Firefighters in Colorado Can Once Again Collect For MDA
Posted On: Apr 16, 2012
Afte years of lobbying we can once agin fill the boot on behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) without the threat of being arrested. State legislators passed and Governor John Hickenlooper signed a measure to revise Colorado state statutes to allow fire fighters to collect donations from street intersections.
For many years, the state’s solicitation laws prohibited anyone from asking for money on any of the state’s roads and streets. We were forced to fill the boot from parking lots and inside businesses, and were unable to raise as much money for MDA as they wanted.
The Colorado Professional Fire Fighters (CPFF) set out to change the law a few years back. CPFF leaders met with state legislators on the issue and, finally passed legislation permitting local governments to allow “the collection of charitable solicitations from motorists a certain number of days per calendar year.”
FINALLY LEGISLATORS ARE GOING TO LET US HELP OTHERS!!!!
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