Washoe County Recorder: Recording Military Discharge Papers

NRS 419.020 requires every county recorder to record a certificate of honorable discharge "free of any charge therefor"; see the Nevada entry. The Washoe County Recorder, at 1001 E. Ninth Street, Reno, lists military discharge papers among the documents it records, says that "a copy of a military discharge document may be recorded" although other documents must be originals, and exempts a military discharge from the paper and margin rules of NRS 247.110. Recorded documents are imaged and the original is returned. What the pages do not say. The Recorder's schedule of fees lists no charge or exemption for a discharge, so a veteran should expect to pay nothing for an honorable discharge and cite the statute if a fee is asked. The pages also do not say whether a recorded discharge is shown in the online records search, which runs from 1991. Recorded documents in Nevada are generally public, and Clark County, for one, publishes them; ask the Recorder how it handles a DD-214 before recording one.