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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 35 - Agriculture » Article 4 - Pest Control » § 35-4-121. Emergency Control and Eradication of Invasive Pests
  1. If the commissioner determines that a public nuisance creates an unacceptable risk of spreading a pest, the commissioner may coordinate with industry to, support local governments to, and make grants to take emergency action to quarantine, control, or eradicate an invasive pest.
  2. A board of county commissioners may declare a pest to be a public nuisance and require its control or eradication.

Source: L. 2021: Entire section added, (HB 21-1045), ch. 160, p. 914, § 5, effective September 7.