Colorado legal term
Owner in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Owner” 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 “Owner” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Owner" means the person who owns the copyright on the original fixation of sounds embodied in the master phonograph record, master disc, master tape, master film, or other device used for reproducing sounds on phonograph records, discs, tapes, films, or other articles upon which sound is recorded and from which the transferred recorded sounds are directly derived. (C.R.S. § 18-4-601)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Trademark counterfeiting
- Cheating
- Cruelty and aggravated cruelty to animals, service animals, and law enforcement animals
- Gambling premises
- Insurance fraud
- Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle
- Unlawful ownership of dangerous dog
- Abandonment of a motor vehicle
- Bribery in sports
- Compulsory insurance
- Criminal operation of a device in motion picture theater
- Defacing a cave
Related terms in the same statutes
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