27-65-122. Voting in public elections.

Statute text

Any person receiving evaluation, care, or treatment pursuant to this article 65 must be given the opportunity to exercise the person's right to register and to vote in primary and general elections. The agency or facility providing evaluation, care, or treatment shall assist the person, upon the person's request, to obtain voter registration forms and mail ballots and to comply with any other prerequisite for voting.

History

Source: L. 2022: Entire article amended with relocations, (HB 22-1256), ch. 451, p. 3197, 1, effective August 10.

Annotations

Editor's note: This section is similar to former 27-65-120 as it existed prior to 2022.

Annotations

 

ANNOTATION

Annotations

Law reviews. For article, "Patients' Rights vs. Patients' Needs: The Right of the Mentally Ill to Refuse Treatment in Colorado", see 58 Den. L.J. 567 (1981).

Applied in Goedecke v. State Dept. of Insts., 198 Colo. 407, 603 P.2d 123 (1979) (decided prior to 2010 amendments to this article).