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2022 Colorado Code
Title 18 - Criminal Code
Article 8 - Offenses - Governmental Operations
Part 6 - Offenses Relating to Judicial and Other Proceedings
§ 18-8-611. Simulating Legal Process

Universal Citation:
CO Rev Stat § 18-8-611 (2022)
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  1. A person commits simulating legal process if he knowingly delivers or causes to be delivered to another a request for the payment of money on behalf of any creditor including himself which in form and substance simulates any legal process issued by any court of this state.
  2. [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (2) is effective until March 1, 2022.] Simulating legal process is a class 3 misdemeanor.

    (2) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (2) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Simulating legal process is a class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 466, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-8-611. L. 2021: (2) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3201, § 303, 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.

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