2 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Colorado: what each one counts from, the statute it was read from, and the statute text.
Information, not legal advice. This app reports what the statute says and cites the section it read. It is not legal advice, it does not file anything for you, and it does not tell you what to do.
Verify with the statute or an attorney. Statutes change, and courts reinterpret them. Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date. Missing a mechanics lien deadline can extinguish your claim permanently, so confirm any deadline you are relying on with an attorney licensed in that state before you act on it.
Data verified: statute text retrieved 2026-09-21 (each citation below carries its own date). Rule data from the NoticeGuard app, source commit 22f9300.
Filed with the county clerk and recorder in the county where the property is located, counted from the day this claimant last performed labor or last furnished laborers or materials.
What it counts from. 120 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
C.R.S. § 38-22-109 (5) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Except as provided in subsections (10) and (11) of this section, the lien statements of all other lien claimants must be filed for record at any time before the expiration of four months after the day on which the last labor is performed or the last laborers or materials are furnished by such lien claimant.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The lien statement "must be filed for record" within this period - this is the general filing rule applying to essentially every claimant type in this app.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 120 calendar days (4 months × 30), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
A narrower 2-month-after-completion rule exists for day/piece-rate labor-only claimants who furnish no materials (§ 38-22-109(4)) - not modeled; see `limitations`.
Applies identically to every role in this app - no role-based difference in this specific deadline.
Commence an action to enforce the lien, and record notice of it
Counted from the SAME date the filing deadline uses - this claimant's own last labor or last furnishing (not the date the lien statement was recorded). Before this date, the claimant must both commence an enforcement action and record a notice with the county clerk stating the action has been commenced.
What it counts from. 180 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
C.R.S. § 38-22-110 (sole section, "Action commenced within six months") Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“No lien claimed by virtue of this article... shall hold the property longer than six months after the last work or labor is performed, or laborers or materials are furnished, or after the completion of the building, structure, or other improvement... as prescribed in section 38-22-109, unless an action has been commenced within that time to enforce the same, and unless also a notice stating that such action has been commenced is filed for record within that time in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county in which said property is situate.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states the lien "shall not hold the property longer than six months" past this date without both a timely-commenced action and a timely-recorded notice of that action - official annotations confirm §§ 38-22-109 and 38-22-110 "must be construed together" (Pacific Lumber Co. v. Lieberman, 1924).
Also stated next to this deadline.
This anchor is genuinely different from every other state in this app: it is the SAME last-furnishing/completion date the filing deadline (§ 38-22-109(5)) uses, not the date the lien statement was recorded. Confirmed by reading § 38-22-110's own cross-reference to § 38-22-109 - do not assume this deadline runs from recording the way Utah's, Florida's, Idaho's, Arizona's, Nevada's, or Georgia's enforcement deadlines do.
Approximated as 180 calendar days (6 months), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
Both requirements - commencing the action AND recording notice of it - must happen within this same period; this app tracks only the shared deadline, not the two acts separately.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Colorado. The dates above are the plain count from the date you enter. Check whether a Saturday, Sunday or holiday changes your date.
What this rule set does not cover
The "Notice of Intent to File a Lien Statement" (§ 38-22-109(3)) is NOT modeled. It must be served on the owner and the principal/prime contractor at least 10 days BEFORE the claimant's own chosen lien-filing date - a backward-counted precondition on an action the claimant has not yet taken, not a forward deadline this app's `Computation` can express (the same category of gap as Georgia's notice of lien action). Whether a general/prime contractor is exempt from serving this notice on itself is also genuinely unresolved in the statute's own text and case annotations read for this state - this app does not resolve it either.
The narrower 2-month-after-completion filing deadline for day/piece-rate labor-only claimants who furnish no materials (§ 38-22-109(4)) is NOT modeled - no role in this app maps to that specific payment-structure carve-out, which turns on how the claimant is paid, not their contractual tier.
The optional alternate "notice" mechanism (§ 38-22-109(10)-(12)) that can extend the filing deadline to "four months after completion... or six months after the date of filing of said notice, whichever occurs first" is NOT modeled - a separate, optional path, not the default rule.
§ 38-22-109(8)-(9)'s annual affidavit-of-non-completion requirement (needed to keep a lien alive past 1 year if no enforcement action has been filed) is NOT modeled.
"Completion" has NO statutory definition in Article 22 - confirmed by reading §§ 38-22-100.3, 38-22-101, and 38-22-109 directly. Only "abandonment" (cessation of all work for 3 consecutive months) is statutorily defined and deemed equivalent to completion. Case law construes "completion" as "actual completion, dating from the time when the last work was done" (Lichty v. Houston Lumber Co., 1907) - consistent with this app anchoring both deadlines to the claimant's own last furnishing rather than a separately defined "completion" date.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - deliberately, not by oversight. C.R.S. § 2-4-108 is a general statutory-construction default, but no cross-reference inside §§ 38-22-109 or 38-22-110 invokes it, and no case applying it to an Article 22 deadline was found (Colorado courts have declined to apply it to at least two other specific limitations statutes on a statute-by-statute basis). The same honest gap as Idaho's, Arizona's, New York's, Washington's, and Nevada's missing rollover.
Only §§ 38-22-100.3, 38-22-101, 38-22-109, and 38-22-110 have been read (the first two only as a definitions check). The rest of Article 22 - including lien priority and the residential/homeowner-association-specific provisions - is not incorporated.
This app generates no document for Colorado yet. § 38-22-109(1)-(2) lists required content for the lien statement (no prescribed exact form was found in the codified text) - a future session could template it the same way Utah's and Idaho's content-list documents are.
NoticeGuard is an app that turns a job's dates into a countdown for each statutory step, shows the statute text each date was read from, exports a calendar file (.ics) and sends reminders 14, 7 and 1 day before each deadline. It tracks and reminds; it does not file anything for you.