Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-23-102
Recruitment of juveniles for a criminal street gang
Colorado · Colorado Revised Statutes Title 18 — Criminal Code · Status: effective
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- Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-23-102, Recruitment of juveniles for a criminal street gang, Colorado, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2297108
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(1) A person commits recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang if he or she is eighteen years of age or older and:
(a) Knowingly solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, coerces, or otherwise causes a person younger than eighteen years of age to actively participate in or become a member of a criminal street gang; or
(b) By use of force, threat, or intimidation directed at any person, or by the infliction of bodily injury upon any person, knowingly prevents a person younger than eighteen years of age from leaving a criminal street gang.
(2) Recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang in violation of subsection (1)(b) of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor, and recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang in violation of subsection (1)(a) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.
(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the ability to charge criminal offenses under article 17 of this title.