Alabama Code 40-22-6. Tax upon recording transfer of instrument recorded by exempt institution – Generally
Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-22-6
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- Probate: Proving a will
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
If any mortgage, deed of trust, contract of conditional sale, or other instrument of like character heretofore or hereafter filed for record in any probate office of this state which was or shall be given to secure the payment of any debt incurred to a corporation, organization, or institution now or hereafter exempt by law from the payment of the recording privilege tax imposed by Section 40-22-2 and upon which such recording privilege tax has not been previously paid has been heretofore or be hereafter transferred to a person, corporation, organization, or institution not exempt from payment of such tax and such transfer is presented for record within this state, such transfer shall be received for record upon payment of the privilege tax imposed by said section upon the then unpaid balance of the secured debt and the recording fees of the probate judge.