§ 31-2-220 — Warning on petition - signatures - affidavits - circulators

Colorado § 31-2-220

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 31: Government
• Art.: Formation and Reorganization

Text

(1) At
the top of each page of a petition to initiate the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a
municipal home rule charter, including the formation of a new charter commission,
must be printed, in plain red letters no smaller than the impression of ten-point,
bold-faced type, the following:

WARNING:

IT IS AGAINST THE LAW:

For anyone to sign any petition with any name other than his or her own or to
knowingly sign his or her name more than once for the same measure or to sign
such petition when not a registered elector.

DO NOT SIGN THIS PETITION UNLESS YOU ARE A

REGISTERED ELECTOR:

Do not sign this petition unless you have read or had read to you the text of the
proposal in its entirety and understand its meaning.

(2) Any such petition shall be signed only by registered electors by their own
signatures to which shall be attached the residence addresses of such persons,
including street and number, if any, city or town, and the date of signing the same.
To each such petition shall be attached an affidavit of the person who circulated
the petition stating the affiant's address, that the affiant is eighteen years of age or
older, that the affiant circulated the said petition, that each signature thereon was
affixed in the affiant's presence, that each signature thereon is the signature of the
person whose name it purports to be, that to the best of the knowledge and belief
of the affiant each of the persons signing said petition was at the time of signing a
registered elector, and that the affiant has not paid or will not in the future pay and
that the affiant believes that no other person has so paid or will pay, directly or
indirectly, any money or other thing of value to any signer for the purpose of
inducing or causing such signer to affix the signer's signature to such petition. No
petition shall be accepted for filing that does not have attached thereto the
affidavit required by this section.

(3) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 792, � 7, effective August 2, 2000.)

(4) The clerk shall inspect timely filed petitions and attached affidavits to
ensure compliance with subsection (2) of this section. Such inspection may consist
of an examination of the information on the signature lines for patent defects, a
comparison of the information on the signature lines with a list of registered
electors provided by the county, or any other method of inspection reasonably
expected to ensure compliance with subsection (2) of this section.

Legislative History

Source: L. 84: Entire section added, p. 832, � 5, effective April 25. L. 85: (1) and (2) amended, p. 1347, � 17, effective April 30. L. 92: (1) amended, p. 2177, � 38, effective June 2. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 1772, � 37, effective January 1, 1995. L. 96: (2) amended, p. 1768, � 62, effective July 1. L. 2000: (2) and (3) amended and (4) added, p. 792, � 7, effective August 2. L. 2013: (1) amended, (HB 13-1303), ch. 185, p. 750, � 132, effective May 10. L. 2014: (1) amended, (HB 14-1164), ch. 2, p. 59, � 12, effective February 18.