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      HOUSE BILL 10-1099
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Pace, Hullinghorst, Massey, McFadyen,
      Ryden, Vigil, Labuda;
      also SENATOR(S) Tapia, Kester.
      
      
      Concerning authorization to consume an alcohol beverage
           purchased at the Colorado state fair at any location on
           the fairgrounds licensed for consumption.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Part 9 of article 47 of title 12, Colorado Revised
      Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:
      
           12-47-908.  Colorado state fair - consumption on premises. 
      Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, a person who
      purchases an alcohol beverage for consumption from a vendor
      licensed pursuant to this article at the fairgrounds of the
      Colorado state fair authority may leave the licensed premises
      with the beverage and possess and consume the beverage at any
      place within the fairgrounds if the person does not remove the
      beverage from the fairgrounds.  This section does not authorize
      a person to bring into the fairgrounds an alcohol beverage
      purchased outside of the fairgrounds.
      
           SECTION 2.  12-47-901 (1) (h), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBPARAGRAPH to read:
      
           12-47-901.  Unlawful acts - exceptions.  (1)  Except as provided in
      section 18-13-122, C.R.S., it is unlawful for any person:
      
           (h) (V)  Notwithstanding subparagraph (I) of this paragraph
      (h), it is not unlawful for adult patrons of the Colorado state
      fair to consume malt, vinous, or spirituous liquor upon unlicensed
      areas within the designated fairgrounds of the Colorado state
      fair authority or at a licensed premises on the fairgrounds when
      not purchased at the licensed premises, but this subparagraph (V)
      does not authorize a patron to remove an alcohol beverage from
      the fairgrounds.
      
           SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
      shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      11, 2010, if adjournment sine die is on May 12, 2010); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2010
      and shall take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote
      thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Terrance D. Carroll                Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                          Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO