McKean County Recorder of Deeds: the Fee Bill with No Discharge Line (16 Pa.C.S. Chapter 13 Carries the Free Recording)

The office. Michele L. Vogel-Snyder is the Recorder of Deeds ("MICHELE L VOGEL, McKEAN COUNTY RECORDER OF DEEDS"), with First Deputy Jessica L. Bowers and Second Deputy Christine D. Osani, at 500 West Main Street, Smethport, PA 16749; phone (814) 887-3250, fax (814) 887-3255; "Documents presented for recording after 4pm will be recorded the next business day". The duties: "The Recorder of Deeds office is responsible for the preservation of McKean County's land records. The office acts as a collection agent for the Pennsylvania department of revenue along with the municipalities and school districts of McKean County for state and local realty transfer tax." The office "Provide[s] information of recording requirements", helps with the indexes and "Provide[s] photocopies of office records upon request for a fee"; "All records since the 1800's are available to the public. The records from 1929 to present are computerized. Our office now has e recording available with simplifile, csc ingeo, epn (erecording partners network)." The county's universal and local recording requirements - acknowledgment dates, parcel references, certified addresses, self-addressed stamped envelopes - are posted on the same page. The missing line. The fee bill, "EFFECTIVE November 17, 2025", prices the base deed and mortgage recording at $87.75 (four pages, four names and one parcel), mortgage satisfactions at $61.75, rights-of-way at $59.75, powers of attorney and affidavits at $18.50, subdivision plans at $30.00, UCCs at $100.00, and copies at $0.50 to $1.00 per page - and carries no military-discharge line at all. Pennsylvania's Chapter 13 of Title 16 requires the recorder to record the discharge papers of any veteran without charge (the State entry); a veteran asked to pay cites it. The recorded discharge is confidential - see the State entry on the restricted access.