2024 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 18 - CRIMINAL CODE (§§ 18-1-101 — 18-26-102)
Article 5 - Offenses Involving Fraud (§§ 18-5-101 — 18-5-905)
Part 1 - FORGERY, SIMULATION, IMPERSONATION, AND RELATED OFFENSES (§§ 18-5-101 — 18-5-120)
Section 18-5-104 - Second degree forgery

Universal Citation:
CO Rev Stat § 18-5-104 (2024)
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  • (1) A person commits second degree forgery if, with intent to defraud, such person falsely makes, completes, alters, or utters a written instrument of a kind not described in section 18-5-102 or 18-5-104.5.
  • (2) Second degree forgery is a class 2 misdemeanor.

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, § 227, eff. 3/1/2022.

L. 71: R&RE, p. 435, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-5-104. L. 93: Entire section amended, p. 1989, § 18, effective July 1. L. 96: (1) amended, p. 841, § 2, effective July 1. L. 2021: (2) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 3181, p. 3181, § 227, effective 3/1/2022.

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.

2021 Ch. 462, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).


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