Colorado § 18-11-203 Membership in anarchistic and seditious associations

Colorado Statutes

§ 18-11-203 — Membership in anarchistic and seditious associations

Colorado·Title 18 Criminal·Art. Offenses Involving Disloyalty

(1)Any association, organization, society, or corporation, one of whose purposes or professed purposes is to bring about any governmental, social, industrial, or economic change in this state or in the United States by the use of sabotage, terrorism, physical force, violence, or bodily injury, or which teaches, advocates, advises, or defends the use of sabotage, terrorism, physical force, violence, or bodily injury to person or property, or threats of such injury, to accomplish such change, and which shall, by any such means, prosecute or pursue such purpose or professed purpose is declared to be anarchistic and seditious in character and to be an unlawful association.

(2)Any person who, in this state, shall act or profess to act as an officer of any such unlawful association,

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(1) Any
association, organization, society, or corporation, one of whose purposes or
professed purposes is to bring about any governmental, social, industrial, or
economic change in this state or in the United States by the use of sabotage,
terrorism, physical force, violence, or bodily injury, or which teaches, advocates,
advises, or defends the use of sabotage, terrorism, physical force, violence, or
bodily injury to person or property, or threats of such injury, to accomplish such
change, and which shall, by any such means, prosecute or pursue such purpose or
professed purpose is declared to be anarchistic and seditious in character and to be
an unlawful association.

(2) Any person who, in this state, shall act or profess to act as an officer of
any such unlawful association, or shall speak, write, or publish as a representative
or professed representative of any such unlawful association, or, knowing the
purpose, teachings, and doctrine of such association, shall become or continue to
be a member thereof or contribute dues, money, or other things of value to it or to
anyone for it commits a class 5 felony.

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Legislative History

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 480, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 40-11-203. L. 81: (1) amended, p. 981, � 8, effective May 13. L. 89: (2) amended, p. 842, � 100, effective July 1.