Colorado § 44-20-120 - Principal place of business - requirements.

§ 44-20-120. Principal place of business - requirements.

(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.

Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 18-030), ch. 7, p. 64, § 2, effective October 1. L. 2022: (2)(c) added, (SB 22-223), ch. 406, p. 2880, § 1, effective August 10.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-6-117 as it existed prior to 2018.