Colorado Revised Statutes Title 11. Financial Institutions § 11-41-109. Certificate of approval--where articles filed

(1) If the commissioner finds affirmatively for the association upon all the matters set forth in section 11-41-107, the commissioner shall issue a certificate of approval in duplicate within sixty days after the finding, which certificate recites in substance the following:

(2) The commissioner shall attach one of the certificates to each copy of the articles of incorporation, retain one copy of the articles of incorporation and bylaws in the commissioner's office, and return the other copy of the articles and bylaws, with the certificate of approval attached, to the association. Upon receipt of the articles of incorporation, the association shall file the articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, and certified copies of the articles of incorporation shall be filed by the association in the office of the county clerk and recorder of each county in this state in which the association may own real estate. The failure to file a certified copy in the office of the clerk and recorder of any county in this state does not affect the validity of the incorporation of any association that has made its filing with the secretary of state and has obtained a certificate of approval. In the event a true copy of the articles of incorporation is presented to the secretary of state with the request that the articles of incorporation be certified, the secretary of state shall certify the articles of incorporation for a fee in an amount that is determined and collected pursuant to section 24-21-104(3). The certificate must contain, in addition to the usual statement, a statement that the attached copy is a true copy of the original articles of incorporation on file in the secretary of state's office and a statement as to the date of the filing of the articles of incorporation. When articles of incorporation or amendments to articles of incorporation have been filed in the office of the secretary of state, the secretary of state shall record and carefully preserve them in the secretary of state's office, and a copy of the articles of incorporation or amendments, duly certified by the secretary of state under the great seal of the state of Colorado, is evidence of the existence of the association and prima facie evidence of the contents of the articles of incorporation or amendments.

(3) The secretary of state shall charge for the filing of documents for savings and loan associations the same fees that are charged for corporations with like capital stock, as prescribed in the “Colorado Corporation Code”,  1 and such fees shall be deposited in the department of state cash fund created in section 24-21-104(3), C.R.S.