(1) The Colorado motor vehicle verification system is hereby created within the Colorado bureau of investigation. The system shall be a database system that uses a motor vehicle's vehicle identification number to ascertain whether the motor vehicle has been stolen. The system shall be accessible through the internet by motor vehicle dealers, motor vehicle recyclers, automobile repair shops, licensed tow operators, the department of revenue and its authorized agents, and the general public.
The system shall use the latest information that the department of public safety possesses on stolen motor vehicles.
Users of the system shall pay a fee as established by the department of public safetyin an amount necessary to fund the direct and indirect costs of administering the system; except that neither the department of revenue nor its authorized agent shall pay a fee for the use of the system.
The department of public safety may register the persons who use the system andpromulgate any rules reasonably necessary to implement the system.
Source: L. 2007: Entire part amended, p. 1627, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2008: (1) and (3) amended, p. 1025, § 2, effective August 5.