The Chaffee County Recording Department is responsible for recording and maintaining real estate documents, subdivision, town and annexation plats.
All documents, such as warranty deeds, deeds of trust, quit claim deeds, liens, plats, etc. are recorded to give public notice. Recording fees are statutorily set and a fee will more than likely be collected when a document is recorded. The recording fees $11.00 for the first page of a legal size or less and $5.00 for each additional page, and $10.00 per page for pages larger than legal size.
Mining documents are $6.00 for the first page and $5.00 for each additional page plus 25 cents for each mining claim listed.
All transfers of property are subject to a State Documentary Fee (C.R.S. 39-13-102). When the total consideration paid by the purchaser exceeds $500.00, a documentary fee shall be payable at the rate of one cent for each one hundred dollars ($100.00), or major fraction thereof, of the total consideration. Example $375,000 = $37.50 doc fee. Some documents may be exempt from the State Documentary Fee (C.R.S. 39-13-104).
All deeds require a notation of the legal (mailing) address of the grantee (C.R.S. 38-15-109(2). This address is used in mailing the property tax statements.
All documents are required to have a top and bottom margin of at least one inch and a left and right margin of at least one half inch (C.R.S. 30-10-406-(3)(a)). The recorder may refuse to file any document that does not meet these standards.
Effective January 1, 2000, Colorado has a Central Filing Office (Colorado Secretary of State) for Uniform Commercial Code Financing Statements. UCCs are still filed at the county level at a cost of $11.00 for pages 1 and 2 and $16.00 for pages 3 and 4.
Land Survey Plats are deposited through the Clerk and Recorders Office. The cost is $20.00 per page
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