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Colorado Statutes § 1-5-105 RestrictionsVersion dated Oct. 30, 2024

Statute Text

(1) No election-related activity may be conducted within one hundred feet of any building in which a polling location or drop-off location is located except that of the conduct of the election at the polling location or drop-off location.
(2) No polling location or drop-off location shall be located in a room in which any intoxicating malt, spirituous, or vinous liquors are being served; except that a polling location or drop-off location may be located within a multi-use building as specified in subsection (4) of this section, in which intoxicating malt, spiritous, or vinous liquors are served, so long as the polling location or drop-off location is in a separate area of the multi-use facility from where such liquors are being served.
(3) The polling locations or drop-off locations shall be in public locations wherever possible. A private location may be used only when no appropriate public location is available.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section and section 1-13-714 , when a polling location or drop-off location is within a multi-use building such as a shopping mall or county office building, the "building" is considered the room in which ballots are cast, any waiting room or hall where electors wait to vote, as well as a primary corridor where electors walk to an interior polling location or drop-off location, and the designated exterior door to the multi-use building in which the polling location or drop-off location is located.

History

Amended by 2023 Ch. 399 , § 16 , eff. 6/6/2023 .

Amended by 2013 Ch. 185 , § 33 , eff. 5/10/2013 .

L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 701, § 8, effective January 1, 1993. L. 93: (2) and (3) amended, p. 1408, § 42, effective July 1. L. 95: (4) added, p. 836, § 48, effective July 1. L. 2013: Entire section amended, (HB 13-1303), ch. 185, p. 708, § 33, effective May 10.

Editor's Note

This section is similar to former § 1-6-101 (5) and (6) as it existed prior to 1992.