31-11-112. Petitions - not election materials - no bilingual requirement.

Statute text

The general assembly hereby determines that initiative and referendum petitions are not election materials or information covered by the federal "Voting Rights Act of 1965", and are therefore not required to be printed in any language other than English in order to be circulated in any municipality in Colorado.

History

Source: L. 95: Entire article added, p. 428, 1, effective May 8.

Annotations

Cross references: For the federal "Voting Rights Act of 1965", see Pub.L. 89-110, codified at 52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.

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ANNOTATION

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Annotator's note. For cases construing a similar provision that applied to state and municipal elections, see 1-40-114.