Opinion ID: 1366185
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Heading: Entertainment.

Text: Live entertainment is permitted on any licensed premises, except that: 1. No person licensed under this Article shall permit any person to perform acts of or acts which simulate: (a) Sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation or any sexual acts which are prohibited by law. (b) The touching, caressing or fondling of the breast, buttocks, anus or genitals. (c) The displaying of the pubic hair, anus, vulva or genitals. 2. No licensee shall permit any person to use artificial devices or inanimate objects to depict any of the prohibited activities described above. 3. No licensee shall permit any person to remain in or upon the licensed premises who exposes to public view any portion of his or her genitals or anus. Roxanne E. Lowrie is the owner of PT's Nightclub, a licensed tavern in Colorado Springs in which topless dancing is offered as entertainment. Lowrie was charged by summons and complaint in the El Paso County Court with fifty-four misdemeanor counts of violating Regulation 47-105.1. The charges were based on undercover police officers' observations of various activities by employees at the tavern on several evenings in December 1985. Each summons and complaint listed the source of the charge as section 12-47-130 and Regulation 47-105.1, and then contained a brief description of the offense, of which the following are examples: Employee of establishment served a visibly intoxicated patron an alcoholic beverage. An employee (dancer) touched her bare breasts during her dance routine. An employee (dancer) wore a G-string that exposed her pubic hair. Lowrie moved to dismiss the charges filed against her, claiming that the Colorado Liquor Code unconstitutionally delegates to the Director of the Department of Revenue legislative authority to define criminal conduct. The county court granted Lowrie's motion to dismiss, and the People appealed the order of dismissal to the district court. In affirming the judgment of dismissal, the district court ruled that the Colorado Liquor Code unconstitutionally delegated to the Department of Revenue the legislative authority to determine what particular acts constitute a criminal offense and that Regulation 47-105.1 was constitutionally invalid as an unlawful exercise of legislative authority by the Director. We granted the People's petition for certiorari to consider whether sections 12-47-105(1)(b) and 12-47-130 of the Colorado Liquor Code unconstitutionally delegate to the Director of the Department of Revenue legislative authority to define criminal conduct.