2018 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 24 - Government - State
Principal Departments
Article 32 - Department of Local Affairs
Part 1 - Division of Local Government
§ 24-32-117. Retail marijuana impact grants - program - creation - definitions - repeal

(1) As used in this section:

• (a) "Division" means the division of local government.

• (b) "Documented marijuana impacts" means the documented expenses, costs, and other impacts incurred as a result of legal activity related to the sale, transfer, cultivation, or processing of retail marijuana or any illegal activity related to marijuana.

• (c) "Eligible local government" means a local government that, other than a sales tax that applies equally to all tangible goods within its jurisdiction, does not impose, levy, or collect any tax on retail marijuana or upon the occupation or privilege of selling retail marijuana, and if:

  • (I) A county, one that does not have any sales of retail marijuana within its unincorporated areas and that:

    • (A) Has at least one city or town within the county boundaries that has sales of retail marijuana within its boundaries; or

    • (B) Is contiguous with a county that has sales of retail marijuana anywhere within the county boundaries; or

  • (II) A city or town, one that does not have any sales of retail marijuana within its boundaries and that:

    • (A) Is within a county that allows sales of retail marijuana within its unincorporated areas;

    • (B) Is within a county that has within its boundaries at least one other city or town that has sales of retail marijuana within its boundaries; or

    • (C) Is within a county that is contiguous with another county that has sales of retail marijuana anywhere within the county boundaries.

• (d) "Grant program" means the local government retail marijuana impact grant program created in subsection (2) of this section.

• (e) "Retail marijuana" has the same meaning as set forth in section 39-28.8-101 (7), C.R.S.; except that the term also includes "retail marijuana products", as defined in section 39-28.8-101 (9), C.R.S.

(2) The local government retail marijuana impact grant program is created in the division. Through the program, the division shall award grants to eligible local governments for documented marijuana impacts. In awarding grants, the division shall give priority to an eligible local government that intends to use the money for one or more of the following purposes:

• (a) To pay for additional law enforcement activities related to retail marijuana, including costs associated with increased arrests, increased traffic violations, and prevention of out-of-state diversions and trafficking of marijuana;

• (b) To fund youth services, especially those that prevent the use of marijuana; and

• (c) To mitigate other impacts that the cultivation, testing, sale, consumption, or regulation of retail marijuana has on services provided by an eligible local government.

(3) The general assembly may annually appropriate money from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501 to the division to make the grants described in subsection (2) of this section and for the division's reasonable administrative expenses related to the grants. Any encumbered money from an appropriation made pursuant to this subsection (3) remains available for expenditure by the division in the next fiscal year without further appropriation.

(4) The division shall adopt policies and procedures that are necessary for the administration of the grant program, including rules related to the application process and the grant award criteria.

(5) Repealed.

(6) This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2019.