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2022 Colorado Code
Title 31 - Government - Municipal
Article 10 - Municipal Election Code
Part 15 - Election Offenses
§ 31-10-1509. Bribery of Petition Signers
Universal Citation: CO Code § 31-10-1509 (2022)
[ Editor's note: This version of this section is effective March 1, 2022. ] Any person who offers or knowingly permits any person to offer for his or her benefit any bribe or promise of gain to an elector to induce the elector to sign any nomination petition or other election paper, or any person who accepts any such bribe or promise of gain of any kind in the nature of a bribe as consideration for signing the same, whether such bribe or promise of gain in the nature of a bribe is offered or accepted before or after signing, commits a class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1070, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3251, § 513, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note:- This section is similar to former § 31-10-1309 as it existed prior to 1975.
- Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.
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