A cooperative effort of the City of Fort Collins and Colorado State University!
CITY OF FORT COLLINS PROCESS
- A neighbor calls the non-emergency police number (221-6540) to complain about noise.
- A Fort Collins Police Officer is dispatched to your neighborhood.
- The police officer has the discretion to determine if noise from your property is unreasonable. If noise can be heard from the property line, it is too loud. The noise ordinance is in effect 24 hours a day.
- Tickets issued by police officers can be given to one or all roommates, with a maximum fine of $1,000 per roommate.
- If you receive a ticket, you will have a meeting with a City Attorney downtown. Based on the police notes on your ticket with regard to the time of day of your party, the number of people at the party, and your cooperativeness with officers, the City Attorney will recommend a fine. If you do not find this fine to be fair, you can have a trial in front of the municipal judge.
- While downtown, you will be informed you need to pay $10 to either CSU RamRide or the CSU Drugs, Alcohol, and You (DAY IV) program. This amount is due when you attend the CSU Party Partners class.
CSU PROCESS
- All noise tickets received by CSU students off-campus are forwarded to the Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct Services Office (CRSCS).
- You will receive a letter from CRSCS noting you've violated the student "code of conduct" at CSU. Violation of any local ordinance is a violation of the student "code of conduct" that you signed upon being enrolled at CSU.
- If this is your first noise ticket, you have the choice of attending Party Partners or disputing the charge resulting in a discipline hearing.
- Party Partners is an educational referral class in which students review local ordinances with Fort Collins Police Officers, consider the impact that their party may have had on others, and discuss ways to host more responsible parties.
- If this is your 2nd (or more) noise offense, you will have a hearing with a CSU hearing officer. In the hearing you will have an opportunity to tell your side. Following the hearing, you will receive a letter from CRSCS describing the outcome of the hearing and what (if any) sanctions you need to complete.
Other violations that could be copied to CSU include: disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, trespassing, interference with public officers, carrying or drinking alcohol in public, bodily waste, littering, providing alcohol to a minor, selling alcohol without a license, false reporting, DUI, and inciting, arming, or engaging in a riot.
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