Colorado Code
Part 1 - Public Peace and Order
§ 18-9-113. Desecration of Venerated Objects

(1) (a) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(a) is effective March 1, 2022. ] A person commits a class 2 misdemeanor if he or she knowingly desecrates any public monument or structure or desecrates in a public place any other object of veneration by the public.

(b) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(b) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Except as otherwise provided in section 24-80-1305, with respect to the disturbance of an unmarked human burial, a person commits a class 2 misdemeanor if he or she knowingly desecrates any place of worship or burial of human remains.




Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 470, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-9-114. L. 77: (1) amended, p. 969, § 54, effective July 1. L. 82: (1) amended, p. 324, § 1, effective March 25. L. 90: (1)(b) amended, p. 1282, § 7, effective May 9. L. 91: (1)(c) added, p. 407, § 16, effective June 6. L. 2000: (1)(c) amended, p. 1051, § 19, effective September 1. L. 2021: (1)(a) and (1)(b) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3203, § 316, 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.

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