Section 8-1-140 - Violation - penalty(1) If an employer, employee, or any other person violates any provision of this article 1, or does any act prohibited thereby, or fails or refuses to perform any duty lawfully enjoined for which no penalty has been specifically provided, such employer, employee, or any other person commits a petty offense.(2) If any employer, employee, or any other person fails, refuses, or neglects to perform any duty lawfully enjoined within the time prescribed by the director or fails, neglects, or refuses to obey any lawful order made by the director or any judgment or decree made by any court as provided in this article 1, for each such violation, the employer, employee, or any other person shall pay a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars for each day the violation, failure, neglect, or refusal continues. The division shall transmit any penalty imposed and collected pursuant to this section to the state treasurer, who shall credit the money to the wage theft enforcement fund created in section 8-4-113(3).(3) In the case of a corporation, the violation of any of the provisions of this article, including any violation fixed as a misdemeanor or other crime, is considered a violation of the provisions of this article by all officers, agents, and representatives of said corporation aiding, abetting, advising, encouraging, participating, inciting, or acquiescing in such violation, and they are individually guilty of such violation and subject to the fines, penalties, and punishments provided in this article.Amended by 2022 Ch. 370,§4, eff. 8/10/2022.Amended by 2021 Ch. 462,§75, eff. 3/1/2022.L. 15: p. 585, § 44. L. 21: p. 843, § 16. C.L. § 4368. CSA: C. 97, § 46. CRS 53: § 80-1-44. C.R.S. 1963: § 80-1-44. L. 69: p. 589, § 56. L. 72: p. 607, § 114. L. 86: (2) amended, p. 467, § 16, effective July 1. 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.
2022 Ch. 370, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).