§ 44-3-910 — Common consumption areas

Colorado § 44-3-910

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 44: Revenue -
• Art.: Alcohol Beverages

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(1) A promotional association or
attached licensed premises shall not:

(a) Employ a person to serve alcohol beverages or provide security within the
common consumption area unless the server has completed the server and seller
training program established by the director of the liquor enforcement division of
the department;

(b) Sell or provide an alcohol beverage to a customer for consumption within
the common consumption area but not within the licensed premises in a container
that is larger than sixteen ounces;

(c) Sell or provide an alcohol beverage to a customer for consumption within
the common consumption area but not within the licensed premises unless the
container is disposable and contains the name of the vendor in at least twenty-four-point font;

(d) Permit customers to leave the licensed premises with an alcohol
beverage unless the beverage container complies with subsections (1)(b) and (1)(c)
of this section;

(e) Operate the common consumption area during hours the licensed
premises cannot sell alcohol under this article 3 or the limitations imposed by the
local licensing authority;

(f) Operate the common consumption area in an area that exceeds the
maximum authorized by this article 3 or by the local licensing authority;

(g) Sell, serve, dispose of, exchange, or deliver, or permit the sale, serving,
giving, or procuring of, an alcohol beverage to a visibly intoxicated person or to a
known habitual drunkard;

(h) Sell, serve, dispose of, exchange, or deliver, or permit the sale, serving, or
giving of an alcohol beverage to a person under twenty-one years of age; or

(i) Permit a visibly intoxicated person to loiter within the common
consumption area.

(2) The promotional association shall promptly remove all alcohol beverages
from the common consumption area at the end of the hours of operation.

(3) A person shall not consume an alcohol beverage within the common
consumption area unless it was purchased from an attached, licensed premises.

(4) This section does not apply to a special event permit issued under article
5 of this title 44 or the holder thereof unless the permit holder desires to use an
existing common consumption area and agrees in writing to the requirements of
this article 3 and the local licensing authority concerning the common consumption
area.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 18-1025), ch. 152, p. 1065, � 2, effective October 1.