2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 18 - Criminal Code
Article 23. Gang Recruitment Act
Section 18-23-102. Recruitment of juveniles for a criminal street gang.
(1) A person commits recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang if he or she is eighteen years of age or older and:
Knowingly solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, coerces, or otherwise causes a person younger than eighteen years of age to actively participate in or become a member of a criminal street gang; or
By use of force, threat, or intimidation directed at any person, or by the infliction ofbodily injury upon any person, knowingly prevents a person younger than eighteen years of age from leaving a criminal street gang.
Recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang is a class 1 misdemeanor.
Nothing in this section shall affect the ability to charge criminal offenses under article 17 of this title.
Source: L. 2001: Entire article added, p. 987, § 1, effective March 1, 2002.
