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Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 1 - ELECTIONSGENERAL, PRIMARY, RECALL, AND CONGRESSIONAL VACANCY ELECTIONSArticle 5 - NOTICE OF AND PREPARATION FOR ELECTIONS
Part 1 - POLLING LOCATIONS
Section 1-5-105 - Restrictions

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5-105

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Current through Acts effective through 6/7/2024 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 1-5-105 - Restrictions
(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.

C.R.S. § 1-5-105

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 1/1/1993. 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.

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

In 2013, this section was amended by the "Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act". For the short title and the legislative declaration, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 185, Session Laws of Colorado 2013.