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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-12-103 (2026)

Who may administer oaths or affirmations

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All courts in this state and each judge, justice, magistrate, referee, clerk, and deputy clerk thereof; court reporters who hold the registered professional reporter certification or higher; members and referees of the division of labor standards and statistics; members of the public utilities commission; and notaries public have power to administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses and others concerning any matter, thing, process, or proceeding pending, commenced, or to be commenced before them respectively. The courts, judges, magistrates, referees, clerks, and deputy clerks within their respective districts or counties; court reporters who hold the registered professional reporter certification or higher; a person designated by the governing body, or any officer thereof; and notaries public within any county of this state have the power to administer all oaths or affirmations of office and other oaths or affirmations required to be taken by any person upon any lawful occasion and to take affidavits and depositions concerning any matter or thing, process, or proceeding pending, commenced, or to be commenced in any court or on any occasion an affidavit or a deposition is authorized or by law required to be taken.

Source: R.S. p. 482, § 3. G.L. § 1927. G.S. § 2473. R.S. 08: § 4671. C.L. § 7960. CSA: C. 115, § 3. L. 45: p. 495, § 1. CRS 53: § 98-1-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 98-1-3. L. 64: p. 293, § 235. L. 65: p. 893, § 1. L. 91: Entire section amended, p. 365, § 38, effective April 9. L. 2016: Entire section amended, (HB 16-1323), ch. 131, p. 380, § 17, effective August 10. L. 2018: Entire section amended, (HB 18-1138), ch. 88, p. 692, § 4, effective August 8. L. 2022: Entire section amended, (SB 22-020), ch. 57, p. 263, § 1, effective March 30.

Cross references: (1) For the authority of county clerks to administer oaths, see § 30- 10-416; for the power of the public utilities commission to administer oaths, see § 40-6-103 (1).

(2) For the legislative declaration in HB 18-1138, see section 1 of chapter 88, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1990–1992 · leading case: Comm. for Better Health Care for All Colorado Citizens v. Meyer, 830 P.2d 884 (Colo. 1992).
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Comm. for Better Health Care for All Colorado Citizens v. Meyer, 830 P.2d 884 (Colo. 1992). · cites it 6× “The constitutional requirement that a circulator execute an "affidavit" is of course satisfied if the circulator obtains authentication of her or his signature from a notary public.”
People v. Fournier, 793 P.2d 1176 (Colo. 1990). “” § 24-12-103, 10A C.R.S. (1988). The detective swearing to the affidavit before the clerk of the court was thus impressed with the legal significance of the oath and his legal obligation to include only truthful matters in the affidavit.”
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