Publication of Legal Notices and Public Printing

C.R.S. tit. 24, art. 70

in effect

C.R.S. § 24-70-101 Definitions

24-70-101. Definitions. 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 record of this state. (2) "Privately supported legal notice or advertisement" means any legal notice or advertisement which is required by federal, state, or local law or court order which is paid for by a person or entity other than a governmental entity either directly or by direct, specific reimbursement to the governmental entity. (3) "Publicly supported legal notice or advertisement" means any legal notice or advertisement which is required by federal, state, or local law or court order which is paid for by a governmental entity. (4) "Published" means a newspaper maintains an office in the county to gather news, sell advertising, or conduct the general business of newspaper publications.

C.R.S. § 24-70-102 Legal publications

24-70-102. Legal publications. 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 published at regular intervals three times each week shall be considered and held to be a triweekly newspaper; every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals twice each week shall be considered and held to be a semiweekly newspaper; and every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals once each week shall be considered and held to be a weekly newspaper. No publication, no matter how frequently published, shall be considered a legal publication unless it has been admitted to the United States mails with periodicals mailing privileges.

C.R.S. § 24-70-103 Requisites of legal newspaper

24-70-103. Requisites of legal newspaper. (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, except as provided in this section. The newspaper, if published triweekly, semiweekly, or weekly, shall have been so published in such county, except as provided in this section, continuously and uninterruptedly during the period of at least fifty-two consecutive weeks next prior to the first issue thereof containing any such notice or advertisement; and the newspaper, if published daily, shall have been so published in such county, uninterruptedly and continuously, during the period of at least six months next prior to the first issue thereof containing any such notice or advertisement. In the case of a municipality having territory in two counties, each of which counties has one or more legal newspapers within the municipality, the publication by such municipality of its legal notices and advertisements in one of such newspapers shall be construed as valid publication under this part 1. (2) The mere change in the name of any newspaper or the removal of the principal business office or seat of publication of any newspaper from one place to another in the same county shall not break or affect the continuity in the publication of any such newspaper if the same is in fact continuously and uninterruptedly printed or published within such county. A newspaper shall not lose its rights as a legal publication if it fails to publish one or more of its issues by reason of a strike, transportation embargo or tie-up, or other casualty beyond the control of the publishers. Any legal notice which fails of publication for the required number of insertions by reason of a strike shall not be declared illegal if publication has been made in one issue of the publication. (3) If in any county in this state no newspaper has been published for the prescribed period at the time when any such notice or advertisement is required to be published or if there is no newspaper published therein, such notice or advertisement may be published in any newspaper published in whole or in part in an adjoining county and having a general circulation in whole or in part in said county having no newspaper published therein. If there is no newspaper in any adjoining county that has been published for the prescribed period at the time when any such notice or advertisement is required to be published, a required notice or advertisement may be published in a newspaper having general circulation within the county. (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part 1, if no newspaper is published within the territorial boundaries of a municipality that satisfies the requirements for a legal publication as specified in section 24-70-102, but a newspaper that provides local news and that would satisfy the requirements to be admitted to the United States mails with periodicals mailing privileges but for the absence of paid circulation is distributed within such territorial boundaries, the municipality may publish any legal notice or advertisement required by law in such newspaper. (5) When any legal notice is required by law to be published in any newspaper, the newspaper publishing the notice shall, at no additional cost to the person or entity placing the notice, place the notice on a statewide website established and maintained by an organization representing a majority of Colorado newspapers as a repository for the notices.

C.R.S. § 24-70-104 Publication of proposed constitutional amendments and initiated and referred bills

24-70-104. Publication of proposed constitutional amendments and initiated and referred bills. (Repealed)

C.R.S. § 24-70-105 Proof of publication

24-70-105. Proof of publication. 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, which affidavit, in addition to the other matters required by law to be set forth therein, shall state that such notice or advertisement was published in a newspaper duly qualified for that purpose.

C.R.S. § 24-70-106 Competency of newspapers - publication periods construed

24-70-106. Competency of newspapers - publication periods construed. (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 such legal notice or advertisement at intervals of less than one week is required by law, publication once each week on the same weekday in any such daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper for the required number of times shall constitute publication in accordance with the law. (2) For the purpose of defining and clarifying ambiguities in the various statutes requiring the publication of legal notices and advertisements, but not for the purpose of increasing any period of publication or the number of publications required by any statute, the meaning and intent of any law governing the publication of legal notices and advertisements, except as otherwise expressly provided, is declared to be as follows, where publication is required for: (a) Ten days, publication once each week for three successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient; (b) Two weeks, publication once each week for three successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient; (c) Three weeks, publication once each week for four successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient; (d) Four weeks, publication once each week for five successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient; (e) Five weeks, publication once each week for six successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient; (f) Thirty days, publication once each week for six successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient; (g) More than thirty days or five weeks, publication once each week in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper for a period such that the interval elapsing between the first and last publication shall be equal to the period of publication prescribed by law shall be sufficient.

C.R.S. § 24-70-107 Rates for legal publications

24-70-107. Rates for legal publications. (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 thirty-two cents per line for each subsequent insertion. If the notice is set in larger type, the rate shall be prorated. Regardless of the size of type the notice is set in, the rates specified in this paragraph (a) are based on a single column measuring ten pica ems wide. If the column width is either wider or narrower for a single column, the rate per line shall be prorated on the ten pica em width. (b) All emblems, display headings, rule work, and necessary blank space shall be considered to be solid type. For the purpose of calculating the charge for the items enumerated in this paragraph (b) only, the rate shall not exceed the line rate charge figured at twelve lines per inch for each column inch or a proportional amount for fractions of an inch. (2) (a) On or after January 1, 1993, for all privately supported legal notices or advertisements, the rate paid shall not exceed the newspaper's local classified display line rate which is offered to commercial customers and shall include the same frequency and volume discounts. The legal publication rate shall be published in the newspaper's rate card. (b) Notwithstanding any statute to the contrary, if any local government fee set by statute is too low to permit the local government to recover the full cost of publishing a privately supported legal notice or advertisement, the local government may adjust the fee by the actual dollar amount necessary to recover the full cost of the publication. (3) Any contract providing for payment of a notice at a lesser sum than is provided in this section shall be valid. (4) Upon request by the party placing a legal publication, the newspaper shall minimize the space required for publication of a valid and readable notice, but in no case shall the type be less than six points.

C.R.S. § 24-70-108 Designation of legal newspaper

24-70-108. Designation of legal newspaper. 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 compliance with the law or rules of procedure of such court, the party upon whose motion or application or the beneficiary under the deed of trust or the legal holder of an indebtedness secured by a deed of trust shall have the right to designate the newspaper in which such legal notice or advertisement shall be published. Said newspaper shall be a legal newspaper as defined by law and shall be published in the county where such publication is required to be made by law or by the rules of civil procedure or rules of the court applicable thereto.

C.R.S. § 24-70-109 Legal notices - contents - requirements in the case of a foreclosure sale or a sale by a public trustee

24-70-109. Legal notices - contents - requirements in the case of a foreclosure sale or a sale by a public trustee. (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 shall be printed in bold-faced type. (2) This section shall apply to all legal notices described in subsection (1) which are published on or after January 1, 1989.

C.R.S. § 24-70-201 Definitions

24-70-201. Definitions. 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, and the furnishing of necessary stationery and materials in connection therewith done for the state of Colorado or any of its departments.

C.R.S. § 24-70-202 Executive director of the department of personnel to supervise

24-70-202. Executive director of the department of personnel to supervise. 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 in the expenditure of public moneys, and in the prevention of the duplication of public offices, to provide for the supervision and direction of public printing by the executive director of the department of personnel. The executive director of the department of personnel shall supervise and direct all public printing as a part of and in connection with his or her duties as executive director of the department of personnel without additional compensation. The executive director of the department of personnel shall employ, pursuant to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution and laws relating to the state personnel system, such persons as he or she may deem necessary to properly and fully direct and supervise all public printing of the state of Colorado, who shall be practical printers with at least five years' experience in commercial printing.

C.R.S. § 24-70-203 Classes of printing

24-70-203. Classes of printing. (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 each session, known as the "Session Laws of Colorado", shall constitute the second class. (c) The reports of the opinions of the Colorado supreme court and court of appeals shall constitute the third class. (d) All other types of printing required by any governmental agency of the state, except as provided in article 5 of title 2, C.R.S., shall constitute the fourth class.

C.R.S. § 24-70-203.5 Printing - paper specifications

24-70-203.5. Printing - paper specifications. (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 such permanent type paper shall be appropriately noted in the publication. (2) The general assembly hereby recommends the use of acid-free, alkaline-based, or permanent type paper by state agencies publishing documents meant to be a permanent public record.

C.R.S. § 24-70-204 Specifications

24-70-204. Specifications. (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 the president and secretary of the senate. (2) (a) Acts which amend existing law shall show the specific changes to the existing law in the manner provided by joint rule of the senate and the house of representatives. (b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 91, p. 675, § 1, effective March 29, 1991.) (c) Amendatory bills approved by both houses of the general assembly and enrolled in final form by the respective houses shall be prepared in the manner set forth in the joint rules of the senate and the house of representatives for final deposit with the secretary of state. (d) (Deleted by amendment, L. 91, p. 675, § 1, effective March 29, 1991.) (e) At the bottom of the first page in the session laws where each amendatory act first appears, explanatory notes shall be printed in italics which indicate how new material and deleted material is indicated in the act. (f) If through error or omission any amendatory act or part thereof is not printed in the session laws in compliance with this subsection (2), such error or omission shall not affect the validity of such act. (g) Corrections may be made to an enrolled bill before being printed in the session laws under the direction of the chief clerk of the house of representatives, in the case of a house bill, or the secretary of the senate, in the case of a senate bill, if such corrections involve only punctuation, capitalization, and crossed-out material and do not change the meaning of the act. (3) The reports of the supreme court and court of appeals shall be printed in accordance with such specifications as shall be drawn by the chief justice and the reporter of the supreme court.

C.R.S. § 24-70-205 Contracts for public printing

24-70-205. Contracts for public printing. (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 insure furnishing of such printing when needed, inviting sealed proposals for doing printing included in the first, second, or third classes. Calls for bids for the printing specified in the fourth class shall be made from time to time in the discretion of the executive director of the department of personnel as such printing may be required for the state and its departments. The executive director of the department of personnel may call for bids on any item or group of items at such times as he or she may designate; except that printing for the state agencies outside the Denver area may be secured by the respective heads of such agencies by securing the approval of the executive director of the department of personnel after a call for bids, as specified under rules and regulations established by the executive director of the department of personnel.

C.R.S. § 24-70-206 Bids - specifications

24-70-206. Bids - specifications. 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 department of personnel. The executive director of the department of personnel shall consult with the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives and the chief justice of the Colorado supreme court, as applicable, concerning the content, format, and specifications for printing in classes one, two, and three. Publications of the executive branch in class four of public printing shall be approved by the controller before being submitted for bid.

C.R.S. § 24-70-207 Delivery of sealed bids

24-70-207. Delivery of sealed bids. 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 advertisements or call for the opening of such bids and proposals, and in no case shall bids be received by the executive director of the department of personnel after such hour, except for bids of state institutions.

C.R.S. § 24-70-208 Bid guarantee - opening bid

24-70-208. Bid guarantee - opening bid. 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, conditioned that the person making the bid, if the contract is awarded him or her, within ten days after notification that his or her bid has been accepted, will enter into such contract in accordance with his or her bid or proposal and in accordance with the provisions of this part 2 and all specifications submitted by the executive director of the department of personnel.

C.R.S. § 24-70-209 Letting of contract - bond

24-70-209. Letting of contract - bond. (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 responsible bidder for each class, having full regard for the probable aggregate cost of all things to be furnished and work to be done under such contract in accordance with such bid. After the determination of same, the executive director of the department of personnel immediately shall notify such lowest responsible bidder of his or her appointment to execute the work, and such bidder, within ten days after receiving such notice, shall execute a bond to the state of Colorado in such sum as the executive director determines, conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her contract in all respects, with sureties to be approved by the executive director, and such bonds shall be deposited with and remain in the custody of the secretary of state. (2) In case the lowest bidder fails to execute such bond or fails to enter into contract in accordance with the terms of his or her bid, he or she and the sureties on his or her bond tendered with his or her bid shall be liable for all costs which may accrue to the state by reason of such failure, to be recovered from him or her and the sureties on his or her bond, and any such failure shall be conclusive evidence of damages in at least the sum of one hundred dollars. In case of such failure, the executive director of the department of personnel shall immediately award the contract to the next lowest responsible bidder, and the same steps shall be taken successively until a proper contract has been executed. The executive director of the department of personnel, if he deems it for the best interest of the state, may reject any or all bids, or parts of bids, and in such case, as well as on the failure of any successful bidder to enter into contract in accordance with his or her bid or proposal, the executive director shall readvertise for such bids or parts of bids.

C.R.S. § 24-70-210 Law constitutes part of contract

24-70-210. Law constitutes part of contract. 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.

C.R.S. § 24-70-211 Right to print, publish, and sell state laws and supreme court and court of appeals reports

24-70-211. Right to print, publish, and sell state laws and supreme court and court of appeals reports. 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 or indirectly, to print, publish, sell, or give away for his own use or benefit any such statutes, session laws, or reports; but the right to print, publish, sell, or give away such statutes, session laws, or supreme court and court of appeals reports shall always remain with the state. Any person who contracts for such printing and who prints, publishes, sells, or gives away such statutes, session laws, or court reports in violation of the terms of such contract or without other authorization of the general assembly for such statutes or session laws or without the authorization of the supreme court for such court reports shall forfeit to the state the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every book, volume, computer representation, or pamphlet so printed, to be recovered by an action in the name of the state.

C.R.S. § 24-70-212 Quality of paper

24-70-212. Quality of paper. 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 executive director of the department of personnel, unless otherwise specified in the call for bids, as the nature of the job may require.

C.R.S. § 24-70-213 State purchasing agent to measure printing and keep records

24-70-213. State purchasing agent to measure printing and keep records. (Repealed)

C.R.S. § 24-70-214 Invoices to be made in duplicate

24-70-214. Invoices to be made in duplicate. (Repealed)

C.R.S. § 24-70-215 Requisitions for printing

24-70-215. Requisitions for printing. 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 the provisions of this section do not apply to the printing, publishing, or binding of the reports of the decisions of the supreme court or the court of appeals.

C.R.S. § 24-70-216 When governor may set aside bid

24-70-216. When governor may set aside bid. 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 is any unreasonable delay on the part of any contractor in performing the things required under the terms of such contract, the governor may set aside such bid and cause such contract to be relet if he deems it in the best interest of the state to do so.

C.R.S. § 24-70-217 Who prohibited from holding contract

24-70-217. Who prohibited from holding contract. 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 officer or member of the general assembly become directly in any way whatever interested in any such contract, and a violation of any of the provisions of this section shall work a forfeiture of such contract. The person violating the provisions of this section commits a civil infraction.

C.R.S. § 24-70-218 Attorney general to bring action, when

24-70-218. Attorney general to bring action, when. 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 there is any unreasonable delay in performing the things required under the terms of such contract, it is the duty of the executive director of the department of personnel to notify the attorney general of the state, who shall at once bring suit on the bond of such contractor against such contractor and his or her sureties and shall prosecute the same to judgment and final execution.

C.R.S. § 24-70-219 Annulment of contract

24-70-219. Annulment of contract. 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 default is made, and payment for all work theretofore done by the contractor shall be withheld until the damage to the state is ascertained by proper adjudication, and the executive director of the department of personnel may thereupon readvertise and enter into a contract for the balance of the uncompleted term of any contract so annulled or abrogated in the manner prescribed for contracting by the terms of this part 2.

C.R.S. § 24-70-220 Penalty for bribe

24-70-220. Penalty for bribe. 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 18-1.3-401, C.R.S. Any person who accepts any money or other valuable thing for not bidding for a contract under this part 2 or for abandoning a bid made by him or her or who withholds a bid in consideration of a promise for the payment of money or other valuable thing commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S.

C.R.S. § 24-70-221 Account not approved, when

24-70-221. Account not approved, when. 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 contract for printing and furnishing such printing, and the executive director of the department of personnel shall not approve any account, nor shall any money be paid from the state treasury, for any work or material that is not in accordance with the requirements of such contract or for which a higher price is charged than that specified in the contract for such printing.

C.R.S. § 24-70-222 Blank pages

24-70-222. Blank pages. 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.

C.R.S. § 24-70-223 Publication of session laws

24-70-223. Publication of session laws. (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 session, together with such resolutions and memorials passed at such session and furnished to the revisor of statutes for publication by the chief clerk of the house and the secretary of the senate, and all initiated and referred laws which have been passed by the vote of the people. The session laws shall contain a full index, a tabulation by Colorado Revised Statutes section numbers of all changes made to such statutes by amendment, repeal, or addition of new subject matter, and a disposition table by house and senate bill number to the session laws and to Colorado Revised Statutes. The revisor of statutes shall see that the printing and binding of the laws are well-executed. The contract and sales pertaining to such publication shall be handled in accordance with this article. The signature of the president of the senate, speaker of the house, and governor shall not be printed at the end of each law, but only the date of the approval by the governor shall be shown. The certificate of the contents of the session laws volumes shall be signed by the speaker of the house and the president of the senate. (2) If the committee on legal services finds that economy and efficiency will be achieved, the committee may combine the contract for the publication of session laws of Colorado with that for the publication of Colorado Revised Statutes, in which event the bid and contract provisions of this part 2 shall not apply, and the bid and contract provisions of article 5 of title 2, C.R.S., shall apply. (3) The classification and arrangement by chapter, article, and number system of sections in any enactment of the general assembly printed in the session laws of Colorado, as well as the section titles or captions and other editorial matter included in the session laws, form no part of the legislative text enacted thereby. Such inclusion is only for the purpose of convenience, orderly arrangement, and information; therefore, no implication or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn therefrom.

C.R.S. § 24-70-224 Official list - designation and disposition of session laws

24-70-224. Official list - designation and disposition of session laws. (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 for exchange with other states and territories on a reciprocal basis; and the office of legislative legal services shall thereupon deliver such volumes to such officials and agencies, taking a receipt for each volume so delivered. (2) All volumes provided for official use shall remain the property of the state of Colorado for the use of such named officials and their successors and shall bear such designation.

C.R.S. § 24-70-225 Session laws - sale - price

24-70-225. Session laws - sale - price. 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.

C.R.S. § 24-70-226 Report of sales

24-70-226. Report of sales. 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 section 24-70-224, and the number of copies sold by him.

C.R.S. § 24-70-227 Secretary to deliver to successor

24-70-227. Secretary to deliver to successor. (Repealed)

C.R.S. § 24-70-228 Penalty

24-70-228. Penalty. Any person violating any provision of this part 2, as well as any person consenting to such violation, commits a civil infraction.

C.R.S. § 24-70-229 Publications of educational institutions

24-70-229. Publications of educational institutions. 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.

C.R.S. § 24-70-230 Remedies

24-70-230. Remedies. 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.

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