Bailey County Clerk: No Discharge Line on the Fee Notice - LGC 192.002 Carries the Free Filing

The office. Irene Espinoza, Bailey County Clerk (deputies Mary Espinoza and Kit Diaz), Bailey County Courthouse, 300 South 1st Street, Suite 200, Muleshoe, Texas 79347; phone 806-272-3044, fax 806-272-3538. Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.; no copies or marriage licenses after 4:15 p.m. The discharge. The Clerk's fee notice (effective January 1, 2024) sets recording at $25 for the first page and $4 for each page after, and the open records fee sheet and the rules for official public records add nothing on discharges; no page names a discharge. Recording a discharge is free under Local Government Code 192.002 and a certified copy under Government Code 603.003 (see the Texas entry). Government Code 552.140 keeps a discharge recorded on or after September 1, 2003 confidential for 75 years and releases it only to the veteran, the veteran's guardian, spouse, child or parent (or, with none living, the nearest living relative), the estate's personal representative, a person named in a power of attorney, a governmental body or the funeral home assisting with the burial. Call the office before mailing a discharge or a request.