Colorado Code § 38-35-109.5

Recording of instruments conveying real property to public entities
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(1) Any instrument, including, but not limited to, a resolution, ordinance, deed, conveyance
document, plat, or survey, conveying the title of real property to the state or a political
subdivision shall be recorded in the office of the clerk and recorder of the county in which such
real property is situated within thirty days of such conveyance. If the state or a political
subdivision fails to record such instrument pursuant to this section, the state or political
subdivision shall be liable for the amount of interest incurred by the county pursuant to the
provisions of section 39-12-111, C.R.S., due to such failure to record.
(2) For purposes of satisfying the recording requirement in subsection (1) of this section,
the executive director of the appropriate state department or his or her designee shall record any
instrument conveying the title of real property to the state, and a political subdivision shall
designate an appropriate official or officials who shall record any instrument conveying the title
of real property to the political subdivision.
(3) For purposes of this section, "political subdivision" means a county, city and county,
city, town, service authority, school district, local improvement district, law enforcement
authority, water, sanitation, fire protection, metropolitan, irrigation, drainage, or other special
district or any other kind of municipal, quasi-municipal, or public corporation organized
pursuant to law.

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