Title 18, Criminal Code

(1) (a) A person who knowingly affiliates with a public safety radio network without authorization from the network’s authorizing entity commits unlawful affiliation with a public safety radio network. (b) Unlawful affiliation with a public safety radio network is a class 2 misde…

(1) Any person who knowingly aids, abets, or assists another person to escape or attempt to escape from custody or confinement commits the offense of aiding escape. (2) Escape is deemed to be a continuing activity commencing with the conception of the design to escape and continu…

Any person who knowingly aids the escape of a person who is an inmate of an institution for the care and treatment of persons with behavioral or mental health disorders and who knows the person aided is confined in such institution pursuant to a commitment pursuant to article 8 o…

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 458, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-8-202. L. 2021: (2) added by revision, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, pp. 3196, 3331, �� 283, 803. Editor's note: Subsection (2) provided for the repeal of this section, effective March 1, 2022. (See L. 2021, pp. 3196, 3331.)

(1) A person commits introducing contraband in the first degree if he or she knowingly and unlawfully: (a) Introduces or attempts to introduce a dangerous instrument into a detention facility or at any location where an inmate is or is likely to be located, while the inmate is in…

(1) A person commits introducing contraband in the second degree if he or she knowingly and unlawfully: (a) Introduces or attempts to introduce contraband into a detention facility; or (b) Being a person confined in a detention facility, makes any contraband, as defined in subsec…

(1) A person being confined in a detention facility commits the crime of possession of contraband in the first degree if the person knowingly obtains or has in the person's possession contraband as listed in section 18-8-203 (1)(a). (2) Repealed. (3) Possession of contraband in t…

(1) A person being confined in a detention facility commits the crime of possession of contraband in the second degree if he knowingly obtains or has in his possession contraband as defined in section 18-8-204 (2) unless possession is authorized by rule or regulation promulgated …

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 458, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-8-205. L. 2021: (2) added by revision, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, pp. 3198, 3331, �� 288, 803, effective March 1, 2022. Editor's note: Subsection (2) provided for the repeal of this section, effective March 1, 2022. (See L. 2021, pp.…

(1) Any person confined in any lawful place of confinement within the state who, while escaping or attempting to escape, commits an assault with intent to commit bodily injury upon the person of another with a deadly weapon, or by any means of force likely to produce serious bodi…

Any person in lawful custody or confinement within the state who, while escaping or attempting to escape, holds as hostage any person or by force or threat of force holds any person against his will commits a class 2 felony. Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 458, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-8-2…

(1) A person commits a class 2 felony if, while being in custody or confinement following conviction of a class 1 or class 2 felony, he knowingly escapes from said custody or confinement. (2) A person commits a class 3 felony if, while being in custody or confinement following co…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (1.5) of this section, if a person, while in custody or confinement following conviction of a felony, knowingly attempts to escape from said custody or confinement, he or she commits a class 4 felony. The sentence imposed pursuant to…

(1) A person who is serving a direct sentence to a community corrections program pursuant to section 18-1.3-301; transitioning from the department of corrections to a community corrections program or placed in an intensive supervision program pursuant to section 17-27.5-101; part…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, any sentence imposed following conviction of an offense under sections 18-8-201 to 18-8-208 or section 18-8-211 shall run consecutively and not concurrently with any sentence which the offender was serving at the…

C.R.S. 18-8-210Statutes current through Chapter 65 of the 2026 Regular Session, effective as of April 20, 2026. The text of this section is not final. It will not be final until compared to, and updated from, the text provided by the Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Services …

For the purposes of this part 2, any reference to custody, confinement, charged with, held for, convicted of, a felony, misdemeanor, or petty offense includes a juvenile who is detained or committed for the commission of an act that would constitute such a felony, misdemeanor, or…

For the purposes of this part 2, any reference to custody, confinement, charged with, held for, or convicted of, a felony, misdemeanor, or petty offense shall be deemed to include any felony, misdemeanor, or petty offense under the laws of this state and any felony, misdemeanor, …

(1) A person confined in any detention facility within the state commits active participation in a riot when he, with two or more other persons, actively participates in violent conduct that creates grave danger of, or does cause, damage to property or injury to persons and subst…

(1) A person who is charged with any felony and is released on bond commits a class 6 felony if the person knowingly fails to appear in the felony case for which the person is on bond with the intent to avoid prosecution. (2) A person who is released on bond and is charged with a…

(1) A person commits the crime of unauthorized residency by an adult offender if the person, in order to stay in the state, is required to have the permission of the compact administrator or a designated deputy of the compact administrator of the interstate compact for adult offe…

The definitions contained in section 18-8-101 are applicable to this part 3, unless the context otherwise requires, and, in addition to those definitions: (1) Benefit means any gain or advantage to the beneficiary, including any gain or advantage to a third person pursuant to the…

(1) A person commits the crime of bribery, if: (a) He offers, confers, or agrees to confer any pecuniary benefit upon a public servant with the intent to influence the public servant's vote, opinion, judgment, exercise of discretion, or other action in his official capacity; or (…

(1) A person commits a class 4 felony if the person: (a) Solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit as compensation for having, as a public servant, given a decision, opinion, recommendation, or vote favorable to another or for having otherwise exercised a discr…

A public servant commits a class 1 misdemeanor if the public servant requests a pecuniary benefit for the performance of an official action knowing that the public servant was required to perform that action without compensation or at a level of compensation lower than that reque…

(1) A person commits trading in public office if: (a) He offers, confers, or agrees to confer any pecuniary benefit upon a public servant or party officer upon an agreement or understanding that he or a particular person will or may be appointed to a public office or designated o…

Any person who attempts to influence any public servant by means of deceit or by threat of violence or economic reprisal against any person or property, with the intent thereby to alter or affect the public servant's decision, vote, opinion, or action concerning any matter which …

(1) No public servant shall require or direct a bidder or contractor to deal with a particular person in procuring any goods or service required in submitting a bid to or fulfilling a contract with any government. (2) Any provision in invitations to bid or any contract documents …

(1) A public servant commits failing to disclose a conflict of interest if he exercises any substantial discretionary function in connection with a government contract, purchase, payment, or other pecuniary transaction without having given seventy-two hours' actual advance writte…

The definitions contained in sections 18-8-101 and 18-8-301 are applicable to this part 4, unless a different meaning is plainly required. Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 461, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-8-401.

(1) Any public servant, in contemplation of official action by himself or by a governmental unit with which he is associated or in reliance on information to which he has access in his official capacity and which has not been made public, commits misuse of official information if…

(1) A public servant, while acting or purporting to act in an official capacity or taking advantage of such actual or purported capacity, commits official oppression if, with actual knowledge that his conduct is illegal, he: (a) Subjects another to arrest, detention, search, seiz…

(1) A public servant commits first degree official misconduct if, with intent to obtain a benefit for the public servant or another or maliciously to cause harm to another, he or she knowingly: (a) Commits an act relating to his office but constituting an unauthorized exercise of…

(1) A public servant commits second degree official misconduct if he knowingly, arbitrarily, and capriciously: (a) Refrains from performing a duty imposed upon him by law; or (b) Violates any statute or lawfully adopted rule or regulation relating to his office. (2) Second degree…

A person commits a class 6 felony, if, being a public servant authorized by law to make and issue official certificates or other official written instruments, he makes and issues such an instrument containing a statement which he knows to be false. Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 462, � …

(1) Every public servant who lawfully or unlawfully comes into possession of any public moneys or public property of whatever description, being the property of the state or of any political subdivision of the state, and who knowingly converts any of such public moneys or propert…

(1) No public servant shall, directly or indirectly, require or direct a bidder on any public building or construction contract which is about to be or has been competitively bid to obtain from a particular insurer, agent, or broker any surety bond or contract of insurance requir…

A person who violates a rule or regulation promulgated by any judicial nominating commission shall not be subject to criminal prosecution.

(1) Any educator who knowingly subjects a student to any sexual intrusion or sexual penetration commits abuse of public trust by an educator if the student is at least eighteen years of age and the educator is more than four years older than the student and is not the student's s…

The definitions in sections 18-8-101 and 18-8-301 are applicable to this part 5, and, in addition to those definitions: (1) Materially false statement means any false statement, regardless of its admissibility under the rules of evidence, which could have affected the course or o…

(1) A person commits perjury in the first degree if in any official proceeding he knowingly makes a materially false statement, which he does not believe to be true, under an oath required or authorized by law. (2) Knowledge of the materiality of the statement is not an element o…

(1) A person commits perjury in the second degree if, other than in an official proceeding, with an intent to mislead a public servant in the performance of his duty, he makes a materially false statement, which he does not believe to be true, under an oath required or authorized…

Source: L. 90: Entire section added, p. 1801, � 5, effective July 1. L. 94: Entire section repealed, p. 2541, � 5, effective January 1, 1995.

(1) A person commits false swearing if he knowingly makes a materially false statement, other than those prohibited by sections 18-8-502 and 18-8-503, which he does not believe to be true, under an oath required or authorized by law. (2) False swearing is a petty offense. Source:…

(1) Where a person charged with perjury or false swearing has made inconsistent material statements under oath, both having been made within the period of the statute of limitations, the prosecution may proceed by setting forth the inconsistent statements in a single count allegi…

In any prosecution for perjury or false swearing, except a prosecution based upon inconsistent statements pursuant to section 18-8-505, falsity of a statement may not be established solely through contradiction by the uncorroborated testimony of a single witness. Source: L. 71: R…

No prosecution may be brought under section 18-8-502, 18-8-503, or 18-8-504 if the substance of the defendant's false statement is the entry of a plea of not guilty in a previous criminal action in which he or she was accused of an offense. Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 464, � 1. C.R.S…

No person shall be convicted of perjury in the first degree if he retracted his false statement in the course of the same proceeding in which it was made. Statements made in separate hearings at separate stages of the same trial or administrative proceeding shall be deemed to hav…

(1) It is no defense to a prosecution under sections 18-8-502 to 18-8-504 that: (a) The defendant was not competent, for reasons other than mental disability or immaturity, to make the false statement alleged; (b) The statement was inadmissible under the law of evidence; (c) The …

The definitions contained in sections 18-8-101, 18-8-301, and 18-8-501 are applicable to the provisions of this part 6, and, in addition to those definitions: (1) Juror means any person who is a member of any jury or grand jury impaneled by any court of this state or by any publi…