{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-36-4","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 36, § 4","heading":"Assistant registers; appointment","body":"Section 4. Each register, with the approval of the superior court, may appoint an assistant register of deeds, removable at his pleasure, for whose official acts he shall be responsible; provided, however, that any person so appointed by the register for Suffolk county who has served continuously in any position in the registry of deeds in said county for a period of twenty or more years shall not be removed therefrom except for cause. The assistant shall give bond in the same manner as the register, and may be a woman. Any document or paper certified or attested by such assistant or by a second, third or fourth assistant register or by a chief clerk designated under section seven shall be admissible evidence as if certified or attested by the register.","path":["Part I","Title VI","Chapter 36"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVI/Chapter36/Section4","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:20:27Z","sha256":"06db8b00155e005c18347e0006e47b605855e620d343cb732c3821ba74fc2c66","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-36-3","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-36-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}