Most states price notarizations in pieces. Colorado went the other way and wrote one word into its fee statute that does a lot of work: inclusive.
One document, one fee, all duties included
Colorado's cap runs per document, and the statute says the fee must cover every duty needed to complete the act. A document with three signatures is one fee. There is no lawful “plus stamping,” “plus certificate,” or “plus handling” add-on to the notarial fee, because the statute already folded the duties in.
Fees
$15 per document, and that covers the whole notarial act.
The fee has to include every duty needed to complete the act, so there is no lawful add-on for the stamp or the certificate. It is a ceiling, not a set price.
§C.R.S. §24-21-529(1)Cross-checked · CO SOS Notary Handbook (rev. April 2024)
If a Colorado quote itemizes the notarial work into extra pieces, that's worth a question.
What can legitimately be more
Travel. Getting a notary to your door is a separate service with its own agreed price. Colorado sets no travel rate — but it does control how any additional charge is disclosed: you must be told before the act, and given a written itemized list. Without that itemization, the amount charged is presumed to have exceeded the legal maximum.
Fees · Additional charges
If a Colorado notary charges for anything alongside the notarial act, they must tell you before the act and give you a written itemized list — and without that itemization the charge is presumed to have exceeded the legal maximum.
Colorado sets no travel rate; this rule governs how any additional charge is disclosed, not what it may be. Failing to itemize doesn't just breach the rule — it flips the presumption on whether the statutory fee limit was exceeded. Title-company employees doing closing work are carved out.
§8 CCR 1505-11 (CO SOS Notary Program Rules), Rule 2.4.1–2.4.2Cross-checked · C.R.S. §24-21-529 (the fee limit the presumption measures against)
That presumption is unusual and it's in your favour, so ask for the itemized list. Our policy is that travel is quoted first, in writing, anyway.
The Colorado fee calculator shows the statutory portion for your document count.
Electronic swaps, it doesn't stack
An electronic notarization in Colorado is charged in lieu of the document fee — one or the other, never both. If a bill shows both on the same act, one of those lines shouldn't be there.
Fees · Electronic
An electronic notarization can be up to $25 instead of the $15.
It replaces the document fee rather than adding to it, so a signer pays one or the other. Like the $15 it is a maximum.
§C.R.S. §24-21-529(2)Cross-checked · CO SOS Notary Handbook (rev. April 2024)
Every rule behind these numbers, with citations, lives in the state guide.
NotaryOT is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Notaries public are not attorneys and cannot advise on immigration or other legal matters. Each Colorado legal claim in this post carries its citation and was cross-checked against the source named on its card: CO SOS Notary Handbook (rev. April 2024); C.R.S. §24-21-529 (the fee limit the presumption measures against).