Colorado Code
Part 1 - Public Peace and Order
§ 18-9-112. Loitering - Definition - Legislative Declaration

(2) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (2) is effective March 1, 2022. ] A person commits a petty offense if he or she, with intent to interfere with or disrupt the school program or with intent to interfere with or endanger schoolchildren, loiters in a school building or on school grounds or within one hundred feet of school grounds when persons under the age of eighteen are present in the building or on the grounds, not having any reason or relationship involving custody of, or responsibility for, a pupil or any other specific, legitimate reason for being there, and having been asked to leave by a school administrator or the school administrator's representative or by a peace officer.



Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 470, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-9-113. L. 73: p. 539, § 9. L. 81: (2)(e) amended, p. 738, § 24, effective July 1. L. 82: (2)(d) amended and (4) added, p. 322, § 1, effective March 5. L. 97: (2) amended, p. 1547, § 22, effective July 1. L. 2021: (2) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3203, § 315, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note: 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: For affirmative defenses generally, see §§ 18-1-407, 18-1-710, and 18-1-805.

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