2022 Colorado Code
Title 44 - Revenue - Regulation of Activities
Article 3 - Alcohol Beverages
Part 5 - License Fees and Excise Taxes
§ 44-3-502. Fees and Taxes - Allocation

1. 1. All state license fees and taxes provided for by this article 3 and all fees provided for by section 44-3-501 (3) and (4) for processing applications, reports, and notices shall be paid to the department, which shall transmit the fees and taxes to the state treasurer. The state treasurer shall credit eighty-five percent of the fees and taxes to the old age pension fund and the balance to the general fund.
   2. An amount equal to the revenues attributable to fifty dollars of each state license fee provided for by this article 3 and the processing fees provided for by section 44-3-501 (3) and (4) for processing applications, reports, and notices shall be transferred out of the general fund to the liquor enforcement division and state licensing authority cash fund. The transfer shall be made by the state treasurer as soon as possible after the twentieth day of the month following the payment of such fees.
   3. The expenditures of the state licensing authority and the liquor enforcement division shall be paid out of appropriations from the liquor enforcement division and state licensing authority cash fund as provided in section 44-6-101.

2. Eighty-five percent of the local license fees shall be paid to the department, which shall transmit the fees to the state treasurer to be credited to the old age pension fund.

Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 18-1025), ch. 152, p. 1037, § 2, effective October 1; (1)(c) amended, (HB 18-1026), ch. 24, p. 281, § 5, effective October 1.

1. This section is similar to former § 12-47-502 as it existed prior to 2018.
2. Subsection (1)(c) of this section was numbered as § 12-47-502 (1)(c) in HB 18-1026. That provision was harmonized with and relocated to this section as this section appears in HB 18-1025.