Colorado Code
Part 1 - Public Peace and Order
§ 18-9-122. Preventing Passage to and From a Health-Care Facility - Engaging in Prohibited Activities Near Facility

(2) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (2) is effective March 1, 2022. ] A person commits a petty offense if such person knowingly obstructs, detains, hinders, impedes, or blocks another person's entry to or exit from a health-care facility.

(3) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (3) is effective March 1, 2022. ] No person shall knowingly approach another person within eight feet of such person, unless such other person consents, for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill to, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling with such other person in the public way or sidewalk area within a radius of one hundred feet from any entrance door to a health-care facility. Any person who violates this subsection (3) commits a petty offense.




Source: L. 93: Entire section added, p. 400, § 1, effective April 19. L. 2021: (2) and (3) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3205, § 323, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note: Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.

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