2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
General
Article 14 - Colorado Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
§ 12-14-104. Location information - acquisition

CO Rev Stat ยง 12-14-104 (2016) What's This?

(1) Any debt collector or collection agency communicating with any person other than the consumer for the purpose of acquiring location information about the consumer shall:

(a) Identify himself, state that he is confirming or correcting location information concerning the consumer, and, only if expressly requested, identify his employer;

(b) Not state that such consumer owes any debt;

(c) Not communicate with any such person more than once unless requested to do so by such person or unless the debt collector or collection agency reasonably believes that the earlier response of such person is erroneous or incomplete and that such person now has correct or complete location information;

(d) Not communicate by postcard;

(e) Not use any language or symbol on any envelope or in the contents of any communication effected by the mails or telegram that indicates that the debtor collector or collection agency is in the debt collection business or that the communication relates to the collection of a debt; and

(f) After the debt collector or collection agency knows the consumer is represented by an attorney with regard to the subject debt and has knowledge of, or can readily ascertain, such attorney's name and address, not communicate with any person other than that attorney, unless the attorney fails to respond within a reasonable period of time, not less than thirty days, to communication from the debt collector or collection agency.

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