Title 42, Vehicles and Traffic
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1407.5 Splash guards - when required - definition
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(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) Splash guards means mud flaps, rubber, plastic or fabric aprons, or other devices directly behind the rear-most wheels, designed to minimize the spray of water and other substances to the rear. (b) Splash gua…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1409 Compulsory insurance - penalty - legislative intent
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(1) No owner of a motor vehicle or low-power scooter required to be registered in this state shall operate the vehicle or permit it to be operated on the public highways of this state when the owner has failed to have a complying policy or certificate of self-insurance in full fo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1411 Use of earphones while driving
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(1) (a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle while wearing earphones. (b) For purposes of this subsection (1), earphones includes any headset, radio, tape player, or other similar device which provides the listener with radio programs, music, or other recorded information thro…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1412 Operation of bicycles, electric scooters, and other human-powered vehicles
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(1) A person riding a bicycle, electrical assisted bicycle, or electric scooter has all of the rights and duties applicable to the driver of any other vehicle under this article 4, except as to special regulations in this article 4, except as provided in section 42-4-1412.5, and …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1413 Eluding or attempting to elude a police officer
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Any operator of a motor vehicle who the officer has reasonable grounds to believe has violated a state law or municipal ordinance, who has received a visual or audible signal such as a red light or a siren from a police officer driving a marked vehicle showing the same to be an o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1414 Use of dyed fuel on highways prohibited
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(1) No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon any highway of the state using diesel fuel dyed to show that no taxes have been collected on the fuel. (2) (a) Any person who violates subsection (1) of this section commits a class B traffic infraction. (b) Any person who commits …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1415 Radar jamming devices prohibited - penalty
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(1) (a) No person shall use, possess, or sell a radar jamming device. (b) No person shall operate a motor vehicle with a radar jamming device in the motor vehicle. (2) (a) For purposes of this section, radar jamming device means any active or passive device, instrument, mechanism…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1502 Motorcycles and autocycles - protective helmet
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(1) A person driving a motorcycle or autocycle shall ride only upon the permanent and regular seat attached to the motorcycle or autocycle. The driver of a motorcycle or an autocycle shall not carry any other person, and another person shall not ride on a motorcycle or autocycle,…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1504 Clinging to other vehicles - penalty
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A person riding upon a motorcycle or autocycle shall not attach himself, herself, or the motorcycle or autocycle to any other vehicle on a roadway. Any person who violates this section commits a class A traffic infraction. Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1601 Accidents involving death or personal injuries - duties
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(1) The driver of any vehicle directly involved in an accident resulting in injury to, serious bodily injury to, or death of any person shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close to the scene as possible or shall immediately return to the scene …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1602 Accident involving damage - duty
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(1) The driver of any vehicle directly involved in an accident resulting only in damage to a vehicle which is driven or attended by any person shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible but shall immediately return to and in …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1603 Duty to give notice, information, and aid
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(1) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to, serious bodily injury to, or death of any person or damage to any vehicle which is driven or attended by any person shall give the driver's name, the driver's address, and the registration number of the…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1604 Duty upon striking unattended vehicle or other property
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The driver of any vehicle which collides with or is involved in an accident with any vehicle or other property which is unattended resulting in any damage to such vehicle or other property shall immediately stop and either locate and notify the operator or owner of such vehicle o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1605 Duty upon striking highway fixtures or traffic control devices
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The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to fixtures or traffic control devices upon or adjacent to a highway shall notify the road authority in charge of such property of that fact and of the driver's name and address and of the registration num…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1606 Duty to report accidents
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(1) The driver of a vehicle involved in a traffic accident resulting in injury to, serious bodily injury to, or death of any person or any property damage shall, after fulfilling the requirements of sections 42-4-1602 and 42-4-1603 (1), give immediate notice of the location of su…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1607 When driver unable to give notice or make written report
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(1) Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving an immediate notice of an accident as required in section 42-4-1606 (1) and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, such occupant shall give or cause to be gi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1608 Accident report forms
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(1) The department shall prepare and upon request supply to police departments, coroners, sheriffs, and other suitable agencies or individuals forms for accident reports required under this article, which reports shall call for sufficiently detailed information to disclose, with …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1609 Coroners to report
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Every coroner or other official performing like functions shall on or before the tenth day of each month report in writing to the department the death of any person within such official's jurisdiction during the preceding calendar month as the result of an accident involving a mo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1610 Reports by interested parties confidential
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All accident reports and supplemental reports required by law to be made by any driver, owner, or person involved in any accident shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the department; except that the department may disc…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1611 Tabulation and analysis of reports
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The department shall tabulate and may analyze all accident reports and shall publish annually or at more frequent intervals statistical information based thereon as to the number and circumstances of traffic accidents and in such a way that the information may be of value to the …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1612 Accidents in state highway work areas
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(1) Repealed. (2) For purposes of this section, state highway work area includes any area where an employee of the department of transportation is working at the time a fatal accident occurs. (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the department of transportati…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1702 Alcohol- or drug-related traffic offenses - collateral attack
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(1) No person against whom a judgment has been entered for DUI, DUI per se, DWAI, or UDD shall collaterally attack the validity of that judgment unless such attack is commenced within six months after the date of entry of the judgment. (2) In recognition of the difficulties atten…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1703 Parties to a crime
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Every person who commits, conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of any act declared in this article and part 1 of article 2 of this title to be a crime or traffic infraction, whether individually or in connection with one or more other persons or as principal, a…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1704 Offenses by persons controlling vehicles
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It is unlawful for the owner or any other person employing or otherwise directing the driver of any vehicle to require or knowingly to permit the operation of such vehicle upon a highway in any manner contrary to law. Any person who violates any provision of this section commits …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1705 Person arrested to be taken before the proper court
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(1) Whenever a person is arrested for any violation of this article 4 punishable as a misdemeanor, the arrested person must be taken without unnecessary delay before a county judge who has jurisdiction of such offense as provided by law, in any of the following cases: (a) When a …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1711 Compliance with appearance
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A defendant may comply with a requirement to appear in court through an appearance by counsel. Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2425, � 1, effective January 1, 1995. L. 2022: Entire section amended, (HB 22-1150), ch. 53, p. 252, � 4, effective August 10. E…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1712 Procedure prescribed not exclusive
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The foregoing provisions of this article shall govern all police officers in making arrests without a warrant or issuing citations for violations of this article, for offenses or infractions committed in their presence, but the procedure prescribed in this article shall not other…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1713 Conviction record inadmissible in civil action
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Except as provided in sections 42-2-201 to 42-2-208, no record of the conviction of any person for any violation of this article shall be admissible as evidence in any court in any civil action. Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2425, � 1, effective January…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1714 Traffic violation not to affect credibility of witness
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The conviction of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this article or other traffic regulation less than a felony shall not affect or impair the credibility of such person as a witness in any civil or criminal proceeding. Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1717 Conviction - attendance at driver improvement school - rules
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(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, if a person has been convicted of violating this article or any other law regulating the operation of motor vehicles other than a violation of section 42-4-1301, the court may require the defendant, at the defend…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1718 Electronic transmission of data - standards
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(1) The department, the judicial department, and the department of public safety shall jointly develop standards for the electronic transmission of any penalty assessment notice or summons and complaint issued pursuant to the provisions of this article or issued pursuant to any c…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1801 Legislative declaration
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The general assembly hereby declares that the purpose of this part 18 is to provide procedures for the removal, storage, and disposal of motor vehicles that are abandoned on public property. Source: L. 2002: Entire part amended with relocations, p. 468, � 1, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1802 Definitions
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As used in this part 18, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Abandoned motor vehicle means: (a) Any motor vehicle left unattended on public property, including any portion of a highway right-of-way, outside the limits of any incorporated town or city for a period of forty-…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1803 Abandonment of motor vehicles - public property
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(1) (a) No person shall abandon any motor vehicle upon public property. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff, police officer, marshal, Colorado state patrol officer, or agent of the Colorado bureau of investigation who finds a motor vehicle that such officer has reasonable g…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1805 Appraisal of abandoned motor vehicles - sale
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(1) (a) Abandoned motor vehicles or motor vehicles abandoned in an impound lot subsequent to a tow from public property shall be appraised by a law enforcement officer or an independent motor vehicle dealer and sold by the responsible law enforcement agency at a public or private…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1806 Liens upon towed motor vehicles
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(1) Whenever an operator who is registered with the department in accordance with subsection (2) of this section recovers, removes, or stores a motor vehicle upon instructions from any duly authorized law enforcement agency or peace officer who has determined that such motor vehi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1807 Perfection of lien
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The lien provided for in section 42-4-1806 shall be perfected by taking physical possession of the motor vehicle and its attached accessories or equipment and by sending to the department within ten working days after the time possession was taken a notice containing the informat…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1808 Foreclosure of lien
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Any motor vehicle and its attached accessories and equipment or personal property within or attached to such vehicle that are not redeemed by the last-known owner of record or lienholder after such owner or lienholder has been sent notice of such lien by the operator or responsib…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1809 Proceeds of sale
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(1) If the sale of any motor vehicle, personal property, and its attached accessories or equipment under the provisions of section 42-4-1805 produces an amount less than or equal to the sum of all charges of the operator who has perfected his or her lien, then the operator shall …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1810 Transfer and purge of certificates of title
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(1) Whenever any motor vehicle is abandoned and removed and sold in accordance with the procedures set forth in this part 18, the department shall transfer the certificate of title or issue a new certificate of title or shall purge such certificate of title in either of the follo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1811 Penalty
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Unless otherwise specified in this part 18, any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this part 18 commits a petty offense and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-503. Source: L. 2002: Entire part amended with relocations, p. 476, � 1, effective July …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1812 Exemptions
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(1) Nothing in this part 18 shall be construed to include or apply to the driver of any disabled motor vehicle who temporarily leaves such vehicle on the paved or improved and main-traveled portion of a highway, subject, when applicable, to the emergency lighting requirements set…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1813 Local regulations
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(1) The state or any county, municipality as defined in section 31-1-101 (6), C.R.S., or other governmental entity of the state may execute a contract or contracts for the removal, storage, or disposal of abandoned motor vehicles within the area of its authority to effectuate the…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1902 School vehicle drivers - special training required
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On and after July 1, 1992, the driver of a school vehicle as defined in section 42-1-102 (88.5) owned or operated by or for a school district in this state shall have successfully completed training concerning driving on mountainous terrain, as defined in section 42-4-1901 (3)(a)…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-1903 School buses - stops - signs - passing - penalty - definition
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(1) (a) The driver of a motor vehicle upon any highway, road, or street, upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus that has stopped, shall stop the vehicle at least twenty feet before reaching the school bus if visual signal lights as specified in subsection…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-201 Obstruction of view or driving mechanism - hazardous situation
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(1) No person shall drive a vehicle when it is so loaded or when there are in the front seat such number of persons, exceeding three, as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle or as to interfere with the driver's control over the driving mechanism…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-202 Unsafe vehicles - penalty - identification plates
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(1) It is unlawful for any person to drive or move or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved on any highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person, or which does not contain those parts or is no…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-203 Unsafe vehicles - spot inspections
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(1) Uniformed police officers, at any time upon reasonable cause, may require the driver of a vehicle to stop and submit such vehicle and its equipment to an inspection and such test with reference thereto as may be appropriate. The fact that a vehicle is an older model vehicle s…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-204 When lighted lamps are required
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(1) Every vehicle upon a highway within this state, between sunset and sunrise and at any other time when, due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, persons and vehicles on the highway are not clearly discernible at a distance of one thousand feet ahead, sh…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-4-205 Head lamps on motor vehicles - penalty
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(1) Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle or autocycle, shall be equipped with at least two head lamps, with at least one on each side of the front of the motor vehicle. The head lamps shall comply with the requirements and limitations set forth in sections 42-4-202 and 42…