Does Colorado have an implied warranty of habitability?

Statute — no independent court-created warranty operates alongside it. The duty is created by statute alone. Section 38-12-503(1) deems every landlord to warrant that the residential premises is fit for human habitation at the inception of the tenant's occupancy and will stay fit throughout the tenancy, and part 5 of article 12 of title 38 carries the standards, the remedies, the landlord's defenses and the retaliation ban.

How long does a landlord have to make repairs in Colorado?

3 days. The headline count is seventy-two hours — three days — to COMMENCE remedial action where the premises are uninhabitable or the condition is otherwise covered, cut to twenty-four hours where the condition materially interferes with the tenant's life, health or safety. Both are clocks to begin work, not deadlines to finish it: completion runs on a separate, unquantified reasonable-time standard, and a landlord who starts and then stops is in breach as well.

Can a tenant repair and deduct in Colorado?

Yes — authorized by statute — Limit: No cap of any kind. Colorado sets no dollar ceiling, no fraction-of-rent ceiling and no frequency limit on the deduction, and the cost may be taken out of one or more rent payments.

Can a tenant withhold rent for repair problems in Colorado?

No — no statute or decision provides a path — No Colorado statute lets a tenant withhold rent over the condition of the premises, and there is no court or agency escrow program. The abatement happens in court instead, and it is unusually strong.

Can a landlord retaliate against a tenant who complains about repairs in Colorado?

Protected by a general retaliation statute — Colorado sets no presumption window and uses a causation standard instead: the tenant need only show that the protected activity was a motivating factor in the landlord's decision, and never has to prove retaliation was the sole reason. A tenant who succeeds recovers damages of not more than three months' periodic rent or three times actual damages, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney fees and costs, and may terminate the rental agreement.

Can a lease make the tenant responsible for repairs in Colorado?

Not waivable — any qualifier is stated on this page. Two separate provisions bar waiver. Section 38-12-503(10) voids as contrary to public policy any agreement waiving or modifying any right, remedy, obligation or prohibition provided in part 5 — not merely the warranty, so the repair-and-deduct right, the substitute-housing duty, the bond-free defense and the retaliation ban are all protected.

What does Colorado law require a landlord to repair?

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Enacted but not yet in force. This page reflects the law in force today. The following measure has been signed and takes effect on the date shown:

SB26-054 (2026) — Already CHAPTERED: on and after January 1, 2027, post-closing occupancy agreements (home-seller rent-backs) become exempt from the two-month security deposit cap of § 38-12-102.5. No other change to the cap. Status: Signed 2026-04-20; the act took effect August 12, 2026, and the exemption itself operates on and after January 1, 2027 per the amended statute's own text. The figures shown do not yet reflect it. (checked August 12, 2026).

Colorado deems every residential landlord to warrant that the premises are fit for human habitation when the tenancy starts and will stay fit throughout it, and backs that promise with the most elaborate remedy scheme in the country.

Cited to C.R.S. § 38-12-501 — Legislative declaration (part 5 a matter of statewide concern), 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38 and 9 more cited sources · Verified August 29, 2026

Once the landlord has notice, work must BEGIN within seventy-two hours for an uninhabitable condition and within twenty-four hours for one that materially interferes with the tenant's life, health or safety — those are clocks to start, not to finish, and completion runs on a reasonable-time standard. The tenant can repair or replace and deduct the cost from rent with no dollar cap, no rent-fraction cap and no frequency limit, can terminate on ten to sixty days' notice, and can sue for damages, an injunction or an immediate restraining order without posting security. Colorado has no rent-withholding or escrow statute, but it does something stronger: a tenant sued for possession or rent can raise the breach as a defense with no bond, no out-of-pocket expense and no prior use of any other remedy, and once a breach is found the fair rental value of the unit is rebuttably presumed to be zero for a life-health-or-safety condition and fifty percent of the rent for any other. Retaliation is barred with no time window at all — the tenant need only show the protected activity was a motivating factor — and damages run to the greater of three months' rent or three times actual damages plus fees.

Colorado habitability & repairs at a glance

Where the duty comes from	Statute — no independent court-created warranty operates alongside it
Duty source details	The duty is created by statute alone. Section 38-12-503(1) deems every landlord to warrant that the residential premises is fit for human habitation at the inception of the tenant's occupancy and will stay fit throughout the tenancy, and part 5 of article 12 of title 38 carries the standards, the remedies, the landlord's defenses and the retaliation ban. Section 38-12-501 declares the part a matter of statewide concern. The whole section was repealed and reenacted by Senate Bill 24-094 effective May 3, 2024, and applies to actions filed on or after that date.
Who is covered	Statewide — no coverage split
Where the repair standards live	The statute itself lists specific standards
What must be kept in repair	A residential premises is uninhabitable in three ways under section 38-12-505(1): mold associated with dampness, or another dampness-causing condition, that would materially interfere with the tenant's health or safety (minor mold on surfaces that accumulate moisture in ordinary use is excluded); a substantial lack of any of sixteen listed characteristics; or being otherwise unfit for human habitation, an express catch-all that keeps the list from being closed. The sixteen run from functioning appliances, waterproofing and weather protection of roof and exterior walls including unbroken windows and doors, conforming plumbing and gas facilities, running water at all times with hot water sufficient for ordinary cleanliness and health, functioning heating facilities, electrical lighting and wiring, clean common areas and extermination, adequate serviced garbage receptacles, floors, stairways, elevators and railings in good repair, and locks on exterior doors and openable windows, through to compliance with building, housing and health codes whose violation would materially interfere with life, health or safety, the remediation standards for an environmental public health event, illegal-drug-laboratory cleanup, section 38-12-803, and the cooling-device requirements. Section 38-12-505(4) adds twelve conditions rebuttably presumed to materially interfere with life, health or safety, and a landlord can rebut that presumption only by clear and convincing evidence. A common-area deficiency counts only where it materially affects the tenant's use of the unit.
Heat standard type	A duty to provide working heating equipment — capability, not a temperature guarantee
Heat standard details	Colorado sets no indoor temperature figure. The listed characteristic is functioning heating facilities, and the presumption list makes the season explicit: a lack of functioning heating facilities maintained in good working order from October through April of each year is presumed to materially interfere with the tenant's life, health or safety. Outside those months a heating failure is still reachable through the general duty; it simply loses the presumption.
Headline repair day count	3 days
Notice and repair-window rules	The headline count is seventy-two hours — three days — to COMMENCE remedial action where the premises are uninhabitable or the condition is otherwise covered, cut to twenty-four hours where the condition materially interferes with the tenant's life, health or safety. Both are clocks to begin work, not deadlines to finish it: completion runs on a separate, unquantified reasonable-time standard, and a landlord who starts and then stops is in breach as well. Notice is broad — the landlord has notice if any writing gives a basis to substantially know the condition exists or may exist, including a government or third-party notice, a tenant's written message about a condition affecting several tenants, correspondence with maintenance staff or a maintenance service, the landlord's own written observations or reports, and written notice from the tenant sent the way the landlord usually communicates. The landlord must also contact the tenant within twenty-four hours of the notice (seventy-two if the premises are inaccessible because of an environmental public health event) with an estimate of when work will start and finish, and give at least twenty-four hours' written notice before entering except where the condition materially and imminently threatens life, health or safety or is actively damaging the property. Two further counts are presumptions, not cure deadlines: a delay is rebuttably presumed unreasonable if the condition still exists fourteen calendar days after notice where the premises are uninhabitable, or seven calendar days where it materially interferes with life, health or safety. Those presumptive periods are tolled while a tenant denies necessary entry. Mold runs on its own clock: containment, stopping active water sources and installing high-efficiency particulate air filtration must all be completed within seventy-two hours of notice.
Repair and deduct	Yes — authorized by statute — Limit: No cap of any kind. Colorado sets no dollar ceiling, no fraction-of-rent ceiling and no frequency limit on the deduction, and the cost may be taken out of one or more rent payments. Deductions spread over two or more rental periods need only one notice. — The tenant gives at least ten days' advance written notice of an intent to hire a licensed or otherwise qualified professional, cut to forty-eight hours where the tenant has a good-faith belief the condition materially interferes with life, health or safety. The remedy opens if the landlord then fails to sufficiently remedy the condition within that notice period or fails to provide the comparable dwelling unit or hotel room section 38-12-503(4) requires. The professional may not be a relative of the tenant and must give an estimate reasonably consistent with industry standards, the tenant must hire that professional, and a receipt, invoice or proof of payment goes to the landlord within a reasonable time after the work or within thirty days after the landlord asks. A separate track lets a tenant replace a broken or malfunctioning appliance rather than repair it, on at least three days' advance written notice, with a replacement of comparable quality and substantially the same features and the same proof requirement. Getting it wrong is expensive: a tenant who deducts without substantially complying exposes themselves to the landlord's ordinary legal remedies, and a court that finds the deduction was made purposely in bad faith must award the landlord double the amount unlawfully deducted.
Rent withholding or escrow	No — no statute or decision provides a path — No Colorado statute lets a tenant withhold rent over the condition of the premises, and there is no court or agency escrow program. The abatement happens in court instead, and it is unusually strong. A tenant sued for possession or for rent may raise the breach as an affirmative defense without depositing a bond, without having spent a dollar on the condition, and without having used any other remedy first, and the court must construe the tenant's answer or filing liberally to find the defense. Once a breach is found, the fair rental value of the unit is rebuttably presumed to be zero dollars for the whole period a life-health-or-safety condition went unremedied, and fifty percent of the contract rent for the whole period of any other unremedied condition — so the rent legally owed for that period may be nothing at all. On a proven defense the court must deny possession, order the condition remedied, apply the reduced fair rental value from when the condition began until it was fixed, and order the landlord to reimburse the difference between that reduced value and any greater rent actually paid. A tenant who simply stops paying still bears the risk: the finding of a prevailing tenant is conditioned on paying any rent the court does find owed, into the registry or to the landlord, within thirty days after the amount is set.
Termination over habitability failures	Yes — a statute states the right — A tenant may end the tenancy with no liability or financial penalty on written notice of not less than ten and not more than sixty days, stating the conditions that remain unremedied, the intent to terminate and vacate, and a termination date at least ten days after the notice. If the landlord commences or completes the work before that date, the parties may agree in writing to rescind the termination and continue the tenancy. A condition that recurs within six months of being remedied opens a second route: the tenant gives at least ten days' written notice within thirty days after the recurrence, with a termination date at least ten days out. There is also a substitute-housing route — where a condition cannot be fixed within sixty consecutive days for reasons outside the landlord's control, the landlord may stop paying for the hotel room after sixty days, but only by giving written notice that says so and that the tenant may terminate with no liability or financial penalty, and by returning the full security deposit on or before the date of that notice. Where the condition was caused by a third party outside the landlord's direction and control and the landlord has taken reasonable, necessary and timely steps but cannot fix it, termination on the ten-to-sixty-day notice is the tenant's ONLY remedy.
Essential-service remedies	Yes — distinct statutory remedies for essential-service failures — Colorado has no separate essential-services chapter; it handles those failures through faster clocks and a substitute-housing duty. Inadequate running water or hot water, a lack of functioning heating facilities from October through April, a lack of electricity or landlord-caused electrical disruptions, hazardous gas or electrical conditions, failed plumbing or sewage disposal, and an inoperable elevator where the tenant has a disability preventing stair use are among the twelve conditions presumed to materially interfere with life, health or safety — which puts them on the twenty-four-hour clock to begin work and on the forty-eight-hour repair-and-deduct notice. Where a condition materially interferes with life, health or safety, or where an elevator is out for a tenant who depends on it, the landlord must on the tenant's request and within twenty-four hours of that request provide, at no cost and at the landlord's choice, a comparable dwelling unit or a hotel room. It must have at least as many beds as are in use in the tenant's unit; if the stay is expected to run past forty-eight hours it must include a refrigerator with a freezer and a range stove or oven, or the landlord must pay a daily meals-and-incidentals allowance at least equal to the Colorado state employee per diem for intrastate travel, repeating every twenty-four hours; and it must be habitable, accessible for a tenant with a disability, and within five miles unless the tenant agrees otherwise — five to ten miles only if substantially less expensive than anything within five, and otherwise the nearest available. The landlord pays only that per diem and reasonable relocation costs including storage and transportation. Two limits catch people out: the tenant remains responsible for the rent during the relocation and for the rest of the lease term, and the hotel obligation is capped at sixty consecutive days where the condition cannot be fixed in that time for reasons outside the landlord's control.
Retaliation protection	Protected by a general retaliation statute — Colorado sets no presumption window and uses a causation standard instead: the tenant need only show that the protected activity was a motivating factor in the landlord's decision, and never has to prove retaliation was the sole reason. A tenant who succeeds recovers damages of not more than three months' periodic rent or three times actual damages, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney fees and costs, and may terminate the rental agreement. A landlord who replaces a malfunctioning appliance with one that is not identical but provides substantially the same features gets a rebuttable presumption in their favor, and the section does not stop an otherwise lawful notice to terminate or to vacate. Every rental agreement since January 1, 2025 must carry the ban in at least twelve-point bold-faced type. — The statement Colorado requires in every lease names the protected ground plainly: a landlord may not retaliate against a tenant in any manner for reporting unsafe conditions, for requesting repairs, or for seeking to enjoy the tenant's right to safe and healthy housing.
Damages, penalties, and defenses	A tenant bringing a claim or counterclaim recovers actual damages directly arising from the breach — expressly including the reduction in fair rental value during any period the premises were uninhabitable — plus court costs, reasonable attorney fees, punitive damages and any other relief the court orders, and may obtain injunctive relief or specific performance in county or district court, with the court keeping continuing jurisdiction and able to extend relief to similarly situated tenants. An immediate temporary restraining order is available without notice to the landlord on the tenant's affidavit, verified complaint or testimony, and the tenant need not post security or show irreparable injury; the motion takes precedence over everything except older applications of the same kind. Attorney fees run on three distinct routes that must not be collapsed: a tenant bringing a claim or counterclaim may recover them; on a proven affirmative defense the court must award the tenant costs and fees; and a general prevailing-party route exists only where the lease itself contains a fee clause, with the landlord's side of it confined to a frivolous tenant filing. In a nonpayment case the tenant need only establish a breach within sixty days before, or at any time during, the period the rent is said to be owed, or at any time in the tenancy if the condition continued into that period, and need not show the condition still exists at trial; if the tenant raises the defense and loses, the court must give fourteen days to pay, and payment within that window dismisses the nonpayment claim with prejudice unless the defense was brought frivolously or for delay. Either side can be ordered to produce documents no less than ninety-six hours before trial, and the landlord must keep every written notice and remediation record for the tenancy and three years after, producing them to the tenant within ten calendar days of a request. The landlord's defenses: a condition substantially caused by the misconduct of the tenant, a household member, guest, invitee or someone under the tenant's control is no breach at all — except that it is not misconduct where the condition results from domestic violence, domestic abuse, unlawful sexual behavior or stalking and the landlord has notice at any time; tenant obstruction is a defense only on a two-part showing that the tenant refused or unreasonably denied entry or otherwise delayed the work AND that this made the repair impracticable; a third-party-caused condition beyond the landlord's control limits the tenant to termination; and part 5 does not apply against a housing provider receiving federal financial assistance directly from the federal government where it directly conflicts with federal law. Public enforcement is broad and grew in 2025: the attorney general may sue over a pattern or practice and may intervene by right in any court action raising a part 5 claim, defense or counterclaim, with civil penalties of up to $20,000 per violation counted separately for each tenant and up to $10,000 for each violation of a court order or injunction, all payable to the general fund rather than to tenants; and since August 6, 2025 the attorney general, any county, and any municipality may petition the district court to place a multifamily residential property in receivership on reasonable cause to believe the landlord has engaged in a pattern of neglect — defined as maintaining the property in a state of disrepair that threatens the health, safety or security of tenants or the public, including vermin or rat infestation, filth or contamination, inadequate ventilation, illumination, sanitary, heating or life-safety facilities, inoperative fire suppression or warning equipment, or inoperative door or window locks.
Can the duty be waived or shifted	Not waivable — any qualifier is stated on this page
Waiver and delegation rules	Two separate provisions bar waiver. Section 38-12-503(10) voids as contrary to public policy any agreement waiving or modifying any right, remedy, obligation or prohibition provided in part 5 — not merely the warranty, so the repair-and-deduct right, the substitute-housing duty, the bond-free defense and the retaliation ban are all protected. Section 38-12-507(5)(a) separately makes any lease term that waives or modifies a part 5 right or remedy unlawful, void and unenforceable, and reaches any term charging a tenant a cost, fee or penalty for exercising one. The remedies are cumulative: using one does not give up the others. A lease term inviting the tenant to report an uninhabitable condition verbally waives the landlord's own right to receive written notice, and a tenant's notice is valid if it substantially complies with the statute.
Leading court decisions	This page rests on the statutes cited below
Local rules	Part 5 is declared a matter of statewide concern, so the habitability standards themselves are set at the state level rather than varied city by city. Local law still does two jobs. Building, housing and health codes are pulled into the statutory list — a code violation that would materially interfere with the tenant's life, health or safety is itself a habitability defect. And since August 6, 2025 counties and municipalities have their own enforcement power: they may bring civil actions to enforce state landlord-tenant law and may petition for receivership of a multifamily property whose owner has shown a pattern of neglect.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Colorado Habitability & Repair Laws (verified August 29, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/habitability/colorado/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

The 24 and 72-hour clocks are to START work, not to finish it — This is the most-misreported number in Colorado. Section 38-12-503(2)(b)(I) requires the landlord to COMMENCE remedial action within twenty-four hours for a condition materially interfering with life, health or safety and within seventy-two hours where the premises are uninhabitable or the condition is otherwise covered. Finishing is governed by a separate, unquantified standard — a reasonable time after commencing — and a landlord who starts and then stops without continuing until the condition is fixed is in breach on that ground alone. The seven and fourteen-calendar-day figures are different again: they trigger a rebuttable presumption that the delay was unreasonable, not a cure deadline. Mold is the one place a seventy-two-hour count is a deadline to finish: containment, stopping active water sources and installing high-efficiency particulate air filtration must all be done within seventy-two hours of notice.
A cross-reference quirk in the appliance-replacement track — Section 38-12-507(1)(c)(II)(A) lets a tenant replace a broken appliance after three days' advance written notice, but the very next subdivision, (1)(c)(II)(B), conditions the deduction on the landlord failing to act 'within the notice period described in subsection (1)(c)(I)(A)' — which is the repair track's ten-day, or forty-eight-hour, period, not the three-day appliance period. Read literally, the three-day notice does not start a three-day clock. The official text prints the cross-reference this way; secondary write-ups state the appliance track as a clean three-day remedy without mentioning it.
Relocation does not pause the rent — A landlord who must move a tenant into a comparable unit or hotel room pays only the daily meals-and-incidentals allowance and reasonable relocation costs including storage and transportation — and the tenant remains responsible for the rent during the relocation and for the rest of the lease term afterwards. The hotel duty is also capped: where a condition cannot be fixed within sixty consecutive days for reasons outside the landlord's control, the landlord may stop paying after sixty days, but only by giving written notice that the tenant may terminate with no liability or financial penalty and returning the full security deposit on or before the date of that notice.
No withholding statute, but the strongest abatement figures in the country — Colorado gives tenants no statutory right to withhold rent and no escrow program, which makes it look weak in a yes-or-no comparison. The reality is the opposite. Section 38-12-507(3) presumes the fair rental value of a unit to be zero dollars for the entire period a life-health-or-safety condition went unremedied, and fifty percent of the contract rent for the entire period of any other unremedied condition, and section 38-12-507(2)(c) lets the tenant raise the breach in an eviction or rent case with no bond, no accrued expense and no prior use of another remedy. Since May 29, 2025 the reimbursement the court orders covers rent paid by a housing subsidy as well as rent paid by the tenant.
Citations to the old subsection numbers are out of date — Senate Bill 24-094 repealed and reenacted section 38-12-503 in its entirety effective May 3, 2024, and it applies to actions filed on or after that date. The decimal subsections that older write-ups quote — 38-12-503(2.2), (2.3), (2.5), (2.7), added between 2019 and 2023 — no longer exist. Anything citing them is describing law that was replaced two years ago.
There is no duty to provide air conditioning — Section 38-12-505(7) is a non-interference and disclosure rule, not a cooling duty: a landlord may not prohibit or restrict a tenant from installing or using a portable cooling device except on four stated grounds, one of which is electrical capacity, and a landlord who restricts on that ground in a multi-unit building must prioritize a tenant who asks in order to accommodate a disability. A restricting landlord must disclose the restriction in writing, say whether cooled common space will be open during an extreme heat event, and if not point to community cooling spaces — public spaces that keep a temperature no higher than eighty degrees Fahrenheit — unless none is known within ten miles. Failing that section is itself a habitability defect under the listed characteristics, but Colorado is not an air-conditioning state.
Two lease clauses have been mandatory since January 1, 2025 — Every Colorado rental agreement must carry, in at least twelve-point bold-faced type, a statement that the tenant is entitled to safe and healthy housing under the warranty of habitability and that retaliation for reporting unsafe conditions, requesting repairs or seeking to enjoy that right is prohibited; and a second statement, in English and Spanish and in the same type size, giving a mailing or delivery address plus an e-mail address or online tenant portal where written notice of an uninhabitable condition can be sent. A landlord who provides a tenant portal must also post that information conspicuously inside it.

Common questions: Colorado habitability & repairs

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Does Colorado have an implied warranty of habitability?: Statute — no independent court-created warranty operates alongside it. The duty is created by statute alone. Section 38-12-503(1) deems every landlord to warrant that the residential premises is fit for human habitation at the inception of the tenant's occupancy and will stay fit throughout the tenancy, and part 5 of article 12 of title 38 carries the standards, the remedies, the landlord's defenses and the retaliation ban.
How long does a landlord have to make repairs in Colorado?: 3 days. The headline count is seventy-two hours — three days — to COMMENCE remedial action where the premises are uninhabitable or the condition is otherwise covered, cut to twenty-four hours where the condition materially interferes with the tenant's life, health or safety. Both are clocks to begin work, not deadlines to finish it: completion runs on a separate, unquantified reasonable-time standard, and a landlord who starts and then stops is in breach as well.
Can a tenant repair and deduct in Colorado?: Yes — authorized by statute — Limit: No cap of any kind. Colorado sets no dollar ceiling, no fraction-of-rent ceiling and no frequency limit on the deduction, and the cost may be taken out of one or more rent payments.
Can a tenant withhold rent for repair problems in Colorado?: No — no statute or decision provides a path — No Colorado statute lets a tenant withhold rent over the condition of the premises, and there is no court or agency escrow program. The abatement happens in court instead, and it is unusually strong.
Can a landlord retaliate against a tenant who complains about repairs in Colorado?: Protected by a general retaliation statute — Colorado sets no presumption window and uses a causation standard instead: the tenant need only show that the protected activity was a motivating factor in the landlord's decision, and never has to prove retaliation was the sole reason. A tenant who succeeds recovers damages of not more than three months' periodic rent or three times actual damages, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney fees and costs, and may terminate the rental agreement.
Can a lease make the tenant responsible for repairs in Colorado?: Not waivable — any qualifier is stated on this page. Two separate provisions bar waiver. Section 38-12-503(10) voids as contrary to public policy any agreement waiving or modifying any right, remedy, obligation or prohibition provided in part 5 — not merely the warranty, so the repair-and-deduct right, the substitute-housing duty, the bond-free defense and the retaliation ban are all protected.

Citations

C.R.S. § 38-12-501 — Legislative declaration (part 5 a matter of statewide concern), 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38 (verified 2026) Official source
C.R.S. § 38-12-503 — Warranty of habitability; notice; landlord obligations, 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38 · (1)-(14) (verified 2026) Official source
C.R.S. § 38-12-505 — Uninhabitable residential premises; habitability procedures; definitions, 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38 · (1), (2), (3)(c)-(e), (4), (5), (7) (verified 2026) Official source
C.R.S. § 38-12-507 — Breach of warranty of habitability; tenant's remedies, 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38 · (1)(a)-(f), (2)(a)-(h), (3), (4), (5) (verified 2026) Official source
C.R.S. § 38-12-508 — Landlord's defenses, 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38 · (1), (5), (6) (verified 2026) Official source
C.R.S. § 38-12-509 — Retaliation prohibited, 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38 · (1.7), (2), (3), (5) (verified 2026) Official source
C.R.S. § 38-12-512 — Attorney general enforcement and civil penalties, 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38 · (1), (3), (4), (5) (verified 2026) Official source
House Bill 25-1240 (ch. 291, L. 2025) — amends C.R.S. § 38-12-507(2)(g)(IV) so reimbursement reaches rent paid by a housing subsidy; effective May 29, 2025 (verified 2026) Official source
Senate Bill 25-020 (ch. 264, L. 2025) — adds C.R.S. § 38-12-513, receivership of residential housing, and county and municipal enforcement authority; effective August 6, 2025 (verified 2026) Official source
Senate Bill 24-094 (ch. 158, L. 2024) — repealed and reenacted C.R.S. §§ 38-12-503 and 38-12-507 and added § 38-12-512; effective May 3, 2024 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct reading of part 5 of article 12 of title 38 of the Colorado Revised Statutes — the warranty-of-habitability part, sections 38-12-501 through 38-12-512, every section read in full — in the 2024 Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 38, the official consolidated edition published by the General Assembly's Office of Legislative Legal Services; the enrolled texts of House Bill 25-1240 (chapter 291, Session Laws of Colorado 2025) and Senate Bill 25-020 (chapter 264), which carry the two 2025 changes the 2024 edition predates; and the Legislative Council Staff summaries of 2025 and 2026 housing and landlord-tenant legislation together with the signed act of every 2026 housing bill those summaries name.