Loveland, CO

Loveland bans nearly all fireworks under its 2024 International Fire Code amendments. Only state-defined "permissible fireworks" (novelty and non-explosive items) may be possessed or…

Loveland caps aggregate LP-gas (propane) storage at whatever limit is set by city ordinance or zoning regulation, but the fire code official can approve a different capacity site by…

Loveland prohibits open burning whenever atmospheric conditions or local circumstances make a fire hazardous, and bans it outright during active Red Flag Warnings. Prescribed…

Loveland's adopted Residential Code requires smoke alarms in every dwelling unit, and the city's local amendment at Municipal Code § 15.10.020 layers on an exterior strobe: new one…

Loveland's Unified Development Code designates a Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Overlay Zone under UDC § 18.02.10.01, mapped in Appendix E. Property inside the mapped boundary must…

Larimer County's Wildfire Resiliency Code requires defensible space around structures, organized into ignition zones: 0-5 ft (immediate), 5-30 ft (intermediate) and 30-100 ft…

Recreational fire pits, fireplaces and chimineas using clean, dry wood or charcoal are exempt from the county open-burn permit, but only when no fire ban is active. During the county's…

Loveland requires a building permit for residential pool and spa construction under its adopted 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, but the ISPSC's own permit-issuance and…

Pool barrier gates in unincorporated Larimer County must open outward, be self-closing and self-latching. If the latch release is on the outside and not self-locking, it must be at…

Loveland classifies a tiny home pulled on a chassis as a recreational vehicle, not a dwelling. Under Municipal Code § 16.24.020, no one may occupy a parked RV, including such a tiny…

Loveland exempts accessory dwelling units of 900 square feet or less from the city's capital expansion fees, the municipal equivalent of development impact fees. Larger ADUs allowed on…

Loveland's Unified Development Code permits one accessory dwelling unit per single-family detached lot in Larimer County, Colorado, capped at 900 square feet of floor area. The ADU…

Loveland caps a residential detached garage, carport or storage shed at the greater of 10% of the lot area or 500 square feet under UDC § 18.04.07.02, counted cumulatively with every…

Loveland, Colorado regulates dangerous dogs by behavior, not breed: Municipal Code § 6.20.030 bans owning or keeping any 'vicious animal,' defined as one that bites, claws, attempts to…

Loveland, Colorado bans owning or keeping any animal that is not commonly domesticated, not native to North America, or wild or predatory by nature. Municipal Code § 6.28.040 goes…

Loveland, Colorado allows chickens, ducks, geese and other domesticated fowl on residential lots with no fixed numeric cap, but they still count toward the household's nuisance-based…

Loveland, Colorado makes it unlawful to knowingly provide food, water, salt licks or bones to bears, deer, raccoons, skunks, badgers, porcupines, wild felines, wolves, coyotes and…

Loveland treats cats like dogs under its animal code: owners must license every cat within 14 days of acquiring it, keep the license tag on the cat's collar, and never let it run at…

Loveland bans letting any dog run at large: off its owner's property, a dog must be on a leash or tether under an owner's control, per Municipal Code Section 6.20.010, except in a…

Loveland's Unified Development Code splits veterinary use standards by animal type: a large-animal veterinary clinic must sit in a freestanding building and cannot adjoin a…

Loveland limits backyard apiaries to single-family detached, community-garden and farm/ranch lots under UDC § 18.04.07.04, with hives set back at least five feet from every property…

Larimer County addresses hoarding through its pet-quantity and care standards. Sec. 6-80 requires proper food, water, shelter, and veterinary care, and Sec. 6-81 limits animals to the…

Loveland property owners must keep tree branches trimmed to at least 8 feet over a public sidewalk and 14 feet over a street or alley travel lane, under Municipal Code § 12.32.135…

Loveland allows occupants of one-unit or duplex homes to keep a backyard compost pile of layered plant refuse and soil, but the pile has to be fully enclosed and kept from putrefying…

Loveland caps ordinary weeds and grass at eight inches on every lot in the city, with noxious weeds under the state Weed Act banned regardless of height. Ornamental, native and turf…

In Loveland, Colorado, a significant tree shown on a City-approved landscape plan cannot be removed without City sign-off. The Unified Development Code lists nine specific grounds for…

Loveland's Unified Development Code bans nonfunctional artificial turfgrass on commercial, industrial, institutional, and common-interest-community property, in street rights-of-way…

Loveland caps outdoor sprinkling flow, requires a permit for underground sprinkler systems, and lets the city manager impose an emergency ban on outdoor potable water use when supply…

Colorado law lets a single-family or small multi-family household collect rooftop rainwater in up to two rain barrels holding no more than 110 gallons combined, for outdoor use on that…

Loveland Municipal Code § 9.28.015 bars running a car stereo, PA system, or other vehicle-mounted sound equipment loud enough to be plainly audible 25 feet or more away, unless the…

Loveland bars anyone from running a loudspeaker, PA system, radio, or other sound-amplifying equipment in or on a motor vehicle so it is plainly audible 25 feet away, unless the city…

Loveland caps noise by zone and time of day under Loveland Municipal Code § 7.32.040: residential areas max out at 55 db(A) from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 50 db(A) overnight, with higher…

Loveland does not set a fixed construction clock-hours rule; instead, § 7.32.060.F of the Loveland Municipal Code holds construction projects to the industrial-zone noise ceiling in §…

Loveland's noise chapter does not reach aircraft: § 7.32.060.B of the Loveland Municipal Code excludes 'all sound emanating from any aircraft' from every provision of Chapter 7.32…

In Loveland, Colorado it is unlawful for a dog's owner or keeper to let it disturb the peace and quiet of another person through loud, persistent barking, howling, yipping or whining…

Fort Collins exempts leaf blowers and other lawn/garden power tools only when used 7:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. and generating under 85 dB(A) at a residential property line. Outside those…

Nighttime quiet runs 7:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m. in unincorporated Larimer County (limit drops to 50 db(A) residential) and 8:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m. in Fort Collins (50 dB(A) residential). Daytime…

Loveland, Colorado bars stopping, standing or parking in ways that block traffic, cut clearance too tight, or overstay an alley loading zone. Loveland Municipal Code § 10.04.020 adds…

Loveland, Colorado caps how long an oversized vehicle can sit on a residential street: under Loveland Municipal Code § 10.20.040, no truck tractor, semitrailer, mobile home, overweight…

Loveland, Colorado bars abandoning a motor vehicle on public property and lets police tow any vehicle blocking a street, alley or right-of-way. Loveland Municipal Code § 10.28.020…

Loveland's Unified Development Code requires off-street loading spaces for non-residential buildings, sets screening standards for loading areas, and caps trailer storage in loading…

Loveland allows accessory DC fast-charging (DCFC) EV stations in every zone district under UDC § 18.04.07.03, reviewed through the standard building permit process; Level 1 and Level 2…

Loveland bans parking in a required front setback except on a single-family, duplex, townhome or multiplex driveway or parking pad crossing that setback, and requires all parking…

Loveland, Colorado lets residents park or store an RV, camper or boat on private property, but Loveland Municipal Code § 16.24.020 bars using a parked motor vehicle, recreational…

Loveland, Colorado limits overnight parking on streets posted against all-night parking: under Loveland Municipal Code § 10.04.020, amending Model Traffic Code Section 1202, no vehicle…

Colorado's Towing Bill of Rights, C.R.S. 40-10.1-405, governs only nonconsensual ("predatory") tows that PUC-permitted towing carriers pull from private property and common parking…

Loveland, Colorado caps any single retaining wall at eight feet tall, requires taller sites to step down with five-foot terraces, and demands a natural-rock or masonry finish above…

Loveland caps front-yard fences at three feet if solid or four feet if limited-solid material, measured between the front property line and the house's front facade, under UDC §…

Loveland bans barbed wire, razor wire and electrically charged fences citywide under UDC § 18.04.07.06, with narrow Director-approved exceptions for barbed wire in…

A residential building permit is required for a fence that is over 7 feet high and has a solid, wind-blocking surface. You submit a permit application, a site plan, and an elevation…

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…

Loveland bars any exterior sign or exterior alteration that would reveal a home occupation is operating, with one narrow exception: a single building-mounted sign is allowed only in…

Loveland's UDC allows a home business only as a use incidental to the residential use, capped at 25 percent of the dwelling's combined floor area, with the operator living on-site…

Loveland caps how many clients a home occupation can see at once: a minor home occupation may serve only one client or pupil at a time, while a major home occupation, which requires a…

Loveland allows licensed family child care homes in any dwelling unit without a zoning permit, so long as the required state license under 12 CCR 2509-8 is obtained and kept current…

Colorado lets you bake, jar and dehydrate for sale out of your own kitchen with no license, no plan review and no routine inspection. C.R.S. § 25-4-1614, the Colorado Cottage Foods…

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…

A standard Larimer County short-term rental accommodates 10 or fewer guests who are part of one party. Hosted STRs run 1-10 (small) or 11-16 (large) guests, and a Bed & Breakfast Inn…

Larimer County's STR ordinance sets no fixed liability-insurance dollar minimum, but the owner must agree to hold the county harmless for any injury or damage from operating the…

After Planning Division approval and a Building Division Certificate of Occupancy, Larimer County issues a short-term rental license. The license must be renewed every other year on…

Larimer County bars anyone from staying overnight in a motor vehicle, RV, camper, travel trailer, tent or other outdoor structure on an STR property in addition to the rental itself…

A standard Larimer County STR does not require the host on-site, but a hosted STR must have a full-time resident or owner living in the principal dwelling. Every rental must name a…

Every Larimer County short-term rental is subject to the Larimer County Noise Ordinance. Environmental Health enforces it during business hours; the Sheriff's Office handles noise and…

Larimer County sets no per-night annual cap on how many nights a licensed STR may rent. Instead, it caps the total number of licenses in the Estes Valley residential zone districts at…

Colorado requires short-term rental operators to collect 2.9 percent state sales tax plus any local lodging taxes, with marketplace facilitators like Airbnb collecting on behalf of…

Loveland's Existing Building Code amendments require egress doors in altered work areas to open from inside without a key, ban twist-grasp hardware on accessible doors, and restrict…

Loveland regulates all plumbing work under the 2021 International Plumbing Code, adopted by reference, and amends key sections to require deeper pipe burial for Colorado's frost line…

Loveland enacts the 2023 National Electrical Code and Colorado's electrical laws and rules as secondary codes for all wiring, fixtures and appliances installed, altered or repaired in…

Before any permitted construction begins in Loveland, the permit holder must post an inspection record card in a conspicuous, visible spot on the site under Loveland Municipal Code §…

Loveland requires a building permit for construction, alteration, or repair work under Loveland Municipal Code § 15.08.020, which amends the adopted International Building Code's…

Loveland exempts small in-home day cares from a building permit: Family Child Care Homes serving one to six children and Large Family Child Care Homes serving seven to twelve children…

Loveland does not require sprinklers in ordinary new one- and two-family homes: § 15.10.020 deletes the adopted Residential Code's baseline automatic sprinkler mandate, Section R313…

Loveland's residential building code amendments require more than just a smoke and CO alarm in every home: under Municipal Code § 15.10.020, any one- or two-family dwelling with an…

Loveland, Colorado bills hosts and property owners for a second police response to the same loud party or noise disturbance within 24 hours. Officers can hand a responsible person a…

Riding a skateboard on any street inside Loveland city limits is against the law under Municipal Code § 12.28.120, with the only carve-out being a special event permit. The ban covers…

Loveland extends its indoor smoke-free law outdoors at building entrances: § 7.40.035 bars smoking, vaping, and e-cigarette use within 15 feet of any entryway to city-owned property…

Loveland Municipal Code § 9.28.050 does not ban public loitering generally; it makes it unlawful to loiter in a school building, on school grounds, or within 100 feet of them, with…

Loveland Municipal Code § 9.30.020 bans panhandling that is intimidating, threatening, coercive, or obscene, involves fighting words or touching, or blocks sidewalk passage, while §…

Loveland, Colorado bars drinking or openly displaying any open container of beer, malt, vinous or spirituous liquor on city streets, alleys, sidewalks, public parking lots and in city…

Loveland, Larimer County, Colorado bars openly and publicly smoking marijuana in any enclosed area under Municipal Code § 7.40.045. The rule covers sidewalks, trails, parks…

Loveland adopted IFC Appendix O to govern door-to-door valet trash and recycling collection in apartment buildings. Under Municipal Code § 15.28.020, valet trash service is allowed…

Loveland, Colorado requires every licensed residential trash hauler to provide curbside recycling at least once every two weeks on the same day as the customer's trash pickup…

Loveland, Colorado assesses every residential and multifamily utility customer a solid waste management services fee whether or not they actually use city trash collection, and the…

Dumping trash, refuse, or any object whatsoever into a ditch or canal within Loveland city limits is flatly unlawful under Municipal Code § 12.36.030. The rule sits in the Ditches and…

Loveland requires owners and occupants to secure and screen refuse and recycling containers from street view, placing them behind the house's front façade if full screening isn't…

Every hauler collecting solid waste or recyclables inside Loveland city limits needs a city collection license, and licensed collectors serving residential customers must run curbside…

Loveland requires every commercial dumpster to sit on a concrete pad inside a minimum six-foot-high, fully opaque masonry enclosure with a gate, under UDC § 18.04.07.09.F. The…

Loveland Municipal Code § 7.16.160 keeps garbage and recycling trucks out of residential-zoned districts between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., barring collectors from operating within 300…

Large items like mattresses, appliances, furniture, electronics, and tires are accepted at the Larimer County Landfill for per-item fees. Mattresses and box springs cost $40 each…

Loveland calls its cultural-monument program "historic landmark" designation. City Council may designate individual sites or historic districts of special historical or architectural…

Loveland bans keeping premises infested with rats or mice, or leaving uncovered garbage that could attract them, declaring both a public nuisance under Municipal Code § 16.08.040…

Loveland can declare a property a "chronic nuisance property" after code enforcement issues two or more Notice and Order to Abate actions within 60 days, or five within 12 months, or…

Loveland property owners and occupants must clear snow and ice from sidewalks abutting their lot within 24 hours of the last accretion, per Loveland Municipal Code § 12.24.030. Miss…

Loveland bars owners and occupants whose property touches an open area, vacant lot, ditch, detention pond, storm drain or watercourse from letting refuse or rubbish pile up in those…

New and substantially improved buildings in Loveland's floodway and flood fringe zoning districts must set their lowest floor at the city's "regulatory flood protection elevation,"…

Loveland requires a Stormwater Quality Permit from the city's Public Works Department before any land disturbance of one-half acre or more, or smaller parcels within a larger…

Loveland's stormwater utility, created under Chapter 13.18 of the Municipal Code, designs, builds, and maintains the city's drainage system. Every parcel containing an impervious…

Any grading, filling, dredging, utility work, or construction inside Loveland's Floodplain Overlay Zone needs a City floodplain development permit first. The zone tracks Larimer…

Loveland landlords who furnish heat to tenants must maintain at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit in every habitable room, bathroom and toilet room, and the requirement runs all year, not…

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 HB23-1171 created a statewide for-cause eviction standard requiring landlords to cite specific statutory grounds, such as nonpayment or lease violations, before terminating…

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…

Colorado prohibits rent control statewide. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 38-12-301 declares rent control a matter of statewide concern and bars any county or municipality from enacting an…

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…

Loveland property owners must build and maintain the curb, gutter and sidewalk fronting, alongside and behind their lot under Municipal Code § 12.20.010. If the city engineer finds a…

Anyone doing construction, excavation or other work in a Loveland public right-of-way needs a permit under Municipal Code § 12.16.040. The permit fee is set by council resolution and…

Blocking a Loveland sidewalk, street, or other public passage on purpose is a crime under Municipal Code § 12.28.030, and ignoring a police or fire officer's order to clear the way is…

Loveland requires a vendor's license under Municipal Code § 12.30.030 before any mobile food truck can sell from a public right-of-way. Trucks must serve customers from the sidewalk…

Operating a mobile food truck on a Loveland street or sidewalk requires a vendors license under Municipal Code § 12.30.030, and once licensed, § 12.30.110 locks in where and how a…

Loveland requires a City Clerk-issued vendors license before anyone, including mobile food trucks, sells from a public sidewalk or right-of-way, under Municipal Code Chapter 12.30…

In Loveland, Colorado, a property owner or lessee (or their written agent) may have an abandoned vehicle towed from private property without the vehicle owner's consent under Municipal…

Loveland requires a city license before any sexually oriented business can operate, and Municipal Code Section 5.40.030 confines those businesses to industrial zones only. Applicants…

Loveland requires every pawnbroker to hold a city clerk-issued license before opening, and Municipal Code Section 5.28.220 bars any pawnshop from locating within one mile of another…

Loveland requires every tobacco and vape retailer to hold a State and local license under Municipal Code Chapter 8.08, keeps new licensed locations at least 500 feet from schools and…

Loveland's UDC flatly prohibits repairing or painting automobiles, motorcycles, trailers or boats as a home occupation, no matter how quiet or contained the operation is. The ban sits…

Loveland Police operate red-light cameras at signalized intersections under Municipal Code § 10.35.010 and camera radar (automated speed cameras) in school zones, 35-mph-or-less…

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…

Loveland closes every public park and city-owned recreational facility between 10:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. under Municipal Code § 12.44.010, unless the parks and recreation department has…

Loveland Municipal Code § 9.28.080 keeps anyone under 18 off public streets, parks, and other public places from midnight to 5:00 a.m. Sunday through Thursday nights, and from 1:00…

A Loveland block party (a festive residential-street gathering with barbecues, picnics, music or games requiring a street closure) needs a local event permit from the police-designated…

Street fairs, carnivals, and other 'local events' in Loveland need an event permit under Municipal Code Chapter 12.26, and if the fair involves selling food or drinks, erecting…

Anyone who wants to hold a parade in Loveland must get an event permit from the Coordinator under Municipal Code § 12.26.030, unless the parade involves 40 or fewer walkers who stay on…

In Loveland's Downtown (DT) Zone, restaurants may operate outdoor eating areas on public sidewalks under UDC § 18.04.06.04.C, but a sidewalk dining area also needs an encroachment…

Loveland's Unified Development Code leaves HOA covenants, easements and other private restrictions to private enforcement. The City reviews permits and development applications only…

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…

Loveland caps garage sales at 72 consecutive hours and three sales per calendar year for each address under Municipal Code Section 5.44.030. Sale items can't spill into the…

Loveland taxes retail sales of liquor and 3.2% beer through an occupation tax under Municipal Code Chapter 3.20, sorting every licensed operator into one of eight classes, A through H…

Loveland charges a 3% excise tax on the lodging price of every hotel, motel or short-term rental stay booked in the city, on top of the regular sales and use tax. Direct providers and…

Loveland's City Manager may civilly abate unauthorized encampments from public property under Municipal Code Chapter 7.39, adopted in 2022. Encampments that pose an immediate health or…

Loveland's nuisance code sets fixed abatement deadlines once an enforcement officer issues a Notice and Order to Abate, ranging from 24 hours for health hazards to 30 days for problem…

Loveland, Colorado bars any uninvited solicitor, including religious, charitable, school and civic groups, from entering or remaining on a property once a 'No Solicitation' or 'No…

Loveland's noise code makes the continuous or repeated sounding of a vehicle horn or alarm signal device, other than as a genuine danger warning, unlawful unreasonable noise. Peace…

Loveland, Colorado caps electronic message center (EMC) displays at 50% of a sign's face, or 60% within the I-25 corridor, and limits most premises to one EMC-equipped sign per street…

Loveland, Colorado caps window signage under UDC Table 18.04.08.10.B: up to 25% of an architecturally distinct window in the downtown DTS district, up to 50% in the CI district, and…

Loveland does not require a sign permit for seasonal decorations, so holiday lights and displays can go up without City sign review. A separate lighting rule also lets holiday displays…

Election signs need no permit in unincorporated Larimer County and may be placed for 60 days before an election. On residential property they may not exceed 6 feet high and 8 square…

Small temporary signs like garage-sale signs are generally exempt from a permit under Section 10.5 of the Larimer County Land Use Code, but it is unlawful to post any sign in a public…

Loveland's Unified Development Code bans plants identified as noxious, invasive, or prohibited by the United States or Colorado, plus anything on the City's own prohibited-plant list…

Loveland, Colorado allows roof-mounted solar panels on any principal or accessory building in every zoning district, but the array must fit within that zone's own height limit and…

This is a statewide protection against private restrictions, not a local mandate: Colorado voids any deed, contract, or HOA covenant blocking a renewable energy device wherever one…

Loveland's Unified Development Code caps how far light can spill onto neighboring land: illumination up to 20 feet beyond a nonresidential property's boundary cannot rise more than…

Loveland requires roadway, parking lot, walkway, and building-mounted light fixtures to be full cut-off, flat-lensed, and shielded so light falls only on the intended surface or the…

Loveland's Unified Development Code exempts farms and ranches that existed before the UDC's effective date, or that were later annexed into the city, from its own farm-or-ranch use…

Loveland's Unified Development Code allows farm and ranch use in every zone in this Larimer County, Colorado city, but new operations must front an arterial street and cannot grow…

Loveland requires street trees in parkways along residential streets citywide and outside the DT zone and neighborhood activity centers, spaced on 35-foot centers, with 15-foot…

Loveland does not run a heritage-tree registry. Instead, its Unified Development Code protects any "significant tree" shown on an approved landscape plan from removal during…

Loveland's Unified Development Code allows data centers in the B, MAC, E and I zones only if street-facing building elevations are screened with a Type C bufferyard, and bars the use…

Loveland's Unified Development Code devotes Division 18.04.06 to mandatory Downtown Design Standards for the DT Zone, covering four character areas, five height districts, and…

Loveland's UDC sets single-family setbacks by lot type, not by zone alone. Table 18.04.02.03.A gives eight lot types, from Urban Cottage to Large Estate, each its own front, interior…

Loveland caps most single-family detached lots at 26 feet by-right with a 35-foot adaptable-use ceiling under Table 18.04.02.03.A. Urban Cottage lots get a 45-foot adaptable-use…

Loveland does not cap lot coverage with one flat citywide number: the Unified Development Code sets maximum building coverage by housing and lot type. For the Zero Lot-Line Home type…

Loveland's Local Licensing Code bars a marijuana business license within 1,000 feet of any 'youth populated area,' defined to include schools, licensed childcare and preschool…

Loveland permits marijuana businesses only in its B (business) and I (industrial) zoning districts, and only on a site already carrying a General Commercial use or fronting an arterial…

Colorado constitutionally permits adults to grow marijuana at home but caps the total plants per residential property regardless of how many adults live there, preempting higher local…

Charcoal and wood grilling counts as a small cooking fire, allowed when contained and under 3 feet wide and 2 feet high, but banned during fire restrictions. Propane and gas grills…

Commercial drone operations in Colorado are governed almost entirely by FAA Part 107, with limited state additions covering wildlife, critical infrastructure, and privacy that apply…

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…