- No person, agency, bureau, corporation, or association employed or maintained to obtain or aid in obtaining positions or teachers, principals, superintendents, clerks, or other employees in the public schools of the state of Colorado; no individuals conducting or employed by or interested directly or indirectly in such an agency, bureau, corporation, or association; and no board of education, trustee of a school district, superintendent, principal, or teacher of a public school, or other official or employee of a board of education, directly or indirectly, shall ask, indicate, or transmit orally, or in writing, the religion or religious affiliation of any person seeking employment in the public schools of the state of Colorado.
- [ Editor’s note: This version of subsection (2) is effective until March 1, 2022.] Any person who or any agency, bureau, corporation, or association which violates any of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, or aids or incites the violation of any of said provisions, is liable for each violation to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the person aggrieved thereby, in any court of competent jurisdiction in any county in which the plaintiff or defendant resides; and such person and the manager or owner of or each officer of such agency, bureau, corporation, or association, as the case may be, for every such offense, is also guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) [ Editor’s note: This version of subsection (2) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Any person who or any agency, bureau, corporation, or association which violates any of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, or aids or incites the violation of any of said provisions, is liable for each violation to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the person aggrieved thereby, in any court of competent jurisdiction in any county in which the plaintiff or defendant resides; and such person and the manager or owner of or each officer of such agency, bureau, corporation, or association, as the case may be, for every such offense also commits a petty offense.
Source: L. 33: p. 662, § 1. CSA: C. 146, § 234. CRS 53: § 123-17-12. C.R.S. 1963: § 123-17-4. L. 2021: (2) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3222, § 395, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor’s note: Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.
Cross references: For discriminatory and unfair employment practices generally, see § 24-34-402.