By CAI-RMC Editorial Committee, CAI Rocky Mountain Chapter
2020 was such an action-packed year that you may have missed some of the bills that passed during the 2020 Colorado legislative session. As a quick overview, here are the bills that may have an impact on the future of Colorado community associations.
- SB 20-126Concerning the operation of a licensed family childcare business in a common interest community.
This bill grants homeowners in a community governed by the Colorado Common Ownership Interest Act the ability to operate a licensed family childcare home, as defined under state law. The association will need to make reasonable accommodations for any exterior fencing requirements applicable to licensed family childcare homes. The association may require the family childcare homeowner or operator to carry liability insurance covering the operation of the family childcare home. This law is not applicable to communities that qualify as housing for older people under the federal “HOUSING FOR OLDER PERSONS ACT OF 1995" law.
- HB 29-1074Concerning the authorization for special districts to provide for the collection and transportation of solid waste.
This bill grants the board of a sanitation district, water and sanitation district, or metropolitan district to provide solid waste and residential waste collection and transportation on behalf of the district. The board may impose fees for this service and the board may require that the residents of the district pay charges for residential waste services. If the board contracts with a third-party service provider, then the board will need to publish a notice that they are requesting a proposal no less than thirty days prior to awarding the contract. The board shall not award a contract that exceeds three years in duration. The board cannot collect waste without the consent of the municipality, city, and county.
- HB 20-1093Concerning county authority to license and regulate short-term rentals.
This law grants the board of your local county commissioners the authority to license and regulate short-term rental owners or an owner’s agent who advertise or rent the owner’s lodging unit as a short-term rental; and to set the fees, terms, and manner for short-term license issuance and revocation.
- HB 20-1201Concerning mobile home park homeowners’ opportunity to purchase the park under certain circumstances.
If a mobile home park owner intends to change the use of the land comprising the mobile home park, the mobile home park owner will need to give written notice to each homeowner at least twelve months before the change in use will occur.
No earlier than thirty days after giving the notice required by this subsection, a mobile home park owner may post information in a public space on allowing the homeowners the opportunity to purchase the mobile home park.
After the notice is provided, the homeowners will be granted a 90-day period to negotiate an agreement to purchase the park. However, if at least fifty percent of the homeowners who reside in the park provide signed writings to the mobile home park owner expressing no interest in purchasing the park, then the opportunity to purchase will terminate even if the ninety-day period has not yet elapsed.
