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Colorado Revised Statutes Title 38. Property Real and Personal § 38-50-102. Public records--original field notes and plats

Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(1) The board of county commissioners for each county is authorized to employ some competent person, at the expense of the county, to make copies of the original field notes and plats of surveys of all lands surveyed or to be surveyed after March 14, 1877, by the officers appointed by the federal government, within their respective counties.

(2) The board of county commissioners shall:

(a) Procure books in which the copies made pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be maintained;

(b) Obtain stationery; and

(c) Fix the compensation of the person employed to procure and make copies of field notes and plats pursuant to subsection (1) of this section whether by contract or otherwise which shall be paid out of the county treasury in the same manner as other expenses are paid.

(3)(a) The copies of field notes and plats made pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be filed in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the proper county and shall thereafter be a part of the public records of such county.

(b) Records or copies made and maintained pursuant to this section, when certified by the county clerk and recorder, shall be evidence in all courts and places in this state.

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