Colorado Code § 17-19-101

Visitors at correctional facilities
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(1) Any person who wishes to enter a
correctional facility shall be asked, prior to entering the facility, to sign a consent form in which
the visitor shall give his consent to be stopped and searched by a person of the same sex and to
have his vehicle, if any, searched without probable cause while in the correctional facility. Said
form shall be as promulgated by the executive director with the advice of the attorney general. A
person who refuses to sign said form shall not be admitted to a correctional facility.
(2) At each entrance to a correctional facility, the executive director shall cause to be
displayed at all times in a prominent place a sign in English and in Spanish with a minimum
height of two feet and a minimum width of three feet and with each letter to be a minimum of
two inches in height, which shall read as follows:
NOTICE
ANY PERSON WHO WISHES TO ENTER THIS CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL BE
ASKED, PRIOR TO ENTERING THE FACILITY, TO SIGN A CONSENT FORM IN WHICH
SAID PERSON SHALL GIVE HIS CONSENT TO BE STOPPED AND SEARCHED BY A
PERSON OF THE SAME SEX AND TO HAVE HIS VEHICLE, IF ANY, SEARCHED
WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE WHILE IN THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. ANY
PERSON WHO REFUSES TO SIGN SAID FORM SHALL NOT BE ADMITTED TO THIS
CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
(3) "Correctional facility", as used in this section, means any facility under the
supervision of the department in which persons are or may be lawfully held in custody as a result
of conviction of a crime.

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