2021 Colorado Code
Title 18 - Criminal Code
Article 5 - Offenses Involving Fraud
Part 1 - Forgery, Simulation, Impersonation, and Related Offenses
§ 18-5-110. Criminal Simulation

Universal Citation: CO Code § 18-5-110 (2021)
  1. A person commits a criminal simulation, when:
    1. With intent to defraud, he makes, alters, or represents any object in such fashion that it appears to have an antiquity, rarity, source or authorship, ingredient, or composition which it does not in fact have; or
    2. With knowledge of its true character and with intent to use to defraud, he utters, misrepresents, or possesses any object made or altered as specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection (1).
  2. [ ] Criminal simulation is a class 1 misdemeanor.
Editor's note: This version of subsection (2) is effective until March 1, 2022.

(2) [ ] Criminal simulation is a class 2 misdemeanor.

Editor's note: This version of subsection (2) is effective March 1, 2022.

History. Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 435, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-5-110 . L. 87: (1)(b) amended, p. 1578, § 23, effective July 10. L. 2021: (2) amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3181, § 230, effective March 1, 2022.


Editor's note:

Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.

ANNOTATION

Applied in People v. Vesely, 41 Colo. App. 325, 587 P.2d 802 (1978).


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