Colorado § 13-14-101 Definitions

Colorado Statutes

§ 13-14-101 — Definitions

Colorado § 13-14-101

Title 13Courts

Art.Civil Protection Orders

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-14-101 (2026).

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For purposes of this article 14, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)Abuse of the elderly or of an at-risk adult means mistreatment of a person who is sixty years of age or older or who is an at-risk adult as defined in section 26-3.1-101 (1.5), including but not limited to repeated acts that:

(a)Constitute verbal threats or assaults;

(b)Constitute verbal harassment;

(c)Result in the inappropriate use or the threat of inappropriate use of medications;

(d)Result in the inappropriate use of physical or chemical restraints;

(e)Result in the misuse of power or authority granted to a person through a power of attorney or by a court in a guardianship or conservatorship proceeding that results in unreasonable confinement or restriction of liberty; or

(f)Constitute threat

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For purposes of this article 14, unless the context
otherwise requires:

(1) Abuse of the elderly or of an at-risk adult means mistreatment of a
person who is sixty years of age or older or who is an at-risk adult as defined in
section 26-3.1-101 (1.5), including but not limited to repeated acts that:

(a) Constitute verbal threats or assaults;

(b) Constitute verbal harassment;

(c) Result in the inappropriate use or the threat of inappropriate use of
medications;

(d) Result in the inappropriate use of physical or chemical restraints;

(e) Result in the misuse of power or authority granted to a person through a
power of attorney or by a court in a guardianship or conservatorship proceeding
that results in unreasonable confinement or restriction of liberty; or

(f) Constitute threats or acts of violence against, or the taking, transferring,
concealing, harming, or disposing of, an animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or
held by the elderly or at-risk adult, which threats or acts are intended to coerce,
control, punish, intimidate, or exact revenge upon the elderly or at-risk adult.

(1.5) Adult means a person eighteen years of age or older.

(1.6) Coercion means compelling a person by force, threat of force, or
intimidation to engage in conduct from which the person has the right or privilege
to abstain, or to abstain from conduct in which the person has the right or privilege
to engage.

(1.7) Contact or contacting means any interaction or communication with
another person, directly or indirectly through a third party, and electronic and
digital forms of communication, including but not limited to interaction or
communication through social media.

(2) Domestic abuse means an act, attempted act, or threatened act of
violence, stalking, harassment, or coercion that is committed by a person against
another person to whom the actor is currently or was formerly related or with whom
the actor is living or has lived in the same domicile. Domestic abuse may also
include an act, attempted act, or threatened act of violence against:

(a) The minor children of either of the parties; or

(b) An animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by either of the parties
or by a minor child of either of the parties, which threat, act, or attempted act is
intended to coerce, control, punish, intimidate, or exact revenge upon either of the
parties or a minor child of either of the parties.

(2.1) Domestic violence, commonly known as intimate partner violence,
means a pattern of violent behavior or an act, attempted act, or threat of violence,
stalking, harassment, or coercion that is committed by a person against another
person with whom the actor is involved or has been involved in an intimate
relationship. A sexual relationship may be an indicator of an intimate relationship
but is never a necessary condition for finding an intimate relationship.

(2.2) Minor child means a person under eighteen years of age.

(2.3) Protected person means the person or persons identified in a
protection order as the person or persons for whose benefit the protection order
was issued.

(2.4) (a) Protection order means an order that prohibits the restrained
person from contacting, harassing, injuring, intimidating, molesting, threatening,
touching, stalking, or committing sexual violence through sexually assaulting or
abusing a protected person or from entering or remaining on premises, or from
coming within a specified distance of a protected person or premises, or from
taking, transferring, concealing, harming, disposing of or threatening harm to an
animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by a protected person, or any other
provision to protect the protected person from the risk or threat of physical harm or
the threat of psychological or emotional harm that is issued by a court of this state
or a municipal court and that is issued pursuant to:

(I) This article 14, section 18-1-1001, 19-2.5-607, or 19-4-111, or rule 365 of the
Colorado rules of county court civil procedure;

(II) Sections 14-4-101 to 14-4-105, C.R.S., section 14-10-107, C.R.S., section 14-10-108, C.R.S., or section 19-3-316, C.R.S., as those sections existed prior to July 1,
2004;

(III) An order issued as part of the proceedings concerning a criminal
municipal ordinance violation; or

(IV) Any other order of a court that prohibits a person from contacting,
harassing, injuring, intimidating, molesting, threatening, touching, stalking, or
sexually assaulting or abusing a person, or from entering or remaining on premises,
or from coming within a specified distance of a protected person or premises, or
from taking, transferring, concealing, harming, disposing of or threatening to harm
an animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by a person, or from entering or
remaining on premises, or from coming within a specified distance of a protected
person or premises.

(b) For purposes of this article only, protection order includes any order
that amends, modifies, supplements, or supersedes the initial protection order.
Protection order also includes any emergency protection order, as described in
section 13-14-103, any restraining order entered prior to July 1, 2003, and any
foreign protection order as defined in section 13-14-110.

(2.8) Restrained person means a person identified in a protection order as a
person prohibited from doing a specified act or acts.

(2.9) Sexual violence means an unwanted or nonconsensual sexual
behavior, act or attempted act, or threatened act, including, but not limited to,
unlawful sexual behavior, as described in section 16-11.7-102 (3), by a person
against another person, regardless of the relationship between the actor and the
petitioner.

(3) Stalking means any act, attempted act, or threatened act of stalking as
described in section 18-3-602, C.R.S.

Legislative History

Source: L. 99: Entire article added, p. 495, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2000: (3) amended, p. 1012, � 3, effective July 1. L. 2003: IP(1) amended and (2.3), (2.4), and (2.8) added, p. 995, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2004: (1.5) and (2.2) added and (2.4) amended, p. 544, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2010: (1)(e), (2), IP(2.4)(a), and (2.4)(a)(IV) amended and (1)(f) added, (SB 10-080), ch. 78, p. 264, � 1, effective July 1; (3) amended, (HB 10-1233), ch. 88, p. 295, � 3, effective August 11. L. 2013: (1.7) and (2.9) added and (2), IP(2.4)(a), (2.4)(a)(IV), (2.4)(b), and (3) amended, (HB 13-1259), ch. 218, p. 1002, � 6, effective July 1. L. 2020: IP and IP(1) amended, (HB 20-1302), ch. 265, p. 1274, � 7, effective September 14. L. 2021: (2.4)(a)(I) amended, (SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 710, � 13, effective October 1. L. 2024: (1.6) and (2.1) added and IP(2), IP(2.4)(a), and (2.9) amended, (HB 24-1122), ch. 330, p. 2230, � 2, effective January 1, 2025.