Colorado § 31-11-112 - Petitions - not election materials - no bilingual requirement.
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§ 31-11-112. Petitions - not election materials - no bilingual requirement.
The general assembly hereby determines that initiative and referendum petitions are not election materials or information covered by the federal "Voting Rights Act of 1965", and are therefore not required to be printed in any language other than English in order to be circulated in any municipality in Colorado.
Source: L. 95: Entire article added, p. 428, § 1, effective May 8.
Cross references: For the federal "Voting Rights Act of 1965", see Pub.L. 89-110, codified at 52 U.S.C. § 10301 et seq.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. For cases construing a similar provision that applied to state and municipal elections, see § 1-40-114.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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