2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 1 - Elections
Article 40. Initiative and Referendum
Editor's note: This article was numbered as article 1 of chapter 70, C.R.S. 1963. The substantive provisions of this article were amended with relocations in 1993, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this article prior to 1993, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume. Former C.R.S. section numbers are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated. For a detailed comparison of this article, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.
Cross references: For amendments to the state constitution by the general assembly, see art. XIX, Colo. Const.
Law reviews: For article, "Structuring the Ballot Initiative: Procedures that Do and Don't Work", see 66 U. Colo. L. Rev. 47 (1995); for comment, "Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc.: The Struggle to Establish a Consistent Standard of Review in Ballot Access Cases Continues", see 77 Den. U. L. Rev. 197 (1999).
- Section 1-40-101. Legislative declaration.
- Section 1-40-102. Definitions. [Editor's note: This version of the introductory portion to this section is effective until November 1, 2020.]
- Section 1-40-103. Applicability of article.
- Section 1-40-104. Designated representatives.
- Section 1-40-105. Filing procedure - review and comment meeting - amendments - filing with secretary of state.
- Section 1-40-105.5. Initial fiscal impact statement - definition.
- Section 1-40-106. Title board - meetings - ballot title - initiative and referendum.
- Section 1-40-107. Rehearing - appeal - fees - signing.
- Section 1-40-108. Petition - time of filing.
- Section 1-40-109. Signatures required - withdrawal.
- Section 1-40-110. Warning - ballot title.
- Section 1-40-111. Signatures - affidavits - notarization - list of circulators and notaries.
- Section 1-40-112. Circulators - requirements - training.
- Section 1-40-113. Form - representatives of signers.
- Section 1-40-114. Petitions - not election materials - no bilingual language requirement.
- Section 1-40-115. Ballot - voting - publication.
- Section 1-40-116. Validation - ballot issues - random sampling - rules.
- Section 1-40-117. Statement of sufficiency - cure.
- Section 1-40-118. Protest.
- Section 1-40-119. Procedure for hearings.
- Section 1-40-120. Filing in federal court.
- Section 1-40-121. Designated representatives - expenditures related to petition circulation report - penalty - definitions.
- Section 1-40-122. Certification of ballot titles.
- Section 1-40-123. Counting of votes - effective date - conflicting provisions.
- Section 1-40-124. Publication.
- Section 1-40-124.5. Ballot information booklet.
- Section 1-40-125. Mailing to electors.
- Section 1-40-126. Explanation of effect of "yes/for" or "no/against" vote included in notices provided by mailing or publication.
- Section 1-40-126.5. Explanation of ballot titles and actual text of measures in notices provided by mailing or publication.
- Section 1-40-127. Ordinances - effective, when - referendum. (Repealed)
- Section 1-40-128. Ordinances, how proposed - conflicting measures. (Repealed)
- Section 1-40-129. Voting on ordinances. (Repealed)
- Section 1-40-130. Unlawful acts - penalty.
- Section 1-40-131. Tampering with initiative or referendum petition.
- Section 1-40-132. Enforcement.
- Section 1-40-133. Retention of petitions.
- Section 1-40-134. Withdrawal of initiative petition.
- Section 1-40-135. Petition entities - requirements - definition.
- Section 1-40-136. Bills enacted in the second regular session of the seventy-second general assembly that include an act subject to petition clause - legislative declaration.
