Colorado legal term
Minor in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Minor” 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 “Minor” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Minor" means a person less than eighteen years of age. (C.R.S. § 18-3-502)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Offenses relating to marijuana and marijuana concentrate
- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
- Imitation controlled substances
- Obscenity
- Unlawful distribution of a suicide recording
- Unlawful possession or use of license
- Dispensing violent films to minors
- Driving under restraint
- Harboring a minor
- Human trafficking for involuntary servitude
- Human trafficking for sexual servitude
- Imposition of sentences in class 1 felonies for crimes committed on or after July 1, 1988, and prior to September 20, 1991
Related terms in the same statutes
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