Colorado legal term
Explosive or incendiary device in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Explosive or incendiary device” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Colorado criminal code.
What does “Explosive or incendiary device” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Explosive or incendiary device" means: (A) Dynamite and all other forms of high explosives, including, but not limited to, water gel, slurry, military C-4 (plastic explosives), blasting agents to include nitro-carbon-nitrate, and ammonium nitrate and fuel oil mixtures, cast primers and boosters, R.D.X., P.E.T.N., electric and nonelectric blasting caps, exploding cords commonly called detonating cord or det-cord or primacord, picric acid explosives, T.N.T. and T.N.T. mixtures, and nitroglycerin and nitroglycerin mixtures; (B) Any explosive bomb, grenade, missile, or similar device; and (C) Any (C.R.S. § 18-12-109)
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