2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
General
Article 16 - Farm Products and Farm Commodity Warehouses
Part 2 - Commodity Warehouses
§ 12-16-204. Exemptions

(1) The provisions of this part 2 that apply to warehouse operators do not apply to the owner or operator of any public warehouse or other facility where the owner or operator:

(a) Operates a public warehouse in this state with a valid license issued either by the United States department of agriculture or under the provisions of the "United States Warehouse Act", 7 U.S.C. section 241 et seq.;

(b) Receives only commodities that he has purchased, or that he is processing or cleaning for the owners of the commodities, or that he is maintaining for such other purposes as the department may, by rule, prescribe; and

(c) Keeps written evidence, as required by the department, which clearly shows that the warehouse operator maintains the commodities for one or more of the purposes set forth in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection (1). The department shall consider a commodity left or deposited with a warehouse operator whose records do not include evidence that the commodity was left or deposited for one or more of the purposes set forth in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection (1) as a commodity deposited for storage and handling.