Colorado § 42-2-305 - Lost, stolen, or destroyed cards.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 42-2-305 — Lost, stolen, or destroyed cards., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 42-2-305. Lost, stolen, or destroyed cards.
If an identification card is lost, destroyed, or mutilated or a new name is acquired, the registrant may obtain a new identification card upon furnishing satisfactory proof of such fact to the department. Any registrant who loses an identification card and who, after obtaining a new identification card, finds the original card shall immediately surrender the original card to the department. The same documentary evidence shall be furnished for a new identification card as for an original identification card. A new identification card issued pursuant to this section shall expire on the birthday of the registrant in the fifth year after the issuance of the new identification card; except that, if the registrant is under the age of twenty-one years at the time the application for the new identification card is made, the new identification card shall expire on the registrant's twenty-first birthday, or if issued under part 5 of this article 2, the identification card expires as provided in section 42-2-509 (1) or on the twenty-first birthday of the applicant as set by rule of the department.
Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2162, § 1, effective January 1, 1995. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 1347, § 10, effective July 1, 2001. L. 2008: Entire section amended, p. 1918, § 144, effective August 5. L. 2018: Entire section amended, (SB 18-108), ch. 260, p. 1598, § 7, effective January 1, 2019.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 42-2-405 as it existed prior to 1994.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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