Colorado law dictates Recording Requirements and Recording Fees for all documents. The most common fees are listed below. If you are looking for a fee not listed, please call our office for help at 303-413-7770 or send us an email at recording@bouldercounty.gov.
The Recording Division physical office is closed to the public. Online/phone services are available Monday-Thursday from 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Limited in-person services are available by appointment.
Recording Fees and Requirements
Recording Fees
| Item | Fee |
|---|---|
| Recording the first page of each document, legal size or smaller (unless specified below) | $13.00 |
| Recording each additional page of a document following the first page, legal size or smaller | $5.00 |
| Certificate of Magistracy under Seal | $2.00 |
| Recording first page of town plats, subdivision plats, all other plats, and documents larger than 8.5 x 14 inches | $13.00 |
| Recording each additional page of a town plats, subdivision plats, all other plats, and documents larger than 8.5 x 14 inches | $10.00 |
| Recording 1-2 pages of a Uniform Commercial Code | $13.00 |
| Recording 3 or more pages of a Uniform Commercial Code | $18.00 |
| Electronic recording of a Uniform Commercial Code | $8.00 |
| Recording the first page of a mining claim document | $8.00 |
| Recording each additional page of a mining claim document | $5.00 |
| Indexing of each mining claim | $0.25 |
| Federal tax liens per document | $8.00 |
| Documentary fee, if consideration is more than $500 on a deed which transfers property and is not exempt, per each hundred dollars of consideration given | $0.01 |
| Application and recording fee for a marriage license or Civil Union | $30.00 |
| Digital copy of a plat, per sheet emailed | $2.00 |
| Certified copy of marriage license | $1.25 |
| Certifying a copy of a recorded document | $1.00 |
| Copies of records, per page | $0.25 |
Recording Requirements
Recording fees are statutorily established. Boulder County only refunds overpayments which are over $15.00. See the list of our most common fees in the table above or call our office at 303-413-7770 or email us at recording@bouldercounty.gov if the fee is not listed.
Any transfer deed with consideration exceeding $500.00 will be assessed a State documentary fee of $.01 per $100.00.
Per C.R.S. 38-35-109(2), all deeds shall include a notation of the legal (mailing) address of the grantee. This address is used to determine where tax statements should be mailed after a property is sold.
C.R.S. 301-10-406(3)(a) requires that all documents have a top margin of at least one inch and a left, right, and bottom margin of at least 0.5 inches. The recorder may refuse to file any document that does not meet these standards.
If checks are made out to the wrong party, the check along with all documents attached to it will be rejected and returned to the submitter.
Unsigned or stale dated checks, along with all documents attached thereto, will be rejected and returned to the submitter.
- Plats must be precisely 24 inches high by 36 inches wide and legible.
- Boulder County only accepts plats electronically, so the recording block is not required.
- Plats must still be full size and not shrunk down to letter or legal size due to legibility.
- Original signatures must be included.
- Original seals must be visible. No impression seals are permissible; they must be inked seals.
- No watermarks are permitted.
- Margins of at least 0.5 inches on all sides are required.
- Site plans are not recorded. If the submitter deems it required, they will be recorded as maps, not plats.