{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-40-10.1-810","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 40-10.1-810","heading":"Release requirements - notice - private property - release for nonconsensual tow.","body":"(1) If a vehicle immobilization company has immobilized a vehicle on private property, the vehicle immobilization company shall give the authorized or interested person that is having the vehicle released a written notice of the person's ability to make a complaint to the commission. The notice:\n\n(a) Must be written in a conspicuous typeface and font on the invoice, receipt, and bill for releasing the vehicle; and\n\n(b) Must not be in a typeface or font that is smaller than the other numbers or words on the invoice, receipt, or bill, as applicable.\n\n(2) A vehicle immobilization company shall release the motor vehicle to an authorized or interested person either:\n\n(a) Within one hundred twenty minutes after being contacted by the authorized or interested person outside of the vehicle immobilization company's normal business hours; or\n\n(b) Within ninety minutes after being contacted by the authorized or interested person during the vehicle immobilization company's normal business hours.\n\n(3) A vehicle immobilization company shall immediately release a vehicle and remove the immobilization device without charge to a towing carrier when evidence is presented that the towing carrier has authorization to conduct a nonconsensual tow or law-enforcement-directed tow.\n\n(4) (a) A vehicle immobilization company may remotely release an immobilization device from a vehicle. The vehicle immobilization company shall retrieve the immobilization device within one hundred twenty minutes after releasing it.\n\n(b) The driver of a remotely released vehicle shall move the immobilization device from the road so that it is not a hazard to vehicles or pedestrians unless the driver has a physical limitation that makes moving the device unreasonably difficult or impossible. The owner or operator need not return the device to the vehicle immobilization company or a location specified by the vehicle immobilization company.","path":["Title 40 - UTILITIES","Article 10.1 - Motor Carriers","Part 8 - VEHICLE IMMOBILIZATION COMPANIES"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-40.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"1acc5a821b8f3f4aa6389d186707d0f9aceff957985978a4cda6e9c8a79d0b04","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-40-10.1-809","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-40-10.1-811"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}