Upton County District and County Clerk: No DD-214 Line on the Filing Fees - LGC 192.002 Carries the Free Filing

The office. LaWanda McMurray, Upton County District/County Clerk, 205 East 10th, Rankin; mail to P.O. Box 465, Rankin, Texas 79778; phone 432-693-2861, fax 432-693-2129; [email protected]. Mary Pruett is the deputy for the Official Public Records ([email protected]). The discharge. The Clerk's "Filing Fees (2024 Update)" sheet gives Official Public Record filings at $25.00 for the first page and $4.00 for each additional page (the back of a page counts as a separate page), and asks for two inches across the bottom of the last page for the county's file information, but names no 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. The county's veterans page links the VA's records request page for a discharge held federally (see upton-tx-veterans-services). Call the office before mailing a discharge or a request.