Recording Fees

Recording Fees for Lea County, New Mexico
Real Estate Records Recording

All documents recorded in Lea County require a 1 ½ inch margin on every page of the document and font must be a minimum of 8pt.

If you are E- filing a document and any part of the document is not legible the document may be rejected with a request to mail the document in for recording.

All documents: (including Financing Statements / Uniform Commercial Code Filing. These fees apply to all filings: initial filings, amendments, continuations, assignments, releases, partial releases, and terminations.)

1 to 10 Index Entries - $25 NMSA 14-8-15B

Each additional block of 10 entries - $25 NMSA 14-8-15C

Entries to Index are defined as:

1 Grantor = 1 Entry

1 Grantee = 1 Entry

1 Reference = 1 Entry

References are defined as:

• Legal description. If described as a section, township, and range, each different section, township, and range is counted as a reference. If described as a subdivision, each different Tract, Unit, or Block. If all references do not have a legal description, then:
• Book and Page reference. If all references do not have a book and page number, then:
• State or Federal Lease number. If all references do not have a lease number then:
• A combination of any of the above in order to index each reference.

Copy Fees

$.50 per page

Fax Fees

$.50 per page

Scanning Documents & Email Fees

$.50 per page

Additional accommodations will be an additional fee.

Filing Fee for Surveys or Plats

81/2 x 14 - 24 x 36 $25

Lea County's indexing is available online through our website liveweb.leacounty-nm.org. The Grantee and Grantor index books from 1917 to 1981 are scanned and online under the Scanned indexing tab. Please note this data is provided as a public service for your convenience. Updates and corrections occur on a daily basis; however, the County shall not incur any liability for omissions with respect to the information provided in this data.