Colorado legal term
Device in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Device” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Colorado criminal code.
What does “Device” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Device" means an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component, part, or accessory, that is: (I) Recognized in the official national formulary or the United States pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them; (II) Intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other condition, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals; or (III) Intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or animals and that does not achieve any of its principal int (C.R.S. § 18-13-114.5)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Ammunition sales
- Enforcement of large-capacity magazine ban by regulating the manufacture, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of specified semiautomatic firearms
- Fraudulent acts
- Introducing contraband in the second degree
- Unauthorized absence
- Unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, marking, altering, or modification of equipment and devices related to limited gaming
- Use of device for calculating probabilities
- Animal fighting
- Cheating game and devices
- Counterfeit substances prohibited
- Criminal operation of a device in motion picture theater
- Criminal possession of forgery devices
Related terms in the same statutes
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