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2021 Colorado Code
Title 38 - Property - Real and Personal
Article 12 - Tenants and Landlords
Part 1 - Security Deposits - Wrongful Withholding
§ 38-12-101. Legislative Declaration

Universal Citation:
CO Rev Stat § 38-12-101 (2021)
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This part 1 shall be liberally construed to implement the intent of the general assembly to ensure the proper administration of security deposits and late fees and protect the interests of tenants, mobile home owners, and landlords.

History. Source: L. 71: P. 592, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 58-1-26. L. 2021: Entire section amended,(SB 21-173), ch. 349, p. 2265, § 6, effective October 1. History. Source: L. 71: P. 592, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 58-1-26. L. 2021: Entire section amended,(SB 21-173), ch. 349, p. 2265, § 6, effective October 1.


ANNOTATION

Law reviews. For comment, “Colorado's Wrongful Withholding of Security Deposits Act: Three Litigious Shares in an Untested Law”, see 49 Den. L.J. 453 (1973). For article, “The Colorado Security Deposit Act”, see 50 U. Colo. L. Rev. 29 (1978).

Purpose. The security deposit act was passed to control the practices of landlords who withhold, without justification, their tenants' damage deposits. Houle v. Adams State Coll., 190 Colo. 406 , 547 P.2d 926 (1976).


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