Colorado Code § 18-8-308

Failing to disclose a conflict of interest
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(1) A public servant commits
failing to disclose a conflict of interest if he exercises any substantial discretionary function in
connection with a government contract, purchase, payment, or other pecuniary transaction
without having given seventy-two hours' actual advance written notice to the secretary of state
and to the governing body of the government which employs the public servant of the existence
of a known potential conflicting interest of the public servant in the transaction with reference to
which he is about to act in his official capacity.
(2) A "potential conflicting interest" exists when the public servant is a director,
president, general manager, or similar executive officer or owns or controls directly or indirectly
a substantial interest in any nongovernmental entity participating in the transaction.
(3) Failing to disclose a conflict of interest is a class 2 misdemeanor.

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