CO Code § 30-1-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 1 - Fees- General|§ 30-1-103. Fees of County Clerk and Recorders

  Fees collected by county clerk and recorders shall be 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 shall be allowed, in cities and counties and in counties of every class, the clerk shall receive ten dollars for the first page and five dollars for each additional page.    In cities and counties and in every county, the following fees shall apply:   For taking and certifying each affidavit, two dollars;    For each certificate and seal, one dollar;    For filing each bond and license, five dollars;    For certificate of magistracy under seal, two dollars;    For taking acknowledgments, two dollars;    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;    For entering subsequent taxes paid in tax sale record, five dollars for each certificate;    For entering certificate of redemption in tax sale record, five dollars for each certificate;    Repealed.    For copies of records, a fee in an amount determined pursuant to section 24-72-205 (5), C.R.S.;       Repealed.    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.       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.    (Deleted by amendment, L. 2010, (HB 10-1007), ch. 71, p. 243, § 1, effective April 5, 2010.)    The fee described in subsection (1) of this section shall not 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, C.R.S., in which case the fee collected shall be five dollars per page.     History. Source: 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 January 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 10-1007), ch. 71, p. 243, § 1, effective April 5. History. Source: 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 January 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 10-1007), ch. 71, p. 243, § 1, effective April 5.    ANNOTATION   The county clerk's compensation for official acts is regulated by this section, and he is only entitled to charge for those services to which compensation by law attaches, for the rule is inflexible, that an official can only demand such fees or compensation as the law has fixed and authorized for the performance of his official duties. Bd. of Comm'rs v. Leonard, 26 Colo. 145 , 57 P. 693 (1899).   Duties separately defined. By this section the charges for recording instruments, making abstracts of title, making copies of records, making tax lists, serving as clerk of the board of county commissioners, and for the performance of other services required of the clerk, are separately defined. Henderson v. Bd. of Comm'rs, 4 Colo. App. 301, 35 P. 880 (1894).   Per diem is unconscionable salary. The sum allowed by law per diem to the county clerk for his services as clerk of the board of commissioners is a fee within the meaning of the salary act, and it is payable to him absolutely, and the board is without authority to annex to its payment any condition whatever. Henderson v. Bd. of Comm'rs, 4 Colo. App. 301, 35 P. 880 (1894).   For required clerical duties. A county clerk, in his capacity as clerk of the board of county commissioners, is required to perform all services clerical in their nature, in connection with matters within the scope of the authority of the board, which are necessary to enable it to perform its duties with respect to such matters, and he is not entitled to fees for such services outside of his compensation as clerk of the board. Bd. of Comm'rs v. Leonard, 26 Colo. 145 , 57 P. 693 (1899).   No compensation for services as to matters outside board's authority. A county clerk as clerk of the board of county commissioners is not entitled to compensation for services in relation to matters over which the board attempted to exercise a control, but which were not within the legitimate scope of its authority. Bd. of Comm'rs v. Leonard, 26 Colo. 145 , 57 P. 693 (1899).   No fee is provided for the clerk for signing or attesting county warrants. Such work falls within that class of services for which, under the act of 1885, reasonable compensation was allowed by the board of commissioners. Leonard v. Bd. of Comm'rs, 8 Colo. App. 338, 46 P. 216 (1896).