Colorado Code
Part 4 - Colorado Bureau of Investigation
§ 24-33.5-424. National Instant Criminal Background Check System - State Point of Contact - Fee - Grounds for Denial of Firearm Transfer - Appeal - Rule-Making - Unlawful Acts - Instant Criminal Background Check Cash Fund - Creation

(I) Assault in the third degree, as described in section 18-3-204;
(II) Sexual assault, as described in section 18-3-402 (1)(e);

(I) Any person, in connection with the acquisition or attempted acquisition of a firearm from any transferor, to willfully make any false or fictitious oral or written statement or to furnish or exhibit any false, fictitious, or misrepresented identification that is intended or likely to deceive such transferor with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or other disposition of such firearm under federal or state law;
(II) Any transferor knowingly to request criminal history record information or a background check under false pretenses or knowingly to disseminate criminal history record information to any person other than the subject of such information;
(III) Any agent or employee or former agent or employee of the bureau knowingly to violate the provisions of this section.

(b) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (10)(b) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (10)(a) of this section commits a class 2 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501.

Source: L. 2000: Entire section added, p. 8, § 3, effective March 7. L. 2002: (10)(b) amended, p. 1533, § 252, effective October 1. L. 2007: (1)(d) and (1)(e) amended, p. 2035, § 53, effective June 1. L. 2010: (3)(b)(II) repealed, (HB 10-1391), ch. 363, p. 1718, § 1, effective June 7; (5)(b) and (5)(c) amended, (HB 10-1411), ch. 370, p. 1737, § 1, effective June 7. L. 2013: (3.5) added, (HB 13-1228), ch. 46, p. 125, § 1, effective March 20. L. 2017: IP(3.5)(f) amended, (HB 17-1059), ch. 91, p. 278, § 6, effective August 9. L. 2019: (1)(d) and (1)(e) amended, (SB 19-241), ch. 390, p. 3469, § 28, effective August 2. L. 2021: (3)(b.3) and (3)(b.5) added, IP(5)(b) and (5)(b)(II) amended, and (5)(c) repealed, (HB 21-1298), ch. 268, p. 1553, § 2, effective June 19; (10)(b) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3227, § 421, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note: (1) Subparagraph (3.5)(g)(II) provided for the repeal of subsection (3.5)(g), effective July 1, 2014. (See L . 2013, p. 125.)
(2) 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: (1) For the legislative declaration contained in the 2000 act enacting this section, see section 1 of chapter 5, Session Laws of Colorado 2000.
(2) For the legislative declaration contained in the 2002 act amending subsection (10)(b), see section 1 of chapter 318, Session Laws of Colorado 2002.