Title 18, Criminal Code
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-13-127 Trafficking in adults. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 2006: Entire section added, p. 1307, � 1, effective May 30. L. 2009: (2) amended, (HB 09-1123), ch. 306, p. 1652, � 2, effective May 21. L. 2010: Entire section repealed, (SB 10-140), ch. 156, p. 540, � 13, effective April 21. Editor's note: This section was relocated …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-13-128 Smuggling of humans. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 2006: Entire section added, p. 1301, � 1, effective May 30. L. 2023: Entire section repealed, (HB 23-1293), ch. 298, p. 1794, � 53, effective October 1. Editor's note: In Fuentes-Espinoza v. People, 2017 CO 98, 408 P.3d 445, the Colorado Supreme Court held that the fed…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-13-129 Coercion of involuntary servitude. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 2006, 1st Ex. Sess.: Entire section added, p. 15, � 1, effective July 31. L. 2009: (1) amended, (HB 09-1123), ch. 306, p. 1652, � 3, effective May 21. L. 2010: Entire section repealed, (SB 10-140), ch. 156, p. 540, � 13, effective April 21. Editor's note: This section …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-13-130 Bail bond - prohibited activities - penalties
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(1) It is unlawful for any person who engages in the business of writing bail bonds to engage in any of the following activities related to a bail bond transaction: (a) Specify, suggest, or advise the employment of a particular attorney to represent the licensee's principal; (b) …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-13-131 Misuse of gametes - definitions
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(1) A health care provider commits misuse of gametes if the health care provider knowingly treats or assists in the treatment of a patient through assisted reproduction by using gametes from a donor that the patient did not expressly consent to the use of that donor's gametes. (2…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-13-132 Furnishing kratom products to persons under twenty-one years of age - definition
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(1) (a) A person shall not give, sell, distribute, dispense, or offer for sale a kratom product to any person who is under twenty-one years of age. (b) Before giving, selling, distributing, dispensing, or offering to sell to an individual any kratom product, a person shall reques…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-13-133 Prohibition on prosecuting health-care providers - patient ingests abortifacient in another state
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A licensed health-care provider shall not be prosecuted, investigated, or subjected to any penalty if the health-care provider prescribes an abortifacient to a patient and the patient ingests the abortifacient in another state so long as the abortifacient was prescribed or admini…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-14-101 Definitions
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Hotel facility means an establishment engaged in the business of furnishing overnight room accommodations primarily for transient persons. Source: L. 72: p. 593, � 70. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-14-101.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-14-102 Accommodations and rates posted
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(1) There shall be displayed at each hotel facility in its office or place of guest registration, in a conspicuous place, a sign which includes, in letters and figures of the same size and prominence, the following information: The number of apartments, rooms, or units in the hot…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-14-103 Advertising prohibited - when
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(1) No person shall display or cause to be displayed any sign which may be seen from a public highway or street, which sign includes in dollars and cents a statement relating to the rates charged at a hotel facility unless accommodations are available at the rates quoted at all t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-14-104 Violations - penalty
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Any owner, agent, lessee, or manager of any hotel facility who violates, or causes to be violated, any of the provisions of this article 14 commits a civil infraction. Source: L. 72: p. 593, � 70. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-14-104. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p.…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-101 Definitions
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As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) To collect an extension of credit means to induce in any way any person to make repayment thereof. (2) Creditor means any person who extends credit or any person claiming by, under, or through any such person. (3…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-102 Extortionate extension of credit - penalty
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Any person who makes any extension of credit in any amount regardless of the loan finance charge with respect to which it is the understanding of the creditor and the debtor at the time it is made that delay in making repayment or failure to make repayment will result in the use …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-103 Presumption that extension of credit is extortionate
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(1) The provisions of this section are nonexclusive and in no way limit the effect or applicability of section 18-15-102. (2) In any prosecution under section 18-15-102, if it is shown that the factors enumerated in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this subsection (2) were present…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-104 Engaging in criminal usury
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(1) Any person who knowingly charges, takes, or receives any money or other property as a loan finance charge where the charge exceeds an annual percentage rate of forty-five percent or the equivalent for a longer or shorter period commits the crime of criminal usury, which is a …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-105 Financing extortionate extensions of credit
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Any person who knowingly advances money or property, whether as a gift, a loan, or an investment, pursuant to a partnership or profit-sharing agreement, or otherwise, to any person, with reasonable grounds to believe that it is the intention of the person to whom the advance is m…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-106 Financing criminal usury
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Any person who knowingly advances money or property, whether as a gift, a loan, or an investment, pursuant to a partnership or profit-sharing agreement, or otherwise, to any person, with reasonable grounds to believe that it is the intention of the person to whom the advance is m…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-107 Collection of extensions of credit by extortionate means
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(1) It is unlawful for any person knowingly to participate in any way, or to conspire to do so, in the use of any extortionate means to collect or to attempt to collect any extension of credit or to punish any person for the nonrepayment of any extension of credit. (2) Any person…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-108 Possession or concealment of records of criminal usury
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(1) Any person who possesses or conceals any writing, paper, instrument, or article used to record criminally usurious transactions, and who knows or has reasonable grounds to know that the contents have been used, are being used, or are intended to be used to conduct a criminall…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-15-109 Loan finder - definitions - prohibited fees
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(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) Borrower means any person seeking to obtain a loan through the services of a loan finder. (b) Loan has the same meaning as set forth in section 5-1-301 (25), C.R.S. (c) Loan finder means any person who, direc…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-101 Legislative declaration
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The general assembly hereby finds and determines that illicit traffic in stolen valuable articles is encouraged by the absence of any required record-keeping system by persons purchasing such valuable articles. The general assembly further finds that law enforcement officials are…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-102 Definitions
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As used in this article 16, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Local law enforcement agency means any marshal's office, police department, or sheriff's office with jurisdiction in the locality in which the purchaser makes the purchase. (2) Peace officer means any undershe…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-103 Purchaser to identify seller
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(1) No purchaser shall purchase any valuable article without first securing adequate identification from the seller. The type and kind of identification shall be limited to the following: (a) A valid Colorado driver's license; (b) An identification card issued in accordance with …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-104 Purchases prohibited
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No purchaser shall purchase any valuable article from any person under the age of eighteen years. Source: L. 81: Entire article added, p. 1013, � 1, effective May 22. 18-16-105. Purchaser to maintain register and obtain declaration of seller's ownership. (1) Every purchaser of va…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-105 Purchaser to maintain register and obtain declaration of seller’s ownership
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(1) Every purchaser of valuable articles shall keep a register, in a permanent, well-bound book, in which he shall record the following information: The name, address, and date of birth of the seller and his driver’s license number or other I.D. number from any other allowed form…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-106 Holding period
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a purchaser shall hold all valuable articles within the jurisdiction of purchase for a period of thirty days from the date of purchase, during which time the valuable articles shall be held separate and apart from any othe…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-107 Reports required
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(1) Every purchaser of valuable articles shall provide the local law enforcement agency, on a weekly basis, with two records, on a form to be provided by the local law enforcement agency, of all valuable articles purchased during the preceding week and one copy of the seller's de…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-108 Penalty
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Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article commits a class 6 felony. Any person who knowingly gives false information with respect to the information required by sections 18-16-103 and 18-16-105 commits a class 6 felony. Source: L. 81: Entire article added, p. …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-109 Applicability
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The provisions of this article shall not apply to private collectors purchasing collectors' items from other private collectors or businesses engaged in selling valuable articles exclusively as collectors' items, and who pay for such purchases by check, nor shall the provisions o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-16-110 Severability
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If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions of this article which may be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and, to this end, the provisio…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-101 Short title
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This article shall be known and may be cited as the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. Source: L. 81: Entire article added, p. 1015, � 1, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-102 Legislative declaration
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The general assembly hereby finds that organized crime in the state of Colorado, as well as nationwide, is a highly sophisticated, diversified, and widespread activity that annually consumes millions of dollars locally and billions of dollars nationally from this state's and the …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-103 Definitions
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As used in this article 17, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Documentary material means any book, paper, document, writing, drawing, graph, chart, photograph, phonorecord, magnetic tape, computer printout, other data compilation from which information can be obtained or…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-104 Prohibited activities
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(1) (a) It is unlawful for any person who knowingly has received any proceeds derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity or through the collection of an unlawful debt to use or invest, whether directly or indirectly, any part of such proceeds or the …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-105 Criminal penalties
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(1) Any person convicted of engaging in activity in violation of the provisions of section 18-17-104 commits a class 2 felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall, in addition to the penalty provided for in section 18-1.3-401: (a) Be fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollar…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-106 Civil remedies
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(1) Any district court may, after making due provision for the rights of innocent persons, enjoin violations of the provisions of section 18-17-104 by issuing appropriate orders and judgments, including, but not limited to: (a) Ordering any defendant to divest himself of any inte…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-107 Civil investigative demand
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(1) Whenever the attorney general or the district attorney has reason to believe that any person or enterprise may be in possession, custody, or control of any documentary materials relevant to a racketeering investigation, he or she may, prior to the institution of a civil or cr…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-108 Construction of article
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To effectuate the intent and purpose of this article, the provisions of this article shall be liberally construed. Source: L. 81: Entire article added, p. 1025, � 1, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-17-109 Severability
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If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions of this article which may be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and, to this end, the provisions o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-101 Short title
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This article shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Controlled Substances Act of 2013. Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 324, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2013: Entire section amended, (SB 13-250), ch. 333, p. 1907, � 6, effective October 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-102 Definitions
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As used in this article 18: (1) Administer, unless the context otherwise requires, means to apply a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, directly to the body of a patient or research subject by: (a) A practitioner (or, in the prac…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-103 Special definition - board
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As used in parts 1 and 2 of this article 18, board means the state board of pharmacy. As used in parts 3, 4, 5, and 6 of this article 18, board means the respective licensing board responsible for licensing and registering practitioners or other persons who are subject to registr…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-201 Authority to control
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The board shall administer this part 2 and the general assembly, by bill, may add substances to or delete or reschedule substances listed in section 18-18-203, 18-18-204, 18-18-205, 18-18-206, or 18-18-207. Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 332, � 1, effective July 1. Editor…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-202 Nomenclature
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The controlled substances listed in or to be added to the schedules in sections 18-18-203, 18-18-204, 18-18-205, 18-18-206, and 18-18-207 are listed or added by any official, common, usual, chemical, or trade name used. Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 332, � 1, effective J…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-203 Schedule I
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(1) A substance shall be added to schedule I by the general assembly when: (a) The substance has high potential for abuse; (b) The substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and (c) The substance lacks accepted safety for use under medical …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-204 Schedule II
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(1) A substance shall be added to schedule II by the general assembly when: (a) The substance has high potential for abuse; (b) The substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, or currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions; and (c) …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-205 Schedule III
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(1) A substance shall be added to schedule III by the general assembly when: (a) The substance has a potential for abuse less than the substances included in schedules I and II; (b) The substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and (c) The ab…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-206 Schedule IV - repeal
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(1) A substance shall be added to schedule IV by the general assembly when: (a) The substance has a low potential for abuse relative to substances included in schedule III; (b) The substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and (c) The abuse o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-207 Schedule V
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(1) A substance shall be added to schedule V by the general assembly when: (a) The substance has a low potential for abuse relative to substances included in schedule IV; (b) The substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and (c) The abuse of …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-301 Rules
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The board or the BHA may adopt rules and charge reasonable fees relating to the registration and control of the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of controlled substances within this state. Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 348, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2022: Entire…