2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 19 - Children's Code
Article 2. The Colorado Juvenile Justice System
Editor's note: This title was repealed and reenacted in 1987, and this article was subsequently amended with relocations in 1996, effective January 1, 1997, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this article prior to 1997, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume and the editor's note following the title heading. Former C.R.S. section numbers prior to 1997 are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated. For a detailed comparison of this article for 1997, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.
Law reviews: For article, "What Do 'They' Think? The Delinquency Court Process in Colorado as Viewed By the Youth", see 69 Den. U. L. Rev. 345 (1992); for article, "Highlights of Colorado's New Juvenile Justice Provisions", see 26 Colo. Law. 63 (Jan. 1997); for article, "The Nuts and Bolts of Juvenile Delinquency", see 31 Colo. Law. 19 (Oct. 2002); for article, "Colorado Juvenile Court History: The First Hundred Years", see 32 Colo. Law. 63 (April 2003); for comment, "Arrested Development: An Alternative to Juveniles Serving Life Without Parole in Colorado", see 78 U. Colo. Rev. 1059 (2007).
- Section 19-2-101. Short title.
- Section 19-2-102. Legislative declaration.
- Section 19-2-103. Definitions.
- Section 19-2-104. Jurisdiction.
- Section 19-2-105. Venue.
- Section 19-2-106. Representation of petitioner.
- Section 19-2-107. Right to jury trial.
- Section 19-2-108. Speedy trial - procedural schedule.
- Section 19-2-109. General procedure for juvenile hearings.
- Section 19-2-110. Open hearings.
- Section 19-2-111. Effect of proceedings.
- Section 19-2-112. Victim's right to attend dispositional, review, and restitution proceedings.
- Section 19-2-113. Parental accountability.
- Section 19-2-114. Cost of care.
- Section 19-2-201. Short title.
- Section 19-2-202. Responsible agencies.
- Section 19-2-203. Division of youth services - created - interagency agreements - duties of administrators of facilities in connection with voter registration and casting of ballots reports.
- Section 19-2-203.5. Division of youth services - community boards.
- Section 19-2-204. Juvenile probation departments or divisions - service agreements.
- Section 19-2-205. Facility directors - duties.
- Section 19-2-206. Juvenile parole board - creation - membership.
- Section 19-2-207. Juvenile parole board - authority.
- Section 19-2-208. Administrative law judges.
- Section 19-2-209. Juvenile parole - organization.
- Section 19-2-210. Juvenile community review board.
- Section 19-2-211. Local juvenile services planning committee - creation - duties identification and notification of dually identified crossover youth.
- Section 19-2-211.5. Legislative declaration.
- Section 19-2-212. Working group for criteria for placement of juvenile offenders establishment of formula - review of criteria - report.
- Section 19-2-213. Restorative justice coordinating council - establishment - membership repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-214. Detention center sexual assault prevention program.
- Section 19-2-301. Short title.
- Section 19-2-302. Preadjudication service program - creation - community advisory board established - duties of board.
- Section 19-2-302.5. Petty tickets - summons - contracts - data.
- Section 19-2-303. Juvenile diversion program - authorized - report - legislative declaration definitions.
- Section 19-2-303.5. Juvenile diversion cash fund - creation.
- Section 19-2-304. Parental responsibility training programs - criteria.
- Section 19-2-305. Intensive family preservation program - adjudicated juveniles - legislative declaration - financing for program - cash fund created - report - repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-306. Juvenile intensive supervision program - creation - judicial department.
- Section 19-2-307. Juvenile intensive supervision program - elements.
- Section 19-2-308. Community service and work programs.
- Section 19-2-309. Regimented juvenile training program - legislative declaration - repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-309.5. Community accountability program - legislative declaration - creation.
- Section 19-2-310. Appropriations to department of human services for services to juveniles - definition.
- Section 19-2-311. Victim-offender conferences - pilot program.
- Section 19-2-312. Youth corrections monetary incentives award program - designated monetary custodian.
- Section 19-2-401. Short title.
- Section 19-2-402. Juvenile detention services and facilities to be provided by department of human services - education.
- Section 19-2-402.5. Juvenile detention facilities - catchment areas.
- Section 19-2-403. Human services facilities - authority.
- Section 19-2-403.3. Juvenile facility employees.
- Section 19-2-403.5. Legislative declaration - eminent domain - detention facility site.
- Section 19-2-404. Facilities - control and restraint - liability - duty to pursue runaways.
- Section 19-2-405. Receiving centers - designation.
- Section 19-2-406. Lookout Mountain school.
- Section 19-2-407. Mount View school.
- Section 19-2-408. Youth camps.
- Section 19-2-409. Alternate placement.
- Section 19-2-410. Contracts and agreements with public and private agencies.
- Section 19-2-411. Facilities for juvenile offenders.
- Section 19-2-411.5. Juvenile facility - contract for operation.
- Section 19-2-412. Transfer of detention facilities and equipment.
- Section 19-2-413. Facility publications.
- Section 19-2-414. Facility rules - academic and vocational courses.
- Section 19-2-415. Fees for transporting juveniles.
- Section 19-2-416. Administration or monitoring of medications to persons in juvenile institutional facilities.
- Section 19-2-417. Juvenile detention facilities - behavioral or mental health disorder screening.
- Section 19-2-418. Juveniles - medical benefits application assistance - county of residence rules.
- Section 19-2-501. Short title.
- Section 19-2-502. Taking juvenile into custody.
- Section 19-2-503. Issuance of a lawful warrant taking a juvenile into custody.
- Section 19-2-503.5. Fingerprinting - juvenile under arrest - ordered by court.
- Section 19-2-504. Search warrants - issuance - grounds.
- Section 19-2-505. Search warrants - application.
- Section 19-2-506. Consent to search.
- Section 19-2-507. Duty of officer - screening teams - notification - release or detention.
- Section 19-2-507.5. Limitations on detention.
- Section 19-2-508. Detention and temporary shelter - hearing - time limits - findings - review - confinement with adult offenders - restrictions.
- Section 19-2-509. Bail.
- Section 19-2-510. Preliminary investigation.
- Section 19-2-510.5. Restorative justice pilot project - legislative declaration - definitions repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-511. Statements - definitions.
- Section 19-2-512. Petition initiation.
- Section 19-2-513. Petition form and content.
- Section 19-2-514. Summons - issuance - contents - service.
- Section 19-2-515. Contempt - warrant.
- Section 19-2-516. Petitions - special offenders.
- Section 19-2-517. Direct filing.
- Section 19-2-518. Transfers.
- Section 19-2-701. Short title.
- Section 19-2-702. Mentally ill juvenile or juvenile with developmental disabilities procedure. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-703. Informal adjustment.
- Section 19-2-704. Diversion.
- Section 19-2-705. Preliminary hearing - dispositional hearing.
- Section 19-2-706. Advisement - right to counsel - waiver of right to counsel.
- Section 19-2-707. Mandatory protection order.
- Section 19-2-708. Entry of plea.
- Section 19-2-709. Deferral of adjudication.
- Section 19-2-709.5. Implementation committees - repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-710. Mental health services for juvenile - how and when issue raised procedure - definitions.
- Section 19-2-801. Short title.
- Section 19-2-802. Evidentiary considerations.
- Section 19-2-803. Legislative declaration - admissibility of evidence.
- Section 19-2-804. Procedures at trial.
- Section 19-2-805. Method of jury selection.
Law reviews: For article, "The Overincarceration Rate of Minority Youth: A Judicial Response", see 19 Colo. Law. 1819 (1990).
- Section 19-2-901. Short title.
- Section 19-2-902. Motion for new trial.
- Section 19-2-903. Appeals.
- Section 19-2-904. Posttrial bail.
- Section 19-2-905. Presentence investigation.
- Section 19-2-906. Sentencing hearing.
- Section 19-2-906.5. Orders - community placement - reasonable efforts required - reviews.
- Section 19-2-907. Sentencing schedule - options.
- Section 19-2-908. Sentencing - special offenders.
- Section 19-2-909. Sentencing - commitment to the department of human services.
- Section 19-2-910. Sentencing - persons eighteen years of age or older - county jail community corrections.
- Section 19-2-911. Sentencing - alternative services - detention.
- Section 19-2-912. Sentencing - placement with relative.
- Section 19-2-913. Sentencing - probation - supervised work program.
- Section 19-2-914. Sentencing - community accountability program.
- Section 19-2-915. Sentencing - legal custody - social services.
- Section 19-2-916. Sentencing - placement based on special needs of the juvenile.
- Section 19-2-917. Sentencing - fines.
- Section 19-2-918. Sentencing - restitution by juvenile.
- Section 19-2-918.5. Sentencing - animal cruelty - anger management treatment.
- Section 19-2-919. Sentencing - requirements imposed on parents.
- Section 19-2-920. Out-of-home placement - runaways - duty to notify.
- Section 19-2-921. Commitment to department of human services.
- Section 19-2-922. Juveniles committed to department of human services - evaluation and placement.
- Section 19-2-923. Juveniles committed to department of human services - transfers.
- Section 19-2-924. Juveniles committed to department of human services - emergency release.
- Section 19-2-924.5. Juveniles committed to department of human services - genetic testing repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-924.7. Juveniles committed to the department of human services - prohibition against the use of restraints on pregnant juveniles.
- Section 19-2-925. Probation - terms - release - revocation - graduated responses system report.
- Section 19-2-925.2. Juvenile probation standards - development.
- Section 19-2-925.5. Genetic testing - repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-925.6. Genetic testing of adjudicated offenders - definitions. (1) Beginning July
- Section 19-2-926. Juvenile probation officers - powers and duties.
- Section 19-2-927. Adjudication - collateral relief - definitions.
Cross references: For provisions relating to volunteerism in connection with juvenile parole, see article 31 of title 17.
- Section 19-2-1001. Short title.
- Section 19-2-1002. Juvenile parole.
- Section 19-2-1003. Parole officers - powers - duties.
- Section 19-2-1101. Short title.
- Section 19-2-1102. Definitions.
- Section 19-2-1103. Teen court program - supervising courts.
- Section 19-2-1104. Procedures - hearings.
- Section 19-2-1105. Alternative procedures.
- Section 19-2-1201. Juvenile detention bed cap.
- Section 19-2-1202. Working group - allocation of beds.
- Section 19-2-1203. Judicial districts - plans for the cap.
- Section 19-2-1204. Use of juvenile detention beds.
- Section 19-2-1205. Report on flexibility for juvenile detention beds - report - repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 19-2-1300.2. Legislative declaration.
- Section 19-2-1301. Incompetent to proceed - effect - how and when raised.
- Section 19-2-1302. Determination of incompetency to proceed.
- Section 19-2-1303. Procedure after determination of competency or incompetency.
- Section 19-2-1304. Restoration to competency hearing.
- Section 19-2-1305. Procedure after restoration to competency hearing.