Colorado Code § 31-23-216

Penalties for sales in unapproved subdivisions. Whoever, being the owner
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or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells, agrees to sell, or
negotiates to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by use of a plat of a subdivision
before such plat has been approved by the commission and recorded or filed in the office of the
appropriate county clerk and recorder shall pay a penalty of one hundred dollars to the
municipality for each lot or parcel so transferred, or sold, or agreed or negotiated to be sold. The
description of such lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other
document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from
such penalties or from the remedies provided in this section. The municipality may enjoin such
transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction brought in any court of competent
jurisdiction and may recover the penalty by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.

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