Colorado legal term
Facility in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Facility” 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 “Facility” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Facility" means any residential community treatment center, honor farm, preparole release center, or other correctional facility. (C.R.S. § 16-16-102)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Chop shop activity
- Criminal operation of a device in motion picture theater
- Endangering public transportation and utility transmission
- Equity skimming of real property
- Harboring a minor
- Introducing contraband in the first degree
- Obstruction of telephone or telegraph service
- Personal information on the internet
- Preventing passage to and from a health-care facility
- Sales at nonpermanent locations
- Secondhand dealers
- Secondhand dealers
Related terms in the same statutes
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