Colorado § 44-3-431 - Catering license - permitted events - private events - fees - rules - notice to revisor of statutes.

§ 44-3-431. Catering license - permitted events - private events - fees - rules - notice to revisor of statutes.

(1) The state licensing authority may issue a catering license to a catering company that allows the catering licensee to apply for temporary permits to sell and serve alcohol beverages on unlicensed premises at catered events. The catering license is valid for one calendar year and renewed on an annual basis.

(2) (a) The state licensing authority shall establish a process for a catering licensee to obtain a permit to cater an event that may be attended by six hundred or more individuals. The state licensing authority may establish a process for a catering licensee to obtain a permit to cater an event that may be attended by fewer than six hundred individuals.

(b) A local licensing authority may establish a process for a catering licensee to obtain a permit to cater an event that may be attended by six hundred or more individuals. If a local licensing authority does not establish a local catering permit, an applicant need not obtain a catering permit from the local licensing authority.

(3) The state licensing authority shall establish and maintain, on the liquor enforcement division's public-facing website, a listing of all catering licenses in the state. A catering licensee shall submit information required by the state licensing authority in rule.

(4) A catering licensee shall not permit an individual who is eighteen years of age or older and under twenty-one years of age to sell, dispense, or participate in the sale or dispensing of an alcohol beverage, unless the individual is supervised by another individual who is on the unlicensed premises and is twenty-one years of age or older.

(5) The state licensing authority may adopt rules necessary to implement and administer this section.

(6) This section takes effect if the state licensing authority determines that the liquor enforcement division has sufficient legally available funding for the administration and enforcement of this section. The state licensing authority shall notify the revisor of statutes in writing of the date when the condition specified in this subsection (6) has occurred by emailing the notice to revisorofstatutes.ga@coleg.gov. This section takes effect upon the date identified in the notice that the liquor enforcement division has sufficient legally available funding for the administration and enforcement of this section or, if the notice does not specify that date, upon the date of the notice to the revisor of statutes.

Source: L. 2024: Entire section added, (SB 24-231), ch. 205, p. 1265, § 29, effective August 7.

Editor's note: As of publication date, the revisor of statutes has not received the notice referred to in subsection (6) of this section.