Colorado legal term
Purchase in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Purchase” 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 “Purchase” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Purchase" means giving money to acquire any valuable article, taking valuable articles in full or part satisfaction of a debt, taking valuable articles for resale for the purpose of full or part satisfaction of a debt, or taking valuable articles for sale on consignment. (C.R.S. § 18-16-102)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Enforcement of large-capacity magazine ban by regulating the manufacture, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of specified semiautomatic firearms
- Unlawful conduct involving an unserialized firearm, frame, or receiver
- Automated dialing systems prohibited
- Crime of violation of a protection order
- Failing to disclose a conflict of interest
- Firearms transfers by licensed dealers
- Forgery
- Fraud in effecting sales
- Furnishing cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products to persons under twenty-one years of age
- Furnishing kratom products to persons under twenty-one years of age
- Private firearms transfers
- Prohibition
Related terms in the same statutes
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