Colorado § 38-35-112 - Certificate of death when properly recorded may be admitted as evidence.
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§ 38-35-112. Certificate of death when properly recorded may be admitted as evidence.
A certificate of death or a verification of death document issued by a public official, whose apparent official duties include the keeping of records of death, of any state, territory, county, parish, district, city, town, village, province, nation, or other governmental agency or subdivision thereof or a copy of any such certificate of death or a verification of death document certified by such public official or by the county clerk and recorder of any county in the state of Colorado in whose office the same or a certified copy thereof has been recorded shall, insofar as the death may affect any interest in real property, be prima facie evidence of the death so certified and of the time and place of such death and shall be admissible in evidence in any court in the state of Colorado. Such method of proving death shall not be exclusive and nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the proof of the death of any person in any other manner authorized by law.
Source: L. 27: p. 591, § 11. CSA: C. 40, § 117. CRS 53: § 118-6-12. C.R.S. 1963: § 118-6-12. L. 2014: Entire section amended, (HB 14-1073), ch. 30, p. 178, § 8, effective July 1.
Cross references: For proof of ownership of joint tenancy of real property, see §§ 38-31-102 and 38-31-103.
ANNOTATION
Law reviews. For article, "Scientific Findings on Death and Coroner's Inquest", see 20 Rocky Mt. L. Rev. 197 (1948). For article, "Curative Statutes of Colorado Respecting Titles to Real Estate", see 26 Dicta 281 (1949). For article, "Standard Pleading Samples to Be Used in Quiet Title Litigation", see 30 Dicta 39 (1953).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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