Colorado § 31-16-106 - Reading before city council - publication.
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§ 31-16-106. Reading before city council - publication.
No ordinance shall be adopted by any city council of any city unless the same has been previously introduced and read at a preceding regular or special meeting of such city council and published in full in the manner provided in section 31-16-105 at least ten days before its adoption. The previous introduction of the ordinance at such preceding meeting of the city council and the fact of its publication shall appear in the certificate and the attestation of the clerk on the ordinance after its adoption. The provisions of section 31-16-105 shall apply to any ordinance adopted by a city council; except that, if publication after introduction was in a newspaper, publication after adoption may be in the same newspaper by title only and shall contain the date of the initial publication and shall reprint in full any section, subsection, or paragraph of the ordinance which was amended following the initial publication. Publication following adoption may be in full at the discretion of the city council.
Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1124, § 1, effective July 1. L. 77: Entire section amended, p. 1466, § 1, effective May 20.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 31-15-104 as it existed prior to 1975.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. Since 31-16-106 is similar to former § 31-15-104 prior to the 1975 repeal and reenactment of this title, and laws antecedent thereto, relevant cases construing those provisions have been included in the annotations to this section.
This section, by its terms, applies only to ordinances of a city and not to a town. People ex rel. Town of Wray v. Grant, 48 Colo. 156, 111 P. 69 (1910).
The term "unless the same has been previously ... published in full" imports but one occurrence in the running of time. Jackson v. City of Glenwood Springs, 122 Colo. 323, 221 P.2d 1083 (1950).
Compliance found. Where a proposed city ordinance was published only once in a newspaper but at least 10 days before its passage, it was held that this complied with the requirements of this section. Jackson v. City of Glenwood Springs, 122 Colo. 323, 221 P.2d 1083 (1950).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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