Colorado Code § 44-3-910

Common consumption areas
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(1) A promotional association or attached
licensed premises shall not:
(a) Employ a person to serve alcohol beverages or provide security within the common
consumption area unless the server has completed the server and seller training program
established by the director of the liquor enforcement division of the department;
(b) Sell or provide an alcohol beverage to a customer for consumption within the
common consumption area but not within the licensed premises in a container that is larger than
sixteen ounces;
(c) Sell or provide an alcohol beverage to a customer for consumption within the
common consumption area but not within the licensed premises unless the container is
disposable and contains the name of the vendor in at least twenty-four-point font;
(d) Permit customers to leave the licensed premises with an alcohol beverage unless the
beverage container complies with subsections (1)(b) and (1)(c) of this section;
(e) Operate the common consumption area during hours the licensed premises cannot
sell alcohol under this article 3 or the limitations imposed by the local licensing authority;
(f) Operate the common consumption area in an area that exceeds the maximum
authorized by this article 3 or by the local licensing authority;
(g) Sell, serve, dispose of, exchange, or deliver, or permit the sale, serving, giving, or
procuring of, an alcohol beverage to a visibly intoxicated person or to a known habitual
drunkard;
(h) Sell, serve, dispose of, exchange, or deliver, or permit the sale, serving, or giving of
an alcohol beverage to a person under twenty-one years of age; or
(i) Permit a visibly intoxicated person to loiter within the common consumption area.
(2) The promotional association shall promptly remove all alcohol beverages from the
common consumption area at the end of the hours of operation.
(3) A person shall not consume an alcohol beverage within the common consumption
area unless it was purchased from an attached, licensed premises.
(4) This section does not apply to a special event permit issued under article 5 of this
title 44 or the holder thereof unless the permit holder desires to use an existing common
consumption area and agrees in writing to the requirements of this article 3 and the local
licensing authority concerning the common consumption area.

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