Colorado Revised Statutes 2014 TITLE 30 GOVERNMENT - COUNTY COMPENSATION - FEES ARTICLE 1 Fees - General 30-1-101. Classification of counties - fixing fees. (1) For the purpose of fixing fees, chargeable and to be collected by county and other officers, and for no other purpose, the several counties of this state are divided into five classes, which classes shall be known as the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth, as follows: (a) The city and county of Denver is a county of the first class; (b) The counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Pueblo, and Weld are counties of the second class; (c) The counties of Delta, Garfield, Larimer, Las Animas, Logan, Mesa, Montezuma, Montrose, Morgan, and Otero are counties of the third class; (d) The counties of Alamosa, Archuleta, Bent, city and county of Broomfield, Chaffee, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Eagle, Elbert, Fremont, Gilpin, Gunnison, Huerfano, Kit Carson, Lake, La Plata, Lincoln, Ouray, Park, Phillips, Prowers, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, San Miguel, Sedgwick, Teller, Washington, and Yuma are counties of the fourth class; (e) The counties of Baca, Custer, Dolores, Grand, Hinsdale, Jackson, Kiowa, Mineral, Moffat, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, San Juan, and Summit are counties of the fifth class. 30-1-102. Fees of county treasurer. (1) The county treasurer shall charge and receive the following fees: (a) Upon all moneys received by him for town and city taxes, whether such towns or cities are incorporated under the general laws or by special charter, and anything in said charter Colorado Revised Statutes 2014 1 Uncertified Printout to the contrary notwithstanding, and upon all school taxes in counties of the first class, one percent; in counties of the second class, one percent; in counties of every other class, one percent on school taxes and two percent on town and city taxes; except that a collection fee not exceeding one-quarter of one percent shall be charged as provided in section 22-54-119, C.R.S., and no collection fee shall be charged on other school taxes exempt by law from said collection fees; (b) Upon all moneys received by him for taxes of every other kind in counties of the first class, one percent; second class, one and one-half percent; third class, two percent; fourth class, three percent; fifth class, five percent; (c) For receiving all moneys other than taxes, one percent, except moneys received from all federal funds derived from any and all sources. No collection fees shall be charged upon any moneys collected and distributed under the provisions of sections 22-54-106 and 22-54-115, C.R.S., or upon other school moneys exempt by law from said collection fees; (d) For each copy of a receipt issued for current year taxes, two dollars; and for each copy of a receipt issued covering taxes for a prior year, five dollars; (e) For advertising delinquent personal property taxes, ten dollars or the cost of advertising, whichever is greater; (f) For certifying the amount of taxes due on any parcel of real estate, and for certifying outstanding sales for unpaid taxes with the amount required for redemption, ten dollars for each certificate; (g) In connection with a sale for delinquent taxes, for advertising each property description that is separately identified by its own parcel number for general property tax purposes, the estimated cost of advertising but not less than ten dollars; (h) Repealed. (i) For each certificate of purchase delivered, four dollars; (j) For endorsing the amount of subsequent taxes paid on tax certificates and the date of payment in the book of tax sales, five dollars for each certificate; (k) For processing an application for treasurer's deed, thirty-five dollars if the application is not advertised and seventy-five dollars if the application is advertised; (l) For the assignment of a certificate of purchase, made to the county, city, town, or city and county at any tax sale, to a person desiring to purchase land covered by such certificate, four dollars; (m) For each notice of purchase required by section 39-11-128 (1), C.R.S., to be served before a treasurer's deed may be issued, the cost of publication in a newspaper where such publication is required; (n) For each certificate of redemption delivered, seven dollars; (o) For services in collecting drainage district assessments, such amount as the board of directors of the district may allow, but not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per annum; (p) For services in collecting irrigation district assessments, such amount as the board of directors of the district may allow, but not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per annum; (q) For services rendered in handling the payment of principal and interest on bonds of a Colorado Revised Statutes 2014 2 Uncertified Printout school district, such amount as the county treasurer and the board of education shall agree upon, which shall be determined in accordance with the prevailing rate charged for similar services rendered by commercial banks in the state of Colorado; (r) For preparation of a distraint warrant, fifteen dollars; (s) For research, fifteen dollars per hour or portion thereof, one hour minimum; (t) For the notice, computation, and recording provided in section 32-1-1604, C.R.S., thirty dollars. (2) None of the provisions of this section shall be applicable to any moneys received or collected by any county treasurer for any hospital established under the provisions of part 3 of article 3 of title 25, C.R.S., or for any health service district embracing only an entire county established under the provisions of article 1 of title 32, C.R.S. (3) In addition to any other fees to which the county treasurer is entitled and notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, the county treasurer may charge an administrative fee of five dollars when the payment of any real property tax statement, exclusive of any license fees collected pursuant to sections 35-40-205 and 35-57.5-116, C.R.S., is less than ten dollars. The fee shall be credited to the county general fund, pursuant to section 30-25-105, to cover the cost of processing such tax statement. 30-1-103. Fees of county clerk and recorders. (1) 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. (2) In cities and counties and in every county, the following fees shall apply: (a) For taking and certifying each affidavit, two dollars; (b) For each certificate and seal, one dollar; (c) For filing each bond and license, five dollars; (d) For certificate of magistracy under seal, two dollars; (e) For taking acknowledgments, two dollars; (f) 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; (g) For entering subsequent taxes paid in tax sale record, five dollars for each certificate; (h) For entering certificate of redemption in tax sale record, five dollars for each certificate; (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) 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. Colorado Revised Statutes 2014 3 Uncertified Printout (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. 71, p. 243, § 1, effective April 5, 2010.) (5) 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. 30-1-104. Fees of sheriff. (1) Fees collected by sheriffs shall be as follows: (a) For serving and returning summons or other writ of process in a criminal action not specified in this section, with or without complaint attached, on each party served, in counties of every class, actual expenses, but not more than fifteen dollars; (a.5) For serving and returning a summons or other writ of process in other than a criminal action not specified in this section, with or without complaint attached, on each party served, in counties of every class, actual expenses, but not more than thirty-five dollars; (b) For making a return on a summons in a criminal action not served, for each party, in counties of every class, actual expenses, but not more than five dollars; (b.5) For making a return on a summons