Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-145-106
Guide qualifications - violations - penalty.
Effective Aug 6, 2025L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 968, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2021: (1) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3155, § 144, effective March 1, 2022. L. 2025: (1) amended, (SB 25-174), ch. 310, p. 1615, § 7, effective August 6.
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(a) An individual who works as a guide must:
- (I) Be eighteen years of age or older;
- (II) Hold either a valid first aid or first aid instructor's card issued by the American Red Cross or evidence of equivalent training as approved by the director; and
- (III) Not have a license or registration that is suspended and must not have, within the three years prior to submitting the registration application, had a license or registration revoked by the division of parks and wildlife created in section 33-9-104 or by an agency of any member state of the Wildlife Violator Compact, part 26 of article 60 of title 24, for a violation of a law concerning wildlife.
- (b) An individual who violates this subsection (1) commits a civil infraction.
- (2) It is a violation of this article 145 for an individual whose outfitter registration has been revoked or suspended to work as a guide.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 968, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2021: (1) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3155, § 144, effective March 1, 2022. L. 2025: (1) amended, (SB 25-174), ch. 310, p. 1615, § 7, effective August 6.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-55.5-103.5 as it existed prior to 2019.