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This bill enacts the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act in Massachusetts. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Allowing electronic documents and signatures to satisfy legal requirements for recording real estate documents, such as originals, writing, and notarization. 2. Authorizing registers of deeds to receive, index, store, archive, and transmit electronic documents, as well as provide electronic access and payment of recording fees. 3. Requiring the Secretary of the Commonwealth to establish standards for registers to implement the electronic recording system, considering practices in other states and input from interested parties. 4. Promoting uniformity in the application and construction of the Act among states that enact it. 5. Clarifying the relationship between the Act and the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. The bill aims to modernize and streamline the recording of real estate documents in Massachusetts by enabling the use of electronic methods, while maintaining consistency with other states adopting similar uniform laws.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H53