Colorado § 31-25-217 - Management - licenses - franchises.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 31-25-217 — Management - licenses - franchises., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 31-25-217. Management - licenses - franchises.
(1) The commission shall have exclusive management and control of all parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads, as mentioned in section 31-25-201, and exclusive power to lay out, regulate, and improve the same, to prohibit certain or heavy traffic therein and thereon, and to grant or refuse licenses to sell goods on the streets or sidewalks within three hundred feet of any park entrance and on the streets and sidewalks adjoining parks. The commission shall establish and maintain necessary rules and regulations for the proper supervision and government thereof and shall have such additional powers as may be prescribed by ordinance. The governing body shall provide, by ordinance, for the enforcement of the rules and orders of the commission.
(2) No franchise, license, or permit for the construction or maintenance of any railway shall ever be granted within the limits of any park or pleasure ground or lengthwise upon any boulevard, parkway, avenue, driveway, or road, nor shall any franchise for the maintenance of any other special privilege within any park or pleasure ground be granted.
Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1179, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 31-25-211 as it existed prior to 1975.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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