Colorado § 18-4-201 Definitions

Colorado Statutes

§ 18-4-201 — Definitions

Colorado § 18-4-201

Title 18Criminal

Art.Offenses Against Property

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-4-201 (2026).

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As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)Premises means any real estate and all improvements erected thereon.

(2)Separate building means each unit of a building consisting of two or more units separately secured or occupied.

(3)A person enters unlawfully or remains unlawfully in or upon premises when the person is not licensed, invited, or otherwise privileged to do so. A person who, regardless of his or her intent, enters or remains in or upon premises that are at the time open to the public does so with license and privilege unless the person defies a lawful order not to enter or remain, personally communicated to him or her by the owner of the premises or some other authorized person. A license or privilege to enter or remain in a building that is

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As used in this article, unless the context otherwise
requires:

(1) Premises means any real estate and all improvements erected thereon.

(2) Separate building means each unit of a building consisting of two or
more units separately secured or occupied.

(3) A person enters unlawfully or remains unlawfully in or upon premises
when the person is not licensed, invited, or otherwise privileged to do so. A person
who, regardless of his or her intent, enters or remains in or upon premises that are
at the time open to the public does so with license and privilege unless the person
defies a lawful order not to enter or remain, personally communicated to him or her
by the owner of the premises or some other authorized person. A license or
privilege to enter or remain in a building that is only partly open to the public is not
a license or privilege to enter or remain in that part of the building that is not open
to the public. Except as is otherwise provided in section 33-6-116 (1), C.R.S., a
person who enters or remains upon unimproved and apparently unused land that is
neither fenced nor otherwise enclosed in a manner designed to exclude intruders
does so with license and privilege unless notice against trespass is personally
communicated to the person by the owner of the land or some other authorized
person or unless notice forbidding entry is given by posting with signs at intervals
of not more than four hundred forty yards or, if there is a readily identifiable
entrance to the land, by posting with signs at such entrance to the private land or
the forbidden part of the land. In the case of a designated access road not
otherwise posted, said notice shall be posted at the entrance to private land and
shall be substantially as follows:

ENTERING PRIVATE PROPERTY

REMAIN ON ROADS.

Legislative History

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 426, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-4-201. L. 75: (3) amended, p. 634, � 1, effective July 1. L. 84: (3) amended, p. 922, � 9, effective January 1, 1985. L. 99: (3) amended, p. 326, � 1, effective July 1.