Aurora, CO

Aurora caps commercial and industrial sound by zone, from 55 dBA near homes up to 80 dBA in heavy industrial (I-2) districts.

Aurora caps amplified sound and loudspeakers at 55 dBA (day) / 45 dBA (night) at residential property lines, and bars PA systems near homes from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Aurora's UDO sets lower nighttime decibel limits citywide and bars loudspeakers and PA systems near homes from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. without a temporary permit.

New and remodeled buildings in Aurora, Colorado's designated airport noise districts must meet minimum sound-insulation standards under City Code Article XI.

Aurora, Colorado caps noise-producing devices -- including car stereos -- at the decibel limits in UDO Table 4.11-1, and bars idling any gas or diesel vehicle for more than 15 minutes…

Aurora bans keeping a dog whose habitual barking annoys neighbors, but a case only proceeds with two signed complaints from separate households willing to testify.

Aurora ties construction noise limits to time of day: loosest 7am-5pm, tighter 5pm-9pm, and residential-level limits overnight.

Under CRS 42-4-1806 and Aurora City Code, a vehicle left on public property for more than 72 hours or on private property without permission for 72 hours is abandoned. Aurora tags…

Aurora, Colorado bars parking heavy trucks, trailers or farm tractors over 6,000 lbs or 22 feet on city streets outside an approved schedule.

Aurora's UDO requires off-street loading spaces sized to gross floor area for most commercial and retail buildings over 15,000 square feet, with docking, screening, and location…

Aurora, Colorado can designate residential parking permit districts, and parking there without a valid permit is a traffic infraction under City Code.

Aurora requires vehicles on two-way streets to park within 12 inches of the right-hand curb, facing the direction of traffic, and bars stopping within five feet of any driveway under…

Aurora enforces posted parking time limits with a 24-hour move rule: leave a vehicle within 100 feet of the same spot and it's cited as a traffic infraction.

Colorado law (CRS 38-12.6-102) bars HOAs from prohibiting Level 2 EV chargers at owner-occupied properties. Aurora requires permits for dedicated 240V charger installation and…

Aurora, Colorado bans parking on designated snow emergency routes once the city manager declares a snow emergency, until the prohibition is announced terminated.

Aurora bars leaving an RV, camper, trailer, or boat on any public street or right-of-way for more than 24 hours in a seven-day span. A citation can trigger a tow if the vehicle stays…

Aurora, Colorado gives the owner of an impounded vehicle ten days to demand a hearing, but sends that demand to one of two different offices depending on who ordered the tow: the…

Aurora caps front-yard driveways at 40% of the front yard (50% on wedge lots) and requires paving on streets with a paved right-of-way.

Aurora, Colorado requires short-term rental hosts to hold both a general business license and a lodger's license, post the license number in every ad, and rent only their primary…

Aurora, Colorado limits short-term rentals to the operator's primary residence, and booking platforms can't be paid for listings that aren't.

Aurora short-term rental hosts pay an 8% lodger's tax on the nightly rental charge, collected at the time of sale and remitted monthly; the required lodger's license itself carries no…

Aurora, Colorado requires a business and lodger's license for short-term rentals and caps whole-home rentals at 180 nights a year unless the owner lives on-site.

Aurora, Colorado caps short-term rentals of an entire home at 180 days per year under Sec. 26-219(d) of the City Code, with an exception for owner-occupied accessory dwelling units.

Aurora, Colorado makes booking service providers like Airbnb and Vrbo liable if they collect payment for an unlicensed short-term rental or one not used as the host's primary…

Proposed Arapahoe County STR regulations cap occupancy at 2 guests per bedroom plus 2 additional guests, with a hard limit based on bedroom count. Listings must state the maximum, and…

Proposed Arapahoe County STR regulations require operators to provide a parking plan to renters. A minimum of one parking space is required for studio or one-bedroom units and two…

The proposed Arapahoe County STR regulations require that amplified music and noise from short-term rentals not exceed levels allowed by Colorado Revised Statutes. State noise limits…

Aurora, Colorado doesn't fix watering days in the Code itself: schedules come from rules Aurora Water's general manager publishes under City Code § 138-188, and watering outside those…

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance allows artificial turf in front and back yards, but front-yard turf on single-family lots needs HOA and/or Title 32 District approval plus…

New development and redevelopment in Aurora, Colorado must draw at least 75% of trees and annuals, and 100% of shrubs, perennials, groundcovers and ornamental grasses, from an approved…

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance requires UDO-required trees lost to damage or disease within two years of installation to be replaced within six months at a…

Aurora prohibits noxious weeds and overgrown vegetation over 6 inches on developed properties. State-listed noxious weeds must be controlled under the Colorado Noxious Weed Act.

Aurora, Colorado requires owners to trim trees on their lot to a clear height of 13 feet 6 inches over streets, alleys or highways and 8 feet over sidewalks.

Colorado law universally permits residential rooftop rainwater collection up to two rain barrels totaling 110 gallons, overriding the state's strict prior-appropriation doctrine that…

Aurora has no breed ban: pit bull-type dogs follow the same rules as any other dog under City Code Chapter 14.

Aurora, Colorado has no citywide microchip mandate for ordinary pets. Microchipping becomes mandatory only after a municipal court declares an animal dangerous: the owner then has 10…

Aurora, Colorado's UDO bars veterinary clinics and hospitals from every residential zone district and requires conditional-use approval in most mixed-use/overlay districts, while…

Aurora, Colorado exempts state-licensed wildlife rehabilitators from its ban on keeping wild animals, but issues no separate city rescue permit itself.

Aurora, Colorado allows backyard beehives but regulates hive type, setbacks, flyway barriers, and colony counts by lot size under City Code § 14-15.

A commercial pet-grooming business in Aurora, Colorado is zoned as a "Kennel" use, limiting it to specific commercial and industrial districts and imposing enclosure, hours, and…

Aurora requires dogs off their owner's property to be leashed with a cord, cable, or chain no longer than 10 feet, held by someone able to control the animal.

Aurora's animal cruelty chapter makes it unlawful to frighten, shoot, trap or otherwise harm any wild bird or waterfowl, or to disturb its nest, eggs or young, anywhere in the city.

Aurora pet shops cannot sell dogs or cats at all: only offer them for adoption from a licensed shelter or rescue, per City Code § 26-152.

Aurora caps household cats at five per property and requires a city license for cats over six months old; unowned community cats can instead be legally managed under a permitted…

Aurora, Colorado requires every dog, cat, or rabbit over six months old to be spayed or neutered unless the owner qualifies for a medical, transitory, or intact-license exemption.

Aurora, Colorado allows hens and ducks, never roosters, on residential lots under a paid permit from Housing and Community Services, with coop size, setback, and confinement rules set…

Aurora, Colorado bans owning venomous animals, big cats, primates, bears, large reptiles and other wild species as pets, with narrow exceptions.

Unincorporated Arapahoe County caps household pets by zone under Land Development Code § 3-3.2.E. Most residential districts, RR-C through R-2-B, PUD residential and R-M, allow three…

Colorado prohibits feeding big game wildlife including deer, elk, and bears under Parks and Wildlife regulations. The ban applies statewide and preempts permissive local practices.

Aurora, Colorado treats tiny houses as manufactured housing under its Unified Development Ordinance, restricting them to the R-MH Manufactured Home Park zone district with foundation…

Aurora allows one detached accessory dwelling unit per single-family lot, but only on alley-served lots over 6,000 square feet, capped at 650 square feet.

Aurora requires a detached carport that needs a building permit to sit in the rear or side yard, meet zone setbacks, and match the main house's exterior materials.

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance requires the property owner to live in either the primary house or the detached accessory dwelling unit: a backyard ADU can't be a pure rental…

Aurora's UDO allows a backyard accessory dwelling unit to be rented short-term only if the property owner lives in the primary house; City Code caps entire-home short-term rentals at…

In Aurora, Colorado, retaining walls over four feet must be engineered by a professional and approved by the city before construction; residential walls also face UDO height caps of 30…

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance caps residential front-yard fences at 42 inches and side/rear fences at six feet (eight feet along arterial or collector streets), and requires a…

Aurora, Colorado requires a Fence Permit under UDO Section 146-5.4.3.H only when a building permit applies to the fence; City Code exempts fences 7 feet or under, so most residential…

Aurora prohibits barbed wire, razor wire, and electrified fences in residential districts. Approved residential materials include wood, vinyl, wrought iron, composite, and masonry…

Colorado is a fence-out state: when two owners' agricultural or grazing lands adjoin, each must build and maintain half of the boundary line fence at joint cost. Ignore a neighbor's…

Aurora's zoning code allows in-home day care for children from birth to 16 as an accessory use in residential zone districts, provided the facility holds the required state license.

Aurora, Colorado allows home occupations in dwellings only if the business stays incidental, invisible from outside, and limited to residents.

Aurora follows Colorado's Cottage Foods Act (CRS 25-4-1614), allowing home producers to sell up to $10,000 per product annually of non-hazardous foods directly to consumers.

Aurora, Colorado limits home occupations to invited visitors only and bars traffic beyond what a residential street normally sees.

Home occupations in unincorporated Arapahoe County get no signage at all. LDC § 3-3.12.A.2 flatly requires that there 'shall be no visible advertising of the home occupation on the…

Colorado has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no exemption that lets you cook meals to order at home for the public. The state food code closes the question from both…

Aurora requires all swimming pools and spas to meet the 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, adopted citywide by City Code § 22-349, with a local rule sending backwash and…

Aurora, Colorado requires a building permit for swimming pool construction, including above-ground pools, and a homeowner-contractor's exterior work must finish within one year of…

Aurora allows only narrowly defined "permissible fireworks", no aerial or audible devices, and only from June 15 through July 4, with a $250 minimum fine for violations.

Aurora bans burning combustible refuse in unapproved incinerators and treats open burning the same way -- violators must get a variance from the county air pollution variance board…

Arapahoe County's western foothills and Cherry Creek drainage are in designated Wildland-Urban Interface zones. Defensible space (100-foot reduced-fuel zone) is required per local fire…

Colorado adopts NFPA 58 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code by reference under CRS 8-20-232, applying uniform propane storage, container, and installation rules to all jurisdictions statewide.

Aurora bans open containers of malt, vinous, or spirituous liquor in any public place, including vehicles on city streets, with a specific carve-out letting parks permit malt and…

Aurora, Colorado bans skateboards and in-line skates on any public or private property posted against them under City Code § 94-80.

Aurora bans loitering with intent to engage in drug-related activity and separately bans loitering that obstructs sidewalks, streets, or public places.

Aurora's own code bans pedestrians from walking on or across any landscaped median while crossing a roadway. General jaywalking, crossing outside a marked crosswalk, is governed by the…

Aurora's disorderly conduct ordinance makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate in any public place if doing so creates a hazardous, unhealthy, or physically offensive condition…

Aurora, Colorado makes unreasonably loud noise that seriously inconveniences neighbors unlawful in both public and private places, and separately makes a host liable for failing to…

Aurora bans aggressively begging in any public place citywide, and on private property once the owner tells you to leave or posts a no-solicitation sign, under City Code Sec. 94-116.

Aurora, Colorado bans displaying, serving, selling, giving away, or disposing of marijuana in any public place, citywide, under the City Code's marijuana-businesses article.

Aurora, Colorado caps residential accessory buildings over 120 square feet at 50% of the rear yard and 450 square feet (or half the house's floor area, if larger).

Aurora's UDO caps building height by zone: 38 feet in the R-R, R-1 and R-2 single-family districts, up to 45 feet in R-3 and 65 feet in R-4 multifamily zones, and 20 feet for…

Aurora's UDO sets minimum front, side and rear setbacks by residential zone district, ranging from 8 to 30 feet depending on district and yard.

Aurora, Colorado limits restaurant patio seating to approved uses, keeps it 100 feet from R-R/R-1 zoning, and requires a barrier and a clear walkway near the right-of-way.

Aurora parks close from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., but the Parks and Open Space Department issues permits letting groups reserve a park or recreational facility during those otherwise-closed…

In Aurora, Colorado, holding an outdoor rally, expressive-activity meeting, or parade on public property requires a permit from the police chief or the parks and open space director…

A fair or carnival on unincorporated Arapahoe County land can't run more than 30 days in one calendar year. LDC § 3-3.13.B sets that flat cap, and the use still needs a Temporary Use…

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance requires all sign illumination, including off-premises billboards, to be shielded against glare onto neighboring land, and bars lighting…

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance requires building-mounted lights to point downward, bars wall-pack fixtures unless their cutoff angle eliminates off-site glare, and caps light…

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance requires full cutoff shielded fixtures for on-site streets, parking areas, and most pedestrian paths, caps fixture height, bans mercury vapor and…

Aurora, Colorado requires mobile food trucks to hold both a city business license and a state mobile retail food license, and operate only 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Aurora food trucks must stay 175 feet from open restaurants and 50 feet from single-family homes, and follow separate rules for private lots, schools, and public right-of-way.

Mobile food trucks and sidewalk vendors in Aurora, Colorado need a city business license plus a state mobile retail food license, and can serve customers only from the curb or an…

Aurora, Colorado requires abutting sidewalks cleared of snow and ice within 24 hours of a snowfall, with administrative charges and criminal fines for violations.

Aurora, Colorado caps weeds on undeveloped lots at 12 inches within 200 feet of a developed area or street, and requires cutting to 6 inches once that limit is exceeded.

Aurora, Colorado can declare a building or premises "substandard" for fire, structural, sanitation or vermin hazards and order it repaired, demolished or vacated as a public nuisance…

Aurora, Colorado does not require a garage sale permit. City Code just caps sales at four per year and 72 consecutive hours per address, with items confined to the seller's own garage…

In Aurora, Colorado, all development in a mapped Special Flood Hazard Area is prohibited unless the floodplain administrator first issues a floodplain development permit.

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance caps idling of diesel and other stationary vehicle engines at 15 minutes per hour citywide, with narrow exceptions for safety-mode equipment and…

Aurora requires new homes in mapped floodplains to sit two feet above base flood elevation, and new commercial buildings one foot above it or flood-proofed to that level.

Aurora requires an approved grading and drainage plan before earthwork begins, with rough grading tied to temporary occupancy and final grading required before final occupancy.

Aurora requires a storm drainage system utility permit and a stormwater quality discharge permit from Aurora Water before building drainage infrastructure or discharging into any…

Every structure in unincorporated Arapahoe County must keep a noncombustible buffer: gravel or crushed rock at least two inches thick beneath decks and around the foundation, extending…

Aurora caps electronic message boards at 50% of a monument sign face, bans scrolling or flashing, and requires 8-second-minimum static messages.

In Aurora, Colorado, window signs are capped at 50% coverage per window pane citywide, dropping to 25% in the MU-OA-MS district, with a 200-square-foot ceiling on total window sign…

Off-premises signs and billboards in Aurora, Colorado may not be visible from any freeway or interstate highway under the city's Unified Development Ordinance.

Aurora has no separate political-sign permit. Its Unified Development Ordinance lets any lawfully permitted sign swap to a noncommercial message, including political speech, with no…

Aurora caps any inflatable, balloon, or similar device over 20 inches to 72 straight hours and once per year, no permit needed.

Aurora, Colorado confines sexually-oriented businesses to industrial zones and requires a city license, with 1,500-foot buffers from churches, schools, homes, parks and other adult…

Aurora, Colorado makes it unlawful for any wrecker to tow a vehicle from a public street without the owner's consent or without police or public works authorization.

Aurora, Colorado requires a city pawnbroker license plus a separate manager's license, a $1,000 bond, and bars any new pawnshop within two miles of an existing licensed one.

Aurora, Colorado requires a separate license to operate a massage facility and another to work as its manager, with police background review, a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. operating ban, and…

Aurora, Colorado requires a city retail license for vape stores, smoke shops and head shops, caps them at 2,500 square feet, and keeps them 2,000 feet apart from each other.

Aurora, Colorado requires a secondhand dealer license for anyone buying or trading used goods worth $30 or more, or items with serial numbers, plus detailed police reporting on every…

Dumping garbage, rubbish or debris on public or private property anywhere in Aurora, Colorado is unlawful, and violators face the city's general penalty of up to $2,650 in fines or 364…

Aurora, Colorado requires weekly garbage and debris removal by a city-registered hauler, with containers set at the curb no earlier than 5 p.m. the day before collection and pulled…

Aurora, Colorado requires weekly garbage removal from every property by a City-registered trash hauler, with strict rules on when carts can go out and must come in.

Recyclables set out for Aurora's curbside program belong to the city or its hauler. Aurora City Code makes it a misdemeanor for anyone else to take them from the curb, a bin, or a…

Aurora requires garbage, rubbish and debris containers to stay behind the front building line and within 12 inches of the principal building, with set-out limited to the day before…

Commercial dumpster enclosures in Aurora, Colorado must sit at least 12 feet from neighboring properties and be screened on three sides by a six-foot masonry wall or opaque fence under…

Aurora, Colorado makes it unlawful to take recyclables set out for curbside pickup without the owner's permission, protecting the city's recycling stream from scavengers.

Aurora's city manager can abate any unauthorized camp on public property without advance notice; verbal orders to move immediately are enforceable, and legally operable vehicles or…

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance lists Data Center as a permitted use by right in the MU-OI, Airport, Accident Potential Zone, and both I-1 and I-2 industrial districts, and as a…

Aurora, Colorado parks and recreation areas close nightly from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. under City Code § 98-56, with permits available for authorized after-hours use and additional…

Aurora bars minors under 18 from loitering in public after 11 p.m. (midnight Fri/Sat) until 5 a.m. unless accompanied by a parent or approved adult.

Aurora requires a building permit issued to a licensed residential or commercial building contractor for solar panel installations, and the Unified Development Ordinance sets siting…

Colorado CRS 38-30-168 preempts HOAs from prohibiting solar panels; HOAs may impose reasonable aesthetic guidelines but cannot effectively ban installations.

Aurora, Colorado enforces the 2021 International Plumbing Code by ordinance, and City Code Chapter 22 bars issuing a plumbing permit until the required fee is paid.

Aurora struck the IRC's automatic fire sprinkler sections, so new one- and two-family homes and townhouses need no residential sprinkler system.

Aurora requires new construction and major renovations to meet the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code, adopted locally as the city's Energy Conservation Code with…

Aurora requires a paid permit before starting building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, or fuel-gas work; fees follow a schedule the chief building official sets and the city manager…

Aurora requires at least one elevator per building to stay operational at all times for firefighters' emergency and medical use.

Aurora, Colorado requires a paid, issued electrical permit before any wiring work starts and requires inspections be requested in time to view work before it's covered. Permits expire…

Aurora requires a paid electrical permit before any wiring or apparatus work begins, under the city's amended National Electrical Code.

Aurora requires a deadbolt on every exterior dwelling door in residential occupancies, mounted no higher than 48 inches, under its amended residential code.

Aurora, Colorado zoning caps day care centers at 16 hours of care per client per day, bars overnight stays, and sets siting and setback rules.

Anyone doing work in an Aurora, Colorado public right-of-way, including a homeowner without a contractor, must get a permit from the Director of Public Works first.

Aurora property owners must keep abutting public sidewalks clear of snow, ice, litter, and slip hazards like algae, but City Code § 114-35(b) expressly says they owe no duty to repair…

Aurora Water bans new aesthetic turf citywide and restricts new grass: none in front or side yards, and backyard turf is capped at 45 percent or 500 square feet, whichever is smaller…

Aurora, Colorado requires new irrigation systems to connect to reclaimed water where it's available, with purple pipe, warning signs, and backflow protection mandatory.

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance allows agriculture by right only in the R-R Rural Residential district and a handful of industrial/airport zones, requires no business license on…

Colorado's Right to Farm Act under CRS 35-3.5-102 shields agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when they follow generally accepted practices and predate complaints.

In Aurora's Black Forest area, Ponderosa Pine over 4 inches and Gambel Oak over 3 inches in diameter are protected: removal during development requires a City Forester-approved tree…

Aurora, Colorado requires a written permit from the parks and open space director before planting or removing any tree in a street right-of-way, and new trees must match the city's…

Aurora caps loudspeaker and amplified music from bars and nightclubs by decibel and bans PA/loudspeaker use near homes from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. under the citywide UDO noise standard.

Aurora has no generator-specific noise rule. Generator and other equipment noise is measured against the UDO's citywide decibel limits: 55 dBA daytime and 45 dBA nighttime at a…

Aurora caps diesel truck idling at 15 minutes per hour citywide and sets decibel limits by adjacent zone, covering delivery truck noise at loading docks.

Aurora runs an automated vehicle identification system issuing photo-enforced penalty notices for red-light and speed violations, with doubled fines in school zones, under City Code §§…

Aurora's Model Traffic Code amendments require drivers to parallel-park inside the parking lane, not against the curb, on any street with a buffered bike lane next to the curb followed…

Colorado runs two separate regimes. A low-speed electric vehicle is a motor vehicle under C.R.S. § 42-1-102 (58)(a), so it is titled, registered, plated and driven on a licence, and…

Nuisance and property-code complaints in Aurora, Colorado go to the Director of Neighborhood Services, who must inspect and issue a written report.

Aurora's public nuisance ordinance lists 25 specific property conditions treated as code violations, from junk and open foundations to derelict buildings, each punishable as a crime…

Aurora must abate an imminent-danger nuisance within 24 hours of notice; other public nuisances get 60 days after inspection and notice.

Aurora, Colorado designates significant older sites as "Cultural Heritage Sites" through the Historic Preservation Commission when they don't have enough integrity left for full…

Aurora's Unified Development Ordinance bans planting Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus sp.) anywhere in the city, alongside Russian Olive, Aspen, Tamarisk, Ash and Siberian Elm, under the…

Aurora's development code bans planting Russian olive, aspen, tamarisk, ash, Siberian elm and tree of heaven citywide, plus anything on the state noxious weed list.

Aurora, Colorado has not opted out of retail marijuana: stores are licensed and capped citywide, but the UDO bars them near schools, hospitals and residential zones.

Aurora bars retail marijuana stores within 1,000 feet of schools, 500 feet of hospitals, and cultivation or manufacturing facilities within 300 feet of homes and parks.

Colorado Amendment 64 and C.R.S. §18-18-406 permit adults 21+ to grow up to 6 plants per adult (12 max per household, only 3 flowering). Aurora City Code §94-370 caps at 12 per…

Aurora's Health and Housing Code (City Code Article XV) lets code officials declare any residential structure 'unfit for human habitation' when it is unsafe, unsanitary…

Aurora requires a general business license and a lodger's license before anyone may advertise a short-term rental, plus the business license number in every listing.

Colorado HB 24-1098 requires just cause for most residential evictions and lease non-renewals effective April 2024, limiting landlord terminations to enumerated reasons.

Arapahoe County cannot enact rent control. Colorado Revised Statute 38-12-301 preempts local rent control ordinances on both private residential property and mobile home lots…

Before filing an eviction for nonpayment of rent, a Colorado landlord must serve a standard residential tenant with 10 days' written notice to pay or quit under Colo. Rev. Stat. §…

Colorado caps residential late fees at the greater of $50 or 5% of the past-due rent. No late fee may be charged until rent is at least seven days late, and only if disclosed in…

To end a no-fault tenancy, Colorado requires written notice scaled to the tenancy length under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-40-107: 21 days for a month-to-month tenancy, 28 days for…

For residential tenancies with no written agreement (including month-to-month), a Colorado landlord must give at least 60 days' written notice before raising rent. Statewide, a…

Colorado caps residential security deposits at two months' rent. Landlords must return the deposit, with an itemized written statement of any deductions, within 30 days of lease…

Colorado's general adverse possession period is 18 years of open, continuous, hostile possession under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 38-41-101. The period shrinks to 7 successive years where the…

Aurora, Colorado charges an 8% lodger's tax on hotel, motel, and short-term lodging purchases, collected by the vendor at time of sale.

Aurora requires a door-to-door seller's license for the business plus an individual photo ID card for each canvasser before anyone may sell goods or services house to house in the city.

A posted no-soliciting sign alone generally is not enough for criminal trespass in Colorado. Under C.R.S. 18-4-503, second-degree criminal trespass of residential premises requires…

Aurora requires a minimum frost depth of 36 inches for foundations, published by the city's Building Division in its Engineering Design Criteria for the 2021 I-Codes.

Aurora sets a ground snow load of 40 pounds per square foot, and requires the roof snow load to be calculated from it rather than published as a fixed figure.

Aurora's design criteria sheet sets seismic category B, Severe weathering, a 1°F winter design temperature and, unlike neighbouring Denver, requires ice barrier underlayment.

Aurora, Colorado lets HOAs impose stricter limits than the city code, and the city's own chicken-keeping ordinance says so explicitly.

Under the Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act, C.R.S. § 38-33.3-316, an association has a statutory lien for unpaid assessments. After HB22-1137 (2022) it may foreclose only once…

Colorado law entitles any unit owner in a common interest community to examine and copy the association's records without stating a reason. C.R.S. § 38-33.3-317 bars boards from…

Colorado bars homeowners associations from effectively prohibiting six specific energy efficiency devices: a retractable clothesline, evaporative cooler, garage or attic fan…

Colorado law limits how homeowners' associations regulate yard landscaping, but the strongest protections in C.R.S. § 38-33.3-106.5(1)(i.5) apply only to single-family detached homes…

Colorado's flag protection applies only inside common interest communities, HOAs, condos, and co-ops governed by the Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act, not to every property…

Colorado's Common Interest Ownership Act sets statewide due-process and dollar limits on how condo and homeowner associations fine owners and collect delinquent accounts, with one…

A Colorado association's assessment lien attaches automatically the moment the declaration is recorded, but foreclosing it has become the hardest remedy in the association's toolkit…

Aurora runs a systematic multi-family housing inspection program under its Health and Housing Code, with inspectors authorized to enter dwellings and reinspection fees charged when…

City manager staff can enter and inspect any Aurora, Colorado dwelling to check for housing code violations, then order repairs with a set deadline.

Aurora's Health and Housing Code makes owners and occupants jointly responsible for keeping dwellings insect- and rodent-free, with liability shifting depending on the cause of…

Aurora shields syringe-exchange participants and people who disclose a needle before a search from paraphernalia charges, while unregistered possession still risks a $100 fine.

Aurora sorts every business into general, seasonal, or temporary retail status, each with its own license term, renewal rule, and sales-tax deposit requirement.

Commercial drone operators in Arapahoe County must hold FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. DIA, Centennial Airport, and Buckley SFB create complex controlled airspace requiring…

In the A-E and A-1 rural districts, Arapahoe County lets a cluster-subdivision applicant earn discretionary density bonuses, up to 20 percent each for central water, central sewer, or…

Colorado allows local governments to adopt minimum wages above the state rate under CRS 8-6-101, with statewide minimums adjusted annually for inflation.

Colorado requires paid sick leave under the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act and offers paid family medical leave through the FAMLI program funded by payroll premiums.

Colorado requires a concealed handgun permit issued by the county sheriff to carry a concealed firearm in public, with training and background check requirements.

Colorado repealed firearms preemption in 2021, allowing cities and counties to enact local gun regulations stricter than state law in most circumstances.

Colorado generally permits open carry of firearms by adults without a license, though local jurisdictions may impose restrictions in specific areas after the 2021 preemption repeal.

Colorado allows adults legally able to possess a firearm to carry a handgun in a private vehicle for lawful protection without a permit under CRS 18-12-105.5.

Colorado's constitution confines all commercial casino gaming to the historic commercial districts of Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek: nowhere else in the state is a casino…

Colorado bars all lotteries and games of chance except licensed bingo and raffles run by charities. The Secretary of State issues bingo-raffle licenses only to religious, charitable…

Colorado's criminal code doesn't reach purely social gambling. C.R.S. section 18-10-102(2)(d) carves any game, wager, or transaction incidental to a bona fide social relationship out…

Colorado legalized sports betting statewide in 2020 under C.R.S. section 44-30-1505, but the state issues a "master license" only to holders of an existing retail gaming license -- the…

Colorado never passed a law creating sobriety checkpoints. The word "roadblock" does not appear anywhere in the Colorado Revised Statutes, and "checkpoint" appears in the statutory…

Colorado is one of the few states that put the right to film officers into its own sentence of statute. C.R.S. § 16-3-311(1) says a person "has the right to lawfully record any…

Colorado writes the demand into statute and then declines to punish the refusal. C.R.S. § 16-3-103 lets a peace officer who reasonably suspects you of a crime stop you and require your…

Colorado is one of a small group of states that requires the advisement out loud. Under C.R.S. § 16-3-310, before a peace officer may conduct a consensual search of a vehicle, of a…

Colorado banned single-use plastic carryout bags and polystyrene foam containers statewide under the Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, fully effective in 2024.

Colorado prohibits retail food establishments from using expanded polystyrene foam containers for ready-to-eat food and beverages under the Plastic Pollution Reduction Act.

Colorado prohibits the sale and furnishing of cigarettes, tobacco, and nicotine vapor products to anyone under age 21 statewide under CRS 18-13-121.

Colorado permits four categories of extra forward lighting and caps each at two lamps: spot lamps, fog lamps, auxiliary passing lamps and auxiliary driving lamps, under C.R.S. §…

Colorado has no statute naming dash cameras and no list of permitted windshield attachments, so two general rules decide where one may go. Section 42-4-201 (4) requires the driver’s…

Riding between lanes of traffic is illegal in Colorado. C.R.S. § 42-4-1503 (3)(a) forbids driving a motorcycle or autocycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows…

Colorado writes its plate-cover ban around machine readability. C.R.S. § 42-3-202 (2)(b) makes it unlawful to operate a motor vehicle with an affixed device or substance that causes…

A passenger-car driver in Colorado may use a radar detector. Nothing in title 42 regulates one: the word "detector" does not appear anywhere in the Vehicles and Traffic title. What…

Colorado puts no calendar on studded tires. C.R.S. § 42-4-228 (3) lets single-tired passenger vehicles, and other single-tired vehicles rated up to and including three-fourths of a…

Colorado sets a single light transmittance figure for every window except the windshield. Under C.R.S. § 42-4-227 (1)(a)(I) no window other than the windshield may allow less than…