Colorado statute
C.R.S. § 18-10-105 — Possession of a gambling device or record.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Article 10: Gambling, Colorado Revised Statutes.
Criminal charges under this statute
Full text of C.R.S. § 18-10-105
Statutory text current through the 2025 Regular Session. This is an officially sanctioned publication using the official text of the Colorado Revised Statutes; it is not the official statutes of the State of Colorado.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (1.5) of this section, a person who owns, manufactures, sells, transports, possesses, or engages in any transaction designed to affect the ownership, custody, or use of a gambling device or gambling record, knowing that it is to be used in professional gambling, commits possession of a gambling device or record. (1.5) The sale, transportation, manufacture, and remanufacture of gambling devices, including the acquisition of essential parts therefor and the assembly of such parts, is permitted if such devices are sold, transported, manufactured, and remanufactured only for transportation in interstate or foreign commerce when such transportation is not prohibited by any applicable foreign, state, or federal law. Storage of gambling devices is also permitted but only for purposes of manufacturing, remanufacturing, and transporting such devices in interstate or foreign commerce when their transportation is not prohibited. Such activities may be conducted only by persons who have registered with the United States government pursuant to the provisions of chapter 24 of Title XV of the United States Code, as amended. Such gambling devices shall not be openly displayed, except to legal buyers, or sold for use in Colorado regardless of where purchased, nor manufactured, remanufactured, or stored for purposes of manufacture, remanufacture, and transportation in violation of any applicable state or federal law. For purposes of this subsection (1.5), "legal buyer" means a buyer who resides in another state or country which does not restrict the possession of the specific gambling device in question. (2) Possession of a gambling device or record or violation of subsection (1.5) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.
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Questions this section answers
Is possession of a gambling device or record a felony or a misdemeanor in Colorado?
Possession of a gambling device or record is a class 2 misdemeanor in Colorado under C.R.S. § 18-10-105.
Which Colorado statute covers possession of a gambling device or record?
Possession of a gambling device or record is governed by C.R.S. § 18-10-105 (Possession of a gambling device or record).
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