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Effective July 1, 2009, the electronic transaction fee to record most documents at an Iowa county recorder?s office will increase from $1.00 to $3.00 per record transaction. The purpose of the fee increase is to pay for the redaction of Social Security Numbers from records obtained at www.iowalandrecords.org. The fee does not apply to a military separation or discharge record, a birth record, a death certificate, or marriage certificate unless such record or certificate is incorporated within another document or instrument that is recorded and displayed for public access on a website. The fee is scheduled to stay in effect until June 30, 2011 when the fee will be reduced by $2.00.  The fee increase is part of Senate File 465 - see SF 465 at http://www.legis.state.ia.us/index.html.