Constitutional and statutory laws give this one elective county officer
five titles: Clerk of the District Court, Auditor, Recorder, Clerk of
the Board of County Commissioners, and Chief Elections Officer of the
County. The County Clerk also oversees County Assistance. There are nine
deputy clerks who work under the Clerk as well as in the Board of County
Commissioners office.
Officially, the Clerk of the District Court serves as ex officio Auditor
and Recorder and ex officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners.
The
Auditor acts as the County Budget and Accounting Officer.
Responsibilities include compiling the budget requests and submitting
the budget to the Board of County Commissioners; recording
appropriations made to county agencies, the outstanding liabilities
against these appropriations and the expenditures made against the
appropriations; keeping accounting records on the revenues, expenditures
and balances in each county fund. The Auditor also prepares and remits
checks to employees, vendors, and other persons entitled to payment. All
moneys received by various county offices are recorded in financial
records.
The
Recorder is responsible to keep records of all documents recorded in
Gooding County. Additionally, the Recorder’s office provides marriage
licenses, processes passports and records land documents, including plat
maps, surveys, easements, assertions of right-of-way, and some types of
liens.
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Recordable Documents
A
recordable document, pursuant to the Idaho Code, must have original
signature of grantor and be notarized. If it conveys real property, it
must also include the grantee’s current mailing address.
Not all
recorded documents are certifiable. A certified copy from the Recorder’s
Office is as good as an original document (except birth and death
certificates which must be obtained from the Idaho Vital Statistics
office). To request vital statistics certificates, see Idaho Vital
Statistics or PO Box 83720, Boise ID 83720 or call (208) 334-5980. There
is an information line available at (208) 334-5988.
According
to Idaho Code, all instruments delivered to the County Recorder for
record shall be recorded rather than filed with the exception of plats,
surveys, cornerstone markers and instruments under the Uniform
Commercial Code.
A page
shall not exceed fourteen inches in length or eight and one-half inches
in width (8-1/2” x 14”). The recording fee to be charged for maps,
sketches, drawings or other instruments except plats larger than the
size permitted above for a page shall be two cents per square inch.
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Recording Information and Fees
The Idaho
Code states that the county recorder may receive the following fees for
his/her services, to be paid by the party procuring the recording
services.
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For recording every instrument, paper or notice, for first page
For each page thereafter |
10.00
3.00 |
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For copies of any record or paper, for each page |
1.00 |
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For each certificate under seal, when required |
1.00 |
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For release or assignment where more than one (1) document is
released or assigned in the same instrument, for each additional
release or assignment |
1.00
|
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For recording every town lat or map, for first one hundred (100)
lots or less and
for each additional lot |
11.00
.05
|
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For taking acknowledgments, including seal |
1.00 |
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For recording the location notice or amended location notice, of
a mining claim, or for recording and indexing each notice, for each
page |
3.00 |
|
For recording affidavit of labor of mining claims for one (1)
mining claim
plus an additional charge for each claim in excess of one (1) |
4.00
.50 |
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For filing a survey |
5.00 |
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For making a copy of a survey |
4.00 |
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For issuing marriage license, filing, recording and indexing the
certificate of marriage and taking and filing affidavits required in
issuance of the license |
13.00 |
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For administering an oath, including
jurat's
and certifying the same when required an addition sum of |
1.00
1.00 |
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For comparing and certifying a prepared copy of a file or record
in his or her office, for each page |
.50 |
|
For each certificate under seal there shall be an additional fee
of |
1.00 |
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Marriage Licenses
If you will be married in Idaho, you must obtain a marriage license.
Licenses are issued in the Recorder’s office. If you will be married in
another state, you will need to get a marriage license from that state.
Requirements for people over 18 years of age:
1. Application forms for a marriage license must be filled out.
2. Both people need to appear at the courthouse in person.
3. Both need forms of photo identification.
4. Both need to read and sign a pamphlet on AIDS in the Recorder’s
office.
5. Pay the fee of $28.
For people under 18 years of age (but over 16), a parent for each
person under 18 must also appear, in addition to those requirements
above.
In addition to the above requirements, and the requirement of one
parent for each 16-year-old, a person under 16 years of age must have an
appointment with the Magistrate Judge to obtain a court order permitting
the 16-year-old to be married.
No waiting period or blood tests are required.
Two copies of the marriage license are issued. One copy is for the
couple and one copy is to be sent in for recording by the person
performing the ceremony.
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Passports
You can
go to the
U.S. Department of State’s Passport Services and Information
Site and print out the needed passport application. This Site also
contains information on passport services and other passport-related
information.
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Election Information
Voter
registration in the State of Idaho is done at the county level. The
County Clerk is the chief registration official for Gooding County.
If
requested, the Clerk will furnish a list of registered voters in the
county, arranged by precinct. The requestor may be assessed a charge to
compensate the county for the cost of reproducing such a list. It is
prohibited by law to use this list for commercial purposes.
For
additional election information, see the
Idaho
Secretary of State Election Division website.
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Voter Registration
