2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 38 - Property - Real and Personal
Survey Plats and Monument Records
Article 50 - Survey Plats and Monument Records - General Provisions
§ 38-50-103. Public records - monument records

(1) The state board of licensure for architects, professional engineers, and professional land surveyors, created in section 12-25-106, C.R.S., shall employ personnel at the expense of such board's licensed professional land surveyors to maintain a record-keeping and indexing system for all monument records submitted in accordance with section 38-53-104.

(2) (a) The state board of licensure for architects, professional engineers, and professional land surveyors shall provide, free of charge, a copy of each monument record submitted in accordance with section 38-53-104 to the county clerk and recorder for the county in which the monument is located.

(b) Each county clerk and recorder shall maintain copies of monument records in a county record-keeping and indexing system and, upon receipt of each monument record provided pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (2), shall list it in the system.

(c) Records maintained pursuant to this section shall be open to public inspection during normal business hours.

(3) Certified copies of monument records of the state board of licensure for architects, professional engineers, and professional land surveyors shall be evidence in all courts and places in this state.

(4) No fee shall be charged by the state board of licensure for architects, professional engineers, and professional land surveyors for the submission of monument records. The cost of maintaining the record-keeping and indexing system for monument records shall be recouped as part of the renewal fees charged to licensees, which fees shall be calculated to cover the costs of the staff and equipment necessary to maintain the record-keeping and indexing system.