Colorado § 36-1-127 - Forfeiture - new sale.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 36-1-127 — Forfeiture - new sale., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 36-1-127. Forfeiture - new sale.
If any purchaser of state land, after receiving a certificate of purchase, fails to make any one of the payments stipulated therein, and the same remains unpaid for thirty days after the time when it should have been paid, as specified in the certificate, the state board of land commissioners, after issuing notice of forfeiture and allowing thirty days additional to pay the indebtedness as provided in section 36-1-126, may sell the land again. In the case of a sale, all previous payments made on account of such land shall be forfeited to the state. The land shall revert to the state and the title thereof shall be in the state as if no sale had ever been made.
Source: L. 19: p. 649, § 20. C.L. § 1173. CSA: C. 134, § 72. CRS 53: § 112-3-28. C.R.S. 1963: § 112-3-28. L. 97: Entire section amended, p. 845, § 23, effective May 21.
ANNOTATION
This section and § 36-1-128 are written into state land contracts, and a purchaser who takes no action indicating the withdrawal of his assent to a sales contract reserving mineral rights to the state until long after it is validated is bound by the contract. Miller v. Limon Nat'l Bank, 88 Colo. 373, 296 P. 796 (1931).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 36-1-127 ("Forfeiture - new sale.") is part of the Colorado Revised Statutes, the codified statutory law of Colorado. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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