First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0592.01 Thomas Morris        HOUSE BILL 11-1154
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Hamner,
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Morse,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Local Government
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the authority of a board of county
            commissioners to enact a business regulation program
            applicable to large unincorporated communities.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill allows a board of county commissioners to enact an
       ordinance defining the boundaries of a "large community", which must
       be an unincorporated area having a population of at least 5,000, within
       which a business may not operate unless the business has registered with
       the board of county commissioners.  "Business" is defined to exclude a
       commercial activity that does not have any employees and does not
       receive or initiate any commercial deliveries of supplies or products.  The
       statute lists the type of information that the business can be required to
       provide and limits the registration fee to the county's administrative costs.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  The introductory portion to 30-15-401 (1), Colorado
       Revised Statutes, is amended, and the said 30-15-401 (1) is further
       amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH, to read:
            30-15-401.  General regulations.  (1)  In addition to those powers
       granted by sections 30-11-101 and 30-11-107 and by parts 1, 2, and 3 of
       this article, the board of county commissioners has the power to adopt
       ordinances for control or licensing of those matters of purely local
       concern which that are described in the following enumerated powers:
            (s) (I)  To create a business registration program that
       applies within each large community.
            (II)  As used in this paragraph (s):
            (A)  "Business" means any type of commercial activity;
       except that "business" does not include a commercial activity
       that does not have any employees and does not receive or
       initiate any commercial deliveries of supplies or products.
            (B)  "Large community" means an unincorporated
       community that is located entirely within a county, has
       boundaries as determined by the board, and has a population of
       at least five thousand people.
            (III)  The board may adopt an ordinance that prohibits a
       business from operating within a large community unless the
       business has registered with the board pursuant to procedures
       established in the ordinance.  The ordinance may require the
       business to provide the following information:
            (A)  The name, address, and contact information of the
       business;
            (B)  The nature of the business and the location and timing
       of the business' operation;
            (C)  The number of people employed by the business,
       whether the number of employees changes during the year, and,
       if so, the number of employees during low, average, and peak
       seasons;
            (D)  Whether the business offers health insurance to its
       employees; and
            (E)  The documentation that the business requires of its
       employees, including whether the business uses the federal
       e-verify program as defined in section 8-2-124 (1), C.R.S.
            (IV)  The ordinance may establish a registration fee in the
       minimum amount necessary to offset the county's costs in
       administering the registration program.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
       shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2011); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.