C.R.S. § 42-13-101: Scope and effect of article - exception to provisions.

This article 13 applies to all personal property acquired or held by a law enforcement agency in the course of motor vehicle law enforcement or related highway duties and under circumstances supporting a reasonable belief that such property was abandoned, lost, stolen, or otherwise illegally possessed, including property left in abandoned vehicles or at vehicle crash locations, unclaimed property obtained by a search and seizure, and unclaimed property used as evidence in any criminal trial, except for such other personal property disposed of in a different manner in accordance with other Colorado statutes.