Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-10-1508

Current through Acts effective through 7/1/2024 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 31-10-1508 - Tampering with nomination papers

Any person who, being in possession of nomination papers entitled to be filed under this article 10, wrongfully or willfully destroys, defaces, mutilates, suppresses, neglects, or fails to cause the same to be filed by the proper time in the clerk's office or who files any such paper knowing the same, or any part thereof, to be falsely made commits a class 2 misdemeanor.

C.R.S. § 31-10-1508

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, § 512, eff. 3/1/2022.

L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1070, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 3251, p. 3251, § 512, effective 3/1/2022.

(1) This section is similar to former § 31-10-1308 as it existed prior to 1975.

(2) Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.

2021 Ch. 462, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).