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 9 - IDENTITY THEFT AND RELATED OFFENSES (§§ 18-5-901 — 18-5-905)
Section 18-5-903 - Criminal possession of a financial device

Universal Citation:
CO Rev Stat § 18-5-903 (2024)
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  • (1) A person commits criminal possession of a financial device if the person has in his or her possession or under his or her control any financial device that the person knows, or reasonably should know, to be lost, stolen, or delivered under mistake as to the identity or address of the account holder.
  • (2)
    • (a) Except as provided in subsection (2)(c) of this section, criminal possession of one or more financial devices is a class 2 misdemeanor.
    • (b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2023.)
    • (c) Criminal possession of three or more financial devices, of which at least two are issued to different account holders, is a class 5 felony.

Amended by 2023 Ch. 298,§ 23, eff. 10/1/2023.

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, § 254, eff. 3/1/2022.

L. 2006: Entire part added, p. 1323, § 8, effective July 1. L. 2021:(2)(a) amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3191, § 254, effective 3/1/2022. L. 2023:(2) amended,(HB 23-1293), ch. 298, p. 1787, § 23, effective October 1..

Section 77 of chapter 298 (HB 23-1293), Session Laws of Colorado 2023, provides that the act changing subsection (2) applies to offenses committed on or after October 1, 2023.


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