthly or $1,000 annually. A credit-card payment adds 2.5% with a $1.50 minimum. The office also lists $10 redaction, a minimum $2 return-unrecorded charge and a $300 document-standards appeal application. A paid web-access period does not establish historical completeness, and a standards appeal charge should not be described as the fee for disputing whether the debt itself is owed.

Kane County

The Kane recorder is at 76 North Main, Kanab, telephone 435-644-2360. Weekday counter hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but recordings stop at 4:30 p.m., and the office says it will not hold documents for a later desired recording. The current requirements and fee table lists $45 recording from May 6, 2026, plus $2 for descriptions over ten. Standard copies are $0.50 per page, certification $5 plus $0.50 per page, and an emailed deed is $2 per document. Judgment requirements differ from those for a conveyance: the office calls for the original or certified judgment and debtor information, without the acknowledgment and legal description required for some other instruments. Copy requests can be made in person, by telephone, by mail or through the listed contact route.

Millard County

The Millard office at 50 South Main, Fillmore, telephone 435-743-6210, publishes Monday-through-Thursday hours of 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Friday hours of 8 a.m. to noon. Its main recording cutoffs are 5:15 p.m. and 11:45 a.m., but the separate recording-information body retains a 4:30 p.m. cutoff. Confirm that conflict before arranging a late submission. The tariff is $45 per document, $2 for extra descriptions beyond ten, $0.50 per customer-made copy page or $1 per staff-made page, and $5 certification plus copies. The search terms price online access at $1,000 annually, exclude plats, and caution that parcel associations before August 1, 2006 are unproofed reference material. Water searches remain an office task. The tract abstracts, rather than only the computer-associated parcel documents, are needed for a complete title or lien search.

Morgan County

Morgan's recorder lists 48 West Young Street, PO Box 886, Morgan, telephone 801-829-3277. Office hours are weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with electronic recording ending at 4:30 p.m. The linked Medici record-search destination returned an application shell, so neither image-date coverage nor a search price was established from it. The linked fee destination likewise did not expose a readable tariff. The main office body contains a free-copy reference in the military-discharge context; it is not evidence that ordinary land-document copies or certified lien copies are free. When requesting a recorded judgment, use the telephone or the office's displayed contact controls and obtain the product-specific charge before sending payment.

Piute County

The Piute recorder-treasurer uses 550 North Main, PO Box 116, Junction, telephone 435-577-2505. Its recording instructions call for the parcel number. The public-record search instructions point to the county's Medici service for land instruments, including liens and releases. The returned instructions did not establish a first online year, a complete image range or a current per-document price. The recorder's fee heading also lacked readable amounts, so Piute is not assigned another county's $45 quote as if its own tariff had been read. Use the parcel identifier to locate related documents, then compare the indexed party names and the actual legal description on the lien and its release.

Rich County

The Rich recorder-surveyor gives PO Box 322, Randolph, telephone 435-793-2005, with weekday hours of 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Its available table is explicitly dated 2019 and lists $40 recording, $1 copy pages and $5 certification plus copies. Because the 2026 surcharge provision can change recording charges, the old $40 row is not represented here as a verified 2026 total. The office's Hopdox link resolves through its published redirect to a general get-started destination, rather than exposing a county search interface or coverage table. An undated special-Friday closure notice also cannot establish the current weekly schedule. The office contact remains the supported route for an identified entry, a current total and any required historical index search.

Salt Lake County

The Salt Lake recorder is at 2001 South State Street, Suite N1-600, Salt Lake City, telephone 385-468-8145, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Its requirements table lists $40 recording plus $2 for descriptions beyond ten, $2 per document page, $5 certification plus $2 per page, and a separate $5-per-page vault-copy product. The data service provides free property document lists and a $5 purchase covering 150 units or 24 hours, whichever is reached first. Larger unit packages have different terms and generally take one to two business days to establish. Documents recorded before 2 p.m. normally have images the next working day, while plats can take longer. Thus a missing same-day image is not equivalent to a missing recording. The two published package tables differ in one larger tier, so confirm that tier before purchase.

San Juan County

San Juan's recorder information states that the May 6, 2026 change adds $5 to the covered documents, plats and redactions. The detailed fee display was image-based and its amounts were not readable in the returned body, so no complete local total is inferred from that notice alone. The physical office is 117 South Main, Room 103, Monticello, with mail to PO Box 789 and telephone 435-587-3228. Counter hours are weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Electronic recording has shorter hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m. to noon. A Friday afternoon electronic submission therefore has a different acceptance window from an in-person inquiry. Ask for a readable fee quote identifying the instrument or certified-copy product before mailing a payment.

Sanpete County

The current Sanpete recorder lists $45 recording from May 6, 2026 and directs users to its county self-service record search. The office is at 160 North Main, Suite 204, Manti, telephone 435-835-2181, extension 3. Published hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. to noon. The office warns of reduced Friday email capacity because recording work receives priority. Its separate November 5, 2026 training closure is a dated event, not a permanent change to Friday hours. No first online image year or local certified-copy formula was established from the body read here. A request should therefore identify the entry and ask whether the desired image, certification and delivery format are available rather than assuming the self-service index includes every historical book.

Sevier County

The Sevier recorder is at 250 North Main, Richfield, telephone 435-893-0410. It asks for counter recordings before 4:30 p.m. and electronic packages before 4 p.m., allowing for a possible 30-minute receipt delay. The office identifies a newer document-search route while its linked QDocs landing screen still provides a public index and states that index information can be viewed without charge. That screen warns that documents before May 30, 2006 may carry unproofed or outdated parcel associations and directs full title or lien work to the office tract abstracts. Those limitations are about association quality, not proof that no earlier instruments exist. The fee branch attempted during this review failed; a current copy or recording total is therefore left for the recorder's product-specific confirmation.

Summit County

The Summit recorder-surveyor links its actual one-page recording-fee document. It lists $45 per instrument plus $2 for each description beyond ten, $55 per plat sheet plus $2 per lot, and $5 for a certification seal. Standard letter copies cost $0.50, color letter copies $1, and legal or 11-by-17 copies $1; mailed copies carry a separate $2 charge. Redaction is listed at $10 and identifies signatures and specified portions of personal identifiers. The office is at 60 North Main, PO Box 128, Coalville, telephone 435-336-3238, with recorder@summitcountyutah.gov for contact. Weekday hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but the office asks recording customers to arrive before 4:30 p.m. The PDF does not label an effective date, so the current quoted amount is not assigned an invented adoption date.

Tooele County

The Tooele recorder-surveyor office page distinguishes its MLG record-search route, labeled 1985 to present, from a Tyler route. That label supports the named collection's period, not every other record product. The office links an 18-page county fee schedule whose recorder section lists $2 per recorded-document page, certification at $5 plus $2 per page, and an additional $5 for email delivery. Internet access is listed at $5 daily, $75 monthly or $750 annually. The document's 2025 date makes it unsuitable for proving that an older redaction amount survived the 2026 change; its recording row refers to the state code rather than stating a total. The recorder-specific contact is 435-843-3180 or recordersoffice@tooeleco.gov, with weekday hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The office-linked Tyler service independently repeats the $5 daily, $75 monthly and $750 annual image-access products and identifies the recorder location as 47 South Main Street, Tooele.

Uintah County

The Uintah recorder describes records from 1894 onward as office holdings and identifies the May 6, 2026 additional charge. Its contact location is 147 East Main, Vernal, telephone 435-781-5398. Staff can help a requester begin research but do not undertake the entire title investigation; metes-and-bounds and dimension work is handled in person. The linked LIDS agreement lists a $100 setup charge, then $20 monthly for 100 hits and one concurrent user, or $60 monthly for 300 hits and three concurrent users, with $0.20 for each excess hit. Charges continue until cancellation is arranged. The separate parcel shapefile agreement costs $1,200 annually and provides monthly updates; it is mapping data, not a certified title abstract or a legal survey. These subscriptions should not be combined into one implied price for document images.

Utah County

The Utah County recorder contact gives 100 East Center Street, Suite 1300, Provo, telephone 801-851-8179, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Its fee table explicitly retains $40 recording without the 2026 increase, plus $2 for descriptions beyond ten. Copies cost $1 per page and certification is $5. Credit-card processing is 2.65% with a $1.50 minimum; the debit-card wording excludes Visa debit, and electronic checks have no processing charge. The land-record search menu distinguishes owner, parcel, entry, name, instrument-type, document-description and image searches. It also separately labels REDI books for 1976 and 1977. That menu is useful for connecting a lien to its release, but the two-year REDI label is not the starting date for every other database. Preserve the entry number and year used to retrieve each image.

Wasatch County

The Wasatch recorder describes records from 1862 and explains the historical boundary change involving Duchesne County in 1914. A present-day parcel location may therefore require attention to which county held the earlier record. Original books are largely stored offsite, and the office distinguishes assistance with historical research from conducting a search for the customer. The location is 25 North Main, Heber, telephone 435-657-3210, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the published holiday and first-Friday-in-August exception. The May 6, 2026 fee schedule lists $45 recording, $2 for descriptions beyond ten and $55 per plat sheet plus $2 per lot. Certification is listed at $5 with $1 for additional document pages; ask for the quoted total for the particular copy rather than supply an unstated first-page formula.

Washington County

The Washington recorder lists 111 East Tabernacle, St. George, telephone 435-301-7680, and a 4:45 p.m. Mountain recording cutoff. Its fee body lists $45 recording plus $2 for descriptions beyond ten, $1 per recorded-document page and $5 certification plus the page charge. Ownership plats cost $2 and official plats $4; ordinary GRAMA copies are separately listed at $0.25 per side with applicable staff charges. The office's historical-search link reaches a Medici application shell; no image range or historical completeness claim was established from that shell. A property outpost, historical search and copy order serve different purposes, so the request should identify the recorded instrument and required authentication rather than simply asking for the parcel's current tax screen.

Wayne County

The current Wayne county-office directory identifies the recorder contact at 435-836-1303 and mail to PO Box 187, Loa. The county building is 18 South Main. Its general county-office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a 12:30-to-1 p.m. closure; that is a county-wide directory statement rather than separately verified recording acceptance hours. The recorder fee heading remains dated May 14, 2019, and no readable current amount table was obtained. Before ordering a certified lien or release, request the current copy, certification and delivery components from the recorder. Neither the old fee heading nor the unsuccessful older county-domain route establishes that a current instrument can still be recorded for the former statewide base amount.

Weber County

The Weber fee schedule begins with the May 6, 2026 $45 instrument charge, plus $2 for descriptions beyond ten, but lower legacy rows still show $40 for some named filings. Those conflicting rows should be resolved with the office for the specific product. Staff document copies are $1 per sheet, self-service copies $0.50 and a certification seal $5. The office is at 2380 Washington Boulevard, Suite 370, Ogden, telephone 801-399-8441, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Its abstract subscription is $150 quarterly, with quarter-based billing and published payment-processing charges. The separately linked pre-1980 abstract collection has deed-change, subdivision and section-land branches. That older collection should be checked alongside the modern abstract service when a lien inquiry depends on an earlier chain of title.