Colorado legal term
Protection order in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Protection order” 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 “Protection order” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Protection order" means an order that prohibits the restrained person from contacting, harassing, injuring, intimidating, molesting, threatening, touching, stalking, or committing sexual violence through sexually assaulting or abusing a protected person or from entering or remaining on premises, or from coming within a specified distance of a protected person or premises, or from taking, transferring, concealing, harming, disposing of or threatening harm to an animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by a protected person, or any other provision to protect the protected person from the (C.R.S. § 13-14-101)
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