Colorado statute
C.R.S. § 18-7-601 — Dispensing violent films to minors - misdemeanors.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Part 6: VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS CONTAINING ACTUAL VIOLENCE, Colorado Revised Statutes.
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Full text of C.R.S. § 18-7-601
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) No person shall sell, rent, or otherwise furnish to a minor any video tape, video disc, film representation, or other form of motion picture if: (a) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, predominantly appeals to the interest in violence; and (b) The work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, repeated acts of actual, not simulated, violence resulting in serious bodily injury or death; and (c) The work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. (2) For the purposes of this section, "minor" means any person under eighteen years of age, and "serious bodily injury" shall be defined as provided in section 18-1-901 (3)(p). (3) Any person who violates subsection (1) of this section is guilty of a civil infraction and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of one thousand dollars; except that, for a second or subsequent offense, the fine shall be five thousand dollars.
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Is dispensing violent films to minors a felony or a misdemeanor in Colorado?
Dispensing violent films to minors is a civil infraction in Colorado under C.R.S. § 18-7-601.
Which Colorado statute covers dispensing violent films to minors?
Dispensing violent films to minors is governed by C.R.S. § 18-7-601 (Dispensing violent films to minors - misdemeanors).
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