Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-21-204

Current through Acts effective through 6/5/2024 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 35-21-204 - Exceptions
(1) Section 35-21-203(1) does not apply during:
(a) Medical research;
(b) Examination, testing, individual treatment, or operation for veterinary purposes, but only if performed by or under the direct supervision of a veterinarian licensed in accordance with article 315 of title 12;
(c) Transportation;
(d) A state or county fair exhibition, a 4-H program, and similar exhibitions;
(e) Slaughter, if done in accordance with an applicable law; or
(f) Temporary periods for animal husbandry purposes for no more than six hours in any twenty-four-hour period and no more than twenty-four hours total in any thirty-day period.
(2) This part 2 does not apply to:
(a) The production in the state, sale in the state, or transport for sale in the state of shell eggs by a farm owner or operator with annual shell egg production from three thousand or fewer egg-laying hens if all shell eggs sold in the state or transported for sale in the state by the farm owner or operator are derived from three thousand or fewer egg-laying hens; or
(b) The sale of or transport for sale of shell eggs in the state by a business owner or operator at one or more business locations in the state if all of the following conditions are met:
(I) Each business location owned by or operated by the business owner or operator sells fewer than twenty-five cases of thirty dozen shell eggs per week;
(II) All business locations owned by or operated by the business owner or operator collectively sell fewer than one hundred cases of thirty dozen shell eggs per week; and
(III) The business owner or operator is not a farm owner or operator.

C.R.S. § 35-21-204

Added by 2020 Ch. 217,§1, eff. 9/14/2020.
L. 2020: Entire part added, (HB 20-1343), ch. 1074, p. 1074, § 1, effective September 14.