Each member of the board of directors may receive compensation at the rate of up to one hundred dollars per day while attending meetings and shall be reimbursed for his or her actual and necessary expenses while engaged in official business. No director or officer named in this article shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any manner, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by the board or in the profits to be derived therefrom, nor shall he or she receive any bonds, gratuity, or bribe. For any violation of this section, such officer commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S. He or she shall also forfeit his or her office upon conviction.
C.R.S. § 37-41-108
The effective date for amendments made to this section by chapter 216, L. 77, was changed from July 1, 1978, to April 1, 1979, by chapter 1, First Extraordinary Session, L. 78, and was subsequently changed to July 1, 1979, by chapter 157, § 23, L. 79. See People v. McKenna, 199 Colo. 452 , 611 P.2d 574 (1980).
For the legislative declaration contained in the 2002 act amending this section, see section 1 of chapter 318, Session Laws of Colorado 2002.