Colorado Code § 38-38-110

Sales by officer - location - announcement - records - electronic devices - definitions
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(1) (a) (I) Notwithstanding the provisions of any deed of trust or other lien being
foreclosed, the officer shall conduct the sale at any door or entrance to, or in any room in any
building temporarily or permanently used as, a courthouse or at or within any building where the
office of the county clerk and recorder or the office of the officer is located, which place shall be
specifically designated in the combined notice; except that a sale may be conducted by means of
the internet or other electronic medium. The county, the officer, and employees of the county or
the officer, acting in their official capacities in preparing, conducting, and executing a sale under
this article by means of the internet or another electronic medium, are not liable for the failure of
a device that prevents a person from participating in a sale under this article.
(II) As used in this paragraph (a), "device" includes any computer hardware, computer
network, computer software application, or website.
(b) The combined notice shall designate the actual place of sale or, if the sale is
conducted by means of the internet or another electronic medium, the information prescribed by
section 38-38-103 (4)(a)(VII).
(2) At a sale, the officer shall read only the public trustee's sale number for a sale by the
public trustee or the court case number for a sale by the sheriff, the name of the original grantor,
the street address or, if none, the legal description of the property, the name of the holder of the
evidence of debt, the date of sale, the first and last publication dates of the combined notice, and,
in accordance with section 38-38-106 (4), the amount of the bid and the name of the person that
submitted the bid. In lieu of reading the information listed above, the officer may post the
information at the location of the sale, provide a written copy of the information to all persons
present at the sale, or post the information on the internet or other electronic medium if the sale
is conducted by means of the internet or another electronic medium.
(3) Whenever a public trustee sells property described in a deed of trust, the public
trustee shall enter in the records of the office of the public trustee the name of the person
executing the deed of trust, the book and page or reception number of the recorded deed of trust,
a brief description of the property therein described, the date of sale, the publisher of the
combined notice, a list of the names and addresses of the persons to whom the combined notice
was mailed, the name and last mailing address of the purchaser at the sale, and the amount at
which the property was sold in separate parcels, if so sold, or en masse.

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