Unless otherwise provided by law, nothing in this part 2 authorizes any person, by virtue of a contract for printing the official statutes, pursuant to article 5 of title 2, C.R.S., the session laws, or the supreme court and court of appeals reports of this state, either directly or indirectly, to print, publish, sell, or give away for his own use or benefit any such statutes, session laws, or reports; but the right to print, publish, sell, or give away such statutes, session laws, or supreme court and court of appeals reports shall always remain with the state. Any person who contracts for such printing and who prints, publishes, sells, or gives away such statutes, session laws, or court reports in violation of the terms of such contract or without other authorization of the general assembly for such statutes or session laws or without the authorization of the supreme court for such court reports shall forfeit to the state the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every book, volume, computer representation, or pamphlet so printed, to be recovered by an action in the name of the state.
C.R.S. § 24-70-211