Our criminal code was revised in 1971 and at that time it looks like it
was omitted.
Kent Olson wrote:
> This one is a bit of a mystery. It was still on the books as of the
> Colorado Revised Statutes 1963, at section 40-20-18, but had
> disappeared by the time of the Colorado Revised Statutes 1973. I can't
> find any mention of this section in the 1973 table, nor in the 1965-71
> CRS supplements or the 1963-73 session laws. "Horses" in the 1973
> index leads only to more general entries. Unless "between 1963 and
> 1973" is a good enough answer, I'm stumped.
>
> Kent Olson
> UVA Law Library
> kolson@virginia.edu
>
>
>
> At 08:49 PM 11/13/2002 -0800, Sheila Stone wrote:
>
>> Hello all-
>> This is a rather urgent request as I have been asked to find an
>> answer by noon Thursday.
>> I am trying to find when a certain Colorado statute was repealed.
>> The biggest problem seems to be that it was passed in 1899 and it no
>> longer appears to be on the books.
>>
>> I have searched Wexis for current statutes that may have been based
>> on this law to no avail.
>> I have also searched the Colorado legislature and the State website
>> in the hopes of finding a historical database, and also had no
>> luck. I rooted around a bit on the State Library website, but I am
>> still not finding it. If anyone can help me locate this law and the
>> date it was repealed I would be forever in your debt.
>>
>> Here are the pertinent details. The question began with a Colorado
>> case (32 Colo 319) from 1904. The case revolves around this
>> Colorado law which is only cited in the case as "Chapter 93, p. 175,
>> Laws 1899." In the headnotes the law is also referred to as
>> "Chapter 93, Sess.Laws 1899, p. 175." The case even includes part
>> of the text of the law as it was writted in 1899.
>> "It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to dock the tail of
>> any horse, within the state of Colorado, or to procure the same to
>> be docked, or to import or bring into this state, any docked horse,
>> or horses, or to drive, work, use, race or deal in any unregistered
>> docked horse or horses within the state of Colorado..."
>>
>> I am not sure where to look or who ask at this point but I am pretty
>> desperate.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sheila Stone
>> stones@ulv.edu
>> Reference Librarian, MLIS
>> ULV College of Law Library
>> 320 East D Street
>> Ontario California 91764
>
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