Garza District and County Clerk: No Discharge Line on the Fee List; a Deployment Fee Exemption Posted

The office. Terri Laurence, District and County Clerk, Courthouse 1st floor, 300 West Main Street, Post, TX 79356 (mail PO Box 366); phone 806-495-4430, fax 806-495-4431; [email protected]. Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (open during the noon hour), Friday 8 a.m. to noon. The discharge. The Clerk's Recording of Official Public Records page lists recording at $25 for the first page and $4 for each further page, certified papers at $5 plus $1 a page and searches at $5 a name, but no discharge line, and posts no discharge form. 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. Deployment. The same page posts the State's "Exemption from Fees for Military Personnel Being Deployed": a National Guard member on federal active duty, or an active-duty member of the armed forces, preparing to deploy to a hostile fire zone designated by the Secretary of Defense pays no State or local fee for copies of a birth certificate, a recorded marriage licence, a divorce decree, a child support order, guardianship documents or property tax records, for a marriage licence or duplicate, or for transferring title to real or personal property, when the fee arises from arranging his or her affairs because of the deployment.