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Colorado Criminal Charges
448 offenses defined by Colorado statute, each with its classification and penalty table.
- Abandonment of a motor vehiclePetty Offense
- Abuse of a corpseClass 6 Felony
- Abuse of property insurancePetty Offense
- Abuse of public recordsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Abuse of public trust by an educatorClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Abuse of telephone and telegraph serviceCivil Infraction
- Abusing toxic vaporsLevel 2 Drug Misdemeanor
- Accident involving damageClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Advertisement of drug paraphernaliaLevel 2 Drug Misdemeanor
- Advocating overthrow of governmentClass 5 Felony
- Aggravated incestClass 3 Felony
- Aggravated intimidation of a witness or victimClass 3 Felony
- Aggravated retaliation against a witness or victimClass 3 Felony
- Aggravated robberyClass 3 Felony
- Aggravated vehicular unlawful termination of pregnancyClass 4 Felony
- Aiding escape
- Aiding escape from an institution for the care and treatment of persons with behavioral or mental health disordersClass 5 Felony
- Ammunition sales
- Animal fightingClass 5 Felony
- Arming riotersClass 4 Felony
- Assault during escape
- Assault in the first degree
- Assault in the second degree
- Assault in the third degreeClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Attempt to escape
- Attempt to influence a public servantClass 4 Felony
- Authorized possession of controlled substancesDrug Petty Offense
- Automated dialing systems prohibitedPetty Offense
- Background checks at gun showsClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Bail bondClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Bait advertisingClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Bias-motivated crimes
- BigamyClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Bribe-receiving by a jurorClass 4 Felony
- Bribe-receiving by a witnessClass 4 Felony
- BriberyClass 3 Felony
- Bribery in sportsClass 6 Felony
- Bribing a jurorClass 4 Felony
- Bribing a witness or victimClass 4 Felony
- Bringing alcohol beverages, bottles, or cans into the major league baseball stadiumCivil Infraction
- Careless driving
- Careless driving resulting in unlawful termination of pregnancyClass 1 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Cheating
- Cheating game and devices
- Child abuse
- Chop shop activity
- Collection of extensions of credit by extortionate meansClass 4 Felony
- Commercial bribery and breach of duty to act disinterestedlyClass 6 Felony
- Compensation for past official behaviorClass 4 Felony
- CompoundingClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Compulsory insuranceClass 1 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Concealing deathClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Concealment or removal of secured property
- Conspiracy
- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
- Controlled substancesClass 4 Felony
- Controlled substancesLevel 3 Drug Felony
- Counterfeit substances prohibitedLevel 3 Drug Felony
- Crime of violation of a protection order
- Crimes against at-risk persons
- Criminal attempt
- Criminal extortion
- Criminal impersonation
- Criminal invasion of privacyClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Criminal mischief
- Criminal operation of a device in motion picture theaterCivil Infraction
- Criminal penaltiesClass 2 Felony
- Criminal possession of a financial device
- Criminal possession of a forged instrumentClass 6 Felony
- Criminal possession of an identification document
- Criminal possession of forgery devicesClass 5 Felony
- Criminal possession of forgery devices
- Criminal possession of second degree forged instrumentPetty Offense
- Criminal possession or sale of a blank financial transaction device
- Criminal simulationClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Criminal use of a noxious substanceCivil Infraction
- Criminally negligent homicideClass 5 Felony
- Crossing fire hoseTraffic Infraction
- Cruelty and aggravated cruelty to animals, service animals, and law enforcement animals
- Cybercrime
- Dealing in unlawfully packaged recorded articlesPetty Offense
- Defacing a caveClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Defacing a firearmClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Defacing or destruction of written instrumentsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Defacing posted noticeCivil Infraction
- Defacing, destroying, or removing landmarks, monuments, or accessoriesClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Delivery of goods without receiptClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Desecration of venerated objectsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Designation of insurer prohibitedCivil Infraction
- Designation of supplier prohibitedClass 5 Felony
- Disarming a peace officerClass 5 Felony
- Disclosing a private intimate image or intimate digital depiction for harassment
- Disclosing a private intimate image or intimate digital depiction for pecuniary gain
- Disclosure, possession, or exchange of a private intimate image or intimate digital depiction by a juvenile
- Disobedience of public safety orders under riot conditionsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Disorderly conduct
- Dispensing violent films to minorsCivil Infraction
- Disrupting lawful assembly
- Dissemination of false information to obtain hospital admittance or carePetty Offense
- Division of motor vehicles official product protectionCivil Infraction
- Driving under restraint
- Driving under the influence
- Duplicate receipt not markedClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Duty to report accidentsClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Duty to report use of force by peace officers or law enforcement animals
- Duty upon striking highway fixtures or traffic control devicesClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Duty upon striking unattended vehicle or other propertyClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Eavesdropping prohibitedClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Electronic mail fraudClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Eluding or attempting to elude a police officerClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Embezzlement of public propertyClass 5 Felony
- Endangering public transportation and utility transmissionClass 3 Felony
- Enforcement of large-capacity magazine ban by regulating the manufacture, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of specified semiautomatic firearms
- Engaging in a riot
- Engaging in criminal usuryClass 6 Felony
- Enticement of a child
- Equity skimming of a vehicle
- Equity skimming of real propertyClass 5 Felony
- Escapes
- Extortionate extension of creditClass 4 Felony
- Extraction of marijuana concentrateLevel 2 Drug Felony
- Failing to disclose a conflict of interestClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Failure or refusal to leave premises or property upon request of a peace officer
- Failure to obey a juror summonsPetty Offense
- Failure to pay over assigned accounts
- Failure to pay over proceeds unlawful
- Failure to present a valid transit pass or couponTraffic Infraction
- Failure to register as a sex offender
- Failure to report a lost or stolen firearmCivil Infraction
- Failure to verify location as a sex offenderClass 2 Misdemeanor
- False affidavitClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- False imprisonment
- False or misleading informationClass 5 Felony
- False report of explosives, weapons, or harmful substances
- False reporting of identifying information to law enforcement authorities
- False reporting to authorities
- False statement in receiptClass 2 Misdemeanor
- False statement on applicationClass 5 Felony
- False swearingPetty Offense
- Fee paid to private employment agenciesClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Felonies classified
- Financing criminal usuryClass 6 Felony
- Financing extortionate extensions of creditClass 5 Felony
- Firearms transfers by licensed dealers
- Firearms, explosives, or incendiary devices in facilities of public transportationClass 6 Felony
- Firing woods or prairie
- First degree arson
- First degree burglaryClass 3 Felony
- First degree criminal tamperingClass 2 Misdemeanor
- First degree criminal trespass
- First degree kidnapping
- First degree official misconductClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Following fire apparatus prohibitedTraffic Infraction
- Foreign matter on highway prohibited
- ForgeryClass 5 Felony
- Fourth degree arson
- Fraud by check
- Fraud in effecting salesClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Fraudulent acts
- Fraudulent receiptClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Furnishing cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products to persons under twenty-one years of ageCivil Infraction
- Furnishing kratom products to persons under twenty-one years of ageCivil Infraction
- Gambling
- Gambling informationClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Gambling premises
- Gathering identity information by deceptionClass 5 Felony
- Harassment
- Harboring a minorClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Hazardous waste violations
- HazingClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Health-care providersPetty Offense
- Hindering transportationPetty Offense
- Holding hostagesClass 2 Felony
- Human trafficking for involuntary servitude
- Human trafficking for sexual servitude
- Identification markings for large-capacity magazinesClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Identification numberClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Identity theft
- Illegal discharge of a firearmClass 5 Felony
- Illegal possession or consumption of ethyl alcohol or marijuana by an underage personPetty Offense
- Imitation controlled substances
- Immunity for reporting cruelty to animalsCivil Infraction
- Impersonating a peace officerClass 5 Felony
- Impersonating a public servantClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Imposition of sentence in class 1 feloniesClass 1 Felony
- Imposition of sentence in class 1 felonies for crimes committed on or after July 1, 1995, and prior to July 12, 2002Class 1 Felony
- Imposition of sentences in class 1 felonies for crimes committed on or after July 1, 1988, and prior to September 20, 1991Class 1 Felony
- In camera reviewClass 1 Misdemeanor
- IncestClass 4 Felony
- Inciting destruction of life or propertyClass 6 Felony
- Inciting riot
- Indecent exposure
- Indeterminate sentence
- Inducement of child prostitutionClass 3 Felony
- Instruction permits and temporary licensesTraffic Infraction
- Insurance fraud
- InsurrectionClass 5 Felony
- Intentional misrepresentation of a service animal for a person with a disabilityPetty Offense
- Intentional misrepresentation of entitlement to an assistance animalCivil Infraction
- Intentionally setting wildfireClass 3 Felony
- Interference with a funeralClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Interference with lawful distribution of newspapersCivil Infraction
- Interference with staff, faculty, or students of educational institutions
- Internet luring of a child
- Internet sexual exploitation of a childClass 4 Felony
- Intimidating a jurorClass 4 Felony
- Intimidating a witness or victimClass 4 Felony
- Introducing contraband in the first degreeClass 4 Felony
- Introducing contraband in the second degree
- Invasion of privacy for sexual gratification
- Issuance of bad checkPetty Offense
- Issuing a false certificateClass 6 Felony
- Issuing a false financial statement
- Jury-tamperingClass 4 Felony
- Keeping a place of child prostitutionClass 3 Felony
- Keeping a place of prostitutionClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Keeping, maintaining, controlling, renting, or making available property for unlawful distribution or manufacture of controlled substancesLevel 1 Drug Misdemeanor
- Large-capacity magazines prohibited
- License, permit, or identification card to be exhibited on demandTraffic Infraction
- Licenses for drivers requiredTraffic Infraction
- Littering of public or private propertyCivil Infraction
- Loan finderPetty Offense
- LoiteringPetty Offense
- Mandatory and voluntary restricted licenses following alcohol convictionsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Mandatory reports of mistreatment of at-risk elders and at-risk adults with IDDClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Mandatory surrender of license or permit for driving under the influence or with excessive alcoholic contentClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- ManslaughterClass 4 Felony
- Manufacture, sale, or delivery of drug paraphernaliaLevel 2 Drug Misdemeanor
- Medical use of marijuana by persons diagnosed with debilitating medical conditionsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Membership in anarchistic and seditious associationsClass 5 Felony
- Misuse of gametesClass 6 Felony
- Misuse of official informationClass 5 Felony
- Money launderingClass 3 Felony
- Mortgaged goods receiptClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Motor vehicle theft
- Murder in the first degreeClass 1 Felony
- Murder in the second degree
- MutilationPetty Offense
- Notice to appear or pay fine
- NoticesTraffic Infraction
- Obscenity
- Obstructing a peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical service provider, rescue specialist, or volunteerClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Obstructing government operationsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Obstructing highway or other passageway
- Obstruction of telephone or telegraph serviceClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Obtaining signature by deceptionClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Offenses by persons controlling vehiclesClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Offenses relating to marijuana and marijuana concentrate
- Offenses relating to natural medicine and natural medicine product
- Offering a false instrument for recording
- Official oppressionClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Open alcoholic beverage containerTraffic Infraction
- Open marijuana containerTraffic Infraction
- Operation of bicycles, electric scooters, and other human-powered vehiclesClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Operation of motor vehicles on property under control of or owned by parks and recreation districtsTraffic Infraction
- Pandering
- Pandering of a child
- Parties to a crimeCivil Infraction
- Parties to a crimeTraffic Infraction
- Patronizing a prostitutePetty Offense
- Patronizing a prostituted childClass 3 Felony
- PenaltyClass 6 Felony
- Penalty assessment notice for traffic infractionsTraffic Infraction
- Penalty for noncomplianceClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Period of suspension or revocationClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Perjury in the first degreeClass 4 Felony
- Perjury in the second degreeClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Permitting unauthorized minor to driveTraffic Infraction
- Permitting unauthorized person to driveTraffic Infraction
- Personal information on the internetClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Personal information on the internetClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Personal pecuniary gain or conflict of interestClass 3 Felony
- PimpingClass 3 Felony
- Pimping of a childClass 3 Felony
- Possessing a dangerous or illegal weapon
- Possession of a defaced firearmClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Possession of a gambling device or recordClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Possession of burglary tools
- Possession of contraband in the first degreeClass 4 Felony
- Possession of contraband in the second degree
- Possession of drug paraphernaliaDrug Petty Offense
- Possession of handguns by juveniles
- Possession of identity theft toolsClass 5 Felony
- Possession of weapons by previous offendersClass 5 Felony
- Possession or concealment of records of criminal usuryClass 6 Felony
- Possession, use, or removal of explosives or incendiary devices
- Posted noticeClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Preventing passage to and from a health-care facilityPetty Offense
- Private firearms transfersClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Procurement of a childClass 3 Felony
- Procurement of a child for sexual exploitationClass 3 Felony
- Prohibited use of weapons
- ProhibitionClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Prohibition on using or directing administration of ketamineClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Prostitute making displayPetty Offense
- Prostitution prohibitedPetty Offense
- Providing false evidence of proof of motor vehicle insuranceTraffic Infraction
- Public buildings
- Public indecencyPetty Offense
- Purchase on credit to defraudClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Receiving deposits in a failing financial institutionClass 6 Felony
- Reckless drivingClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Reckless endangermentClass 2 Misdemeanor
- RecordClass 2 Misdemeanor
- RecordsClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Recruitment of juveniles for a criminal street gang
- Refusal to permit inspectionsCivil Infraction
- Removal of timber from state landsPetty Offense
- Residential picketingPetty Offense
- Resisting arrestClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Restricted licenseTraffic Infraction
- Restrictions on minor drivers under eighteen years of ageTraffic Infraction
- Retail sale of methamphetamine precursor drugsLevel 2 Drug Misdemeanor
- Retaliation against a judge or an elected official
- Retaliation against a jurorClass 3 Felony
- Retaliation against a prosecutorClass 4 Felony
- Retaliation against a witness or victimClass 4 Felony
- Riding in trailersTraffic Infraction
- Rigging publicly exhibited contestsCivil Infraction
- Riots in detention facilities
- RobberyClass 4 Felony
- Sale of secondhand property
- Sales at nonpermanent locationsPetty Offense
- Second degree arson
- Second degree burglary
- Second degree criminal tamperingClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Second degree criminal trespass
- Second degree forgeryClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Second degree kidnapping
- Second degree official misconductPetty Offense
- Secondhand dealersPetty Offense
- Secondhand dealersPetty Offense
- Secure firearm storage in a vehicleCivil Infraction
- Secure firearm storage requiredClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Sentencing
- Sexual assault
- Sexual assault on a child
- Sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust
- Sexual assault on a client by a psychotherapist
- Sexual conduct in a correctional institution
- Sexual exploitation of a child
- Simulating legal processClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Slot machinesClass 5 Felony
- Soliciting for child prostitutionClass 3 Felony
- Soliciting for prostitutionPetty Offense
- Soliciting unlawful compensationClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Special offenderLevel 1 Drug Felony
- Special restrictions on certain driversTraffic Infraction
- Spilling loads on highways prohibited
- Splash guardsTraffic Infraction
- Stalking
- Strip searchesPetty Offense
- Summons and complaint or penalty assessment notice for misdemeanors, petty offenses, and misdemeanor traffic offensesPetty Offense
- Tampering or drugging of livestockClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Tampering with a deceased human bodyClass 3 Felony
- Tampering with a utility meterClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Tampering with a witness or victimClass 4 Felony
- Tampering with equipment associated with oil or gas gathering operationsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Tampering with physical evidence
- Telecommunications crime
- Telephone recordsPetty Offense
- Terrorist training activitiesClass 5 Felony
- Theft
- Theft by resale of a lift ticket or couponCivil Infraction
- Theft of cable servicePetty Offense
- Theft of medical records or medical information
- Theft of trade secretsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Third degree arsonClass 5 Felony
- Third degree burglary
- Third degree criminal trespass
- Throwing missiles at vehicles
- Trademark counterfeiting
- Trading in public officeClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Traffic offenses and infractions classified
- Trafficking in unlawfully recorded live performanceClass 2 Misdemeanor
- TreasonClass 1 Felony
- Unauthorized absence
- Unauthorized release of an animalClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Unauthorized residency by an adult offender from another stateClass 5 Felony
- Unauthorized use of a financial transaction device
- Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle
- Unlawful activity concerning the selling of land
- Unlawful actsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Unlawful acts
- Unlawful advertising of marijuanaLevel 2 Drug Misdemeanor
- Unlawful affiliation with a public safety radio networkClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Unlawful carrying of a firearm in government buildingsClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Unlawful conduct involving an unserialized firearm, frame, or receiver
- Unlawful conduct on public property
- Unlawful distribution of a suicide recording
- Unlawful distribution or purchase of dextromethorphanPetty Offense
- Unlawful distribution, manufacturing, dispensing, or sale
- Unlawful distribution, manufacturing, dispensing, sale, or cultivation of synthetic cannabinoids or salvia divinorum
- Unlawful electronic sexual communication
- Unlawful entry by excluded and ejected persons
- Unlawful manufacture of a financial transaction deviceClass 5 Felony
- Unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, marking, altering, or modification of equipment and devices related to limited gaming
- Unlawful ownership of dangerous dog
- Unlawful possession of a controlled substance
- Unlawful possession of materials to make methamphetamine and amphetamineLevel 2 Drug Felony
- Unlawful possession or use of license
- Unlawful purchase of firearms
- Unlawful recording of a live performancePetty Offense
- Unlawful sale of publicly provided services or appointmentsClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Unlawful sexual conduct by a peace officer
- Unlawful sexual contact
- Unlawful termination of pregnancy in the first degree
- Unlawful termination of pregnancy in the fourth degree
- Unlawful termination of pregnancy in the second degree
- Unlawful termination of pregnancy in the third degreeClass 5 Felony
- Unlawful to discard or abandon iceboxes or motor vehicles and similar itemsPetty Offense
- Unlawful to display flagPetty Offense
- Unlawful to sell metal beverage containers with detachable opening devicesCivil Infraction
- Unlawful trafficking in unlawfully transferred articlesPetty Offense
- Unlawful transfer for saleClass 6 Felony
- Unlawful use of a controlled substanceLevel 2 Drug Misdemeanor
- Unlawful use of informationClass 6 Felony
- Unlawful use of marijuana in a detention facilityLevel 1 Drug Misdemeanor
- Unlawful use or possession of synthetic cannabinoids or salvia divinorumLevel 2 Drug Misdemeanor
- Unlawfully aiming a laser device at an aircraftClass 6 Felony
- Unlawfully carrying a concealed weaponClass 1 Misdemeanor
- Unlawfully carrying a weapon
- Unlawfully providing or permitting a juvenile to possess a handgun
- Unlawfully using slugsPetty Offense
- Use of counterfeit or unapproved chips or tokens or unlawful coins or devicesClass 6 Felony
- Use of device for calculating probabilities
- Use of dyed fuel on highways prohibitedTraffic Infraction
- Use of earphones while drivingTraffic Infraction
- Use of forged academic recordClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Use of stun gunsClass 5 Felony
- Use, transportation, and storage of drip gasolinePetty Offense
- Vehicular assault
- Vehicular eluding
- Vehicular homicide
- Vehicular unlawful termination of pregnancyClass 5 Felony
- ViolationTraffic Infraction
- Violation of bail bond conditions
- Violation of custody order or order relating to parental responsibilities
- ViolationsCivil Infraction
- Violations of taxation provisions
- Waiting period for firearms salesCivil Infraction
- Warehouse's goods mingledClass 2 Misdemeanor
- When court to report convictionsClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- When driver unable to give notice or make written reportClass 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
- Willful harassment of juror by employerClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Willful misrepresentation of material fact on juror questionnaireClass 2 Misdemeanor
- Wiretapping and eavesdropping devices prohibitedPetty Offense
- Wiretapping prohibitedClass 2 Misdemeanor