Colorado Code
Part 2 - Traps, Poisons, and Snares
§ 33-6-203. General Prohibition - Penalties

(2) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (2) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Except as otherwise provided in this part 2, any person who attempts to take wildlife using any leghold trap, instant kill body-gripping design trap, poison, or snare commits a petty offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of forty dollars and is assessed four license suspension points.

(3) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (3) is effective March 1, 2022. ] An owner or lessee of private property or an employee of such owner or lessee, as such terms are defined and used in sections 33-6-207 and 33-6-208, who takes wildlife using any leghold trap, instant kill body-gripping design trap, poison, or snare on such private property under circumstances that give rise to the exemption set forth in section 33-6-207 (1) but without complying with the notice and certification requirements of section 33-6-208 (1)(c) commits a petty offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars; except that, upon conviction of a second or subsequent offense, the fine shall be fifty dollars.


Source: L. 97: Entire part added, p. 1066, § 1, effective May 27. L. 2021: (2) and (3) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3261, § 562, 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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