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 3 - OFFENSES INVOLVING COMMUNICATIONS (§§ 18-9-301 — 18-9-314)
Section 18-9-302 - Wiretapping and eavesdropping devices prohibited - penalty

Universal Citation:
CO Rev Stat § 18-9-302 (2024)
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Any person who manufactures, buys, sells, or knowingly has in the person's possession any instrument, device, contrivance, machine, or apparatus designed or commonly used for wiretapping or eavesdropping, as prohibited in sections 18-9-303 and 18-9-304, with the intent to unlawfully use or employ or allow the same to be so used or employed, or who knowingly aids, authorizes, agrees with, employs, permits, or conspires with any other person to unlawfully manufacture, buy, sell, or have the same in the person's possession is guilty of a petty offense.

Amended by 2023 Ch. 298,§ 39, eff. 10/1/2023.

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, § 329, eff. 3/1/2022.

L. 71: R&RE, p. 473, § 1.C.R.S. 1963:§ 40-9-302. L. 2021:Entire section amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3206, § 329, effective 3/1/2022. L. 2023:Entire section amended,(HB 23-1293), ch. 298, p. 1790, § 39, effective October 1.

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


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