Colorado Code § 27-81-117

Criminal laws - limitations
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(1) A county, municipality, or other political
subdivision may not adopt or enforce a local law, ordinance, resolution, or rule having the force
of law that includes drinking, being a person with an alcohol use disorder, or being found in an
intoxicated condition as one of the elements of the offense giving rise to a criminal or civil
penalty or sanction.
(2) A county, municipality, or other political subdivision shall not interpret or apply any
law of general application to circumvent the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.
(3) Nothing in this article 81 affects any law, ordinance, resolution, or rule against
drunken driving, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or other similar offense
involving the operation of a vehicle, an aircraft, or a boat or machinery or other equipment or
regarding the sale, purchase, dispensing, possessing, or use of drugs or alcoholic beverages at
stated times and places or by a particular class of persons.
(4) The fact that a person is intoxicated by alcohol, under the influence of drugs, or
incapacitated by substances does not prevent the person's arrest or prosecution for the
commission of any criminal act or conduct not enumerated in subsection (1) of this section.
(5) Nothing in this article 81 limits the right of a police officer to make an otherwise
legal arrest, notwithstanding the fact that the arrested person may be intoxicated by alcohol,
under the influence of drugs, or incapacitated by substances.

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