Guide qualifications - violations - penalty

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-145-106, under Professions and Occupations.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-145-106

(1) (a) An individual who works as a guide must:

(I) Be eighteen years of age or older;

(II) Hold either a valid first aid or first aid instructor's card issued by the American Red Cross or evidence of equivalent training as approved by the director; and

(III) Not have a license or registration that is suspended and must not have, within the three years prior to submitting the registration application, had a license or registration revoked by the division of parks and wildlife created in section 33-9-104 or by an agency of any member state of the Wildlife Violator Compact, part 26 of article 60 of title 24, for a violation of a law concerning wildlife.

(b) An individual who violates this subsection (1) commits a civil infraction.

(2) It is a violation of this article 145 for an individual whose outfitter registration has been revoked or suspended to work as a guide.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 968, � 1, effective October 1. L. 2021: (1) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3155, � 144, effective March 1, 2022. L. 2025: (1) amended, (SB 25-174), ch. 310, p. 1615, � 7, effective August 6.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 12-55.5-103.5 as it existed prior to 2019.