2022 Colorado Code
Title 18 - Criminal Code
Article 9 - Offenses Against Public Peace, Order, and Decency
Part 1 - Public Peace and Order
§ 18-9-106. Disorderly Conduct

1. A person commits disorderly conduct if he or she intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:
   1. Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture, or display in a public place and the utterance, gesture, or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace; or
   2. (Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 708 , § 39, effective July 1, 2000.)
   3. Makes unreasonable noise in a public place or near a private residence that he has no right to occupy; or
   4. Fights with another in a public place except in an amateur or professional contest of athletic skill; or
   5. Not being a peace officer, discharges a firearm in a public place except when engaged in lawful target practice or hunting or the ritual discharge of blank ammunition cartridges as an attendee at a funeral for a deceased person who was a veteran of the armed forces of the United States; or
   6. [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(f) is effective until March 1, 2022.] Not being a peace officer, displays a deadly weapon, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm. (f) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(f) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Not being a peace officer, displays a real or simulated firearm, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a firearm, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a firearm in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm and does alarm another person.

2. Repealed.
3. [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (3) is effective until March 1, 2022.] (a) An offense under paragraph (a) or (c) of subsection (1) of this section is a class 1 petty offense; except that, if the offense is committed with intent to disrupt, impair, or interfere with a funeral, or with intent to cause severe emotional distress to a person attending a funeral, it is a class 2 misdemeanor.

   (b) An offense under paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section is a class 3 misdemeanor.

   (c) An offense under paragraph (e) or (f) of subsection (1) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.

   (3) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (3) is effective March 1, 2022. ] (a) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(a) or (1)(c) of this section is a petty offense; except that, if the offense is committed with intent to disrupt, impair, or interfere with a funeral, or with intent to cause severe emotional distress to a person attending a funeral, it is a class 2 misdemeanor.

   (b) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(d) of this section is a petty offense.

   (c) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(f) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.

   (d) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(e) of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor.

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 467, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-9-106. L. 72: p. 275, § 8. L. 81: (1)(a) amended, p. 1010, § 1, effective April 24. L. 2000: IP(1), (1)(b), and (1)(f) amended, pp. 696, 708, §§ 11, 39, effective July 1. L. 2006: (3) amended, p. 1198, § 3, effective May 26; (2) repealed, p. 1493, § 21, effective June 1. L. 2014: (1)(e) amended, (HB 14-1059), ch. 22, p. 153, § 1, effective March 7. L. 2021: (1)(f) and (3) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3201, § 308, effective March 1, 2022.

1. In Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443 (2011), the United States Supreme Court held that the first amendment shielded military funeral protesters from tort liability for their picketing because the picketing constituted speech on matters of public concern and because the father of the deceased was not a member of a captive audience.
2. 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.

Cross references: (1) For affirmative defenses generally, see §§ 18-1-407, 18-1-710, and 18-1-805.

(2) In 2006, subsection (3) was amended by the "Right to Rest in Peace Act". For the title and legislative declaration, see section 1 of chapter 262, Session Laws of Colorado 2006.