2021 Colorado Code
Title 13 - Courts and Court Procedure
Article 5 - Judicial Districts
Part 1 - Judges - Terms
§ 13-5-135. Time Limit on Judgment

Every motion, issue, or other matter arising in any cause pending or to be brought in any district court of this state, and which is submitted to any such court for judgment or decision thereof, shall be determined by the court within ninety days after the adjournment of court. This section shall not be so construed as to prohibit a decision after the expiration of the time limited, but only as working a forfeiture as provided in section 13-5-136 .

History. Source: L. 67: P. 457, § 8. C.R.S. 1963: § 37-12-42 .

Neither this section nor § 13-5-136 is an authority for the entry of a judgment in vacation or at chambers. A judgment appearing upon the records of the district court of one county, but which by the same record appears to have been rendered by the judge while at his chambers, in a different county, will be reversed on appeal. Scott v. Stutheit, 21 Colo. App. 28, 121 P. 151 (1912).

This section does not divest jurisdiction or affect the validity of a judgment. Neither the statute nor the constitution in any way divests the trial court of jurisdiction to render a decision or affects the validity of the judgment rendered solely because of the lengthy delay between trial and judgment. Uptime Corp. v. Colo. Research Corp., 161 Colo. 87 , 420 P.2d 232 (1966).

The bare fact of the delay is not sufficient to warrant reversal of the judgment. Since no transcript of the evidence has been presented to this court, it appears that the findings of fact and conclusions of law are fully supported by the evidence. Uptime Corp. v. Colo. Research Corp., 161 Colo. 87 , 420 P.2d 232 (1966).