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2024 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 30 - GOVERNMENT - COUNTY (§§ 30-1-101 — 30-35-906)
COMPENSATION - FEES (§§ 30-1-101 — 30-3-101)
Article 1 - Fees - General (§§ 30-1-101 — 30-1-119)
Section 30-1-103 - [Effective 7/1/2025] Fees of county clerk and recorders - report - repeal

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CO Rev Stat § 30-1-103 (2024)
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  • (1) Fees collected by county clerk and recorders are as follows: For filing or recording each document for which a fee is not specifically provided, except tax schedules and claims against the county, for which no fee is allowed, in cities and counties and in counties of every class, the fee is forty dollars for each document; except that no fee is allowed for filing or recording a certificate of death, a verification of death document, or a certified copy thereof.
  • (2) In cities and counties and in every county, the following fees apply:
    • (a) For taking and certifying each affidavit, two dollars;
    • (b) For each certificate and seal, one dollar;
    • (c)
      • (I) For filing each bond and license, five dollars;
      • (II) This subsection (2)(c) is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.
    • (d) For certificate of magistracy under seal, two dollars;
    • (e) For taking acknowledgments, two dollars;
    • (f)
      • (I) For recording town plats, subdivision plats, and all other plats, and for recording all documents in excess of eight and one-half inches in width or fourteen inches in length, ten dollars per sheet;
      • (II) This subsection (2)(f) is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.
    • (g)
      • (I) For entering subsequent taxes paid in tax sale record, five dollars for each certificate;
      • (II) This subsection (2)(g) is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.
    • (h)
      • (I) For entering certificate of redemption in tax sale record, five dollars for each certificate;
      • (II) This subsection (2)(h) is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.
    • (i) Repealed.
    • (j) For copies of records, a fee in an amount determined pursuant to section 24-72-205 (5), C.R.S.;
    • (k) and (l) Repealed.
    • (m)
      • (I) For recording all certificates, affidavits, deeds, or other documents containing the name of one or more mining claims and for indexing the same under the name of each such mining claim, five dollars per page, plus twenty-five cents for each mining claim named therein.
      • (II) This subsection (2)(m) is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.
  • (3) County governments shall be exempt from all fees authorized to be collected under the provisions of this section whenever the county or any agency thereof is the grantor or grantee of the document being recorded or whenever a delegate child support enforcement unit files or records documents for the purpose of collecting child support, child support arrears, maintenance, maintenance when combined with child support, retroactive support, or child support debt.
  • (4) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2010, (HB 10-1007), ch. 243, p. 243, § 1, effective April 5, 2010.)
  • (5) The fee described in subsection (1) of this section will be collected on any filing received by the county clerk and recorder as an authorized agent of the executive director of the department of revenue pursuant to section 38-29-128 or 42-6-121.
  • (6) This section is repealed, effective December 31, 2029.

Amended by 2024 Ch. 394,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2025, app. to documents filed or recorded on or after 7/1/2025.

L. 1891: p. 212, § 7. L. 07: p. 404, § 1. R.S. 08: § 2538. C.L. § 7888. L. 21: p. 321, § 2. CSA: C. 66, § 26. L. 51: p. 382, § 1. CRS 53: § 56-4-3. L. 57: p. 376, § 1. L. 58: p. 239, § 1. L. 63: p. 928, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 56-4-3. L. 65: p. 624, § 1. L. 73: pp. 631, 633, §§ 2, 7. L. 77: (2)(k) repealed, p. 1427, § 1, effective May 26; (3) added, p. 1428, § 1, effective May 26. L. 81: (1), (2)(c), (2)(g), (2)(h), (2)(l), and (2)(m) amended, p. 383, § 3, effective May 21. L. 83: (2)(a) and (2)(e) amended and (2)(i) and (2)(l) repealed, pp. 1226, 1231, §§ 4, 22, effective July 1. L. 88: (2)(m) amended, p. 1107, § 1, effective 1/1/1989. L. 89: (1) amended, p. 1271, § 1, effective July 1. L. 91: (2)(b) to (2)(d), (2)(g), (2)(h), and (2)(m) amended, p. 708, § 4, effective July 1. L. 92: (2)(m.1) added, p. 1106, § 8, effective July 1. L. 96: (1), (2)(m), and (3) amended and (4) added, p. 1555, § 2, effective July 1. L. 97: (3) amended, p. 565, § 19, effective July 1. L. 2007: (2)(j) amended, p. 579, § 2, effective August 3. L. 2010: (1) and (4) amended and (5) added, (HB 10 - 10 07), ch. 71, p. 243, § 1, effective April 5.

2024 Ch. 394, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).

This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.

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