Colorado § 30-15-501 - License required.

§ 30-15-501. License required.

No person, partnership, or corporation shall operate, conduct, carry on, or maintain a public dance hall, booth, pavilion, or other place where public dances are held without first obtaining a license therefor. Any person, firm, or corporation desiring such license shall make application therefor in writing to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the public dance hall, booth, pavilion, or other place is proposed to be located. The application shall state the name and address of the applicant, if a person; the names and addresses of all the persons composing the partnership, if a partnership; and the names and addresses of the officers and directors of the corporation, if a corporation; a full description of the place and premises at which it is proposed to conduct and carry on such public dances; and the term for which the license is desired. The board of county commissioners has the authority, within its discretion, to grant such license to an applicant for the current calendar year or part thereof unexpired upon the payment by the applicant of a fee of twenty-five dollars to the county treasurer. The license shall authorize the person, firm, or corporation receiving it to operate, conduct, and carry on a public dance hall, booth, or pavilion at such place for the term from the date of its issue to the end of the current calendar year for which it is issued. This part 5 shall not apply to incorporated cities and towns.

Source: L. 2017: Entire part added, (SB 17-228), ch. 246, p. 1030, § 1, effective August 9.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-18-101 as it existed prior to 2017.

ANNOTATION

Annotator's note. The case cited below was decided under C.L. § 4149.1, the subject matter of which was similar to this section.

This section provides that public dance halls may be regulated under the police power; that, uncontrolled, their tendency is to weaken morals and breed disorder and indolence. Dwyer v. People, 82 Colo. 574, 261 P. 858 (1927).

The exemption of incorporated towns and cities from the operation of this article, is a reasonable and valid classification. Dwyer v. People, 82 Colo. 574, 261 P. 858 (1927).

If a person is injured by unlawful action, or failure of county commissioners to act on his application for a license for a public dance hall, the writs of certiorari and mandamus are available remedies. Dwyer v. People, 82 Colo. 574, 261 P. 858 (1927).