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Colorado Statutes § 1-13-715 Liquor in or near voter service and polling center

⤴ Up to Article 13: Election Offenses

Statute Text

(1) It is unlawful for any election official or other person to introduce into any polling location, or to use therein, or to offer to another for use therein, at any time while any election is in progress or the result thereof is being ascertained by the counting of the ballots, any intoxicating malt, spirituous, or vinous liquors.
(2) It is unlawful for any officer or board of officers of any county or any municipality, whether incorporated under general law or by special charter, who may at any time be by law charged with the duty of designating polling locations for the holding of any general or congressional election therein, to select therefor a room wherein any intoxicating malt, spirituous, or vinous liquors are usually sold for consumption on the premises.
(3) Any person who violates any provision of this section upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111 .

History

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462 , § 37 , eff. 3/1/2022 .

Amended by 2013 Ch. 185 , § 122 , eff. 5/10/2013 .

L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 435, § 1, effective 1/1/1981 . L. 83: (2) amended, p. 358, § 31, effective July 1. L. 96: (2) amended, p. 1765, § 52, effective July 1. L. 2013: (1) and (2) amended, (HB 13-1303), ch. 748, p. 748, § 122, effective May 10.

Editor's Note

(1) This section is similar to former §§ 1-13-128 and 1-30-115 as they existed prior to 1980.
(2) Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.

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