Colorado Revised Statutes Title 35. Agriculture § 35-40-204. Establishment of program--continuance or discontinuance--license fees

(1)(a) The owners of at least fifty-one percent of the sheep, or the owners of at least fifty-one percent of the cattle, or the owners of at least fifty-one percent of both sheep and cattle acting jointly in the county, as shown by the assessment rolls of the last preceding assessment, may petition the board of county commissioners to establish a predatory animal control program as provided for in this part 2.

(b) The petition shall be filed on or before the first of November in any year at a regularly scheduled meeting of the board of county commissioners. After examination of the petition, if the board finds the petition in order and properly signed by the owners of at least fifty-one percent of the sheep or cattle, or both, in the county, the board shall establish the predatory animal control program provided for in this part 2 to commence the following calendar year on the first of February of said year; but the license fee as fixed under the provisions of section 35-40-205 shall be assessed only against the owners of sheep if only said owners of sheep petition for the establishment of said program, and only against the owners of cattle if only said owners of cattle so petition, and against both the owners of sheep and cattle if both said owners of sheep and cattle, acting jointly, so petition.

(c) Likewise, the question of an increase or decrease in the license fee, or the question of the discontinuance of the program, as provided in subsection (2) of this section, shall be determined only by the owners of sheep if they petitioned the establishment of the program, and only by the owners of cattle if they petitioned the establishment of the program, and jointly by the owners of both sheep and cattle if they, acting jointly, petitioned the establishment of the program.