If the answer is "no" that sounds like overreach from the state. If a city/town decides they want to put criminals in jail longer there is probably a good fucking reason for it. Archive: https://archive.today/mupMR From the post: >>The Colorado Supreme Court will consider whether municipal courts can punish defendants with jail sentences that far outpace state courts’ limits in a case that could force cities to align with recent state-level criminal justice reforms. The justices made the unusual move Thursday, agreeing to examine whether the significant differences in potential sentences in state courts and city courts for the same crimes violate defendants’ constitutional rights. The state Supreme Court agreed to take the case less than a month after The Denver Post reported that municipal courts — designed as the lowest-level courts for the lowest-level crimes — have become the state’s most punitive forum for minor infractions.