Law of Colorado

[citation needed] Pursuant to the state constitution, the Colorado General Assembly has enacted various laws.

[1] Pursuant to certain broadly worded statutes, state agencies have promulgated an enormous body of regulations, published in the Colorado Register and codified in the Code of Colorado Regulations (CCR), which carry the force of law to the extent they do not conflict with any statutes or the state or federal Constitutions.

Colorado counties have the authority to adopt and enforce ordinances and resolutions regarding health, safety, and welfare issues "as otherwise prescribed by law" which are not in conflict with any state statute,[4][5] as well as the power to adopt ordinances for control or licensing of those matters of purely local concern in a number of policy areas.

[6][7] All such ordinances of a general or permanent nature and those imposing any fine, penalty, or forfeiture must be published.

[8] Colorado municipalities have the power to adopt ordinances which are necessary and proper to provide for the safety, preserve the health, promote the prosperity, and improve the morals, order, comfort, and convenience of the municipality and its inhabitants and which are not in conflict with any laws,[9] and have the power to enforce them with fines of up to $2,650.00, imprisonment for up to one year or both.