Colorado § 6-25-109 - Responsibility when key furnished.
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§ 6-25-109. Responsibility when key furnished.
(1) When the landlord or keeper of a hotel or public establishment provides the doors of the rooms or sleeping apartments in the hotel or public establishment with locks and keys in good order and repair and the room or sleeping apartment is turned over to the possession of any guest or patron together with the keys to the doors, the landlord or keeper is not liable to a guest or patron occupying the room or apartment for loss of an article of personal property left within the room or apartment by the guest or patron while in possession of the keys, unless the doors to the room or apartment were left locked when unoccupied and thereafter the keys were delivered to the person in charge of the office of the hotel or public establishment.
(2) If an article of personal property is taken by an employee or servant of the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public establishment, then this section does not prevent the guest or patron from recovering the value of the article, not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars for all such articles.
Source: L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 17-1245), ch. 240, p. 987, § 1, effective August 9. L. 2026: Entire section amended, (HB 26-1426), ch. 334, p. 2020, § 80, effective August 12.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-44-108 as it existed prior to 2017.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 6-25-109 ("Responsibility when key furnished.") is part of the Colorado Revised Statutes, the codified statutory law of Colorado. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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