Colorado Code § 44-20-120

Principal place of business - requirements
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(1) The building or structure
required to be located on a principal place of business shall have electrical service and adequate
sanitary facilities.
(2) (a) In no event shall a room in a hotel, rooming house, or apartment house building
or a part of any single or multiple unit dwelling house be considered a "principal place of
business" within the terms and provisions of this part 1, unless the entire ground floor of the
hotel, apartment house, or rooming house building or the dwelling house is devoted principally
to and occupied for commercial purposes and the office of the dealer is located on the ground
floor thereof.
(b) A motor vehicle dealer who operates the motor vehicle dealer's business from his or
her primary residence and who has been a resident of Colorado for the immediately preceding
twelve-month period and is a motor vehicle dealer only because the dealer sells custom trailers
for one or more manufacturers and maintains an inventory of fewer than four vehicles at all
times shall be exempt from subsection (2)(a) of this section. Any motor vehicle dealer who is
issued dealer plates in accordance with this subsection (2)(b) and section 42-3-116 shall only use
the plates on trailers.
(c) It is not a violation of this part 1 or any rule promulgated under this part 1 for a motor
vehicle dealer or used motor vehicle dealer to:
(I) Deliver a motor vehicle to a customer for a test drive at a location that is away from
the dealer's principal place of business;
(II) Deliver documents for a customer to sign at a location that is away from the dealer's
principal place of business;
(III) Deliver documents to, or obtain documents from, a customer at a location that is
away from the dealer's principal place of business; or
(IV) Deliver a motor vehicle to a customer at a location that is away from the dealer's
principal place of business.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt a motor vehicle dealer from
local zoning ordinances.

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