Colorado — Centennial

The Colorado clock registry.

Raw calendar count. C.R.C.P. 6's computation adjustments (weekend/holiday roll-forward, service-method additions) are rule-layer text not in the loaded corpus — verify the landing date against the court's published rule before relying on it.

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The computable clocks — order-carried and statutory text only

21 daysAnswer / responsive pleading

Trigger: service of the summons and complaint

"A defendant shall file his answer or other response within 21 days after the service of the summons and complaint, except as otherwise provided by rule or statute."

C.R.C.P. 12(a)(1) (as printed in Rule Change 2024(08)) — order-carried

14 daysResponsive pleading after the court acts on a Rule 12 motion

Trigger: notice of the court's action (or service of the more definite statement)

"the responsive pleadings shall be filed within 14 days after notice of the court's action"

C.R.C.P. 12(a)(1)(A)-(B) (as printed in Rule Change 2024(08)) — order-carried

21 daysResponse to a motion (general)

Trigger: the filing of the motion

"The responding party shall have 21 days after the filing of the motion or such lesser or greater time as the court may allow in which to file a responsive brief."

C.R.C.P. 121 § 1-15(1)(b) (as printed in Rule Change 2024(03)) — order-carried

14 daysResponse to a motion filed 42 days or less before trial

Trigger: the filing of the motion

"If a motion is filed 42 days or less before the trial date, the responding party shall have 14 days after the filing of the motion"

C.R.C.P. 121 § 1-15(1)(b) (as printed in Rule Change 2024(03)) — order-carried

7 daysReply brief (general)

Trigger: the filing of the responsive brief

"Except for a motion pursuant to C.R.C.P. 56, the moving party shall have 7 days after the filing of the responsive brief or such greater or lesser time as the court may allow to file a reply brief."

C.R.C.P. 121 § 1-15(1)(c) (as printed in Rule Change 2024(03)) — order-carried

14 daysReply brief on a Rule 56 motion

Trigger: the filing of the responsive brief

"For a motion pursuant to C.R.C.P. 56, the moving party shall have 14 days after the filing of the responsive brief or such greater or lesser time as the court may allow to file a reply brief."

C.R.C.P. 121 § 1-15(1)(c) (as printed in Rule Change 2024(03)) — order-carried

7 daysCounty court: attorney-issued process filed before the return date

Trigger: counted BACK from the return date (an advance-filing clock)

"when issued by an attorney, it must be filed with the court no later than 7 days in advance of the return date"

C.R.C.P. 303.1 (as printed in Rule Change 2025(26)) — order-carried

advance clock — subtract, never add

182 daysCGIA notice of claim against a public entity or employeejurisdictional

Trigger: the date of the DISCOVERY of the injury

"shall file a written notice as provided in this section within one hundred eighty-two days after the date of the discovery of the injury"

C.R.S. § 24-10-109(1) — statute

The statute's own words: compliance 'shall be a jurisdictional prerequisite' and failure 'shall forever bar any such action.'

30 daysSecurity deposit: landlord's return window (default)

Trigger: termination of the lease or surrender of the premises, whichever occurs last

"A landlord shall, within thirty days after the termination of a lease or surrender of a premises, whichever occurs last, return to the tenant the full security deposit"

C.R.S. § 38-12-103(1) (the version in force since Jan. 1, 2026) — statute

The loaded publication prints BOTH versions of subsection (1) with its own editor's notes; the thirty-day text is the in-force one today. A lease may extend the window to at most sixty days.

60 daysSecurity deposit: the lease-extended maximum

Trigger: termination of the lease or surrender of the premises, whichever occurs last

"unless the lease agreement specifies a longer period of time, but not to exceed sixty days"

C.R.S. § 38-12-103(1) — statute

Compute the answer clock interactively on the served page.

The 13-80 limitations table

1 yrOne year — assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, libel, slander (and the listed officer actions)

"shall be commenced within one year after the cause of action accrues, and not thereafter"

C.R.S. § 13-80-103(1)

2 yrTwo years — tort actions (negligence, trespass, and the general tort line)

"must be commenced within two years after the cause of action accrues, and not thereafter"

C.R.S. § 13-80-102(1)(a)

3 yrThree years — contract actions (including the UCC, except the 13-80-103.5 six-year class) and fraud

"shall be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrues, and not thereafter"

C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)

6 yrSix years — liquidated debts, determinable money claims, and debt instruments

"All actions to recover a liquidated debt or an unliquidated, determinable amount of money due to the person bringing the action"

C.R.S. § 13-80-103.5(1)(a)

read wholeMedical and health care — the special 13-80-102.5 regime

"no action alleging negligence, breach of contract, lack of informed consent, or other action arising in tort or contract"

C.R.S. § 13-80-102.5

Named, not computed — the section's internal repose and exception structure must be read whole.

read wholeConstruction professionals — 13-80-104 (rides the two-year clock with its own repose)

"shall be brought within the time provided in section 13-80-102 after the claim for relief arises"

C.R.S. § 13-80-104(1)(a)

Named, not computed — the repose subsections must be read whole.

read wholeAccrual — the discovery rule

"shall be considered to accrue on the date both the injury and its cause are known or should have been known by the exercise of reasonable diligence"

C.R.S. § 13-80-108(1)

Wrongful death accrues on the date of death (13-80-108(2)).

Named at the vendor boundary — never computed

C.R.C.P. 6 — the time-computation method itself

C.R.C.P. 6 (vendor-published rulebook)

No loaded order carries Rule 6, so the counting method (rolls, service additions) is named, never applied. This is THE RULE-6 BOUNDARY on every computed result.

C.A.R. 4 — notice of appeal timing

C.A.R. 4 (vendor-published rulebook)

The appellate clock is not order-carried in the loaded set; it is named with the boundary caveat, never computed.

C.R.C.P. 59 post-trial motions and the 16.1 simplified-procedure track

C.R.C.P. 59; C.R.C.P. 16.1 (vendor-published rulebook)

Named, never computed — outside the loaded orders.