Colorado Code § 38-36-133

Certificate of title insures freedom from encumbrance - exceptions
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(1) 
Every person receiving a certificate of title in pursuance of a decree of registration and every
subsequent purchaser of registered land who takes a certificate of title for value and in good faith
shall hold the same free from all encumbrances, except only such estates, mortgages, liens,
charges, and interests as may be noted in the last certificate of title in the registrar's office, and
except any of the following rights or encumbrances subsisting, namely:
(a) Any existing lease for a period not exceeding three years, when there is actual
occupation of the premises under the lease;
(b) All public highways embraced in the description of the land included in the
certificates shall be deemed to be excluded from the certificate, and any subsisting right-of-way
or other easement for ditches or water rights upon, over, or in respect to the land;
(c) Any tax or special assessment for which a sale of the land has not been had at the
date of the certificate of title;
(d) Such right of appeal, or right to appear and contest the application, as is allowed by
this article;
(e) Liens, claims, or rights, if any, arising or existing under the constitution or laws of
the United States, and which the statutes of this state cannot or do not require to appear of record
in the office of the county clerk and recorder.

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