Colorado § 44-30-804 - Persons prohibited from interest in limited gaming.

§ 44-30-804. Persons prohibited from interest in limited gaming.

(1) None of the following persons shall have any interest, direct or indirect, in any license involved in or with limited gaming:

(a) Officers, reserve police officers, agents, or employees of any law enforcement agency of the state of Colorado with the authority to investigate or prosecute crime in Teller or Gilpin counties or of any local law enforcement agency or detention or correctional facility within Teller or Gilpin counties;

(b) District, county, or municipal court judges whose jurisdiction includes all or any portion of Teller or Gilpin counties;

(c) Elected municipal officials or county commissioners of the counties of Teller and Gilpin and of the cities of Central, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek;

(d) Central, Black Hawk, or Cripple Creek city manager or planning commission member.

(2) No licensee may employ any person in any capacity while that person is in the employment of the commission or is in the employment of, or has a reserve police officer position with, a law enforcement agency of the state of Colorado with the authority to investigate or prosecute crime in Teller or Gilpin counties, any local law enforcement agency or detention or correctional facility within Teller or Gilpin counties, or any other county that may later be an authorized gaming location under section 44-30-105.

Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 18-034), ch. 14, p. 208, § 2, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-47.1-804 as it existed prior to 2018.

ANNOTATION

Annotator's note. Since § 44-30-804 is similar to §12-47.1-804 as it existed prior to its 2018 relocation to this section, a relevant case construing that provision has been included in the annotations to this section.

Subsection (1) did not impose unconstitutional restrictions on ballot access, the right to hold public office, and the right to vote where the state's substantial interest in avoiding corruption and the appearance of corruption in both the gaming industry and local government outweighed the limited burden that subsection (1) placed on ballot access, the right to hold public office, or on the right to vote. Lorenz v. State, 928 P.2d 1274 (Colo. 1996).

Prospective political candidates lacked standing to challenge subsection (1) on vagueness grounds where candidates owned a personal interest in gaming licenses or owned corporations that held gaming licenses. Lorenz v. State, 928 P.2d 1274 (Colo. 1996).