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 mapping criteria specified in section 48.1 of this article V are lobbyists who must disclose to the secretary of state any compensation contracted for, compensation received, and the person or entity contracting or paying for their lobbying services. Such disclosure must be made no later than seventy-two hours after the earlier of each instance of such lobbying or any payment of such compensation. The secretary of state shall publish on the secretary of state's website or comparable means of communicating with the public the names of such lobbyists, as well as the compensation received and the persons or entities for whom they work within twenty-four hours of receiving such information. The secretary of state shall adopt rules to facilitate the complete and prompt reporting required by this subsection (4)(b)(III) as well as a complaint process to address any lobbyist's failure to report a full and accurate disclosure, which complaint must be heard by an administrative law judge, whose decision may be appealed to the court of appeals.

Source: Entire article added, effective August 1, 1876, see L. 1877, p. 45. L. 50: Entire section repealed, see L. 51, p. 555. Initiated 62: Entire section R&RE, see L. 63, p. 1046. Initiated 66: Entire section R&RE, see L. 67, p. 11 of the supplement to the 1967 Session Laws. L. 74: Entire section amended, p. 451, effective January 1, 1975; Initiated 74: Entire section was amended, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, December 20, 1974, but does not appear in the session laws. L. 2000: (1)(b), (1)(d), and (1)(e) amended, p. 2773, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, L. 2001, p. 2390, December 28, 2000. Referred 2018: Entire section R&RE, Amendment Z, L. 2018, p. 3102, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, December 19, 2018. See L. 2019, p. 4543.

Editor's note: The Governor's proclamation date for the 1974 referred measure was December 20, 1974.

Cross references: (1) For historical background of and cases construing "Amendment No. 7" in 1962, sections 45 to 48 of this article, see section 45 of this article.

(2) For provisions concerning the reapportionment process, see sections 6 through 11 of chapter 46, Session Laws of Colorado 1990, sections 6 through 11 of chapter 286, Session Laws of Colorado 2000, and part 5 of article 2 of title 2; for requirement that senate and representative districts be apportioned on the basis of population, see § 46 of this article.

Section 48.1.Criteria for determination of legislative districts - definition. (1) In adopting a legislative redistricting plan, the commission shall:

(a) Make a good-faith effort to achieve mathematical population equality between districts, as required by the constitution of the United States, but in no event shall there be more than five percent deviation between the most populous and the least populous district in each house. Districts must be composed of contiguous geographic areas.

(b) Comply with the federal "Voting Rights Act of 1965", 52 U.S.C. sec. 50301, as amended.

(2) (a) As much as is reasonably possible, the commission's plan must preserve whole communities of interest and whole political subdivisions, such as counties, cities, and towns. To facilitate the efficient and effective provision of governmental services, with regard to any county, city, city and county, or town whose population is less than a district's permitted population, the commission shall presume that such county, city, city and county, or town should Colorado Revised Statutes 2020