Colorado statute

C.R.S. § 18-9-106 — Disorderly conduct.

Current through 2025 Regular Session

Part of Part 1: PUBLIC PEACE AND ORDER, Colorado Revised Statutes.

Criminal charges under this statute

Disorderly conduct

Full text of C.R.S. § 18-9-106

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.

C.R.S. § 18-9-106Primary source, current through the 2025 Regular Session

(1) A person commits disorderly conduct if he or she intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly: (a) Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture, or display in a public place and the utterance, gesture, or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace; or (b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 708, § 39, effective July 1, 2000.) (c) Makes unreasonable noise in a public place or near a private residence that he has no right to occupy; or (d) Fights with another in a public place except in an amateur or professional contest of athletic skill; or (e) Not being a peace officer, discharges a firearm in a public place except when engaged in lawful target practice or hunting or the ritual discharge of blank ammunition cartridges as an attendee at a funeral for a deceased person who was a veteran of the armed forces of the United States; or (f) Not being a peace officer, displays a real or simulated firearm, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a firearm, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a firearm in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm and does alarm another person. (2) Repealed. (3) (a) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(a) or (1)(c) of this section is a petty offense; except that, if the offense is committed with intent to disrupt, impair, or interfere with a funeral, or with intent to cause severe emotional distress to a person attending a funeral, it is a class 2 misdemeanor. (b) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(d) of this section is a petty offense. (c) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(f) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor. (d) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(e) of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor.

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Questions this section answers

Is disorderly conduct a felony or a misdemeanor in Colorado?

It depends on the circumstances: disorderly conduct ranges from a petty offense to a class 1 misdemeanor in Colorado under C.R.S. § 18-9-106.

Offensive utterance/noise — standard: petty offense (C.R.S. § 18-9-106(3)(a)) · Offensive utterance/noise — funeral disruption: class 2 misdemeanor (C.R.S. § 18-9-106(3)(a)) · Fighting in public: petty offense (C.R.S. § 18-9-106(3)(b)) · Simulated or represented firearm display: class 2 misdemeanor (C.R.S. § 18-9-106(3)(c)) · Unlawful discharge of firearm: class 1 misdemeanor (C.R.S. § 18-9-106(3)(d))

Which Colorado statute covers disorderly conduct?

Disorderly conduct is governed by C.R.S. § 18-9-106 (Disorderly conduct).

This reference is informational and is not legal advice.