C.R.S. § 24-51-1732 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 51 / Part 17 / Section 24-51-1732
24-51-1732. Benefit increases - annual retirement allowance adjustment - contributing member
Status: in_force

24-51-1732. Benefit increases - annual retirement allowance adjustment - contributing members - affiliate members - deferred members - survivors (2001 and 2005). (1) (a) Monthly retirement and survivor benefit payments, including the increases determined under the provisions of the DPS plan document attributable to retirement or death of an eligible employee of the district who retired or died after December 1, 1945, shall be increased in accordance with part 10 of this article.

(b) Adjusted payments based on survivor benefits that are suspended by reason of the beneficiary not having attained the minimum age requirements provided in sections 24-51-1738 to 24-51-1740 or pursuant to the provisions of the DPS plan document shall not continue to accumulate or accrue during such period of suspension.

(2) Upon attainment of the minimum age requirements and resumption of such survivor's benefit payments or reinstatement under the provisions of the DPS plan document, no increase shall be made until such resumed payments have been paid continuously for the twelve months prior to July 1.

(3) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2010, (SB 10-001), ch. 2, p. 30, § 32, effective February 23, 2010.)

(4) No increase shall be payable incident to any retirement or survivor benefits becoming payable to any legal entity other than an individual person, to a personal representative or other person acting in an analogous representative capacity. This subsection (4) shall not preclude payment of such increase to the guardian or conservator of a person otherwise entitled thereto.

(5) Pursuant to section 24-51-1726.5, adjusted payments based on benefits that are suspended by reason of the annuitant's having returned to service with an employer affiliated with the association as a regular employee shall not continue to accumulate or accrue during such period of suspension. Upon reinstatement of the retirement allowance payments, no increase shall be made until such resumed payments have been paid continuously for the twelve months prior to July 1.

(6) Annuitants who are reemployed by the district on or before December 31, 2009, shall until termination of such employment be subject to the DPS plan document provisions related to the reemployment of an annuitant. Any subsequent employment shall be governed by part 11 of this article.
C.R.S. § 24-82-1001 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 82 / Part 10 / Section 24-82-1001
24-82-1001. Legislative declaration - exclusion of proceeds of leveraged leasing agreements
Status: in_force

24-82-1001. Legislative declaration - exclusion of proceeds of leveraged leasing agreements from fiscal year spending - voter approval not required. (1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that:

(a) Section 20 of article X of the state constitution limits state fiscal year spending.

(b) Section 20 (2)(e) of article X defines "fiscal year spending" to include all revenues and expenditures except those for refunds and those from certain sources, such as property sales.

(c) Monetary consideration paid to the state by a private person in connection with a leveraged leasing agreement constitutes revenues to the state from a property sale because the consideration is paid in exchange for a property interest in a qualified state asset and constitutes revenues from a property sale, and such revenues are therefore excluded from state fiscal year spending.

(2) The general assembly further finds and declares that:

(a) Section 20 of article X of the state constitution requires voter approval in advance for creation of any multiple-fiscal year financial obligation whatsoever without adequate present cash reserves pledged irrevocably and held for payments in all future fiscal years.

(b) The sublease of a qualified state capital asset from a private person to the state under a leveraged leasing agreement is a multiple-fiscal year financial obligation of the state under section 20 of article X of the state constitution, but the state may enter into a leveraged leasing agreement without voter approval in advance because a leveraged leasing agreement requires the state to deposit into a specified account adequate cash reserves pledged irrevocably for sublease payments in all future fiscal years.
C.R.S. § 24-50.5-108 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 50.5 / Section 24-50.5-108
24-50.5-108. Working group - broadening protections for state employee whistleblowers - confi
Status: repealed

24-50.5-108. Working group - broadening protections for state employee whistleblowers - confidential information subject of whistleblowing - preserving confidentiality of confidential information - repeal. (Repealed)
C.R.S. § 24-33.5-2010 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 33.5 / Part 20 / Section 24-33.5-2010
24-33.5-2010. Violations - penalty
Status: in_force

24-33.5-2010. Violations - penalty. Any person who violates this part 20 commits a petty offense and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-503.
C.R.S. § 24-33.5-1213.3 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 33.5 / Part 12 / Section 24-33.5-1213.3
24-33.5-1213.3. Building and structure fire code maintenance - rules
Status: in_force

24-33.5-1213.3. Building and structure fire code maintenance - rules. (1) (a) This section applies to building and structure maintenance for fire safety. The fire department providing fire protection service for the buildings and structures of a school district or of a local college district or for a charter school may inspect the buildings and structures when deemed necessary to ensure that they are maintained in accordance with the fire code adopted by the director of the division. If the local fire department does not perform the inspections authorized by this section, the division has the authority and duty to conduct the inspections.

(b) An inspection conducted pursuant to this section within the preceding twelve months satisfies the inspection requirement of a child care center that provides child care exclusively to school-age children and operates on the property of a school district, district charter school, or institute charter school. The fire department or division that conducts the inspection pursuant to this section shall provide a copy of the inspection report to a child care center official.

(2) The division is authorized to charge a fee for inspections conducted by the division to cover the actual, reasonable, and necessary costs of the inspections. The amount of the fee shall be determined by the director of the division by rule. In accordance with section 24-33.5-1213, the division shall enforce the fire code adopted by the director of the division.

(3) A fire department that chooses to conduct fire code inspections pursuant to this section may refer notices of deficiencies to the division for evaluation or enforcement in accordance with section 24-33.5-1213. The division shall promulgate rules to establish procedures for fire departments to refer notices of deficiencies for evaluation or enforcement to the division.

(4) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the fire department from correcting violations that pose an immediate threat to life safety. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the fire department from seeking enforcement action in a court of competent jurisdiction.
C.R.S. § 24-90-519 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 90 / Part 5 / Section 24-90-519
24-90-519. Limitation of actions
Status: in_force

24-90-519. Limitation of actions. Any legal or equitable action brought with respect to any acts or proceedings of the library district or facilities district, the creation of a facilities district, the authorization or issuance of any bonds, or any other action taken under this part 5 shall be commenced within thirty days after the performance of such action or else shall be thereafter perpetually barred.
C.R.S. § 24-92-201 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 92 / Part 2 / Section 24-92-201
24-92-201. Definitions
Status: in_force

24-92-201. Definitions. As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Agency of government" means any agency, department, division, board, bureau, commission, institution, or section of the state which is a budgetary unit exercising construction contracting authority or discretion. "Agency of government" does not include any county, city and county, city, municipality, town, school district, special district, or any other political subdivision of the state.

(2) "Contractor" means any person having a contract for a public project with an agency of government.

(3) "Director" means the director of the department of personnel.

(4) "Employees" means workers who are employees pursuant to section 8-4-101 (5), and who are engaged by contractors or subcontractors to perform jobs on various types of public projects including mechanics, laborers, and other construction workers.

(5) "Public project" means any construction, alteration, repair, demolition, or improvement of any land, building, structure, facility, road, highway, bridge, or other public improvement suitable for and intended for use in the promotion of public health, welfare, or safety and any operation or maintenance programs for the operation and upkeep of such projects. "Public project" includes any work, construction, or repair performed by a private party through a contract to rent, lease, or purchase at least fifty percent of the project by one or more agencies of government.

(6) "Wages", "scale of wages", "wage rates", "minimum wages", and "prevailing wages" means:

(a) The basic hourly rate of pay; and

(b) For medical or hospital care, pensions on retirement or death, compensation for injuries or illness resulting from occupational activity, or insurance to provide any of the forgoing, for unemployment benefits, life insurance, disability and sickness insurance, or accident insurance, for vacation and holiday pay, for defraying the costs of apprenticeship or other similar programs, or for other bona fide fringe benefits, but only where the contractor or subcontractor is not required by other federal, state, or local law to provide any of those benefits, the amount of:

(I) The rate of contribution irrevocably made by a contractor or subcontractor to a trustee or to a third person under a fund, plan, or program; and

(II) The rate of costs to the contractor or subcontractor that may be reasonably anticipated in providing benefits to employees pursuant to an enforceable commitment to carry out a financially responsible plan or program which was communicated in writing to the employees affected.
C.R.S. § 24-90-513 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 90 / Part 5 / Section 24-90-513
24-90-513. Levies to cover deficiencies
Status: in_force

24-90-513. Levies to cover deficiencies. The governing body, in certifying annual levies, shall take into account the maturing indebtedness for the current and ensuing year as provided in its contracts, maturing bonds, and interest on bonds and the deficiencies and defaults of prior years and shall make ample provisions for the payment thereof. In case the moneys produced from such levies, together with other revenues of the library district or facilities district, are not sufficient to pay punctually the annual installments on its contracts or bonds and interest thereon and to pay defaults and deficiencies, the governing body, from year to year, shall make such additional levies of taxes as may be necessary for such purposes, and, notwithstanding any limitations, such taxes shall be levied and shall continue to be levied until the indebtedness of the library district or facilities district is fully paid.
C.R.S. § 24-4.1-122 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 4.1 / Part 1 / Section 24-4.1-122
24-4.1-122. Reports
Status: in_force

24-4.1-122. Reports. On or before October 1, 1985, and on or before each October 1 thereafter, the court executive of each judicial district shall report to the state court administrator the amount of money collected by the judicial district in the prior fiscal year and the amount of money distributed to crime victims in the prior fiscal year by the board.
C.R.S. § 24-32-102 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 32 / Part 1 / Section 24-32-102
24-32-102. Definitions
Status: in_force

24-32-102. Definitions. As used in this part 1, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Broadband facility" means any infrastructure used to deliver broadband or provide broadband.

(2) "Community anchor institution" has the meaning set forth in section 24-37.5-902 (2).

(3) "Division" means the division of local government created in section 24-32-103.

(4) "Interconnectivity grant program" means the grant program created in section 24-32-104 (7)(a).

(5) "Interconnectivity grant program fund" means the fund created in section 24-32-104 (7)(c).

(6) "Last-mile broadband infrastructure" means broadband infrastructure that delivers an internet connection to an end user.

(7) (a) "Local government" means a statutory or home rule municipality, county, city and county, council of governments, or metropolitan district that lies wholly within the unincorporated part of a county.

(b) "Local government" includes all quasi municipalities and local improvement and service districts of this state.

(8) "Metropolitan district" has the meaning set forth in section 32-1-103 (10).
C.R.S. § 24-71.3-109 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 71.3 / Section 24-71.3-109
24-71.3-109. Attribution and effect of electronic record and electronic signature
Status: in_force

24-71.3-109. Attribution and effect of electronic record and electronic signature. (1) An electronic record or electronic signature is attributable to a person if it was the act of the person. The act of the person may be shown in any manner, including a showing of the efficacy of any security procedure applied to determine the person to which the electronic record or electronic signature was attributable.

(2) The effect of an electronic record or electronic signature attributed to a person under subsection (1) of this section is determined from the context and surrounding circumstances at the time of its creation, execution, or adoption, including the parties' agreement, if any, and otherwise as provided by law.
C.R.S. § 24-37.5-902 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 37.5 / Part 9 / Section 24-37.5-902
24-37.5-902. Definitions
Status: in_force

24-37.5-902. Definitions. As used in this part 9, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Colorado broadband office" or "broadband office" means the Colorado broadband office created in section 24-37.5-903 (1).

(2) "Community anchor institution" means a:

(a) School;

(b) Library;

(c) Hospital or other health-care facility licensed or certified pursuant to section 25-1.5-103;

(d) Law enforcement, emergency medical service provider, or other public safety agency; or

(e) Community support organization, agency, or local government facility that provides outreach, access, equipment, or support services to facilitate greater use of broadband throughout the community, especially greater use by vulnerable populations within the community, such as low-income, unemployed, and senior populations.

(3) "Device" means an electronic device that enables access to or use of the internet.

(4) "Digital inclusion grant program" or "grant program" means the digital inclusion grant program created in section 24-37.5-904 (1).

(5) "Digital inclusion grant program fund" or "fund" means the fund created in section 24-37.5-904 (2) for use by the broadband office for implementing the grant program.

(6) "Digital literacy" means the ability to use technologies to find, evaluate, analyze, create, and communicate information.

(7) "Last-mile broadband infrastructure" means broadband infrastructure that delivers an internet connection to an end user.

(8) "Local government" means a statutory or home rule municipality, county, city and county, council of governments, or metropolitan district that lies wholly within the unincorporated part of a county.

(9) "Metropolitan district" has the meaning set forth in section 32-1-103 (10).

(10) "School" means a state institution of higher education as defined in section 23-1-108 (7)(g)(II) including the Auraria higher education center governed pursuant to article 70 of title 23, a school district created pursuant to article 30 of title 22, a charter school authorized pursuant to part 1 of article 30.5 of title 22, the state charter school institute established in section 22-30.5-503, an institute charter school authorized pursuant to part 5 of article 30.5 of title 22, a board of cooperative services created pursuant to article 5 of title 22, an adult education provider as defined in section 22-10-103 (1.5) but excluding a private provider, or an Indian tribe or nation that operates a public school in Colorado.

(11) "Telehealth" has the meaning set forth in section 10-16-123 (4)(e).

(12) "Unserved area" has the meaning set forth in section 40-15-102 (32).
C.R.S. § 24-60-708 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 60 / Part 7 / Section 24-60-708
24-60-708. Enforcement
Status: in_force

24-60-708. Enforcement. The courts, departments, agencies, and officers of this state and its political subdivisions shall enforce this compact and shall do all things appropriate to the effectuation of its purposes and intent which may be within their respective jurisdictions.
C.R.S. § 24-75-907 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 75 / Part 9 / Section 24-75-907
24-75-907. Form and terms of notes
Status: in_force

24-75-907. Form and terms of notes. (1) Notes shall be issued in a form consistent with the provisions of this part 9, describing the fund and the revenue from which such notes are payable; shall mature not later than three days before the last day of the fiscal year in which the same were issued; shall bear interest, if any, at a rate or rates determined by the state treasurer to be for the best advantage of the state; and may be redeemable, payable, or subject to purchase prior to maturity at such time and upon the payment of such premium or premiums, if any, as shall be determined by the state treasurer to be for the best advantage of the state. Book entry issuance is a form consistent with this part 9. The rate or rates of interest borne by the notes may be fixed, adjustable, or variable or any combination thereof. If any rate or rates are adjustable or variable, the standard, index, method, or formula pursuant to which the same are to be determined from time to time shall be set forth in the state treasurer's resolution authorizing the issuance of the notes. Such standard, index, method, or formula may include a delegation of authority to an agent acting for and on behalf of the state to determine a rate or rates within parameters, including a maximum interest rate, prescribed by the state treasurer in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the notes.

(2) In connection with the issuance of any notes, the state treasurer may direct the controller to create such restricted accounts within any fund as may be necessary or convenient for the segregation of note proceeds and investment income therefrom, revenue and investment income therefrom, or other sums, and the state treasurer may pledge any such accounts to and create liens thereon in favor of the owners of the notes; except that the aggregate amount of all such restricted accounts other than those created for note proceeds and investment income therefrom shall not exceed the principal and interest due at maturity on such notes. In connection with such issuance, the state treasurer may also make such customary covenants on behalf of the state as may be necessary to secure the notes.

(3) Any pledge made by the state treasurer shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made. The revenues and moneys so pledged and thereafter received shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery or further act, and the lien of such pledge shall be valid and binding against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, by contract, or otherwise against such pledging parties, irrespective of whether such claiming parties have notice of such lien. The resolution by which a pledge is created need not be recorded. Said resolution shall constitute a commitment voucher for purposes of section 24-30-202. The execution by the state treasurer and the controller of said resolution shall constitute the controller's approval of the commitment voucher and the treasurer's authorization of the expenditure of moneys from the state treasury to pay costs of issuance and the principal of and interest on notes at maturity.
C.R.S. § 24-56-107 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 56 / Section 24-56-107
24-56-107. Assurance of availability of standard housing
Status: in_force

24-56-107. Assurance of availability of standard housing. (1) Whenever a displacing agency acquires real property for a program or project for which federal financial assistance will be available to pay all or any part of the cost of the program or project and such acquisition will result in the displacement of any person, upon recommendation or approval of the displacing agency, such agency shall assure that a person shall not be required to move from a dwelling unless the person has had a reasonable opportunity to relocate to a comparable replacement dwelling; except that regulations issued pursuant to section 24-56-108 may prescribe situations when these assurances may be waived.

(2) If a program or project for which federal financial assistance is available cannot proceed to actual construction because comparable replacement sale or rental housing is not available and the state agency determines that such housing cannot otherwise be made available, upon recommendation or approval of the displacing agency, the state agency may take such action as is necessary or appropriate to provide such housing by use of funds authorized for such project. The displacing agency may use this section to exceed the maximum amounts which can be paid by a displacing agency under sections 24-56-104 and 24-56-105 on a case-by-case basis for good cause shown as determined in accordance with regulations issued pursuant to section 24-56-108.
C.R.S. § 24-34-509 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 34 / Part 5 / Section 24-34-509
24-34-509. Enforcement sought by commission
Status: in_force

24-34-509. Enforcement sought by commission. Upon refusal by a person to comply with any order, order pursuant to section 24-34-503, or regulation of the commission, the commission has authority to immediately seek an order in the district court enforcing the order or regulation of the commission. Such proceedings shall be brought in the district court in the county in which the respondent resides or transacts business.
C.R.S. § 24-50-513 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 50 / Part 5 / Section 24-50-513
24-50-513. Contracts of six months or less - permitted
Status: in_force

24-50-513. Contracts of six months or less - permitted. Contracts for a term of six months or less that are not expected to recur on a regular basis are permissible and are not subject to this part 5.
C.R.S. § 24-32-1620 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 32 / Part 16 / Section 24-32-1620
24-32-1620. Effect of repeal of sections
Status: in_force

24-32-1620. Effect of repeal of sections. The repeal of sections 24-32-1601 to 24-32-1619 shall not invalidate any allocations for carryforward projects made under this part 16.
C.R.S. § 24-109-202 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 109 / Part 2 / Section 24-109-202
24-109-202. Rules of procedure
Status: in_force

24-109-202. Rules of procedure. (1) The executive director shall adopt rules of procedure which, to the fullest extent possible, provide for the expeditious resolution of appeals of controversies. The only parties to the appeals shall be the aggrieved parties and the appropriate governmental body. Section 24-4-105 shall not apply to reviews and determinations made by the executive director or his or her designee pursuant to this article 109.

(2) An appeal is limited to only the material issues raised in the original protest; except that the appeal may include new evidence or additional information related to those material issues or material issues related to the conduct of the protest.
C.R.S. § 24-71.5-108 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 71.5 / Section 24-71.5-108
24-71.5-108. Public access to legal material in official electronic record
Status: in_force

24-71.5-108. Public access to legal material in official electronic record. An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that must be preserved under section 24-71.5-107 shall ensure that the material is reasonably available for use by the public on a permanent basis.
C.R.S. § 24-90-515 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 90 / Part 5 / Section 24-90-515
24-90-515. Property sold for taxes
Status: in_force

24-90-515. Property sold for taxes. The taxes provided for in this part 5 shall be included as a part of general ad valorem taxes and shall be paid and collected accordingly. The sale of properties for delinquencies shall be conducted in the manner provided by the statutes of this state for selling property for nonpayment of other ad valorem taxes.
C.R.S. § 24-50-508 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 50 / Part 5 / Section 24-50-508
24-50-508. Intergovernmental agreements - agreements by state institutions of higher educat
Status: in_force

24-50-508. Intergovernmental agreements - agreements by state institutions of higher education - excluded. (1) The following contracts are not subject to the provisions of this part 5:

(a) In accordance with section 18 (2) of article XIV of the state constitution, contracts between the state and its political subdivisions or the government of the United States, or any combination thereof; and

(b) Contracts entered into by a state institution of higher education or the Auraria higher education center established in article 70 of title 23, C.R.S., so long as the chief executive officer of the institution or the center, or his or her designee, has determined that the conditions set forth in section 24-50-503 are met for those contracts that implicate the state personnel system.
C.R.S. § 24-30-2112 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 30 / Part 21 / Section 24-30-2112
24-30-2112. Participation in the program - orders relating to allocation of parental respons
Status: in_force

24-30-2112. Participation in the program - orders relating to allocation of parental responsibilities or parenting time. (1) Nothing in this part 21, nor participation in the program, shall affect an order relating to the allocation of parental responsibilities or parenting time in effect prior to or during program participation.

(2) Program participation does not constitute evidence of domestic violence, a sexual offense, human trafficking, or stalking and shall not be considered for purposes of making an order allocating parental responsibilities or parenting time; except that a court may consider practical measures to keep a program participant's actual address confidential when making an order allocating parental responsibilities or parenting time.
C.R.S. § 24-36-110 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 36 / Part 1 / Section 24-36-110
24-36-110. Surety bond or collateral security required
Status: repealed

24-36-110. Surety bond or collateral security required. (Repealed)
C.R.S. § 24-75-116 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 75 / Part 1 / Section 24-75-116
24-75-116. General fund appropriation for lease payments - department of revenue - temporar
Status: repealed

24-75-116. General fund appropriation for lease payments - department of revenue - temporary reduction - repeal. (1) (a) For the 2025-26 state fiscal year and for each state fiscal year thereafter, through the 2028-29 state fiscal year, the general assembly shall reduce the general fund appropriation to the department of revenue in the executive director's office for the purpose of leased space by four hundred thousand dollars.

(b) For the 2025-26 state fiscal year and for each state fiscal year thereafter, through the 2028-29 state fiscal year, the general assembly shall increase the general fund appropriation to the department of revenue in the executive director's office for the purpose of operating expenses by four hundred thousand dollars.

(2) This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2029.
C.R.S. § 24-1-107 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 1 / Section 24-1-107
24-1-107. Internal organization of department - allocation and reallocation of powers, dut
Status: in_force

24-1-107. Internal organization of department - allocation and reallocation of powers, duties, and functions - limitations. In order to promote economic and efficient administration and operation of a principal department and notwithstanding any other provisions of law, except as provided in section 24-1-105, the head of a principal department, with the approval of the governor, may establish, combine, or abolish divisions, sections, and units other than those specifically created by law and may allocate and reallocate powers, duties, and functions to divisions, sections, and units under the principal department, but no substantive function vested by law in any officer, department, institution, or other agency within the principal department shall be removed from the jurisdiction of such officer, department, institution, or other agency under the provisions of this section.
C.R.S. § 24-34-109 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 34 / Part 1 / Section 24-34-109
24-34-109. Nurse-physician advisory task force for Colorado health care - creation - duties
Status: repealed

24-34-109. Nurse-physician advisory task force for Colorado health care - creation - duties - definition - repeal. (Repealed)
C.R.S. § 24-46-310 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 46 / Part 3 / Section 24-46-310
24-46-310. Issuance of bonds by a financing entity
Status: in_force

24-46-310. Issuance of bonds by a financing entity. (1) A financing entity may issue bonds from time to time in its discretion to finance any eligible improvements with respect to a regional tourism project and may also issue refunding or other bonds of the financing entity from time to time in its discretion for the payment, retirement, renewal, or extension of any bonds previously issued by the financing entity under this section and to provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds previously issued under this section.

(2) (a) Bonds issued under this section may be general obligation bonds of the financing entity, the payment of which, as to principal and interest and premiums, if any, the full faith, credit, and assets, acquired and to be acquired, of the financing entity are irrevocably pledged.

(b) Bonds issued under this section may be special obligations of the financing entity that, as to principal and interest and premiums, if any, are payable solely from and secured only by a pledge of any income, proceeds, revenues, or funds of the financing entity, including, without limitation, state sales tax increment revenue.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any bonds issued under this section may be additionally secured as to the payment of the principal and interest and premiums, if any, by a mortgage of any regional tourism project, or any part thereof, title to which is then or thereafter in the financing entity or of any other real or personal property or interests therein then owned or thereafter acquired by the financing entity.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, general obligation bonds issued under this section may be additionally secured as to the payment of the principal and interest and premiums, if any, as provided in subsection (2) of this section, with or without being also additionally secured as to payment of the principal and interest and premiums, if any, by a mortgage as provided in subsection (3) of this section or a trust agreement as provided in subsection (5) of this section.

(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any bonds issued under this section may be additionally secured as to the payment of the principal and interest and premiums, if any, by a trust agreement by and between the financing entity and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state.

(6) Bonds issued under this section shall not constitute an indebtedness of the state or of any county, municipality, or public body of the state other than the financing entity issuing such bonds and shall not be subject to the provisions of any other law or of the charter of any municipality relating to the authorization, issuance, or sale of bonds.

(7) Bonds issued under this section shall be authorized by a resolution of the financing entity and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date, be payable upon demand or mature at such time, bear interest at such rate, be in such denomination, be in such form, either coupon or registered or otherwise, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in the name of the financing entity in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, be payable at such place, be subject to such callability provisions or terms of redemption, with or without premiums, be secured in such manner, be of such description, contain or be subject to such covenants, provisions, terms, conditions, and agreements, including provisions concerning events of default, and have such other characteristics as may be provided by such resolution or by the trust agreement, indenture, or mortgage, if any, issued pursuant to such resolution. The seal, or a facsimile thereof, of the financing entity shall be affixed, imprinted, engraved, or otherwise reproduced upon each of its bonds issued under this section. Bonds issued under this section shall be executed in the name of the financing entity by the manual or facsimile signatures of such officials as may be designated in said resolution or trust agreement, indenture, or mortgage; except that at least one signature on each such bond shall be a manual signature. Coupons, if any, attached to such bonds shall bear the facsimile signature of such official of the financing entity as may be designated as provided in this subsection (7). Said resolution or trust agreement, indenture, or mortgage may provide for the authentication of the pertinent bonds by the trustee.

(8) Bonds issued under this section may be sold by the financing entity in such manner and for such price as the financing entity, in its discretion, may determine, at par, below par, or above par, at private sale or at public sale after notice published prior to such sale in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality, or in such other medium of publication as the financing entity may deem appropriate, or may be exchanged by the financing entity for other bonds issued by it under this section.

(9) If any of the officials of the financing entity whose signatures or facsimile signatures appear on any of its bonds or coupons issued under this section cease to be such officials before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures or facsimile signatures, as the case may be, shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officials had remained in office until such delivery.

(10) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any bonds that are issued pursuant to this section are fully negotiable.

(11) In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforceability of any bond that is issued under this section or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the financing entity in connection with a regional tourism project or any activity or operation of the financing entity under this part 3 shall be conclusively deemed to have been issued for such purposes; and such regional tourism project or such operation or activity, as the case may be, shall be conclusively deemed to have been initiated, planned, located, undertaken, accomplished, and carried out in accordance with the provisions of this part 3.

(12) Pending the preparation of any definitive bonds under this section, a financing entity may issue its interim certificates or receipts or its temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for such definitive bonds when the latter have been executed and are available for delivery.

(13) A person retained or employed by a financing entity as an advisor or a consultant for the purpose of rendering financial advice and assistance may purchase or participate in the purchase or distribution of its bonds when such bonds are offered at public or private sale.

(14) No commissioner or other officer of a financing entity issuing bonds under this section and no person executing such bonds is liable personally on such bonds or is subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof.

(15) No commissioner or other officer of a regional tourism authority issuing bonds pursuant to this part 3 and no person executing such bonds shall be liable personally on such bonds or shall be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance of the bonds.

(16) Bonds that are issued pursuant to this part 3 are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempted from all taxes.
C.R.S. § 24-75-1304 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 75 / Part 13 / Section 24-75-1304
24-75-1304. Legislation - programs or services reliant on grants - repeal of program
Status: repealed

24-75-1304. Legislation - programs or services reliant on grants - repeal of program. (Repealed)
C.R.S. § 24-4.1-115 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 4.1 / Part 1 / Section 24-4.1-115
24-4.1-115. Survival of rights
Status: in_force

24-4.1-115. Survival of rights. The rights to compensation created by this part 1 are personal and shall not survive the death of the person or beneficiary entitled to them; except that, if death occurs after an application for compensation has been filed with the board, the proceeding shall not abate but may be continued by the legal representative of the decedent's estate.
C.R.S. § 24-82-708 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 82 / Part 7 / Section 24-82-708
24-82-708. Fiscal rules inapplicable - independent powers
Status: in_force

24-82-708. Fiscal rules inapplicable - independent powers. (1) The provisions of section 24-30-202 (5)(b) shall not apply to any additional financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement or ancillary agreement entered into pursuant to this part 7. Any provision of the fiscal rules promulgated pursuant to section 24-30-202 (1) and (13) that the controller deems to be incompatible or inapplicable with respect to any such financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement or ancillary agreement may be waived by the controller or his designee.

(2) The powers conferred by this part 7 are in addition to any other law, and the limitations imposed by any other law do not affect the powers conferred by this part 7 and do not apply to the financing and refinancing contemplated by this part 7.
C.R.S. § 24-32-113 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 32 / Part 1 / Section 24-32-113
24-32-113. Transfer of functions and property - contracts - continuation of regulations
Status: repealed

24-32-113. Transfer of functions and property - contracts - continuation of regulations. (Repealed)
C.R.S. § 24-80-903 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 80 / Part 9 / Section 24-80-903
24-80-903. Secretary of state alone can affix - custodian
Status: in_force

24-80-903. Secretary of state alone can affix - custodian. The secretary of state is alone authorized to use or affix the seal of this state to any document whatever, and he only in pursuance of law. The secretary is made the custodian of the seal of the state and responsible for its safekeeping.
C.R.S. § 24-1-128 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 1 / Section 24-1-128
24-1-128. Department of personnel - creation
Status: repealed

24-1-128. Department of personnel - creation. (1) Pursuant to the provisions of section 14 of article XII of the state constitution, there is hereby created a department of personnel, the head of which shall be the state personnel director, also referred to as the executive director of personnel, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the governor.

(2) The state personnel board, created in section 14 of article XII of the state constitution, is a type 1 entity, as defined in section 24-1-105, and exercises its powers and performs its duties and functions under the department of personnel, subject to the provisions of the state constitution.

(3) The powers, duties, and functions of the department of personnel include the powers, duties, and functions of the civil service commission. The powers, duties, and functions of the civil service commission are allocated to the state personnel board and the state personnel director, pursuant to the provisions of the state constitution and laws enacted pursuant thereto, and the civil service commission is abolished.

(4) The powers, duties, and functions of the department of personnel include the powers, duties, and functions of the state employees' and officials' group insurance board of administration, created in part 2 of article 8 of title 10, prior to its repeal in 1994. The powers, duties, and functions of the state employees' and officials' group insurance board of administration are allocated to the state personnel director, pursuant to the provisions of the state constitution and laws enacted pursuant thereto, and the state employees' and officials' group insurance board of administration is abolished.

(5) Repealed.

(6) The powers, duties, and functions of the department of personnel include the powers, duties, and functions of the department of administration, and the department of administration is abolished.

(7) The powers, duties, and functions of the department of personnel include the following administrative support services:

(a) The powers, duties, and functions concerning purchasing, specified in part 2 of article 102 of this title 24.

(b) The powers, duties, and functions concerning state archives and public records, specified in part 1 of article 80 of this title 24.

(c) Repealed.

(d) The powers, duties, and functions concerning accounts and control and the office of the controller, specified in part 2 of article 30 of this title 24. The office of the controller is a type 2 entity, as defined in section 24-1-105, and exercises its powers and performs its duties and functions under the department of personnel.

(e) Repealed.

(f) The office of administrative courts, the head of which is the executive director of the department of personnel. The office of administrative courts, created in part 10 of article 30 of this title 24, is a type 2 entity, as defined in section 24-1-105, and exercises its powers and performs its duties and functions under the department of personnel.

(g) The powers, duties, and functions concerning central services, specified in part 11 of article 30 of this title 24.

(h) The powers, duties, and functions concerning the risk management system, specified in part 15 of article 30 of this title 24.

(i) (Deleted by amendment, L. 96, p. 1493, § 1, effective June 1, 1996.)

(j) Repealed.

(k) The powers, duties, and functions concerning state buildings, specified by part 13 of article 30 of this title 24 and formerly vested in the office of state planning and budgeting.

(l) The state claims board, created in part 15 of article 30 of this title 24. The state claims board is a type 1 entity, as defined in section 24-1-105, and exercises its powers and performs its duties and functions under the department of personnel.

(m) Repealed.

(8) The statewide equity office, created in section 24-50-146 (2)(a), and its powers, duties, and functions are transferred by a type 2 transfer to the department of personnel.

(9) The office of sustainability is created in section 24-30-2303. The office is a type 2 entity, as defined in section 24-1-105, and exercises its powers and performs its duties and functions under the department of personnel.
C.R.S. § 24-31-605 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 31 / Part 6 / Section 24-31-605
24-31-605. Delegation of duties
Status: in_force

24-31-605. Delegation of duties. The powers and duties vested in the attorney general by this part 6 may be delegated to qualified employees of the department.
C.R.S. § 24-33.5-222 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 33.5 / Part 2 / Section 24-33.5-222
24-33.5-222. Officers incapacitated
Status: in_force

24-33.5-222. Officers incapacitated. In the event that any officer of the Colorado state patrol becomes incapacitated, by reason of service on the Colorado state patrol, to the extent that he is unable to perform the usual duties of an officer of the Colorado state patrol, he may be transferred, at the discretion of the chief, to duty in any of the offices of the Colorado state patrol in whatever capacity the chief may deem advisable. Any officer who is transferred to office duty, as set out in this section, shall not be deprived of any benefits as to pay because of such transfer or partial disability. A vacancy in the ranks of officers on Colorado state patrol duty caused by such transfer shall be filled in the usual manner, although such appointment would otherwise be in excess of the statutory limitations.
C.R.S. § 24-65.1-102 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 65.1 / Part 1 / Section 24-65.1-102
24-65.1-102. General definitions
Status: in_force

24-65.1-102. General definitions. As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Development" means any construction or activity which changes the basic character or the use of the land on which the construction or activity occurs.

(2) "Local government" means a municipality or county.

(3) "Local permit authority" means the governing body of a local government with which an application for development in an area of state interest or for conduct of an activity of state interest must be filed, or the designee thereof.

(4) "Matter of state interest" means an area of state interest or an activity of state interest or both.

(5) "Municipality" means a home rule or statutory city, town, or city and county or a territorial charter city.

(6) "Person" means any individual, limited liability company, partnership, corporation, association, company, or other public or corporate body, including the federal government, and includes any political subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or corporation of the state.
C.R.S. § 24-38.5-113 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 38.5 / Part 1 / Section 24-38.5-113
24-38.5-113. Grid resilience and reliability roadmap - microgrid development - stakeholder in
Status: in_force

24-38.5-113. Grid resilience and reliability roadmap - microgrid development - stakeholder input - definitions - reporting. (1) (a) (I) On or before January 1, 2025, the office, in collaboration with the department and the resiliency office, shall produce a grid resilience and reliability roadmap, and the roadmap shall be posted on the office's and department's websites. On or before March 1, 2025, representatives of the office and the department shall present the roadmap to the house of representatives energy and environment committee and the senate transportation and energy committee, or their successor committees. The office shall submit a copy of the roadmap to the public utilities commission.

(II) On or before July 1, 2024, the office shall:

(A) Publish a draft roadmap;

(B) Post the draft roadmap on its website and provide a mechanism for receiving public comment on the draft roadmap; and

(C) Allow public comment on the draft roadmap for at least thirty days.

(III) The office, in collaboration with the department and the resiliency office, shall review any comments received about the draft roadmap.

(b) (I) In accordance with subsection (1)(b)(II) of this section, the office, department, and resiliency office shall engage in a series of stakeholder meetings with interested persons throughout the state, including but not limited to the interested persons listed in subsection (1)(b)(II) of this section, and give consideration to stakeholder input received when developing the roadmap.

(II) In conducting stakeholder meetings pursuant to subsection (1)(b)(I) of this section, the office, department, and resiliency office shall seek input from the following groups:

(A) Microgrid developers;

(B) The public utilities commission and the commission's staff;

(C) The office of the utility consumer advocate created in section 40-6.5-102 (1);

(D) Utilities;

(E) Representatives of disproportionately impacted communities;

(F) Representatives of communities at the highest risk of power outages as described in subsection (2)(b)(IV) of this section;

(G) Representatives of municipal, county, or city and county governments;

(H) Representatives of commercial and industrial utility customers;

(I) Representatives of labor organizations; and

(J) Representatives from the department of public safety created in section 24-33.5-103 (1), representatives from the division of homeland security and emergency management created in section 24-33.5-1603 (1), representatives from the division of fire prevention and control created in section 24-33.5-1201 (1)(a), and other representatives of critical infrastructure in the state.

(III) In addition to seeking input from the groups listed in subsection (1)(b)(II) of this section, the office, department, and resiliency office, when developing the roadmap, shall take into consideration utility wildfire mitigation plans.

(2) (a) (I) In developing the roadmap, the office, department, and resiliency office shall include guidance regarding whether, how, and in what manner microgrids may be used to:

(A) Help harden the grid and improve grid resilience and reliability for individual customers;

(B) Help harden the grid and improve grid resilience and reliability for communities and multiple customers;

(C) Deliver and manage electricity and the necessary infrastructure in circumstances where extending distribution infrastructure may not be practicable; and

(D) Operate autonomously and disconnected from the grid, when necessary, to serve the electricity needs of communities, neighborhoods, or buildings.

(II) To the extent practicable, the roadmap must include examples of the different ways that microgrids can be deployed to achieve the goals set forth in subsection (2)(a)(I) of this section and the key factors to consider when deploying microgrids.

(b) In developing the roadmap, the office, department, and resiliency office may:

(I) Identify the state's goals with regard to microgrids;

(II) Examine whether and in what manner microgrids improve:

(A) Grid resilience and reliability;

(B) Greenhouse gas emission reductions;

(C) The state's transition to clean energy; and

(D) The use of beneficial electrification, as defined in section 40-1-102 (1.2), and load management;

(III) Identify types of critical facilities and infrastructure in the state for which projects to improve grid resilience and reliability may be prioritized. "Critical facilities and infrastructure" includes the following types of facilities:

(A) Emergency services;

(B) Public works;

(C) Energy;

(D) Telecommunications and broadband;

(E) Hospitals and other health-care services;

(F) Government;

(G) Schools;

(H) Information technology facilities for public institutions; and

(I) Any other facilities identified by the office and resiliency office.

(IV) Identify communities that are at the highest risk of power outages in the state due to natural disasters or are otherwise most vulnerable to grid interruptions, including an identification of the disproportionately impacted communities that are at higher risk of power outages;

(V) In consideration of the technology available at the time of the development of the roadmap, assess whether and how microgrids may be able to:

(A) Protect critical facilities and infrastructure and high-risk communities from the negative effects of natural disasters, fuel transport and delivery disruptions, cyber attacks, or electromagnetic interference caused by electromagnetic pulses;

(B) Reduce the negative effects of power outages and grid interruptions arising from normal disruptions of the grid, such as lightning strikes, high winds, wildlife interactions, and fallen tree limbs;

(C) Dynamically utilize demand-side resources;

(D) Improve customer options, including cost impacts and benefits to the customer served by the microgrid and to other customers served by the utility;

(E) Be included in distributed energy resource planning;

(F) Help consumers reduce energy costs, especially those consumers located in rural areas of the state; and

(G) Help ensure the state meets its greenhouse gas emission reductions goals, as set forth in section 25-7-102 (2)(g);

(VI) Identify legal, regulatory, economic, and other barriers to developing and deploying microgrids in the state, including rights-of-way issues and rate structures, and provide recommendations on how to overcome such barriers;

(VII) Explore opportunities to foster public-private partnerships, including utility pilot programs and cost-recovery mechanisms to support utility resilience initiatives;

(VIII) Recommend a process for:

(A) Nominating qualifying types of critical facilities and infrastructure, as described in subsection (2)(b)(III) of this section, and at-risk communities, as described in subsection (2)(b)(IV) of this section; and

(B) Prioritizing the qualifying types of critical facilities and infrastructure and at-risk communities for projects to improve grid resilience and reliability;

(IX) Identify the need for financial and technical support, education, and outreach for microgrid development and deployment; and

(X) Develop recommendations, including legislative recommendations for the general assembly and administrative recommendations for state agencies, including the public utilities commission, and utilities, on issues related to microgrid safety, development, maintenance, and deployment including recommendations regarding:

(A) A proposed statutory definition of the term "microgrid";

(B) Key factors to consider in the safety, development, maintenance, and deployment of microgrids;

(C) Key factors to consider with respect to worker licensing and certification in relation to work involved in developing, maintaining, and deploying microgrids;

(D) Statutory or rule changes required to enable safe and reliable microgrid development, maintenance, and deployment;

(E) Metrics for evaluating the costs and benefits of microgrids;

(F) How to overcome any barriers identified pursuant to subsection (2)(b)(VI) of this section;

(G) Financial and technical support for microgrid safety, development, maintenance, and deployment; and

(H) Education and outreach programs, including apprenticeship programs, as defined in section 8-83-308 (3)(a).

(c) For any item listed in subsection (2)(b) of this section that the office, department, and resiliency office decide not to include in the roadmap, the office, department, and resiliency office shall provide an explanation setting forth their reasons for not including the item in the roadmap.

(3) On or before January 1, 2030, and at least every five years thereafter, the office, in collaboration with the department and the resiliency office, shall review and, if necessary, update the roadmap. In reviewing the roadmap, the office, department, and resiliency office shall engage in a stakeholder process with interested persons throughout the state in accordance with the stakeholder process set forth in subsection (1)(b) of this section. If the roadmap is updated, the office and department shall post the updated roadmap on their websites and the office shall submit a copy of the updated roadmap to the public utilities commission and the members of the house of representatives energy and environment committee and the senate transportation and energy committee, or their successor committees.

(4) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Department" means the department of local affairs created in section 24-1-125.

(b) "Disproportionately impacted community" has the meaning set forth in section 24-4-109 (2)(b)(II).

(c) "Greenhouse gas" has the meaning set forth in section 2-2-322.3 (1)(a).

(d) "Grid" means an interconnected network of facilities for a utility's delivery of electricity to consumers.

(e) "Office" means the Colorado energy office created in section 24-38.5-101 (1).

(f) "Public utilities commission" means the public utilities commission created in section 40-2-101 (1).

(g) "Resiliency office" means the Colorado resiliency office created in section 24-32-121 (1).

(h) "Roadmap" means the grid resilience and reliability roadmap developed pursuant to this section.

(i) "Utility" means an electric utility in the state.
C.R.S. § 24-22-101 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 22 / Section 24-22-101
24-22-101. Oath or affirmation - bond and sureties - conditions of bond
Status: in_force

24-22-101. Oath or affirmation - bond and sureties - conditions of bond. (1) On or before the second Tuesday in January after his or her election, the state treasurer shall take an oath or affirmation in accordance with section 24-12-101 and shall give a bond to the people of the state of Colorado in the sum of one million dollars, with not less than ten individual sureties or one or more surety companies authorized to do business in this state. The bond and each surety shall be approved by the governor and the attorney general and held in the custody of the secretary of state.

(2) The conditions of said bond shall be in substance that the state treasurer and all persons employed in the treasury department under his supervision shall faithfully discharge their respective duties and trusts and that the state treasurer shall be held responsible against all risks and losses whatsoever for all state moneys coming into his hands or received by the treasury department.

(3) If the bond is furnished by one or more surety companies, the entire premium therefor shall be paid by the state, and the general assembly shall appropriate the amount thereof.

(4) Whenever the governor, with the concurrence of the attorney general, deems the surety on said bond to be insufficient for the said sum of one million dollars, he may demand, and the state treasurer shall give, additional bond with sureties, at the cost of the state, to be approved by the governor and the attorney general.
C.R.S. § 24-74-108 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 74 / Section 24-74-108
24-74-108. Severability
Status: in_force

24-74-108. Severability. If any provision of this article 74 or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this article 74 which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this article 74 are severable.
C.R.S. § 24-33.5-1620 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 33.5 / Part 16 / Section 24-33.5-1620
24-33.5-1620. Preventing identity-based violence grant program - creation - report - rules - d
Status: in_force

24-33.5-1620. Preventing identity-based violence grant program - creation - report - rules - definitions. (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Educational entity" means a school district; a board of cooperative services; a district charter school or an institute charter school operating pursuant to article 30.5 of title 22; a state institution of higher education, as defined in section 23-18-102 (10)(a); a local district college, created pursuant to article 71 of title 23; an area technical college, as defined in section 23-60-103; or a private institution of higher education, as defined in section 23-18-102 (9).

(b) "Eligible entity" means a county, municipality, or city and county, and any agency thereof; an American Indian tribe; a law enforcement agency; a district attorney's office; an educational entity; and a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under section 501 (c)(3) of the federal "Internal Revenue Code of 1986", as amended, which may be a community-based nonprofit organization that has experience working with those affected by identity-based violence.

(c) "Intelligence information" means evaluated data relevant to the identification of activity engaged in by an individual or organization reasonably suspected of involvement in criminal activity that meets criminal intelligence system submission criteria as set forth in 28 CFR part 23.

(d) "Office" means the office of prevention and security created in section 24-33.5-1606.

(e) "Program" means the preventing identity-based violence grant program established in subsection (2)(a) of this section.

(2) (a) There is established in the division the preventing identity-based violence grant program to provide grants to eligible entities for programs that focus on building strong communities and preventing acts of violence that threaten human life or critical infrastructure, venues, or key resources, in which actors or groups intentionally target a discernible population of individuals, such as a population determined by its members' ethnicity, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation or identity, in a manner that poses a threat to homeland security, referred to in this section as "identity-based violence". The office shall administer the program in accordance with this section and department rules.

(b) (I) A project funded with a grant award must further at least one of the following program goals:

(A) Building awareness for the prevention and intervention of identity-based violence within Colorado communities;

(B) Strengthening local collaboration and capabilities for prevention and intervention of identity-based violence; or

(C) Building sustainable support for the prevention and intervention of identity-based violence.

(II) A project must not infringe on individual privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.

(III) (A) A grant recipient that is not a law enforcement agency shall not collect or maintain intelligence information about the political, religious, or social views, associations, or activities of any individual or group, association, corporation, business partnership, or other organization.

(B) A law enforcement agency shall comply with the requirements set forth in 28 CFR part 23 with regard to the collection, maintenance, and use of intelligence information learned by the agency though a program funded with a grant award, regardless of whether the agency is a direct grant recipient or is acting in partnership with a grant recipient.

(3) (a) The department shall promulgate rules as necessary for the administration of this section. At a minimum, the rules must specify the following:

(I) The content of a grant application, the deadline for submitting a grant application, and the deadline for the division to award grants;

(II) Criteria for selecting grant recipients, which may include consideration of annual grant priorities described in subsection (3)(b) of this section;

(III) Guidelines for determining the amount of each grant award;

(IV) A process for verifying that grant recipients are complying with the requirements of the program; and

(V) Requirements for grant recipients to report information necessary for the department to make the report required pursuant to subsection (7) of this section.

(b) The department shall annually evaluate environmental factors that lead to identity-based violence and challenges to reducing identity-based violence. The department may establish annual priorities for the program that address the identified factors and challenges.

(4) In order to receive a grant, an eligible entity that is not a community-based nonprofit organization that has experience working with those affected by identity-based violence must partner with a community-based nonprofit organization with that experience to carry out the project funded by a grant award. An eligible entity seeking a grant award must submit a complete application to the office. At a minimum, the grant application must:

(a) Describe the community-based nonprofit organization that the applicant has partnered with and how funds will be allocated among the applicant and its partner nonprofit organization, if applicable;

(b) Describe the project that will be funded with a grant award, including:

(I) Which program goal, as described in subsection (2)(b) of this section, is furthered by the proposed project; and

(II) How the project aligns with program goals described in this section and the annual grant priorities determined by the department;

(c) Demonstrate that the applicant has sufficient authority and capacity to implement the project outlined in the applicant's grant proposal, including the capability to engage the participants the applicant proposes to include in the project; and

(d) Describe any potential impacts of the project on individuals' privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties and explain how the applicant will prevent or mitigate those impacts and administer the applicant's projects in a nondiscriminatory manner.

(5) (a) The office shall:

(I) Accept and review grant applications;

(II) Award grants in accordance with the criteria established by rules promulgated by the department and determine the amount, based on available appropriations, that will be awarded to each grant recipient; and

(III) Verify that grant recipients are complying with the requirements of the program.

(b) The office shall include in each grant award any project performance measures that the grant recipient must report to the office.

(6) (a) Grant recipients may use the money received through the program to support the proposed project included in the grant application, and up to five percent of the award may be used for management and administration of the grant funds. Grant recipients shall not use any part of a grant award as matching funds for other grants or cooperative agreements or for lobbying efforts, litigation costs, or intervention in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings.

(b) A grant recipient shall submit a quarterly report to the office that describes any use of grant money and whether the project has met any performance measures identified in the grant application or set by the office in the grant award.

(7) (a) On or before July 31, 2023, and on or before July 31 of each year thereafter, the department shall submit a report to the general assembly concerning the activities of the program during the prior state fiscal year. The report must include the following information about the program:

(I) The number and amount of grants awarded;

(II) The number of counties impacted by grant awards; and

(III) Whether grant recipients are meeting project performance measures and overall program goals.

(b) Notwithstanding section 24-1-136 (11)(a)(I), the reporting requirement in this section continues indefinitely.

(8) (a) The general assembly shall annually appropriate one million dollars to the department to implement the program.

(b) The department may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, or donations from private or public sources for the purposes of this section.
C.R.S. § 24-50-802 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 50 / Part 8 / Section 24-50-802
24-50-802. Definitions
Status: in_force

24-50-802. Definitions. As used in this part 8, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) (a) "Employee" means any employee within the state personnel system except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1).

(b) "Employee" does not mean:

(I) An employee of the office of state planning and budgeting, the office of the state auditor, the joint budget committee, or the department of personnel;

(II) An elected official or member of the general assembly; or

(III) The executive directors and budget officers of principal departments and their deputies or the presidents of any college or university and their deputies.

(2) "State agency" means any department, board, bureau, commission, division, institution, or other agency of the state, including institutions of higher education.
C.R.S. § 24-34-107 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 34 / Part 1 / Section 24-34-107
24-34-107. Applications for licenses - authority to suspend licenses - rules
Status: in_force

24-34-107. Applications for licenses - authority to suspend licenses - rules. (1) Every application by an individual for a license issued pursuant to the authority set forth in titles 10, 11, and 12 by any division, board, or agency of the department of regulatory agencies requires the applicant's name, address, and social security number. If the applicant does not have a social security number, the division, board, or agency shall require the applicant's individual taxpayer identification number, or another document verifying the applicant's identity, as determined by such division, board, or agency.

(2) The divisions, boards, or agencies of the department of regulatory agencies shall deny, suspend, or revoke any license pursuant to the provisions of section 26-13-126, C.R.S., and any rules promulgated in furtherance thereof, if such division, board, or agency receives a notice to deny, suspend, or revoke from the state child support enforcement agency because the licensee or applicant is out of compliance with a court or administrative order for current child support, child support debt, retroactive child support, child support arrearages, or child support when combined with maintenance or because the licensee or applicant has failed to comply with a properly issued subpoena or warrant relating to a paternity or child support proceeding. Any such denial, suspension, or revocation shall be in accordance with the procedures specified by rule of any such division, board, or agency of the department of regulatory agencies, rules promulgated by the state board of human services, and any memorandum of understanding entered into between any division, board, or agency of the department of regulatory agencies and the state child support enforcement agency for the implementation of this section and section 26-13-126, C.R.S.

(3) (a) The divisions, boards, and agencies of the department of regulatory agencies may enter into a memorandum of understanding with the state child support enforcement agency to facilitate implementation of this section and section 26-13-126, C.R.S., through the rules promulgated pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.

(b) The divisions, boards, and agencies of the department of regulatory agencies are authorized to promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this section.

(4) For purposes of this section, "license" means any registration, certificate, charter, or membership issued by any division, board, or agency of the department of regulatory agencies for an individual to practice a profession or occupation or for an individual to participate in any recreational activity.

(5) (a) When any division, board, or agency of the department of regulatory agencies determines that an individual applying for a license has been convicted of a crime prior to the application being submitted, it may, subject to the provisions of section 24-5-101, issue a conditional license to that individual.

(b) The individual may request that the conditional designation or any related adverse action be removed a year after the issuance of the conditional license or when the individual applies for renewal of the license, whichever is later:

(I) If the individual remains free of any subsequent criminal conviction or licensing sanction after the conditional license is issued; and

(II) If the individual is no longer serving any term of probation or parole imposed for the criminal conviction.

(c) The division, board, or agency shall grant the request unless it determines that, under the provisions of section 24-5-101, the conditional designation remains necessary.

(d) If the division, board, or agency removes the conditional designation, it shall make the original conditional designation confidential and remove from the individual's professional history any reference to crimes committed before the application for licensure was submitted, unless the removal or designation as confidential violates any federal reporting law.
C.R.S. § 24-51-1723 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 51 / Part 17 / Section 24-51-1723
24-51-1723. Option P2
Status: in_force

24-51-1723. Option P2. (1) Option P2 is a modified joint survivorship annuity, which is defined as a somewhat smaller sum of money than the amount that would be payable under option A but that is the actuarial equivalent thereof, as calculated under this retirement plan, payable monthly to an annuitant from the time of retirement until the death of said annuitant, and, thereafter an amount equal to one-half of the monthly amount paid to the annuitant is payable monthly to the annuitant's designated co-annuitant until the death of that person. The designation of the co-annuitant shall be effective upon the effective date of the member's retirement and may not subsequently be changed except as provided in subsection (2) of this section. Upon the death of the co-annuitant prior to the death of the annuitant, the benefit payable to the annuitant thereafter shall be the original option A amount increased by any increases in the basic retirement allowance granted in accordance with the provisions of the DPS plan document and section 24-51-1732 subsequent to the annuitant's effective date of retirement. In addition to designating a co-annuitant, the member shall designate a beneficiary and shall have the exclusive right to change such designation of beneficiary at any time prior to the annuitant's death. If, upon the death of both the annuitant and the co-annuitant, the total amount of retirement allowance that has been paid to them does not exceed the member's accumulated contributions, then the difference between said accumulated contributions and the total amount of retirement allowance paid to such annuitant and co-annuitant shall be paid to the named beneficiary of the annuitant, or, if no named beneficiary exists, to the estate of the co-annuitant.

(2) In case of the death of the designated co-annuitant under option P2 after the date of application for retirement and before the effective date of retirement, the member may make a change of option or designate a new co-annuitant within thirty days after the death of the previously designated co-annuitant and subject to the appropriate recalculation of the retirement allowance.

(3) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, an annuitant may change the co-annuitant that was named by such annuitant and designate a supplemental needs trust as a co-annuitant in place of the previously named co-annuitant if:

(a) The beneficiary of the supplemental needs trust is the same person as the previously named co-annuitant; and

(b) The retiree files an application and any required documents in a form as designated by the association.

(4) If a supplemental needs trust is not established before or within ninety days after the death of the annuitant, is determined to be invalid, or is terminated on or after the death of the annuitant, the beneficiary that was named in the trust is the co-annuitant.
C.R.S. § 24-116-102 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 116 / Section 24-116-102
24-116-102. Prohibition on assisting another state - legally protected health-care activity
Status: in_force

24-116-102. Prohibition on assisting another state - legally protected health-care activity. (1) A state agency or executive department shall not provide information or data, including patient medical records, patient-level data, or related billing information, or expend time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for the purpose of assisting or furthering an investigation or proceeding initiated in or by another state that seeks to impose criminal or civil liability or professional sanction upon a person or entity for engaging in a legally protected health-care activity, as defined in section 12-30-121 (1)(d).

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, an agency or executive department may provide information or assistance in connection with an investigation or proceeding in response to a written request from the subject of the investigation or proceeding.

(3) This section does not apply to an investigation or proceeding that would be subject to civil or criminal liability or professional sanction under Colorado law if the action was committed in Colorado.
C.R.S. § 24-33.5-402 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 33.5 / Part 4 / Section 24-33.5-402
24-33.5-402. Director - appointment
Status: in_force

24-33.5-402. Director - appointment. Subject to the provisions of section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, the executive director shall appoint a director of the bureau, referred to in this part 4 as the "director".
C.R.S. § 24-4.1-106 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 4.1 / Part 1 / Section 24-4.1-106
24-4.1-106. Hearings
Status: in_force

24-4.1-106. Hearings. (1) The board, in its discretion, may conduct a hearing upon any application submitted to it. All hearings conducted by the board and appeals therefrom shall be held pursuant to sections 24-4-105 and 24-4-106.

(2) The burden of proof is upon the applicant to show that the claim is reasonable and is compensable under the terms of this part 1. The standard of proof is by a preponderance of the evidence.

(3) If a person has been convicted of an offense with respect to an act on which a claim is based, proof of that conviction shall be taken as conclusive evidence that the offense has been committed, unless an appeal or a proceeding with regard to it is pending. The fact that the identity of the assailant is unknown or that the assailant has not been prosecuted or convicted shall not raise a presumption that the claim is invalid.

(4) Orders and decisions of the board are final.

(5) Review of an order or decision of the board may be made in accordance with the Colorado rules of civil procedure.
C.R.S. § 24-19-101 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 19 / Section 24-19-101
24-19-101. Legislative declaration
Status: in_force

24-19-101. Legislative declaration. (1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that:

(a) The payment of compensation to government-supported officials or employees after such officials or employees have ended their employment creates unnecessary costs, which ultimately are borne by the taxpayers of this state.

(b) In order to reduce government costs, it is necessary for the state to limit the payment of postemployment compensation to government-supported officials and employees.

(c) The continued payment of compensation to any official or employee after such official or employee has ended his or her service with a governmental unit or government-financed entity not only affects the finances of such governmental unit or government-financed entity, but also has a serious impact on the state as a whole because of the total effect of such compensation payment arrangements on the ability of state and local governments to provide services using the scarce resources that are available. Further, the general assembly finds and declares that the provision of large payments to government-supported officials and employees after their employment has ended has caused grave damage to the trust of the citizens of this state in their state and local government officials. Because of these concerns, the general assembly finds and declares that this is a matter of statewide concern.
C.R.S. § 24-50-1102 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 50 / Part 11 / Section 24-50-1102
24-50-1102. Definitions
Status: in_force

24-50-1102. Definitions. As used in this part 11, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Certified employee organization" means an employee organization that has been certified as the representative of covered employees in a partnership unit pursuant to section 24-50-1106.

(2) "Confidential employee" means a person who is required to develop or present management positions with respect to employer-employee relations, whose duties normally require access to confidential information contributing significantly to the development of such management positions, or who is employed by the department of law and whose duties are to provide direct support to assistant attorneys general in the application, interpretation, or enforcement of this part 11.

(3) "Covered employee" means an employee who is employed in the personnel system of the state established in section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, unless the individual falls into any of the following categories:

(a) Confidential employees;

(b) Managerial employees;

(c) Executive employees;

(d) The director, the director of the division of labor standards and statistics, the governor's designee, and employees working with either director to implement this part 11;

(e) Administrative law judges and hearing officers;

(f) State troopers;

(g) Employees of the legislative branch; or

(h) Temporary appointees as described in section 24-50-114.

(4) "Decertification election" means an election conducted by the division when the partnership unit is already represented by a certified employee organization, to determine by a majority of the votes cast whether the covered employees want to be represented by a different employee organization or by no employee organization at all.

(5) "Director" means the state personnel director established in section 14 of article XII of the state constitution, or his or her designee.

(6) "Division" means the division of labor standards and statistics within the department of labor and employment.

(7) "Employee organization" means a nonprofit organization that engages with the state as an employer concerning wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment and that represents or seeks to represent covered employees in a partnership unit as described in section 24-50-1105.

(8) "Executive employee" means an employee:

(a) Whose primary duty is management of the entity in which the employee is employed or of a customarily recognized department or subdivision thereof;

(b) Who customarily and regularly directs the work of two or more other employees; and

(c) Who has the authority to hire or fire other employees or whose suggestions and recommendations as to the hiring, firing, advancement, promotion, or any other change of status of other employees are given particular weight.

(9) "Governor's designee" means the person or persons the governor designates, in writing, as the individual or individuals who will represent the state in the exercise of the state's responsibilities under this part 11.

(10) "Managerial employee" means any employee having significant responsibilities for formulating agency or departmental policies and programs or administering an agency or department.

(11) "New employee orientation" means the onboarding process of a newly hired covered employee, whether in person, online, or through other means or mediums, in which covered employees are advised of their employment status, rights, benefits, duties and responsibilities, or any other employment-related matters.

(12) "Partnership agreement" means an agreement established pursuant to section 24-50-1112 between the state and a certified employee organization.

(13) "Partnership agreement grievance" means a dispute concerning the interpretation, application, or enforcement of any provision of a partnership agreement.

(14) "Petition" means a document signed by a covered employee in which the covered employee expresses the desire to be represented by an employee organization. A "petition" includes individual petitions or petition cards with a single covered employee's signature, or membership forms or cards showing that a covered employee has joined an employee organization.

(15) "Representation election" means an election conducted by the division when the partnership unit is not represented by a certified employee organization, to determine by a majority of the votes cast whether the covered employees wish to be represented by an employee organization.

(16) "State" means the state of Colorado, including its agencies, divisions, and departments.
C.R.S. § 24-33.5-102 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 33.5 / Part 1 / Section 24-33.5-102
24-33.5-102. Definitions
Status: repealed

24-33.5-102. Definitions. As used in this article 33.5, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "County" means any county in this state and includes a city and county.

(1.5) "Department" means the department of public safety.

(2) "Executive director" means the executive director of the department.

(3) "ICON" means the computerized database of court records known as the integrated Colorado online network used by the state judicial department.

(4) Repealed.
C.R.S. § 24-51-502 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 51 / Part 5 / Section 24-51-502
24-51-502. Purchased service credit
Status: in_force

24-51-502. Purchased service credit. (1) A member may qualify earlier for service retirement, reduced service retirement, or increased benefits through the purchase of additional service credit.

(2) Service credit purchases are limited to those specified in this part 5.

(3) Service credit purchased pursuant to this part 5 by members who were members, inactive members, or retirees on December 31, 2006, shall be subject to the benefit provisions in effect for the existing member contribution account. Service credit purchased pursuant to this part 5 by members who were not members, inactive members, or retirees on December 31, 2006, shall be subject to the benefit provisions in effect for such member at the time of the initiation of payment of the purchase.
C.R.S. § 24-32-721.3 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 32 / Part 7 / Section 24-32-721.3
24-32-721.3. Middle income access program - contract with Colorado housing and finance author
Status: in_force

24-32-721.3. Middle income access program - contract with Colorado housing and finance authority for administration of funds - appropriation. For state fiscal year 2022-23, the general assembly shall appropriate twenty-five million dollars from money in the affordable housing and home ownership cash fund, created in section 24-75-229 (3)(a), that originates from the general fund to the department of local affairs for the use of the division for the purpose of expanding the middle income access program established in and administered by the Colorado housing and finance authority, created in part 7 of article 4 of title 29. The division shall contract with the authority for administration of the money appropriated to the department under this section. The contract may include normal and customary fees and expenses for administration of the program, and the program must be administered in a manner consistent with the program guidelines established by the authority.
C.R.S. § 24-37.5-901 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 37.5 / Part 9 / Section 24-37.5-901
24-37.5-901. Legislative declaration
Status: in_force

24-37.5-901. Legislative declaration. (1) The general assembly hereby finds and determines that:

(a) The development of fast, affordable, and accessible broadband internet service throughout the state will:

(I) Drive job creation;

(II) Promote innovation;

(III) Improve the economic vitality of various industries throughout the state and the state as a whole; and

(IV) Expand markets for Colorado businesses;

(b) Improved broadband access will help serve the ongoing and growing needs of Colorado's education, health-care, and public safety systems; industries; businesses; governmental operations; and citizens; and

(c) Communities in unserved areas of the state need access to broadband to help overcome economic, health-care, education, and government-access inequities arising from their diminished ability to access broadband.

(2) The general assembly declares that it is important to create the Colorado broadband office to serve as a central governmental entity to plan and coordinate with other state, public, and private entities and citizens throughout the state to develop and implement statewide broadband deployment and access strategies and programs that seek to advance the goals listed in subsection (1) of this section.
C.R.S. § 24-4-104 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 4 / Part 1 / Section 24-4-104
24-4-104. Licenses - issuance, suspension or revocation, renewal
Status: in_force

24-4-104. Licenses - issuance, suspension or revocation, renewal. (1) In any case in which application is made for a license required by law, the agency, with due regard for the rights and privileges of all interested persons, shall set and conduct the proceedings in accordance with this article unless otherwise required by law.

(2) Every agency decision respecting the grant, renewal, denial, revocation, suspension, annulment, limitation, or modification of a license shall be based solely upon the stated criteria, terms, and purposes of the statute, or regulations promulgated thereunder, and case law interpreting such statutes and regulations pursuant to which the license is issued or required. Terms, conditions, or requirements limiting any license shall be valid only if reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes, scope, or stated terms of the statute pursuant to which the license is issued or required.

(3) (a) No revocation, suspension, annulment, limitation, or modification of a license by any agency shall be lawful unless, before institution of agency proceedings therefor, the agency has given the licensee notice in writing of objective facts or conduct established upon a full investigation that may warrant such action and afforded the licensee opportunity to submit written data, views, and arguments with respect to the facts or conduct and, except in cases of deliberate and willful violation or of substantial danger to public health and safety, given the licensee a reasonable opportunity to comply with all lawful requirements. For purposes of this subsection (3), "full investigation" means a reasonable ascertainment of the underlying facts on which the agency action is based.

(b) The full investigation requirement specified in subsection (3)(a) of this section shall not apply to licenses issued under articles 1.1, 9, 10.1, and 11.5 of title 40 or article 2 of title 42.

(4) (a) Where the agency has objective and reasonable grounds to believe and finds, upon a full investigation, that the licensee has been guilty of deliberate and willful violation or that the public health, safety, or welfare imperatively requires emergency action and incorporates the findings in its order, it may summarily suspend the license pending proceedings for suspension or revocation which shall be promptly instituted and determined. For purposes of this subsection (4), "full investigation" means a reasonable ascertainment of the underlying facts on which the agency action is based.

(b) The full investigation requirement specified in subsection (4)(a) of this section shall not apply to licenses issued under articles 1.1, 9, 10.1, and 11.5 of title 40 or article 2 of title 42.

(5) A proceeding for the revocation, suspension, annulment, limitation, or modification of a previously issued license shall be commenced by the agency upon its own motion or by the filing with the agency of a written complaint, signed and sworn to by the complainant, stating the name of the licensee complained against and the grounds for the requested action.

(6) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, an agency shall not revoke, suspend, annul, limit, or modify a previously issued license until after holding a hearing as provided in section 24-4-105.

(7) In any case in which the licensee has made timely and sufficient application for the renewal of a license or for a new license for the conduct of a previously licensed activity of a continuing nature, the existing license shall not expire until such application has been finally acted upon by the agency, and, if the application is denied, it shall be treated in all respects as a denial. The licensee, within sixty days after the giving of notice of such action, may request a hearing before the agency as provided in section 24-4-105, and the action of the agency after any hearing shall be subject to judicial review as provided in section 24-4-106.

(8) An application for a license shall be acted upon promptly, and, immediately after the taking of action on such application by an agency, a written notice of the action taken by the agency and, if the application is denied, the grounds therefor shall be given to the applicant. The giving of such notice shall be by personal service upon the applicant or by mailing the same to the address of the applicant as shown on the application or as subsequently furnished in writing by the applicant to the agency.

(9) If an application for a new license is denied without a hearing, the applicant, within sixty days after the giving of notice of such action, may request a hearing before the agency as provided in section 24-4-105, and the action of the agency after any hearing shall be subject to judicial review as provided in section 24-4-106.

(10) Written notice of the revocation, suspension, annulment, limitation, or modification of a license and the grounds therefor shall be served forthwith on the licensee personally or by mailing by first-class mail to the last address furnished the agency by the licensee.

(11) A limitation, unless consented to by the applicant, on a license applied for shall be treated as a denial. A modification, unless consented to by the licensee, of a license already issued shall be treated as a revocation.

(12) In an appropriate case a revoked or suspended license may be reissued.

(13) (a) Any applicant who, under oath, supplies false information to an agency in an application for a license commits perjury in the second degree, as defined in section 18-8-503, C.R.S. Any such application shall bear notice, in accordance with section 18-8-501 (2)(a)(I), C.R.S., that false statements made therein are punishable.

(b) On and after January 1, 1985, an agency shall not require that information contained in an application for a license be affirmed to before a notary.
C.R.S. § 24-50-120 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 50 / Part 1 / Section 24-50-120
24-50-120. Leaves of absence
Status: repealed

24-50-120. Leaves of absence. (Repealed)
C.R.S. § 24-60-2004 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 60 / Part 20 / Section 24-60-2004
24-60-2004. Members of compact commission
Status: in_force

24-60-2004. Members of compact commission. (1) Colorado members of the commission shall be as set forth in article III (a)(1) of the compact. In addition:

(a) The appointee of the governor shall be familiar with the marketing of agricultural grains. The initial appointee shall serve from the date of his appointment (whether before or after the date the commission becomes effective), until one year after the date the commission becomes effective. Gubernatorial appointees thereafter shall serve for two-year terms. A gubernatorial appointee may be reappointed as many times as the governor deems appropriate.

(b) The senate and house of representatives shall each, by appropriate resolution, appoint one of their members as commission members. The initial appointees shall serve from the date of appointment (whether before or after the date the commission becomes effective), until two years after the date the commission becomes effective. Appointees may be reappointed as many times as the particular chamber deems appropriate.
C.R.S. § 24-82-1303 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 82 / Part 13 / Section 24-82-1303
24-82-1303. Financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements for cap
Status: repealed

24-82-1303. Financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements for capital construction and transportation projects.

(1) Repealed.

(2) (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 24-82-102 (1)(b) and 24-82-801, and pursuant to section 24-36-121, no sooner than July 1, 2018, the state, acting by and through the state treasurer, shall execute financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements, each for no more than twenty years of annual payments, for the projects described in subsection (4) of this section. The state shall execute the financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements as soon as possible after July 1 of the applicable state fiscal year only in accordance with the following schedule:

(I) During the 2018-19 state fiscal year, the state shall execute financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements in an amount up tofive hundred million dollars;

(II) During the 2019-20 state fiscal year, the state shall execute financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements in an amount up to five hundred million dollars;

(III) During the 2020-21 state fiscal year, the state shall execute financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements in an amount up to five hundred million dollars; and

(IV) During the 2021-22 fiscal year, the state shall execute financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements in an amount up to five hundred million dollars.

(b) The anticipated annual state-funded payments for the principal and interest components of the amount payable under all financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements entered into pursuant to subsection (2)(a) of this section shall not exceed one hundred fifty million dollars.

(c) The state, acting by and through the state treasurer, at the state treasurer's sole discretion, may enter into one or more financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements authorized by subsection (2)(a) of this section with any for-profit or nonprofit corporation, trust, or commercial bank as a trustee as the seller.

(d) Any financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement executed as required by subsection (2)(a) of this section shall provide that all of the obligations of the state under the agreement are subject to the action of the general assembly in annually making money available for all payments thereunder. Payments under any financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement must be made, subject to annual allocation pursuant to section 43-1-113 by the transportation commission created in section 43-1-106 (1) or subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, as applicable, from the following sources of money:

(I) First, nine million dollars annually, or any lesser amount that is sufficient to make each full payment due, shall be paid from the general fund or any other legally available source of money for the purpose of fully funding the controlled maintenance and capital construction projects in the state to be funded with the proceeds of financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements as specified in subsection (4)(a) of this section;

(II) Next, fifty million dollars annually, or any lesser amount that is sufficient to make each full payment due, shall be paid from any legally available money under the control of the transportation commission solely for the purpose of allowing the construction, supervision, and maintenance of state highways to be funded with the proceeds of financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements as specified in subsection (4)(b) of this section and section 43-4-206 (1)(b)(V); except that, for payments due during state fiscal years 2020-21 and 2021-22, sixty-two million dollars annually, or any lesser amount that is sufficient to make each full payment due shall be paid from such legally available money for said purpose; and

(III) The remainder of the amount needed, in addition to the amounts specified in subsections (2)(d)(I) and (2)(d)(II) of this section, to make each full payment due shall be paid from the general fund or any other legally available source of money.

(e) Each agreement must also provide that the obligations of the state do not create state debt within the meaning of any provision of the state constitution or state law concerning or limiting the creation of state debt and are not a multiple fiscal-year direct or indirect debt or other financial obligation of the state within the meaning of section 20 (4) of article X of the state constitution. If the state does not renew a financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement executed as required by subsection (2)(a) of this section, the sole security available to the seller is the property that is the subject of the nonrenewed financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement.

(f) A financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement executed as required by subsection (2)(a) of this section may contain such terms, provisions, and conditions as the state treasurer, acting on behalf of the state, deems appropriate, including all optional terms; except that each financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement must specifically authorize the state or the governing board of the applicable state institution of higher education to receive fee title to all real and personal property that is the subject of the financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement on or before the expiration of the terms of the agreement.

(g) Any financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement executed as required by subsection (2)(a) of this section may provide for the issuance, distribution, and sale of instruments evidencing rights to receive rentals and other payments made and to be made under the financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement. The instruments may be issued, distributed, or sold only by the seller or any person designated by the seller and not by the state. The instruments do not create a relationship between the purchasers of the instruments and the state or create any obligation on the part of the state to the purchasers. The instruments are not notes, bonds, or any other evidence of state debt within the meaning of any provision of the state constitution or state law concerning or limiting the creation of state debt and are not a multiple fiscal-year direct or indirect debt or other financial obligation of the state within the meaning of section 20 (4) of article X of the state constitution.

(h) Interest paid under a financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement authorized pursuant to subsection (2)(a) of this section, including interest represented by the instruments, is exempt from Colorado income tax.

(i) The state, acting by and through the state treasurer and the governing boards of the institutions of higher education, is authorized to enter into ancillary agreements and instruments that are necessary or appropriate in connection with a financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement, including but not limited to deeds, ground leases, sub-leases, easements, or other instruments relating to the real property on which the facilities are located.

(j) The provisions of section 24-30-202 (5)(b) do not apply to a financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement executed as required by or to any ancillary agreement or instrument entered into pursuant to this subsection (2). The state controller or his or her designee shall waive any provision of the fiscal rules promulgated pursuant to section 24-30-202 (1) and (13) that the state controller finds incompatible or inapplicable with respect to a financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement or an ancillary agreement or instrument.

(3) (a) Before executing a financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement required by subsection (2)(a) of this section, in order to protect against future interest rate increases, the state, acting by and through the state treasurer and at the discretion of the state treasurer, may enter into an interest rate exchange agreement pursuant to article 59.3 of title 11. A financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement executed as required by subsection (2)(a) of this section is a proposed public security for the purposes of article 59.3 of title 11. Any payments made by the state under an agreement entered into pursuant to this subsection (3) must be made solely from money made available to the state treasurer from the execution of a financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement or from money described in subsections (2)(d)(I) and (2)(d)(II) of this section.

(b) Any agreement entered into pursuant to this subsection (3) must also provide that the obligations of the state do not create state debt within the meaning of any provision of the state constitution or state law concerning or limiting the creation of state debt and are not a multiple fiscal-year direct or indirect debt or other financial obligation of the state within the meaning of section 20 (4) of article X of the state constitution.

(c) Any money received by the state under an agreement entered into pursuant to this subsection (3) shall be used to make payments on financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements entered into pursuant to subsection (2) of this section or to pay the costs of the project for which a financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement was executed.

(4) Proceeds of financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements executed as required by subsection (2)(a) of this section shall be used as follows:

(a) (I) The first one hundred twenty million dollars of the proceeds of financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements issued during the 2018-19 state fiscal year shall be used for controlled maintenance and capital construction projects in the state as follows:

(A) Thirteen million six thousand eighty-one dollars for level I controlled maintenance;

(B) Sixty million six hundred thirty-seven thousand three hundred five dollars for level II controlled maintenance;

(C) Forty million two hundred nine thousand five hundred thirty-five dollars for level III controlled maintenance; and

(D) The remainder for capital construction projects as prioritized by the capital development committee.

(II) The capital development committee shall post the list of specific controlled maintenance projects and the cost of each project funded pursuant to subsection (4)(a)(I)(A), (4)(a)(I)(B), or (4)(a)(I)(C) of this section on its official website no later than May 11, 2017.

(III) When the actual cost of a controlled maintenance project funded from the proceeds of the financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements executed as required by subsection (2)(a) of this section, as specifically set forth in subsections (4)(a)(I)(A) through (4)(a)(I)(C) of this section, is less than the amount specifically earmarked for such project, the executive director may utilize the savings to cover any additional cost of any other controlled maintenance project funded from the proceeds of the financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements executed as required by subsection (2)(a) of this section, as specifically set forth in subsections (4)(a)(I)(A) through (4)(a)(I)(C) of this section; except that the executive director's authority to use savings for other controlled maintenance projects may not in any way exceed the total allocation of one hundred thirteen million eight hundred fifty-two thousand nine hundred twenty-one dollars.

(a.5) Of the proceeds of financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements executed as required by subsection (2)(a)(II) of this section, the lesser of all proceeds in excess of five hundred million dollars or forty-nine million dollars of such excess proceeds shall be credited to the capital construction fund created in section 24-75-302 (1)(a) and appropriated only for controlled maintenance projects, including controlled maintenance projects that are capital renewal projects, in the state.

(b) The remainder of the proceeds shall be credited to the state highway fund created in section 43-1-219 and used by the department of transportation in accordance with section 43-4-206 (1)(b)(V).
C.R.S. § 24-90-114 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 90 / Part 1 / Section 24-90-114
24-90-114. Abolishment of libraries
Status: in_force

24-90-114. Abolishment of libraries. (1) A public library, other than a joint library, established, operated, or maintained pursuant to this part 1 may be abolished only by vote of the registered electors in that library's legal service area, taken in the manner prescribed in section 24-90-107 (3) for a vote to establish a library. If a library is abolished, the materials and equipment belonging to it shall be disposed of as the legislative body of the governmental unit, or in the case of a library district, as the library board of trustees, directs.

(2) Following notice of public hearings, the abolishment of a joint library shall be by resolution of the legislative bodies of the governmental units that established, operated, or maintained the joint library. The resolution shall specify that all indebtedness, including obligations arising from financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements, of the joint library must be fully protected until retired, that all trusts of the library will be continued as specified under current terms, and that all properties of the joint library will be divided as provided in the agreements entered into by the legislative bodies of the governmental units.

(3) Disposition of school district libraries that have been abolished shall be accomplished as provided by law.
C.R.S. § 24-1.9-104 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 1.9 / Section 24-1.9-104
24-1.9-104. Cash fund - creation - grants, gifts, and donations
Status: in_force

24-1.9-104. Cash fund - creation - grants, gifts, and donations. (1) On July 1, 2005, there is created in the state treasury the collaborative management cash fund, which is referred to in this section as the "fund". The money in the fund is subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly to the department of human services for state fiscal year 2005-06 and each fiscal year thereafter. The fund consists of money received from docket fees in civil actions and transferred as specified in section 13-32-101.

(1.5) On July 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the general assembly shall appropriate money to the fund to serve children who would benefit from integrated multi-agency services, including children who have had contact with law enforcement or who are at risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system.

(2) The executive director of the department of human services is authorized to accept and expend on behalf of the state any grants, gifts, or donations from any private or public source for the purposes of this section. All private and public funds received through grants, gifts, or donations must be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the fund in addition to money credited pursuant to subsection (1) of this section and any money that may be appropriated to the fund directly by the general assembly. All investment earnings derived from the deposit and investment of money in the fund remains in the fund and does not transfer or revert to the general fund of the state or any other fund at the end of any fiscal year.

(2.5) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, on June 1, 2009, the state treasurer shall deduct three hundred thousand dollars from the fund and transfer such sum to the general fund.

(3) (a) On and after July 1, 2005, the executive director of the department of human services shall allocate the money in the fund, and any general fund money appropriated for this purpose, to parties to a memorandum of understanding who have agreed to collaborative management pursuant to section 24-1.9-102. The executive director of the department of human services shall:

(I) Beginning July 1, 2023, distribute additional funds appropriated for the 2023-24 state fiscal year to the fund to existing collaborative management programs pursuant to the funding formula in place on June 30, 2023; and

(II) Beginning July 1, 2024, provide an annual sum to each local collaborative management program to provide services to children who would benefit from integrated multi-agency services, including children who have had contact with law enforcement or who are at risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year and each state fiscal year thereafter, the amount of the sum provided to each local collaborative management program must be determined through a funding formula that considers:

(A) The amount of money available in the fund;

(B) The need for a base of resources to direct a child and the child's family members to appropriate services; and

(C) The number of children in the population to be served, as defined by the memorandum of understanding pursuant to section 24-1.9-102, in each county or region.

(a.5) On and after July 1, 2008, the executive director of the department of human services is authorized to allocate money in the fund, and any general fund money appropriated for this purpose, to be used to cover the direct and indirect costs of the external evaluation of the collaborative management program described in section 24-1.9-102 and the technical assistance and training for counties as described in section 24-1.9-102.7.

(b) For purposes of allocating money pursuant to this subsection (3), the executive director of the department of human services shall submit an accounting of money in the fund, and any general fund money appropriated for this purpose, and a proposal for the allocation of money to the state board of human services for review and approval prior to the allocation of the money. The state board of human services shall approve the proposal not later than thirty days after receipt of the proposal from the executive director of the department of human services.
C.R.S. § 24-33.5-2704 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 33.5 / Part 27 / Section 24-33.5-2704
24-33.5-2704. Educator safety task force - created - report - definitions - repeal
Status: repealed

24-33.5-2704. Educator safety task force - created - report - definitions - repeal. (1) There is created in the office of school safety the educator safety task force.

(2) (a) (I) The task force consists of the following voting members:

(A) The director, or the director's designee, who is the chairperson of the task force;

(B) Three public school teachers who are licensed pursuant to article 60.5 of title 22 and employed by a school district in this state from a rural, urban, and suburban district, one public school teacher from a suburban district appointed by the governor and one public school teacher from a rural school district and one public school teacher from an urban school district appointed by the speaker of the house, on the advice of a statewide association that represents teachers.

(C) Two education support professionals, one of whom focuses on English language learning, appointed by the president of senate on the advice of a statewide association that represents education support professionals;

(D) One school support professional who is licensed pursuant to article 60.5 of title 22, who focuses on addressing mental health at the school level and has an understanding of neurological and development disorders, such as autism, appointed by the governor on the advice of a statewide association that represents education support professionals;

(E) Two school administrators, who are employed either at the school or district level by a public non-charter school district, one appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and one appointed by the minority leader of the house, on the advice of a statewide association that represents school executives;

(F) One teacher who is employed at a charter school, appointed by the house minority leader on the advice of a statewide association that advocates for charter schools;

(G) One school leader or administrator who is employed at a district charter school or a school authorized by the charter school institute, appointed by the senate minority leader on the advice of the charter school institute;

(H) A representative of an organization that represents students and families from disproportionately impacted schools that receives money under title I of the federal "elementary and secondary education act of 1965", as amended, and the schools are in a school district in which the majority of the students enrolled in the district identify as minority, appointed by the president of the senate;

(I) A representative of a statewide organization that represents students with disabilities, appointed by the speaker of the house;

(J) An individual who works for a nonprofit entity that focuses on school safety and training, appointed by the senate minority leader; and

(K) A certified restorative justice professional who has experience with community-based juvenile restorative justice, appointed by the governor.

(II) The task force consists of the following nonvoting members:

(A) The commissioner of education or the commissioner's designee;

(B) A representative of the behavioral health administration created in section 27-50-203, appointed by the commissioner of the behavioral health administration; and

(C) A student representing a community disproportionately impacted by school discipline, appointed by the governor.

(b) The appointing authorities shall appoint the task force members by July 31, 2024.

(c) Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the task force must be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.

(d) A majority of the members of the task force constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, and a majority of a quorum present at any meeting is sufficient for any official action taken by the task force.

(e) The chairperson of the task force shall convene the first meeting of the task force no later than September 1, 2024. the task force shall meet at least four times in 2024 and at least three times in 2025. The task force shall establish procedures to allow members of the task force to participate in the meetings remotely.

(f) The members of the task force serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed for expenses directly relating to their service on the task force.

(g) Upon the request of the chairperson of the task force, the office of school safety shall provide staff assistance, meeting space, or audio-visual communication technology resources to the task force as necessary for the performance of its duties.

(3) (a) The task force shall study:

(I) Any issue relating to the safety and well-being of public school staff, including laws or regulations that affect the safety and well-being of public school staff;

(II) The effects of the declining number of education professionals on student behaviors, as well as the effects of widespread staff shortages, class size, and caseloads on disruptive learning environments;

(III) Incidents of aggressive student behaviors toward educators to inform solutions. The study of incidents of aggressive student behavior must include an examination of the student's history, the school's attempts at addressing the behavior and mental health needs, including, but not limited to, behavioral assessments or behavioral plans, access to mental health supports within the school, and referrals to supports outside of the school. The study of incidents of aggressive student behavior must also include examining the number of suspensions that have occurred and the number of abbreviated school days because of behavior concerns. The study of these incidents must protect the privacy of students and must include worker's compensation data, reported incidents in the teaching and learning conditions in Colorado survey, and other relevant data that may inform solutions. The solutions must not include policies that focus on additional student discipline or criminal referral of students or activate any current policies that cause students of color and students with disabilities to be at disproportionate risk for criminal referrals.

(IV) The work and recommendations of the following task forces: The school finance task force, the school safety working group, the disproportionate discipline task force, and the facility schools working group;

(V) The impact of insufficient funding, lack of coordination of services between school and community, and the lack of wraparound services on learning environments; and

(VI) The role that resource inequality may have on staff safety issues.

(b) The task force shall make recommendations for administrative and statutory changes that are necessary to facilitate school staff safety solutions.

(4) On or before June 30, 2025, the task force shall submit a final report, including its findings and recommendations on the issues identified in subsection (3) of this section, to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate, or their successor committees; the governor; the state board; the commissioner of education; and the department of education.

(5) For the purposes of this section:

(a) "Education support professional" means a person that is employed by a school district in this state who is not required as a condition of employment to hold a license issued pursuant to this title 22. The term includes administrative staff, paraprofessionals, custodial staff, food service workers, and bus drivers.

(b) "Task force" means the educator safety task force created in subsection (1) of this section.

(6) This section is repealed, effective December 31, 2025.
C.R.S. § 24-1-108 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 1 / Section 24-1-108
24-1-108. Appointment of officers and employees - repeal
Status: repealed

24-1-108. Appointment of officers and employees - repeal. (1) Any provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding and subject to the provisions of the constitution of the state of Colorado, the head of a principal department shall be appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate. The head of a principal department shall appoint all subordinate officers and employees of his or her office and the head of each division under his or her department, and the head of each division shall appoint all employees in his or her division, but all appointments made by the head of a principal department and heads of divisions shall be made in accordance with section 24-2-102.

(2) In the event that the lieutenant governor is appointed during his or her term of office to concurrently serve as the head of a principal department:

(a) Acceptance or retention of such an appointment shall not result in a forfeiture of the office of lieutenant governor; and

(b) It shall be deemed that holding the office of lieutenant governor while concurrently serving as the head of a principal department is not incompatible, inconsistent, or in conflict with the duties of the lieutenant governor or with the duties, powers, and functions of the head of a principal department.

(3) Repealed.

(4) In the event that the lieutenant governor is appointed during his or her term of office to concurrently serve as the director of the office of saving people money on healthcare within the office of the governor:

(a) Acceptance or retention of such an appointment shall not result in a forfeiture of the office of lieutenant governor; and

(b) It shall be deemed that holding the office of lieutenant governor while concurrently serving as the director of the office of saving people money on healthcare is not incompatible, inconsistent, or in conflict with the duties of the lieutenant governor or with the duties, powers, and functions of the director of the office of saving people money on healthcare.
C.R.S. § 24-46-205 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 46 / Part 2 / Section 24-46-205
24-46-205. Administrative expenses
Status: in_force

24-46-205. Administrative expenses. All direct and indirect expenditures incurred by the authority in carrying out the responsibilities assigned in this part 2 shall be paid from the enterprise fund without the necessity of an appropriation by the general assembly.
C.R.S. § 24-91-102 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 91 / Section 24-91-102
24-91-102. Definitions
Status: in_force

24-91-102. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Acceptable securities" means:

(a) United States bonds, United States treasury notes, or United States treasury bills;

(b) General obligation or revenue bonds of this state;

(c) General obligation or revenue bonds of any political subdivision of this state;

(d) Certificates of deposit from a state or national bank or a savings and loan association insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or its successor and having its principal office in this state.

(1.5) "Construction" includes the terms capital construction, capital renewal, and controlled maintenance as defined in section 24-30-1301.

(2) "Contractor" means any person, company, firm, or corporation which is a party to a contract with a public entity to construct, erect, alter, install, or repair any highway, public building, public work, or public improvement, structure, or system.

(3) "Public entity" means this state or a county, city, city and county, town, or district, including any political subdivision thereof.

(4) "Subcontractor" means and includes any person, company, firm, or corporation which is a party to a contract with a contractor to construct, erect, alter, install, or repair any highway, public building, public work, or public improvement, structure, or system and which, in connection therewith, furnishes and performs on-site labor with or without furnishing materials.

(5) "Substantial completion" means the date when the construction is sufficiently complete, in accordance with the contract documents, as modified by any change orders agreed to by the parties, so that the work or designated portion thereof is available for use by the owner.
C.R.S. § 24-72-502 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 72 / Part 5 / Section 24-72-502
24-72-502. Creation of a privacy policy for governmental entities
Status: in_force

24-72-502. Creation of a privacy policy for governmental entities. (1) Each governmental entity of the state shall create a privacy policy for the purpose of standardizing within such governmental entity the collection, storage, transfer, and use of personally identifiable information by such governmental entity. The policy of each governmental entity shall address, but shall not be limited to, the following:

(a) A general statement declaring support for the protection of individual privacy;

(b) A provision for the minimization of the collection of personally identifiable information to the least amount of information required to complete a particular transaction;

(c) Clear notice of the applicability of the "Colorado Open Records Act" pursuant to part 2 of this article;

(d) A method for feedback from the public on compliance with the privacy policy; and

(e) A statement that the policy extends to the collection of all personally identifiable information, regardless of the source or medium.

(2) (a) Any governmental entity that operates a world wide website as of August 7, 2002, shall establish and publish on its website a privacy policy pursuant to this part 5 no later than July 1, 2003.

(b) Any governmental entity that does not operate a world wide website as of August 7, 2002, and begins operation of a website before July 1, 2003, shall establish and publish on its website a privacy policy pursuant to this part 5 by July 1, 2003.

(c) In no event shall a governmental entity be permitted to operate a world wide website after July 1, 2003, without first establishing a privacy policy pursuant to this part 5. The privacy policy shall be published on such governmental entity's website as of the first day of operation of such website.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to create a private cause of action based on alleged violations of this section.
C.R.S. § 24-31-903 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 31 / Part 9 / Section 24-31-903
24-31-903. Division of criminal justice report
Status: in_force

24-31-903. Division of criminal justice report. (1) Beginning July 1, 2023, the division of criminal justice in the department of public safety shall create an annual report including all of the information that is reported to the division pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, aggregated and broken down by the law enforcement agency that employs peace officers, along with the underlying data.

(2) Beginning April 1, 2022, the Colorado state patrol and each local law enforcement agency that employs peace officers shall report to the division of criminal justice the following using data-collection methods developed for this purpose by the division of criminal justice in conjunction with the Colorado bureau of investigation and local law enforcement agencies:

(a) All use of force by its peace officers that results in death or serious bodily injury or that involves the use of a weapon, including:

(I) The date, time, and location of the use of force;

(II) The perceived demographic information of the person contacted, provided that the identification of these characteristics is based on the observation and perception of the peace officer making the contact and other available data;

(III) The names of all peace officers who were at the scene, identified by whether the peace officer was involved in the use of force or not; except that the identity of other peace officers at the scene not directly involved in the use of force shall be identified by the officer's identification number issued by the P.O.S.T. board unless the peace officer is charged criminally or is a defendant to a civil suit as a result arising from the use of force;

(IV) The type of force used, the severity and nature of the injury, whether the peace officer suffered physical injury, and the severity of the peace officer's injury;

(V) Whether the peace officer was on duty at the time of the use of force;

(VI) Whether a peace officer unholstered or brandished a weapon during the incident, and, if so, the type of weapon;

(VII) Whether a peace officer discharged a weapon during the incident;

(VIII) Whether the use of force resulted in a law enforcement agency investigation and the result of the investigation;

(IX) Whether the use of force resulted in a civilian complaint and the resolution of that complaint;

(X) Whether an ambulance was called to the scene and whether a person was transported to a hospital from the scene whether in an ambulance or other transportation; and

(XI) Whether the person contacted exhibited a weapon during the interaction leading up to the injury or death, and, if so, the type of weapon and whether it was discovered before or after the use of force;

(b) All instances when a peace officer resigned while under investigation for violating department policy;

(c) All data relating to contacts and entries into a residence, including a forcible entry, conducted by its peace officers, including:

(I) The perceived demographic information of the person contacted provided that the identification of these characteristics is based on the observation and perception of the peace officer making the contact and other available data; except that this subsection (2)(c)(I) does not apply to a person contacted who is a witness to a crime or a survivor of a crime;

(II) Whether the contact was a traffic stop;

(II.5) Whether the contact was a showup, as defined in section 16-1-110 (1)(b);

(III) The time, date, and location of the contact;

(IV) The duration of the contact;

(V) The reason for the contact;

(VI) The suspected crime;

(VII) The result of the contact, such as:

(A) No action, warning, citation, property seizure, or arrest;

(B) If a warning or citation was issued, the warning provided or violation cited;

(C) If an arrest was made, the offense charged;

(D) If the contact was a traffic stop, the information collected, which is limited to the driver;

(E) If the contact was a showup, the information collected pursuant to section 16-1-109 (6) for the eyewitness and the subject.

(VIII) The actions taken by the peace officer during the contact, including but not limited to whether:

(A) The peace officer asked for consent to search the person, and, if so, whether consent was provided;

(B) The peace officer searched the person, a vehicle, or any property, and, if so, the basis for the search and the type of contraband or evidence discovered, if any;

(C) The peace officer seized any property and, if so, the type of property that was seized and the basis for seizing the property;

(D) A peace officer unholstered or brandished a weapon during the contact, and, if so, the type of weapon; and

(E) A peace officer discharged a weapon during the contact;

(d) All instances of unannounced entry into a residence, with or without a warrant, including:

(I) The date, time, and location of the use of unannounced entry;

(II) The perceived demographic information of the subject of the unannounced entry, provided that the identification of these characteristics is based on the observation and perception of the peace officer making the entry and other available data;

(III) Whether a peace officer unholstered or brandished a weapon during the unannounced entry, and, if so, the type of weapon; and

(IV) Whether a peace officer discharged a weapon during the unannounced entry.

(e) The number of officer-involved civilian deaths.

(3) The Colorado state patrol and local law enforcement agencies shall not report the name, address, social security number, or other unique personal identifying information of the subject of the use of force, victim of the official misconduct, eyewitness or subject in a showup, or persons contacted, searched, or subjected to a property seizure. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the data reported pursuant to this section is available to the public pursuant to subsection (4) of this section.

(4) The division of criminal justice shall maintain a statewide database with data collected pursuant to this section, in a searchable format, and publish the database on its website.

(5) The Colorado state patrol and any local law enforcement agency that fails to meet its reporting requirements pursuant to this section is:

(a) Subject to the suspension of its funding by its appropriating authority; and

(b) Unless the Colorado state patrol or local law enforcement agency is working with the division of criminal justice to meet its reporting requirements pursuant to this section, not eligible to be awarded grants under the multidisciplinary crime prevention grant program in section 24-33.5-527, the law enforcement workforce recruitment, retention, and tuition grant program in section 24-33.5-528, or the state's mission for assistance in recruiting and training (SMART) policing grant program in section 24-33.5-529.
C.R.S. § 24-60-1504 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 60 / Part 15 / Section 24-60-1504
24-60-1504. State library agency
Status: in_force

24-60-1504. State library agency. As used in the compact, "state library agency", with reference to this state, means the commissioner of education.
C.R.S. § 24-60-2003 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 60 / Part 20 / Section 24-60-2003
24-60-2003. Interstate agency created
Status: in_force

24-60-2003. Interstate agency created. It is hereby recognized, found, and determined that said compact creates an interstate agency known as the interstate agricultural grain marketing commission, an independent entity whose members and employees are not officers and employees of any of the states signatory to the compact.
C.R.S. § 24-75-102 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 75 / Part 1 / Section 24-75-102
24-75-102. When appropriations expended - balance
Status: repealed

24-75-102. When appropriations expended - balance. (1) (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, including paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), all moneys appropriated by the general assembly may be expended or encumbered, if authorized by the controller, only in the fiscal year for which appropriated. Except as otherwise provided by law, any moneys unexpended or not encumbered from the appropriation to each department for any fiscal year shall revert to the general fund or, if made from a special fund, to such special fund. Determination of such expenditures or encumbrances shall be made no later than thirty-five days after the close of the fiscal year and pursuant to the provisions of section 24-30-202 (11).

(b) (I) Appropriations for the superfund, brownfields, and natural resource damage programs administered by the department of public health and environment pursuant to article 15 of title 25, C.R.S., shall be encumbered within eighteen months after the beginning of the fiscal year for which they were appropriated.

(II) As used in this paragraph (b), "superfund" means the federal "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980", 42 U.S.C. sec. 9601 et seq., as amended.

(2) and (3) Repealed.
C.R.S. § 24-37.5-124 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 37.5 / Part 1 / Section 24-37.5-124
24-37.5-124. Evaluation of department of higher education information technology services - r
Status: repealed

24-37.5-124. Evaluation of department of higher education information technology services - repeal. (1) By November 1, 2024, the office shall evaluate the information technology functions and services of the department of higher education for the purpose of assessing possibilities for a consolidation of existing information technology functions and services with those information technology functions and services managed by the office. At a minimum, this evaluation must assess the business function, criticality, capacities, complexity, technical debt status, risk, and integration capability in relation to the following functions and services:

(a) Asset management;

(b) Data;

(c) Database services;

(d) End-user support services;

(e) Identity and access;

(f) Network infrastructure and communications;

(g) Server and storage infrastructure;

(h) Applications and platforms;

(i) Security services;

(j) Disaster recovery; and

(k) Supported sites.

(2) The chief information officer may contract with one or more third parties to conduct all or part of the evaluation required by subsection (1) of this section.

(3) If the evaluation required by subsection (1) of this section shows that consolidation would be beneficial, the office shall create a proposed plan and accompanying budget for consolidating the information technology functions and services of the department of higher education with those information technology functions and services managed by the office.

(4) This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.
C.R.S. § 24-60-3301 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 12 / Part 33 / Section 24-60-3301
24-60-3301. Execution of compact
Status: in_force

24-60-3301. Execution of compact. The governor may enter into a compact on behalf of the state with any other state or states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:

ARTICLE I

The purpose of this compact is to promote effective prevention and control of forest fires in the great plains region of the United States by the maintenance of adequate forest fire fighting services by the member states, and by providing for reciprocal aid in fighting forest fires among the compacting states of the region, including South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and any adjoining state of a current member state.

ARTICLE II

This compact is operative immediately as to those states ratifying it if any two or more of the member states have ratified it.

ARTICLE III

In each state, the state forester or officer holding the equivalent position who is responsible for forest fire control may act as compact administrator for that state, consult with like officials of the other member states, and implement cooperation between the states in forest fire prevention and control. The compact administrators of the member states may organize to coordinate the services of the member states and provide administrative integration in carrying out the purposes of this compact. Each member state may formulate and put in effect a forest fire plan for that state.

ARTICLE IV

If the state forest fire control agency of a member state requests aid from the state forest fire control agency of any other member state in combating, controlling, or preventing forest fires, the state forest fire control agency of that state may render all possible aid to the requesting agency, consonant with the maintenance of protection at home.

ARTICLE V

(1) If the forces of any member state are rendering outside aid pursuant to the request of another member state under this compact, the employees of the state shall, under the direction of the officers of the state to which they are rendering aid, have the same powers (except the power of arrest), duties, rights, privileges, and immunities as comparable employees of the state to which they are rendering aid.

(2) No member state or its officers or employees rendering outside aid pursuant to this compact is liable on account of any act or omission on the part of such forces while so engaged, or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection with rendering the outside aid.

(3) All liability, except as otherwise provided in this compact, that may arise either under the laws of the requesting state or under the laws of the aiding state or under the laws of a third state on account of or in connection with a request for aid, shall be assumed and borne by the requesting state.

(4) Any member state rendering outside aid pursuant to this compact shall be reimbursed by the member state receiving the aid for any loss or damage to, or expense incurred in the operation of, any equipment used in answering a request for aid, and for the cost of all materials, transportation, wages, salaries, and maintenance of employees and equipment incurred in connection with the request. However, nothing in this compact prevents any assisting member state from assuming the loss, damage, expense, or other cost, from loaning the equipment, or from donating the services to the receiving member state without charge or cost.

(5) Each member state shall assure that workers compensation benefits in conformity with the minimum legal requirements of the state are available to all employees and contract firefighters sent to a requesting state pursuant to this compact.

(6) For the purposes of this compact, the term "employee" includes any volunteer or auxiliary legally included within the forest fire fighting forces of the aiding state under the laws of the aiding state.

(7) The compact administrators may formulate procedures for claims and reimbursement under the provisions of this article in accordance with the laws of the member states.

ARTICLE VI

(1) Ratification of this compact does not affect any existing statute so as to authorize or permit curtailment or diminution of the forest fighting forces, equipment, services, or facilities of any member state.

(2) Nothing in the compact authorizes or permits any member state to curtail or diminish its forest fire fighting forces, equipment, services, or facilities. Each member state shall maintain adequate forest fire fighting forces and equipment to meet demands for forest fire protection within its borders in the same manner and to the same extent as if this compact were not operative.

(3) Nothing in this compact limits or restricts the powers of any state ratifying the compact to provide for the prevention, control, and extinguishment of forest fires, or to prohibit the enactment or enforcement of state laws, rules, or regulations intended to aid in the prevention, control, and extinguishment in the state.

(4) Nothing in this compact affects any existing or future cooperative relationship or arrangement between the United States forest service and a member state or states.

ARTICLE VII

Representatives of the United States forest service may attend meetings of the compact administrators.

ARTICLE VIII

The provisions of articles IV and V of this compact that relate to reciprocal aid in combating, controlling, or preventing forest fires are operative as between any state party to this compact and any other state which is party to this compact and any other state that is party to a regional forest fire protection compact in another region if the legislature of the other state has given its assent to the mutual aid provisions of this compact.

ARTICLE IX

This compact shall continue in force and remain binding on each state ratifying it until the legislature or the governor of the state takes action to withdraw from the compact. Such action is not effective until six months after notice of the withdrawal has been sent by the chief executive of the state desiring to withdraw to the chief executives of all states then parties to the compact.
C.R.S. § 24-75-112.5 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 75 / Part 1 / Section 24-75-112.5
24-75-112.5. Appropriation clauses - general provisions - legislative declaration - definitio
Status: in_force

24-75-112.5. Appropriation clauses - general provisions - legislative declaration - definition. (1) The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that:

(a) The mechanism through which the general assembly commonly authorizes state agencies to spend moneys, the appropriation clause, has remained essentially unchanged for over a century;

(b) The typical appropriation clause employed prior to the 2015 regular legislative session features certain stock phrases that make ascertaining essential information more difficult;

(c) Legislation should, whenever possible, be written clearly and concisely; and

(d) It is therefore the intent of the general assembly, in enacting this section:

(I) To enhance comprehensibility of appropriation clauses by omitting the identified phrases formerly used in standard appropriation clauses; and

(II) To continue undisturbed the operation and legal effect of these phrases by codifying versions of them in a statute of general applicability.

(2) (a) Unless the context otherwise requires, and regardless of whether the law is statutory or noncodified, the following provisions apply to an appropriation made in a duly enacted law of the state:

(I) The appropriation is made in addition to any other appropriation;

(II) The appropriation is made from moneys that are not otherwise appropriated; and

(III) A state agency is only required to spend so much of the appropriation as may be necessary.

(b) As used in any appropriation clause, "C.R.S." means the Colorado Revised Statutes.

(3) This section applies to legislation enacted on or after January 1, 2015.
C.R.S. § 24-82-701 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 82 / Part 7 / Section 24-82-701
24-82-701. Definitions
Status: repealed

24-82-701. Definitions. As used in this part 7, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Additional financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement" means any transaction entered into on or after July 1, 1987, in which the state, acting by and through the department of personnel as provided by this part 7, is the lessee of real or personal property, which shall be used by the state and in which the state has an option to purchase such real or personal property.

(2) "Director" means the executive director of the department of personnel.

(3) "Existing financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement" means any financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement entered into prior to July 1, 1987, in which the state is the lessee of real or personal property which shall be used by the state and in which the state has an option to purchase such real or personal property.

(3.3) "Financed purchase of asset" means a financing agreement that includes the purchase of an asset.

(3.5) Repealed.

(4) "Master financing program" means the refinancing, revising, replacement, or consolidation of any existing or additional financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreement or agreements.

(5) "State" means the state of Colorado or any department, agency, or commission thereof, including any state institution of higher education and the board of directors of the Auraria higher education center, but does not include the legislative department when acting pursuant to section 2-2-320 (2)(b), C.R.S.
C.R.S. § 24-60-2210 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 9 / Section 24-60-2210
24-60-2210. Colorado low-level radioactive waste advisory committee
Status: repealed

24-60-2210. Colorado low-level radioactive waste advisory committee. (Repealed)
C.R.S. § 24-77-101 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 77 / Part 1 / Section 24-77-101
24-77-101. Legislative declaration
Status: in_force

24-77-101. Legislative declaration. (1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that:

(a) Section 20 of article X of the state constitution, which was approved by the registered electors of this state at the 1992 general election, limits fiscal year spending of the state government;

(b) It is within the legislative prerogative of the general assembly to enact legislation which will facilitate the operation of section 20 of article X;

(c) It is a legislative prerogative to facilitate compliance with the state fiscal year spending limit and legislation to implement section 20 of article X as it relates to state government is a reasonable and necessary exercise of the legislative prerogative;

(d) In interpreting the provisions of section 20 of article X, the general assembly has attempted to give the words of said constitutional provision their natural and obvious significance;

(e) Where the meaning of section 20 of article X is uncertain, the general assembly has attempted to ascertain the intent of those who adopted the measure and, when appropriate, the intent of the proponents, as well as to apply other generally accepted rules of construction;

(f) The content of this article represents the considered judgment of the general assembly as to the meaning of the provisions of section 20 of article X as it relates to state government.

(2) The general assembly further finds and declares that:

(a) The adoption of section 20 of article X imposes a limit on state fiscal year spending and the provisions of this article were enacted to facilitate compliance with the state fiscal year spending limit;

(b) This article reflects the judgment of the general assembly regarding the meaning and implementation of section 20 of article X of the state constitution as it relates to state government;

(c) The provisions of this article should not be construed to substitute for generally accepted accounting principles which are applicable to financial documents and reports of state government;

(d) The purpose of preparing figures in accordance with this article, to ensure compliance with the state fiscal year spending limit, may differ from the purpose of preparing financial statements of the state, to determine the financial condition of the state;

(e) The financial statements of the state prepared by the state controller shall be prepared, insofar as possible, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles; and

(f) The financial report required by this article shall be prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles unless otherwise provided by law or unless an irreconcilable conflict exists between generally accepted accounting principles and the provisions of section 20 of article X in which case the provisions of said constitutional provision shall control.

(3) The general assembly further finds and declares that:

(a) When revenues exceed the state fiscal year spending limitation for any given fiscal year, section 20 (7)(d) of article X of the state constitution requires that the excess revenues be refunded in the next fiscal year unless voters approve a revenue change allowing the state to retain the revenues;

(b) It is the duty and intent of the general assembly to comply with the constitutional requirement to refund state excess revenues;

(c) It is within the legislative prerogative to facilitate compliance with the constitutional requirement to refund state excess revenues and legislation relating to the refunding of such excess revenues is a reasonable and necessary exercise of the legislative prerogative; and

(d) State excess revenues that are carried forward from the fiscal year in which they accrued shall be refunded in the next fiscal year and shall not be available for any other governmental purpose unless voters have authorized the state to retain such revenues.
C.R.S. § 24-56-118 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 56 / Section 24-56-118
24-56-118. Buildings, structures, and improvements
Status: in_force

24-56-118. Buildings, structures, and improvements. (1) Where any interest in real property is acquired for a program or project for which federal assistance will be available to pay all or any part of the cost of the program or project, the acquiring agency shall acquire an equal interest in all buildings, structures, or other improvements located upon the real property so acquired which are required to be removed from such real property or which the head of the acquiring agency determines will be adversely affected by the use to which such real property will be put.

(2) (a) For the purpose of determining the just compensation to be paid for any building, structure, or other improvement required to be acquired by subsection (1) of this section, such building, structure, or other improvement shall be deemed to be a part of the real property to be acquired notwithstanding the right or obligation of a tenant, as against the owner of any other interest in the real property, to remove such building, structure, or improvement at the expiration of his term, and the fair market value which such building, structure, or improvement contributes to the fair market value of the real property to be acquired or the fair market value of such building, structure, or improvement for removal from the real property, whichever is greater, shall be paid to the tenant therefor.

(b) Payment for such buildings, structures, or improvements as set forth in this subsection (2) shall not result in duplication of any payments otherwise authorized by state law. No such payment shall be made unless the owner of the land involved disclaims all interest in the improvements of the tenant. In consideration for any such payment, the tenant shall assign, transfer, and release all his right, title, and interest in and to such improvements. Nothing in this subsection (2) shall be construed to deprive the tenant of any rights to reject payment and to obtain payment for such property interests in accordance with other laws of the state.
C.R.S. § 24-72-709 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 72 / Part 7 / Section 24-72-709
24-72-709. Sealing of criminal conviction records information for multiple conviction recor
Status: in_force

24-72-709. Sealing of criminal conviction records information for multiple conviction records. (1) (a) [Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(a) is effective until July 1, 2025.] Subject to the provisions of subsection (5) of this section, a defendant with multiple conviction records in the state may petition the court of the jurisdiction where the conviction record or records pertaining to the defendant are located for the sealing of the conviction records, except basic identifying information, if the record or records are not eligible for sealing pursuant to any other section in this part 7 because of an intervening conviction and if the petition is filed within the time frame described in subsection (2) of this section and proper notice is given to the district attorney. If the multiple conviction records are in different jurisdictions, the defendant shall file a petition in each jurisdiction with a conviction record that includes a copy of each petition filed in the other jurisdictions and provide notice of the petition to each district attorney.

(1) (a) [Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(a) is effective July 1, 2025.] Subject to subsection (5) of this section, a defendant with multiple conviction records in the state may motion the court of the jurisdiction where the conviction record or records pertaining to the defendant are located for the sealing of the conviction records, except basic identifying information, if the record or records are not eligible for sealing pursuant to any other section in this part 7 because of an intervening conviction and if the motion is filed within the time frame described in subsection (2) of this section and proper notice is given to the district attorney. If the multiple conviction records are in different jurisdictions, the defendant shall file a motion in each jurisdiction with a conviction record that includes a copy of each motion filed in the other jurisdictions and provide notice of the motion to each district attorney. If the conviction records are in the same jurisdiction, the defendant may file a motion to seal all conviction records in a single case, and the defendant shall identify the other conviction records by case name and number in the motion.

(b) A motion to seal conviction records pursuant to this section must include a listing of each custodian of the records to whom the sealing order is directed and any information that accurately and completely identifies the records to be sealed. The defendant shall submit a verified copy of their criminal history, current through at least the twentieth day before the date of the filing of the petition to the court, along with the motion at the time of filing, but in no event later than the tenth day after the motion is filed. The defendant shall pay for his or her criminal history record.

(2) (a) If the offense or highest offense of the multiple offenses is an eligible civil infraction and not an offense or civil infraction listed in subsection (5)(a) of this section, eligible petty offense, or eligible petty drug offense, the petition may be filed two years after the later of the date of the final disposition of all proceedings against the defendant or the release of the defendant from supervision concerning the conviction, or the latest in time conviction of the multiple convictions.

(b) If the offense or highest offense of the multiple offenses is an eligible misdemeanor or eligible misdemeanor drug offense, or eligible level 4 drug felony, the petition may be filed five years after the later of the date of the final disposition of all criminal proceedings against the defendant or the release of the defendant from supervision concerning the conviction, or the latest in time criminal conviction of the multiple convictions.

(c) If the offense or highest offense of the multiple offenses is an eligible felony or eligible drug felony, the petition may be filed ten years after the later of the date of the final disposition of all criminal proceedings against the defendant or the release of the defendant from supervision concerning the conviction, or the latest in time criminal conviction of the multiple convictions.

(3) (a) If the offense or highest offense of the multiple offenses is an eligible petty offense or eligible petty drug offense, the petition may be filed only if the defendant has no more than five convictions in separate criminal cases.

(b) If the offense or highest offense of the multiple offenses is an eligible class 2 or eligible class 3 misdemeanor or eligible level 1 or eligible level 2 misdemeanor drug offense, the petition may be filed only if the defendant has no more than four previous convictions in separate criminal cases.

(c) If the offense or highest offense of the multiple offenses is an eligible class 1 misdemeanor, an eligible class 4, eligible class 5, or eligible class 6 felony, or an eligible drug felony, the petition may be filed only if the defendant has no more than three previous convictions in separate criminal cases.

(4) (a) The defendant shall pay the processing fee to the court and provide notice of the petition to the district attorney. The district attorney shall determine whether to object to the petition after considering the factors in section 24-72-706 (1)(g). The district attorney shall advise the court of a victim's objection and request for hearing when known. If the district attorney does not object and the offense is not a crime enumerated in section 24-4.1-302 (1), the court may decide the petition with or without the benefit of a hearing. If the district attorney objects to the petition or the offense is a crime enumerated in section 24-4.1-302 (1) and the district attorney requests a hearing on behalf of a victim, the court shall set the matter for hearing. To order the record sealed, the criminal history filed with the petition must document to the court that the defendant has not been convicted of a criminal offense since the date of the final disposition of all criminal proceedings against him or her or since the date of the defendant's release from supervision, whichever is later. The court shall decide the petition after considering the factors in section 24-72-706 (1)(g).

(b) Conviction records may not be sealed if the defendant still owes restitution, unless the court that entered the order for restitution has vacated the order.

(5) (a) The provisions of this section do not apply to records pertaining to:

(I) A class 1 or class 2 misdemeanor traffic offense;

(II) A class A or class B traffic infraction;

(III) A conviction for a violation of section 42-4-1301 (1) or (2);

(IV) A conviction for an offense for which the underlying factual basis involved unlawful sexual behavior as defined in section 16-22-102 (9);

(V) A conviction for a violation of section 18-6-401; or

(VI) A conviction that is subject to one or more of the following provisions:

(A) Sentences for a crime involving extraordinary aggravating circumstances pursuant to section 18-1.3-401 (8);

(B) A sentence for an extraordinary risk crime pursuant to section 18-1.3-401 (10);

(C) Sentencing for a crime involving a pregnant victim pursuant to section 18-1.3-401 (13);

(D) Sentencing for a crime pertaining to a special offender pursuant to section 18-18-407;

(E) Sentencing for a criminal conviction for which the underlying factual basis involves domestic violence as defined in section 18-6-800.3;

(F) Sentencing for a criminal conviction for a sexual offense, pursuant to part 4 of article 3 of title 18;

(G) Sentencing for any crime of violence pursuant to section 18-1.3-406;

(H) Sentencing for a felony crime enumerated in section 24-4.1-302 (1);

(I) Sentencing for a felony offense in violation of section 18-9-202;

(J) Sentencing for an offense classified as a class 1, 2, or 3 felony or a level 1 drug felony pursuant to any section of title 18;

(K) Sentencing for an offense in violation of part 1 of article 6 of title 18;

(L) Sentencing for an offense in violation of section 18-5-902 (1);

(M) Sentencing for an offense in violation of section 18-3.5-103; or

(N) Sentencing for an offense in violation of section 18-7-203.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, a misdemeanor offense ineligible pursuant to the provisions of this section is eligible for sealing pursuant to this section if the district attorney consents to the sealing or if the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that the petitioner's need for sealing of the record is significant and substantial, the passage of time is such that the petitioner is no longer a threat to public safety, and the public disclosure of the record is no longer necessary to protect or inform the public. However, no more than one misdemeanor that is a crime as defined in section 24-4.1-302 (1) is eligible for sealing pursuant to the provisions of this section.

(c) This section does not apply to records that are subject to the procedure set forth in section 18-13-122 (13).
C.R.S. § 24-80-207 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 80 / Part 2 / Section 24-80-207
24-80-207. Purpose of donations
Status: in_force

24-80-207. Purpose of donations. Donations of moneys, securities, or other property may be made to and for the sole use of any one or more of the departments or bureaus of the society, and donations so made shall be kept in a separate fund for the use of such department.
C.R.S. § 24-48.5-502 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 48.5 / Part 5 / Section 24-48.5-502
24-48.5-502. Universal high school scholarship program - established - administration - cash
Status: repealed

24-48.5-502. Universal high school scholarship program - established - administration - cash fund - eligibility. (1) (a) There is established in the office the universal high school scholarship program to provide scholarships that offset a student's costs associated with postsecondary education, a registered apprenticeship, or training or education related to an in-demand or high-priority postsecondary pathway, at a service provider.

(b) The office shall administer the program or may contract with one or more vendors to administer the program. The office or vendor shall:

(I) Manage a statewide scholarship application process and all related functions, including screening for student eligibility;

(II) Award scholarships for the 2024-25 academic year to eligible students as described in section 24-48.5-503 and distribute the scholarship money to the service provider that has enrolled the student for postsecondary education or accepted the student for training;

(III) Manage a statewide communications campaign in partnership with regional entities to advertise the program, recruit applicants, and provide technical support to students applying for a scholarship or navigating postsecondary options;

(IV) Verify student enrollment by collecting a report from each service provider on the status of every scholarship recipient in the provider's program of study, which must include whether each student completed the program of study, transferred to another service provider, dropped out of or remains enrolled in the program of study, or has another status identified by the office, and any other information requested by the office, which must, where available, include demographic information about scholarship recipients; and

(V) Monitor, or contract with a vendor to monitor, service providers to ensure that service providers comply with all program rules and requirements.

(2) (a) The office shall develop policies and procedures necessary to administer the program. The policies and procedures must include:

(I) An application process and deadlines, criteria for identifying scholarship recipients in accordance with the award priorities described in section 24-48.5-503 (1)(a), and a schedule for awarding scholarships and distributing scholarship money;

(II) Guidelines for determining the amount of each scholarship award;

(III) A list of entities identified by the regional talent development initiative grant program described in part 4 of this article 48.5 that the office determines are service providers pursuant to subsection (2)(c) of this section; and

(IV) A list of in-demand or high-priority postsecondary pathways.

(b) The office shall identify postsecondary pathways that are in-demand or high-priority, both statewide and in specific regions of the state. In determining in-demand or high-priority postsecondary pathways, the office shall consider the top jobs listed in the most recent Colorado talent report prepared pursuant to section 24-46.3-103 and the most recent version of the statewide and regional top jobs list published by the Colorado department of higher education.

(c) The office shall establish a process to review and approve as service providers organizations that are not a public or private institution of higher education operating in Colorado and are not included in the eligible training provider lists or the Colorado state apprenticeship resource directory. In order to be approved as a service provider, an organization must be identified by a regional entity and offer programs for in-demand or high-priority postsecondary pathways.

(3) (a) The universal high school scholarship cash fund, referred to in this subsection (3) as the "cash fund", is created in the state treasury. The cash fund consists of money transferred to the cash fund pursuant to subsection (3)(b) of this section and any other money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the cash fund. In accordance with section 24-36-114 (1), the state treasurer shall credit all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of money in the cash fund to the general fund. Subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, the office may expend money from the cash fund for purposes of this part 5.

(b) On September 1, 2023, the state treasurer shall transfer twenty-five million dollars from the general fund to the cash fund.

(c) The state treasurer shall transfer all unexpended and unencumbered money in the cash fund on December 30, 2026, to the general fund.

(d) For state fiscal year 2023-24, the general assembly shall appropriate twenty-five million dollars from the cash fund for the program. Any unexpended or unencumbered money appropriated pursuant to this subsection (3)(d) remains available for expenditure for the same purpose in the 2024-25 state fiscal year without further appropriation. Except as otherwise permitted in this subsection (3), the office shall use the money for scholarship awards.

(e) The office shall use two million five hundred thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the program for postsecondary and career advising as described in section 24-48.5-504.

(f) The office may, on or before December 31, 2023, allocate money from the program appropriation for the direct and indirect costs associated with the administration of the program; except that expenditures for administrative costs shall not exceed six percent of the total appropriation. The office shall use the money described in this subsection (3)(f) that was not allocated for administrative costs on or before December 31, 2023, for scholarship awards.

(4) A student is eligible for a scholarship if the student:

(a) During the 2023-24 academic year, graduated from a Colorado high school or was awarded a high school equivalency credential awarded by the Colorado department of education;

(b) Is a degree-seeking student who completes the free application for federal student aid or the Colorado application for state financial aid; except that the office shall waive the requirement of completing the free application for federal student aid or the Colorado application for state financial aid if the degree-seeking student attests that the student is unable to meet this requirement; and

(c) Repealed.

(d) Submits an application for a scholarship pursuant to the program.

(5) (a) Scholarship money may only be used at a service provider.

(b) A service provider shall comply with the program policies and procedures and with all reporting requirements described in this section. A service provider shall submit to monitoring by the office or vendor conducted pursuant to subsection (1)(b) of this section.

(c) The office, or a vendor contracted to administer the program, may remove service providers from the scholarship if the service provider is determined to be out of compliance with program rules and requirements.
C.R.S. § 24-75-305 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 75 / Part 3 / Section 24-75-305
24-75-305. Transfers from capital construction fund
Status: in_force

24-75-305. Transfers from capital construction fund. (1) In accordance with the legislative declaration as specified in section 24-75-304, the controller and the state treasurer shall, from time to time, during any fiscal year as fiscal procedures may require and upon the written approval of the governor, transfer from the capital construction fund to the general revenue funds such amounts of money as shall be necessary to insure prompt payment of all warrants drawn against said general revenue funds if the controller first certifies:

(a) That the general revenue funds shall have sufficient moneys accruing to them in the same fiscal year in which the transfer is made to retransfer to the capital construction fund any moneys so transferred;

(b) That appropriations from the general revenue funds do not exceed estimated general fund revenues and estimated surplus; and

(c) That the capital construction fund has, at the time of the transfer, and will have sufficient moneys accruing to it during the period prior to the anticipated retransfer to enable it to meet its own obligations.

(2) The controller and the state treasurer shall retransfer from the general revenue funds to the capital construction fund any moneys transferred under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section prior to June 30 of the fiscal year in which the transfer was made.
C.R.S. § 24-49.5-103 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 49.5 / Section 24-49.5-103
24-49.5-103. Authority and responsibility of the director
Status: in_force

24-49.5-103. Authority and responsibility of the director. (1) In furtherance of the policy expressed in section 24-49.5-101, the director shall:

(a) Promote the business development of new and existing minority business enterprises in coordination with state economic development activities;

(b) Establish networks among governmental entities, the private sector, and minority business in an effort to promote joint business activities;

(c) Promote minority business participation in federal, state, and local procurement, purchasing, financing, and contracting, in accordance with existing federal and state statutes;

(d) Promote self-sufficiency and survival of minority businesses with the intent of aiding such minority businesses in their attempts to enter the mainstream of Colorado's economy;

(e) Enhance the access of information on international trade opportunities to minority businesses in conjunction with Colorado's international trade activities;

(f) Provide economic research and information on minority businesses for the use of federal and local governmental agencies, private industry, labor, and professional and other groups. The office shall make efforts to recover the costs associated with this paragraph (f) through user fees.

(2) The director may receive funds from the private sector for the purposes of conducting or implementing projects and other necessary operations of the office. All funds received shall be placed in the minority business fund created in section 24-49.5-104.

(3) The director shall develop and implement performance and accountability standards. Such standards shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:

(a) The fees established pursuant to paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of this section;

(b) The number of businesses by race and ethnicity including the protected groups known as African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and any other minority ethnic groups assisted by the office and the actual moneys associated therewith;

(c) The type of assistance provided to the businesses assisted;

(d) The number of new jobs created;

(e) The number of existing jobs retained;

(f) An overview of the minority business office's successes and failures;

(g) The amount of revenues added to the state's economy due to the efforts of the minority business office;

(h) The year-end annual report of the minority business office;

(i) The types of businesses assisted;

(j) The geographical location of businesses assisted;

(k) Any suggestions for greater minority participation in the state's economy; and

(l) An accounting of private and public funding and expenditures.
C.R.S. § 24-70-221 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 70 / Part 2 / Section 24-70-221
24-70-221. Account not approved, when
Status: in_force

24-70-221. Account not approved, when. All printing that is purchased for the use of the general assembly, or the members thereof, or for any officer or person whatever to whom such printing is furnished at the expense of the state shall be printed on the quality and size of paper and in the manner specified in the contract for printing and furnishing such printing, and the executive director of the department of personnel shall not approve any account, nor shall any money be paid from the state treasury, for any work or material that is not in accordance with the requirements of such contract or for which a higher price is charged than that specified in the contract for such printing.
C.R.S. § 24-32-3322 — CO Code / Title 24 / Article 32 / Part 33 / Section 24-32-3322
24-32-3322. Training of inspectors - acceptance of gifts, grants, and donations
Status: repealed

24-32-3322. Training of inspectors - acceptance of gifts, grants, and donations. (Repealed)