Colorado § 18-9-106 Disorderly conduct

Colorado Statutes

§ 18-9-106 — Disorderly conduct

Colorado § 18-9-106

Title 18Criminal

Art.Offenses Against Public Peace,

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-9-106 (2026).

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(1)A person commits disorderly conduct if he or she intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:

(a)Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture, or display in a public place and the utterance, gesture, or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace; or

(b)(Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 708, � 39, effective July 1, 2000.)

(c)Makes unreasonable noise in a public place or near a private residence that he has no right to occupy; or

(d)Fights with another in a public place except in an amateur or professional contest of athletic skill; or

(e)Not being a peace officer, discharges a firearm in a public place except when engaged in lawful target practice or hunting or the ritual discharge of blank ammunition cartridges as an attendee at a funeral for a

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(1) A person commits disorderly conduct if he
or she intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:

(a) Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture, or display in a
public place and the utterance, gesture, or display tends to incite an immediate
breach of the peace; or

(b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 708, � 39, effective July 1, 2000.)

(c) Makes unreasonable noise in a public place or near a private residence
that he has no right to occupy; or

(d) Fights with another in a public place except in an amateur or professional
contest of athletic skill; or

(e) Not being a peace officer, discharges a firearm in a public place except
when engaged in lawful target practice or hunting or the ritual discharge of blank
ammunition cartridges as an attendee at a funeral for a deceased person who was a
veteran of the armed forces of the United States; or

(f) Not being a peace officer, displays a real or simulated firearm, displays
any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe
that the article is a firearm, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is
armed with a firearm in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm and does
alarm another person.

(2) Repealed.

(3) (a) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(a) or (1)(c) of this section is a
petty offense; except that, if the offense is committed with intent to disrupt, impair,
or interfere with a funeral, or with intent to cause severe emotional distress to a
person attending a funeral, it is a class 2 misdemeanor.

(b) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(d) of this section is a petty offense.

(c) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(f) of this section is a class 2
misdemeanor.

(d) An offense pursuant to subsection (1)(e) of this section is a class 1
misdemeanor.

Legislative History

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 467, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-9-106. L. 72: p. 275, � 8. L. 81: (1)(a) amended, p. 1010, � 1, effective April 24. L. 2000: IP(1), (1)(b), and (1)(f) amended, pp. 696, 708, �� 11, 39, effective July 1. L. 2006: (3) amended, p. 1198, � 3, effective May 26; (2) repealed, p. 1493, � 21, effective June 1. L. 2014: (1)(e) amended, (HB 14-1059), ch. 22, p. 153, � 1, effective March 7. L. 2021: (1)(f) and (3) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3201, � 308, effective March 1, 2022.