Colorado Revised Statutes Title 24. Government State § 24-80-205. Disposition of duplicate specimens--loans authorized

(1) Whenever the state historical society possesses natural history books, specimens, and documents which are duplicates of or similar to others possessed by the society or which are considered useless by the board of directors for the history of the state or more useful for exchange, the society is authorized to return such books or the material to the donors, to government departments, or to state institutions, to loan or deposit with its branch societies or exchange for other similar material, or otherwise to dispose of the same as provided by law.

(2) The state historical society is authorized to loan, for reasonable periods of time, materials and exhibits possessed by the society to responsible borrowers under adequate safeguards.