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TOWN CLERK

The Town Clerk’s Office is responsible for recording, maintaining and preserving land records, maps, vital statistics and other municipal records, including meeting minutes of all official boards, commissions and committees, for access by the public.

Town Clerk's Office is open on a limited basis to the public in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Staff is in the office and business is still being conducted by mail, email, erecording and phone. 

Referendum Results from Nov. 3, 2020 Election; click here.

Land Records are available online; click here. All indexes and maps are online and document images are visible back to June 26, 1989. 

Land record recordings are accepted by mail and by eRecording. Transfer deeds only accepted electronically if no conveyance is due (signed OP-236 must be included). 

          eRecording is available through the following companies (please contact them directly)

                               CSC: erecording.com

                               ePN: sales@goepn.com

                               Simplifile: sales@simplifile.com

 Documents to be recorded in person only if absolutely necessary (one person in the office at a time). For everyone's safety, we prefer mail.

Marriage Licenses are available by appointment only. Please call 203-271-6601. Marriage Worksheet, click here. Current directions, click here.

Other Services such as copies of Vital Records and Dog Licenses will be processed by mail. See below for forms/directions.

For any other urgent business please call our office at 203-271-6601

Liquor Permits: per the Governor's Executive Order No. 7W

• Renewal date for on-premise liquor permits has been extended. This modifies state statutes to provide that all on-premise liquor permits in active status when Executive Order No. 7D went into effect on 3/16/2020 shall be extended by four months, including any business whose permit expired between 3/16-4/9/2020. 

                                       Cheshire Land Records are available online.

The full index is visible and images of the records are available back to June 26, 1989.

             If support is needed for the online system please email websupport@iqsworks.com

Freedom of Information (FOI) inquiries: please contact Arnett Talbot, Assistant Town Manager and Public Information Officer at atalbot@cheshirect.org

The Town Clerk's Office issues the following:

-Absentee ballots and applications

-Burial and cremation permits

-Certified copies of Land Records and Maps

-Certified copies of vital records 

                     (Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates)

-Copies of recorded military discharge papers; or to submit an online request to the National Archives for a certified copy of a DD214 click here

-Dog licenses

-Hunting and Fishing licenses online at DEEP(click here) or in person

-Liquor Permit ($20.00 fee to file with Town Clerk)

-Marriage licenses ($50.00 fee)

-Registration of Property Being Foreclosed $60.00

 (fee payable to "Cheshire Town Clerk")

-Trade Name certificates and Trade Name Certificate Form

-Zoning Regulations Books and Maps

Click here for information about Authentication of Documents and the Apostille (services offered by the state of Connecticut).

Click here for information about committee/commission resignations. 

Public Act 17-2 Sec. 157. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Any local board of education shall file forthwith a signed copy of any contract for administrative personnel with the town clerk, which town clerk shall post a copy of any such contract on the town's Internet web site. Any regional board of education shall file a copy of any such contract with the town clerk in each member town, which town clerk shall post a copy of any such contract on the town's Internet web site.        Effective October 2017

Click here for a list of Cheshire Justices of the Peace.

Click here for a link to Cheshire's Code of Ordinances.

Click here for a link to flood maps.

For questions or more information on these or additional records or services provided by the Town Clerk's office, please contact us at lbrennan@cheshirect.org or 203 271-6601.