2018 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 2 - Legislative
Statutes - Construction and Revision
Article 4 - Construction of Statutes
Part 2 - Construction of Statutes
§ 2-4-214. Use of relative and qualifying words and phrases

The general assembly hereby finds and declares that the rule of statutory construction expressed in the Colorado supreme court decision entitled People v. McPherson, 200 Colo. 429, 619 P.2d 38 (1980), which holds that ". . . relative and qualifying words and phrases, where no contrary intention appears, are construed to refer solely to the last antecedent with which they are closely connected . . ." has not been adopted by the general assembly and does not create any presumption of statutory intent.

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