Title 24, Government - State

As used in this part 1, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Legal notice or advertisement means any notice or other written matter required to be published in a newspaper by any law of this state, or by the ordinances of any city or town, or by the order of any court of re…

Every newspaper printed and published daily, or daily except Sundays and legal holidays, or on each of any five days in every week excepting legal holidays and including or excluding Sundays shall be considered and held to be a daily newspaper; every newspaper printed and publish…

(1) Any and every legal notice or advertisement shall be published only in a daily, a triweekly, a semiweekly, or a weekly newspaper of general circulation and printed or published in whole or in part in the county in which such notice or advertisement is required to be published…

C.R.S. 24-70-104Statutes current through Chapter 65 of the 2026 Regular Session, effective as of April 20, 2026. The text of this section is not final. It will not be final until compared to, and updated from, the text provided by the Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Services…

Proof of the publication of any such legal notice or advertisement may be made by the affidavit of the printer, editor, publisher, or proprietor of the newspaper in which the publication is made or by any other competent person who has personal knowledge of the essential facts, w…

(1) Except as otherwise provided by law in express terms or by necessary implication, daily, weekly, semiweekly, and triweekly newspapers shall all be equally competent as the media for the publication of all legal notices and advertisements. Except where the publication of any s…

(1) (a) On or after January 1, 1993, for all publicly supported legal notices or advertisements published in newspapers, the rate paid for the first insertion of such notice shall not exceed forty-four cents for each single-column line of six-point type and shall not exceed thirt…

In all cases and proceedings brought in courts of record in this state and in foreclosure proceedings through the public trustee wherein the law requires the publication of a legal notice or advertisement or said legal notice or advertisement is published by order of the court in…

(1) All legal notices which are published to advertise sales of real property by a public trustee under a deed of trust or an execution sale resulting from the foreclosure of a mortgage shall contain a statement that the lien foreclosed may not be a first lien, which statement sh…

As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Person includes individuals, limited liability companies, partnerships, associations, and corporations. (2) Public printing or printing means printing, lithographing, engraving, embossing, composition, binding, an…

The executive director of the department of personnel shall have full direction and supervision of all public printing of the state of Colorado and particularly as specified in this part 2. The general assembly declares that it is in the public interest and necessary for economy …

(1) All public printing for the state of Colorado shall be divided into four classes, as follows: (a) The legislative bills, memorials, resolutions, calendars, and journals of the general assembly shall constitute the first class. (b) The laws passed by the general assembly at ea…

(1) Any public printing for purpose of a permanent record authorized by the general assembly shall be printed on acid-free, alkaline-based, or permanent type paper that conforms to American national standards for permanent paper for printed library materials (ANSI Z 3948). Use of…

(1) Legislative bills, memorials, resolutions, calendars, the daily journals of each house of the general assembly, and the session laws shall be printed in accordance with such specifications as shall be drawn by the speaker and chief clerk of the house of representatives and th…

(1) Repealed. (2) The executive director of the department of personnel shall advertise at least two times in newspapers of general circulation published and printed in the city and county of Denver, in sufficient time to ensure furnishing of such printing when needed, inviting s…

The executive director of the department of personnel shall have the responsibility for setting detailed standards and specifications for the submission of all bids. Bids which do not comply with such standards and specifications may be rejected by the executive director of the d…

All bids and proposals shall be delivered at the office of the executive director of the department of personnel, in the state capitol buildings group, endorsed, Proposals for state printing; Class ........, and shall be and remain sealed until the hour specified in the advertise…

The executive director of the department of personnel, in the case of classes one, two, or three, shall consider only bids which are accompanied by a bid guarantee satisfactory to the executive director, in the sum of at least five percent of the established value of the contract…

(1) At the hour specified for the opening of bids submitted for printing under classes one, two, or three, the executive director of the department of personnel, in the presence of such bidders as may choose to attend, shall open such bids and proceed to determine the lowest resp…

Each and every provision of law in force at the time of the execution of any contract for state printing or binding constitutes a part of every such contract. Source: L. 37: p. 952, � 12. CSA: C. 130, � 77. CRS 53: � 109-2-11. C.R.S. 1963: � 109-2-10. 24-70-211. Right to print, p…

Unless otherwise provided by law, nothing in this part 2 authorizes any person, by virtue of a contract for printing the official statutes, pursuant to article 5 of title 2, C.R.S., the session laws, or the supreme court and court of appeals reports of this state, either directly…

The quality of paper to be used for blanks, stationery, and blank books shall be number one grade flat writing, twenty pound, twenty-five percent rag content bond and number one grade ledger, which shall be furnished by the contractor according to the specifications of the execut…

C.R.S. 24-70-213Statutes current through Chapter 65 of the 2026 Regular Session, effective as of April 20, 2026. The text of this section is not final. It will not be final until compared to, and updated from, the text provided by the Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Services…

Source: L. 37: p. 954, � 16. CSA: C. 130, � 81. CRS 53: � 109-2-15. C.R.S. 1963: � 109-2-14. L. 81: Entire section amended, p. 1294, � 27, effective January 1, 1982. L. 87: Entire section repealed, p. 349, � 4, effective July 1.

No public printing of any sort or description whatever may be furnished to any department of the state government or to any officer or employee of the state, except on requisition of the head of a department, addressed to the executive director of the department of personnel; but…

If the governor has reason to believe that at the letting of any contract for printing or binding the bidding therefor is or has been unfair, fraudulent, or exorbitant or by collusion between any two or more bidders or between any bidder and any other person whatever or if there …

No contract shall be let under the provisions of this part 2 for furnishing any work or material to any person holding any state office in this state or a seat in the general assembly or to any person employed in any of the executive offices of the state, nor shall any state offi…

If any person making any bid or proposal under this part 2 fails or refuses to enter into a contract pursuant to the terms of his or her bid or proposal within the time mentioned in his or her bond presented with such bid or proposal or fails to fulfill his or her contract or if …

Upon the failure or nonperformance in any particular of the terms of any of the contracts on the part of a contractor with the state or for any unreasonable delay in performing the things required under the terms of such contract, the governor may annul the contract in which such…

Any person who offers to pay any money or other valuable thing to induce another not to bid for a contract under this part 2 or as a recompense for not having bid for such contract or for abandoning a bid made commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section …

All printing that is purchased for the use of the general assembly, or the members thereof, or for any officer or person whatever to whom such printing is furnished at the expense of the state shall be printed on the quality and size of paper and in the manner specified in the co…

In determining amounts to be paid for composition under the provisions of this part 2, nothing shall be allowed or paid for composition for any page which is entirely blank. Source: L. 37: p. 957, � 25. CSA: C. 130, � 90. CRS 53: � 109-2-24. C.R.S. 1963: � 109-2-22.

(1) It is the duty of the revisor of statutes, upon approval by the speaker of the house and the president of the senate, to arrange and prepare for publication, immediately after the adjournment of each session of the general assembly, a copy of all the laws passed at such sessi…

(1) The revisor of statutes shall prepare for approval by the committee on legal services an official list of the state, district, county, and municipal officials and agencies who shall receive for official use volumes of the session laws, including a sufficient number of volumes…

Copies of the session laws of Colorado shall be sold by the publisher thereof at the cost price per copy purchased for use of the state plus twenty percent and delivery charges. Source: L. 37: p. 959, � 31. CSA: C. 130, � 96. CRS 53: � 109-2-30. C.R.S. 1963: � 109-2-28. L. 75: En…

The publisher, within one month after the opening of each regular session of the general assembly, shall report to the committee on legal services the total number of copies of the session laws printed, the number of copies in his hands after the distribution provided for in sect…

Source: L. 37: p. 960, � 33. CSA: C. 130, � 98. CRS 53: � 109-2-32. C.R.S. 1963: � 109-2-30. L. 75: Entire section repealed, p. 851, � 7, effective July 1.

Any person violating any provision of this part 2, as well as any person consenting to such violation, commits a civil infraction. Source: L. 37: p. 960, � 34. CSA: C. 130, � 99. CRS 53: � 109-2-33. C.R.S. 1963: � 109-2-31. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p…

Publications of educational institutions, except publications issued by the institutions pursuant to a research contract, circulated in quantity outside the executive branch shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of section 24-1-136. Source: L. 15: p. 364, � 1. C.L. � …

Disputes arising in connection with the solicitation, award, or performance of contracts for public printing shall be resolved pursuant to the provisions of article 109 of this title. Source: L. 81: Entire section added, p. 1289, � 7, effective January 1, 1982. ELECTRONIC TRANSAC…