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Colorado Voting Rules for Boards and Members

What Colorado's statutes say about board votes, emergencies, meetings, and member ballots, as Qwibie summarizes them, with the citation for each.

Can the Board Vote without a Meeting?

Nonprofit corporations

Colorado lets a nonprofit board act without a meeting after notice to every director, by the votes a full meeting would need, unless the bylaws say otherwise; any director can demand a meeting instead.

Qwibie counts the vote as: Every director consents in writing.

  • Notice to every director
  • Any director can demand meeting
  • File writings with minutes
Citation
C.R.S. §7-128-202 · Read the source
Review
ReviewedSummary recorded as reviewed against the statute text, 2026-10-13

Homeowners associations · Condominium associations

Colorado association boards decide in an open meeting: owners must get a chance to speak on an item before the board votes on it, and no rule may be adopted in executive session. Only an association incorporated under the Nonprofit Act could also use written consent, and Qwibie doesn't know that yet, so the decision goes to a short meeting.

Qwibie sends this decision to a short meeting.

Citation
C.R.S. §38-33.3-308(1), (2.5)(b); §7-128-202 (incorporated associations only) · Read the source
Review
Consideration onlyNot yet reviewed against the enacted text: a consideration only, 2026-10-13

What about an Emergency between Meetings?

Nonprofit corporations

Colorado lets a nonprofit board act without a meeting after notice to every director, by the votes a full meeting would need, unless the bylaws say otherwise; any director can demand a meeting instead.

Qwibie counts the vote as: Every director consents in writing.

  • Notice to every director
  • Any director can demand meeting
  • File writings with minutes
Citation
C.R.S. §7-128-202 · Read the source
Review
ReviewedSummary recorded as reviewed against the statute text, 2026-10-13

How Do Members Elect Directors?

Homeowners associations · Condominium associations

Colorado contested board elections are by secret ballot, counted by a neutral party, with results reported without names.

Qwibie asks for the steps below before the vote counts.

  • Secret ballot for contested elections
  • Neutral counter
  • Results without names
Citation
C.R.S. §38-33.3-310(1)(b) · Read the source
Review
ReviewedSummary recorded as reviewed against the statute text, 2026-10-13

Not legal advice

These are Qwibie's own summaries, not the law, and they don't say what the law is today. Open the source to read the text, and ask your attorney how it applies to your organization. Your articles and bylaws may set a different rule where the statute allows it.

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