Now, the department in charge of the land registration (when one targets the location) or of the property register (when one targets the register) that was formerly called "bureau des hypothèque" (Mortgage registry) is a French Administrative and Tax Institution of the Direction générale des Finances publiques (General Directorate of Public Finance) (formerly known as the Direction générale des Impôts (DGI)). There are 354 of them in France.

Its tax purpose consists in collecting the registrations' duties and taxes of authentic deeds (land registration). The registration process is an administrative process that only grants published deeds with a prima facie evidence.