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Watch VideoDozens of new laws now in effect
Story By: Rachel Hoffenberg
Source: AP
Colorado Springs Published 156 day(s) ago
Dozens of new laws went into effect here in Colorado today. One of the biggest changes allows the sale of liquor on Sundays. Another offers protection from overzealous Home Owners Associations through a dispute resolution process. Here's a rundown of the major changes you can expect:
- Allowing liquor stores to stay open on Sundays. July 6 will be the first Sunday stores can stay open.
- Raising fines for traffic violations to bring in an estimated $12 million for the Highway Users Trust Fund.
- Setting up a dispute resolution process for Home Owner Associations.
- Increasing state protection for the bald eagle, which the federal government has removed it from a list of threatened species.
- Agents planning to represent a college athlete looking to turn professional will have to register with the state.
- Art galleries can keep serving alcohol to the public.
- Adding $3 million to the Older Colorado Cash Fund.
- Setting a higher standard for the state's adverse possession laws that allows someone to claim another person's property if they have had access to that property for at least 18 years.
- Requiring prior approval for insurance rate hikes.
- Making it a misdemeanor to trick online ticket sites into selling more than the maximum number of tickets available.
- Making it a crime and requiring police to confiscate any cigarettes or tobacco products possessed by a minor.
- Require massage therapists to be licensed by the state and prohibit anyone who doesn't hold a degree from an approved massage school from calling themselves a massage therapist.
- Colorado casinos and racetracks will begin intercepting the gambling winnings of people who owe past-due child-support payments.
- All students attending a college or university in the state must be screened for tuberculosis.
