Colo. Rev. Stat. § 38-35-112

Current through Chapter 123 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 38-35-112 - Certificate of death when properly recorded may be admitted as evidence

A certificate of death or a verification of death document issued by a public official, whose apparent official duties include the keeping of records of death, of any state, territory, county, parish, district, city, town, village, province, nation, or other governmental agency or subdivision thereof or a copy of any such certificate of death or a verification of death document certified by such public official or by the county clerk and recorder of any county in the state of Colorado in whose office the same or a certified copy thereof has been recorded shall, insofar as the death may affect any interest in real property, be prima facie evidence of the death so certified and of the time and place of such death and shall be admissible in evidence in any court in the state of Colorado. Such method of proving death shall not be exclusive and nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the proof of the death of any person in any other manner authorized by law.

C.R.S. § 38-35-112

Amended by 2014 Ch. 30,§ 8, eff. 7/1/2014.

L. 27: p. 591, § 11. CSA: C. 40, § 117. CRS 53: § 118-6-12. C.R.S. 1963: § 118-6-12. L. 2014: Entire section amended, (HB 14-1073), ch. 30, p. 178, § 8, effective July 1.

For proof of ownership of joint tenancy of real property, see §§ 38-31-102 and 38-31-103.