{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-31-10-1603","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 31-10-1603","heading":"Multilingual ballot access - general provisions - clerks.","body":"(1) If a municipality exists partially or wholly within a county covered by the multilingual ballot requirements of section 1-5-905 (1) and the municipality has a population of at least three thousand people, a clerk is required to provide multilingual ballot access in one of the following ways for any municipal election held on or after January 1, 2027:\n\n(a) Ensuring that each ballot and sample ballot includes all ballot content in English and all ballot content fully translated into any minority language for which a minority language sample or in-person ballot is required pursuant to section 1-5-906 for the county in which the municipality partially or wholly exists; or\n\n(b) Creating a minority language sample ballot pursuant to section 31-10-1604 and providing an in-person minority language ballot pursuant to section 31-10-1605.\n\n(2) The clerk shall ensure that any translation provided as required by this part 16 is performed by one or more qualified translators.","path":["Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL","Article 10 - Municipal Election Code","Part 16 - MULTILINGUAL BALLOT ACCESS"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-31.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"9c026bee4ee30feadfa834292b778e3c8f4856982944dfab8523f34c6b17f994","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-31-10-1602","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-31-10-1604"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}