CO Code § 4-9-525 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 4 - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 9 - Secured Transactions|Part 5 - Filing|§ 4-9-525. Fees

  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f) of this section and subject to section 24-75-402, C.R.S., fees for services rendered by the secretary of state under this part 5 shall be determined and collected pursuant to section 24-21-104, C.R.S.    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f) of this section, the fee for filing and indexing a record under this part 5 in a filing office described in section 4-9-501 (a)(1) shall not exceed:   Ten dollars if the record is communicated in writing and consists of one or two pages;    Fifteen dollars if the record is communicated in writing and consists of more than two pages; and    Five dollars if the record is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule.       The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subsections (a) and (b) of this section.    The secretary of state must set the fee for responding to a request for information from the secretary of state, including the fee for issuing a certificate showing whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor. The secretary of state need not set a fee for remote access to the secretary of state's data base.    The fee for responding to a request for information from a filing office described in section 4-9-501 (a)(1), including for issuing a certificate showing whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor, shall not exceed:   Five dollars if the request is communicated in writing; and    Three dollars if the request is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule.       This section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under section 4-9-502 (c). However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.     History. Source: L. 2001: Entire article R&RE, p. 1393, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2008: (a) amended, p. 267, § 3, effective August 5.    Editor's note - Colorado legislative change: This section contains numerous alterations from the uniform act.   OFFICIAL COMMENT   1. Source. Various sections of former Part 4.   2. Fees. This section contains all fee requirements for filing, indexing, and responding to requests for information. Uniformity in the fee structure (but not necessarily in the amount of fees) makes this Article easier for secured parties to use and reduces the likelihood that a filed record will be rejected for failure to pay at least the correct amount of the fee. See Section 9-516(b)(2).   The costs of processing electronic records are less than those with respect to written records. Accordingly, this section mandates a lower fee as an incentive to file electronically and imposes the additional charge (if any) for multiple debtors only with respect to written records. When written records are used, this Article encourages the use of the uniform forms in Section 9-521. The fee for filing these forms should be no greater than the fee for other written records.   To make the relevant information included in a filed record more accessible once the record is found, this section mandates a higher fee for longer written records than for shorter ones. Finally, recognizing that financing statements naming more than one debtor are most often filed against a husband and wife, any additional charge for multiple debtors applies to records filed with respect to more than two debtors, rather than with respect to more than one.