Colorado § 35-36-201 - Licenses - commodity handler - rules.
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§ 35-36-201. Licenses - commodity handler - rules.
(1) (a) A person shall not act as a commodity handler in this state without having first obtained a license from the department.
(b) A small-volume commodity handler need not obtain a license.
(2) Every person acting as a commodity handler in this state shall, each year before the date specified by the commissioner by rule, obtain or renew a license from the department.
Source: L. 2020: Entire article amended with relocations, (HB 20-1213), ch. 160, p. 724, § 2, effective June 29.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 35-36-103 as it existed prior to 2020.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. Since § 35-36-201 is similar to former § 12-16-203 as it existed prior to 2017, a relevant case construing that provision has been included in the annotations to this section.
The reasonable expectation that a person engaged in a licensed occupation is properly licensed and that transactions with the person, therefore, will be subject to the various protections that come with governmental regulation establishes proximate cause for purposes of the restitution statute. People v. Leonard, 167 P.3d 178 (Colo. App. 2007).
Defendant obtained possession of the victims' commodities by purporting to act as a licensed commodity handler; then, as defendant admitted at his restitution hearing, he used the proceeds from the sale of the seed to repay his own creditors rather than pay the victims. Limiting the victims' restitution to the amount of the bond that defendant failed to post would not take account of the full scope of the criminal conduct to which defendant pleaded guilty. People v. Leonard, 167 P.3d 178 (Colo. App. 2007).
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