Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-10-1523

Current through Acts effective through 7/1/2024 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 31-10-1523 - Intimidation

It is unlawful for any person directly or indirectly, by himself or herself, or any other person in his or her behalf, to make use of any force, violence, restraint, abduction, duress, or forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance, or to inflict or threaten the infliction of any injury, damage, harm, or loss, or in any manner to practice intimidation upon or against any person in order to impede, prevent, or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the elective franchise of any qualified elector, or to compel, induce, or prevail upon any qualified elector either to give or refrain from giving the elector's vote at any municipal election or to give or refrain from giving the elector's vote for any particular person or measure at any such election. Each such offense is a class 1 misdemeanor.

C.R.S. § 31-10-1523

Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, § 526, eff. 3/1/2022.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1073, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 3253, p. 3253, § 526, effective 3/1/2022.

(1) This section is similar to former § 31-10-1323 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).