Colorado Revised Statutes

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-61-101 (2026)

Funds subject to garnishment

✓ current as of July 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section CO-LEGleg.colorado.gov JustiaTitle on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

The state of Colorado, municipal corporations, quasi-municipal corporations, and any officer, board, or commission thereof, having the control of the disbursing of any fund, whether the same be derived from appropriations, levies, fees, licenses, special taxes, or otherwise within the state of Colorado, shall be subject to garnishment upon writs of attachment and execution in the same manner as private corporations are subject to garnishment under such writs; except that the state of Colorado shall not be subject to garnishment regarding salaries or fees due to any officer designated as such and whose salary or fees are fixed by the provisions of the constitution of the state of Colorado.

Source: L. 27: p. 374, § 1. Code 35: § 132A. CRS 53: § 77-12-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 77-12- 1.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2004–2004 · leading case: Price v. Walgreen Co., 322 F. Supp. 2d 1179 (D. Colo. 2004).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

Price v. Walgreen Co., 322 F. Supp. 2d 1179 (D. Colo. 2004). · cites it 2× “Application of Health Care Availability Act, C.R.S. § 13-61-101, et seq. In 1988, the Colorado Legislature passed this statute in recognition of the increasing costs of malpractice insurance for medical care institutions and licensed health care professionals, and the resultant…”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.