Colorado statute
C.R.S. § 42-4-1413 — Eluding or attempting to elude a police officer.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Part 14: OTHER OFFENSES, Colorado Revised Statutes.
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Full text of C.R.S. § 42-4-1413
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.
Any operator of a motor vehicle who the officer has reasonable grounds to believe has violated a state law or municipal ordinance, who has received a visual or audible signal such as a red light or a siren from a police officer driving a marked vehicle showing the same to be an official police, sheriff, or Colorado state patrol car directing the operator to bring the operator's vehicle to a stop, and who willfully increases his or her speed or extinguishes his or her lights in an attempt to elude such police officer, or willfully attempts in any other manner to elude the police officer, or does elude such police officer commits a class 2 misdemeanor traffic offense.
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Questions this section answers
Is eluding or attempting to elude a police officer a felony or a misdemeanor in Colorado?
Eluding or attempting to elude a police officer is a class 2 misdemeanor traffic offense in Colorado under C.R.S. § 42-4-1413.
Which Colorado statute covers eluding or attempting to elude a police officer?
Eluding or attempting to elude a police officer is governed by C.R.S. § 42-4-1413 (Eluding or attempting to elude a police officer).
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