Colorado § 4-9-525 - Fees.
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§ 4-9-525. Fees.
(a) 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.
(b) 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:
(1) Ten dollars if the record is communicated in writing and consists of one or two pages;
(2) Fifteen dollars if the record is communicated in writing and consists of more than two pages; and
(3) Five dollars if the record is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule.
(c) The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
(d) 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.
(e) 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:
(1) Five dollars if the request is communicated in writing; and
(2) Three dollars if the request is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule.
(f) 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.
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.
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