Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-2-101
The commissioner of agriculture, acting under the direction of the state agricultural commission in the collection of information necessary to the performance of his or her duties as such commissioner and subject to the provisions of section 24-1-136, C.R.S., in regard to publication of such information, is authorized to call upon the several state, county, city, town, and school district officers and officers of the several state institutions of education and penal and other state institutions, and it is the duty of all such officers to furnish, upon written or printed request of the commissioner, such information as may be required for properly setting forth the resources of the state and their development, upon blanks furnished by the commissioner. Each owner, operator, or manager of any manufacturing, mining, or other business establishment operating in this state, or other person having information necessary for carrying out the purposes of this article, upon the request of the commissioner, shall furnish the same upon blanks supplied by the commission. Except as otherwise provided by law, any agricultural statistics collected by any of the several state, county, city, town, school district, or institutional officers specified in this section shall be collected in accordance with the requirements of this article.
C.R.S. § 35-2-101