§ 42-3-310 — Additional registration fees - apportionment of fees - repeal

Colorado § 42-3-310

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 42: Vehicles and
• Art.: Registration, Taxation, and License Plates

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(1)
Every owner of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that is primarily designed to
be operated or drawn upon a highway, except the vehicles specifically exempted
from payment of registration fees by this article, shall, within the registration
period prescribed by law or within ten days after the date of purchase of any such
vehicle, pay an annual registration fee of one dollar and fifty cents, which annual
fee shall be in addition to the annual registration fee prescribed by law for such
vehicle.

(2) The additional registration fee provided for in this section shall not be
transmitted to the department, but the aggregate amount of all such fees paid over
by the authorized agent to the county treasurer shall be retained by the treasurer
and allocated by the treasurer to the county and to the cities and incorporated
towns located within the boundaries of the county on the basis of the record of
rural and urban registrations that indicates the place of residence of each vehicle
owner paying registration fees.

(3) The owner of a vehicle specified in subsection (1) of this section who is
required to pay an annual registration fee for such vehicle to the department shall
also pay the additional annual registration fee provided for in this section to the
department, and the department shall transmit such additional fee to the proper
county treasurer, as indicated by the place of residence of such owner, and such
county treasurer shall allocate such fee in the manner prescribed in subsection (2)
of this section.

(4) Two dollars and fifty cents of each annual vehicle registration fee
imposed by sections 42-3-304 to 42-3-306, exclusive of the annual registration
fees prescribed for motorcycles, autocycles, trailer coaches, special mobile
machinery, and trailers having an empty weight of two thousand pounds or less and
exclusive of a registration fee paid for a fractional part of a year, shall not be
transmitted to the department but shall be paid over by the authorized agent, as
collected, to the county treasurer, who shall credit the same to an account entitled
apportioned vehicle registration fees. On the tenth day of each month, the county
treasurer shall apportion the balance in the account existing on the last day of the
immediately preceding month between the county and the cities and incorporated
towns located within the boundaries of the county on the basis of the record of
rural and urban registrations that indicates the place of residence of each vehicle
owner.

(5) All amounts allocated to the county shall be credited to the county road
and bridge fund, and all amounts allocated to a city or incorporated town shall be
credited to an appropriate fund and expended by such city or incorporated town
only for the construction and maintenance of highways, roads, and streets located
within its boundaries.

(6) (a) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the department shall
reduce the fee imposed in subsection (1) of this section to ninety-four cents; except
that the department shall annually adjust the fees imposed and set in this section
to compensate for increases in or decreases in revenue credited to the highway
users tax fund under sections 42-3-103 (4)(a)(II) and 42-3-112 (1)(a)(II) and revenue
increases or decreases due to the repeal of section 42-3-112 (1.5)(a)(III) from the
previous fiscal year. Adjusted fees take effect July 1 of each fiscal year.

(b) This subsection (6) is repealed, effective July 1, 2026.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2005: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 1170, � 2, effective August 8. L. 2009: (4) amended, (HB 09-1026), ch. 281, p. 1269, � 33, effective October 1. L. 2010: (4) amended, (HB 10-1172), ch. 320, p. 1492, � 14, effective October 1. L. 2022: (4) amended, (HB 22-1043), ch. 361, p. 2584, � 12, effective January 1, 2023; (6) added, (HB 22-1254), ch. 428, p. 3029, � 5, effective January 1, 2023.