Colorado § 35-4-121 - Emergency control and eradication of invasive pests.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 35-4-121 — Emergency control and eradication of invasive pests., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 35-4-121. Emergency control and eradication of invasive pests.
(1) If the commissioner determines that a public nuisance creates an unacceptable risk of spreading a pest, the commissioner may coordinate with industry to, support local governments to, and make grants to take emergency action to quarantine, control, or eradicate an invasive pest.
(2) A board of county commissioners may declare a pest to be a public nuisance and require its control or eradication.
Source: L. 2021: Entire section added, (HB 21-1045), ch. 160, p. 914, § 5, effective September 7.
35-4.5 ARTICLE 4.5
Pest Control Compact
35-4.5-101 and 35-4.5-102. (Repealed)
Source: L. 2015: Entire article repealed, (SB 15-021), ch. 20, p. 50, § 1, effective August 5.
Editor's note: This article was added in 2007 and was not amended prior to its repeal in 2015. For the text of this article prior to 2015, consult the 2014 Colorado Revised Statutes and the Colorado statutory research explanatory note beginning on page vii in the front of this volume.
ARTICLE 5
Pest Control Districts
35-5-101. Definitions.
35-5-102. Duty to control weeds.
35-5-103. Methods of control - rules and regulations.
35-5-104. Pest control district - procedure to establish.
35-5-105. Advisory committee.
35-5-106. County pest inspector, deputies, and employees.
35-5-107. Duties of pest inspector.
35-5-108. Control or eradication methods and procedures - notice - assessments - protests.
35-5-109. Owner or lessee refuses action.
35-5-110. Public nuisance - abatement.
35-5-111. Reports of acreage infested - county tax levy - fund - allocation.
35-5-112. Pest control district on public lands - notice - charges.
35-5-113. Deputy or agent may exercise power.
35-5-114. Liberal construction.
35-5-115. Dissolution of district.
35-5-116. Major grasshopper and range caterpillar infestations.
35-5-117. Emergency measures - governor.
35-5-118. Right of entry.
35-5-119. Procedure for establishing grasshopper and range caterpillar control districts. (Repealed)
35-5-120. Grasshopper and range caterpillar control.
35-5-121. Immunity.
35-5-122. Costs of control operations.
35-5-123. Rules and regulations.
35-5-124. No weed districts. (Repealed)
35-5-125. Cooperation between districts.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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