2024 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 18 - CRIMINAL CODE (§§ 18-1-101 — 18-26-102)
Article 9 - Offenses Against Public Peace, Order, and Decency (§§ 18-9-101 — 18-9-314)
Part 1 - PUBLIC PEACE AND ORDER (§§ 18-9-101 — 18-9-125)
Section 18-9-115 - Endangering public transportation and utility transmission
- (1) A person commits endangering public transportation if such person:
- (a) Tampers with a facility of public transportation with intent to cause any damage, malfunction, nonfunction, theft, or unauthorized removal of material which would result in the creation of a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to anyone; or
- (b) Repealed.
- (c) On a public conveyance, knowingly threatens any operator, crew member, attendant, or passenger:
- (I) With death or imminent serious bodily injury; or
- (II) With a deadly weapon or with words or actions intended to induce belief that such person is armed with a deadly weapon.
- (d) Repealed.
- (1.5) A person commits endangering utility transmission if such person tampers with a facility of utility transmission with intent to cause any damage, malfunction, nonfunction, theft, or unauthorized removal of material which would:
- (a) Interrupt performance of utility transmission; or
- (b) Result in a creation of a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to anyone.
- (2) "Public" means offered or available to the public generally, either free or upon payment of a fare, fee, rate, or tariff, or offered or made available by a school or school district to pupils regularly enrolled in public or nonpublic schools in preschool through grade twelve.
- (3) "Public conveyance" includes a passenger or freight train, airplane, bus, truck, car, boat, tramway, gondola, lift, elevator, escalator, or other device intended, designed, adapted, and used for the public carriage of persons or property.
- (4) "Facility of public transportation" includes a public conveyance and any area, structure, or device which is designed, adapted, and used to support, guide, control, permit, or facilitate the movement, starting, stopping, takeoff, landing, or servicing of a public conveyance or the loading or unloading of passengers, freight, or goods.
- (4.5) "Facility of utility transmission" includes any area, structure, or device that is designed, adopted, or used to support, guide, control, permit, or facilitate transmission of:
- (a) Electrical energy in excess of thirty thousand volts; or
- (b) Water, liquid fuel, or gaseous fuel by pipeline.
- (5) Endangering public transportation or endangering utility transmission is a class 3 felony.
Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, § 318, eff. 3/1/2022.
Amended by 2014 Ch. 271, § 1, eff. 7/1/2014.
L. 71: R&RE, p. 471, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-9-116. L. 77: (1)(c) amended, p. 969, § 56, effective July 1. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 1344, § 1, effective July 1. L. 96: (2) amended, p. 1335, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2014: (1)(a), (3), (4), and (5) amended and (1.5) and (4.5) added, (SB 14-049), ch. 1089, p. 1089, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2021: (1)(c)(II) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 3204, p. 3204, § 318, effective 3/1/2022; (1)(b)(II) and (1)(d)(II) added by revision, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, pp. 3204, 3331, §§ 318, 803.
Subsections (1)(b)(II) and (1)(d)(II) provided for the repeal of subsections (1)(b) and (1)(d), respectively, effective March 1, 2022. (See L. 2021, pp. 3204, 3331.)
2021 Ch. 462, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).