Fee calculator · Colorado
The Colorado notary fee calculator. One fee per document — all duties included.
Colorado prices the document, and the statute makes that fee cover every duty needed to complete the act. Run the number, then the three rules. Not in Colorado? Pick your state →
Colorado Fee Calculator
One document, one fee. The statute says inclusive.
Colorado charges per document, and the fee must cover every duty required to complete the notarial act. A three-signature document is one fee.
Your appointment
Colorado prices documents — count those, nothing else.
Notarial fee, maximum
1 document × $15 each · C.R.S. §24-21-529(1)
Travel is separate and never computed here. Quoting and agreeing it before the drive is our policy.
The three rules
Every Colorado quote, explained in three cards.
Capped by law
$15 /document
Per document, inclusive by statute — the fee has to cover every duty needed to complete the act, so there's no lawful “plus stamping” add-on. Three signatures on one document is still one fee.
§ C.R.S. §24-21-529(1)
Electronic
$25 in lieu
Up to $25 for an electronic notarization, charged in place of the document fee rather than on top of it. One or the other, never both — and it's a ceiling, so it can be anything from nothing to $25.
§ C.R.S. §24-21-529(2)
Extra charges
Itemized
Colorado sets no travel rate, but it governs how any additional charge is disclosed: you must be told before the act and given a written itemized list. Without that itemization, the charge is presumed to have exceeded the legal maximum.
§ 8 CCR 1505-11 (CO SOS Notary Program Rules), Rule 2.4.1–2.4.2
For notaries
Quote it right, then record it right.
What Colorado records
Colorado notaries journal every act as it happens and keep it ten years.
The entry records the date and time, the document, who it was for, how they were identified — and the fee charged. A paper journal must be a bound register with numbered pages.
Your fee menu
Statutory maximums on common Colorado appointments.
Capped portion only. The fee is inclusive by statute, so nothing lawfully stacks on top of it for the act itself.
Questions, answered
Before you book.
Is it per signature or per document?
Per document — and the fee is inclusive of every duty needed to complete the act. Three signatures on one document is one $15 fee, not three.
§ C.R.S. §24-21-529(1)
Can a Colorado notary add a stamping or handling fee?
Not for the act itself: the statute makes the document fee cover every duty required to complete it, so there's no lawful “plus stamping” add-on.
§ C.R.S. §24-21-529(1)
How does the electronic fee work?
Up to $25, charged in lieu of the document fee — it replaces the $15 rather than stacking on it.
§ C.R.S. §24-21-529(2)
What about travel or other extra charges?
Colorado sets no travel rate, but it does control the disclosure: if a notary charges for anything alongside the act, they must tell you before it happens and give you a written itemized list. If they don't itemize, the amount charged is presumed to have exceeded the legal maximum. Title-company employees doing closing work are carved out of that rule.
§ 8 CCR 1505-11 (CO SOS Notary Program Rules), Rule 2.4.1–2.4.2
I think I was overcharged. What do I do?
The Secretary of State takes complaints about Colorado notaries, and the notary gets to answer before anything happens. That process decides the commission only — damages come from a civil suit and criminal penalties from a prosecution, neither of which the Secretary of State awards.
§ C.R.S. §24-21-523
Is this legal advice? Which document do I need?
No, and we can't tell you — that's a legal question, and notaries aren't attorneys. This is arithmetic on a published fee cap with the statute cited beside it, nothing more.
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