2021 Colorado Code
Title 44 - Revenue - Regulation of Activities
Article 3 - Alcohol Beverages
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 44-3-101. Short Title
The short title of this article 3 is the “Colorado Liquor Code”.
History. Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations,(HB 18-1025), ch. 152, p. 950, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note:
This section is similar to former § 12-47-101 as it existed prior to 2018.
ANNOTATIONAnnotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.
Intent and primary purpose of the Colorado liquor code is to authorize, subject to regulation and safeguards, the sale and consumption of intoxicating liquors, and, at the same time, to completely outlaw and eradicate the vices and ill effects which had come to be associated with the sale of such beverages. Clown's Den, Inc. v. Canjar, 33 Colo. App. 212, 518 P.2d 957 (1974).
This article has to do with malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors. Big Top, Inc. v. Schooley, 149 Colo. 116 , 368 P.2d 201 (1962).
Contractual limitations on the sale of intoxicating liquors generally are not against the statute or its implied or expressed policy. A. D. Jones & Co. v. Parsons, 136 Colo. 434 , 319 P.2d 480 (1957).
If parties to a contract desire to place restrictions on the sale of liquors greater than this article imposes, the law will sanction the agreement, and this is true even though a contracting party gains an advantage thereby. A. D. Jones & Co. v. Parsons, 136 Colo. 434 , 319 P.2d 480 (1957).
Legal sales activities. Sales activities which are not restricted, limited, or otherwise regulated by this article are not illegal. People v. Kagan, 195 Colo. 76 , 575 P.2d 416 (1978).
Liquor code is not to be subjected to strained or narrow construction. Clown's Den, Inc. v. Canjar, 33 Colo. App. 212, 518 P.2d 957 (1974).
The right of a licensee in his relation to the state is narrow, confined, and transitory. A. D. Jones & Co. v. Parsons, 136 Colo. 434 , 319 P.2d 480 (1957).
Applied in Waymire v. Ahern, 152 Colo. 46 , 380 P.2d 239 (1963).
