{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-33-14.5-112","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 33-14.5-112","heading":"Off-highway use permit - fees - applications - requirements - exemptions - rules.","body":"(1) (a) No later than January 1, 1990, the division of parks and recreation shall devise a plan for implementation of the off-highway use permit program.\n\n(b) On and after January 1, 1991, the owner of every vehicle required to be registered pursuant to article 3 of title 42, C.R.S., and the owner or operator of every motor vehicle and off-highway vehicle from another state or country, when such vehicle is being used for recreational travel upon designated off-highway vehicle routes, shall obtain and display on such vehicle an off-highway use permit.\n\n(2) Off-highway use permits shall be sold by the agents referred to in section 33-12-104, and the fee to be paid for the permits must be in the amount provided by the commission by rule.\n\n(3) Off-highway use permits, when issued on April 1, shall be valid for a one-year period, which runs from April 1 through the following March 31. All permits issued during the year at any time after April 1 shall expire on the following March 31.\n\n(4) Off-highway use permits shall be displayed as required by the division.\n\n(5) The following vehicles shall be exempt from the requirements of this section:\n\n(a) Vehicles owned by the United States or another state or political subdivision thereof if such ownership is clearly displayed on such vehicles;\n\n(b) Vehicles operated in an organized competitive or noncompetitive event on publicly or privately owned or leased land; except that this exemption shall not apply unless the agency exercising jurisdiction over such land specifically authorizes the organized competitive or noncompetitive event;\n\n(c) Vehicles operated on public land for purposes other than recreational use, which purposes shall include but not be limited to logging, mining, grazing of livestock, firewood-cutting, and the taking of trees for noncommercial purposes.\n\n(6) Any person who violates subsection (1)(b) of this section commits a civil infraction and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars.","path":["Title 33 - PARKS AND WILDLIFE","Article 14.5 - Off-highway Vehicles"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-33.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"a3fcd6e4cde117f13275c43a5b59a2edd7a9486592638c4d357e0f534b2bc3ad","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-33-14.5-111","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-33-14.5-113"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}