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Title 1 - ELECTIONSGENERAL, PRIMARY, RECALL, AND CONGRESSIONAL VACANCY ELECTIONSArticle 13 - ELECTION OFFENSES
Part 8 - OFFENSES - MAIL VOTING AND VOTING BY NEW RESIDENTS
Section 1-13-804 - Duty to report lost, stolen, or late ballots - penalty

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-13-804

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Current through Acts effective through 6/7/2024 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 1-13-804 - Duty to report lost, stolen, or late ballots - penalty

Any person responsible for preparing, issuing, transporting, or mailing ballots who has personal knowledge that mail ballots under that person's care have been either lost or stolen or will, for any reason, not be timely delivered to electors, shall report the issue to the county clerk and recorder. Any person who knowingly and willfully fails to report as required by this section upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111. This section shall not apply to election judges, staff of the county clerk and recorder, or individual United States postal workers.

C.R.S. § 1-13-804

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462,§ 48, eff. 3/1/2022.
Added by 2020 Ch. 260,§ 4, eff. 9/14/2020.
L. 2020: Entire section added, (HB 20-1313), ch. 1255, p. 1255, § 4, effective September 14.

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.