Colorado § 18-7-601 Dispensing violent films to minors - misdemeanors

Colorado Statutes

§ 18-7-601 — Dispensing violent films to minors - misdemeanors

Colorado·Title 18 Criminal·Art. Offenses Relating to Morals

(1)No person shall sell, rent, or otherwise furnish to a minor any video tape, video disc, film representation, or other form of motion picture if:

(a)The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, predominantly appeals to the interest in violence; and

(b)The work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, repeated acts of actual, not simulated, violence resulting in serious bodily injury or death; and

(c)The work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

(2)For the purposes of this section, minor means any person under eighteen years of age, and serious bodily injury shall be defined as provided in section 18-1-901 (3)(p).

(3)Any person who violates subsection

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(1) No person
shall sell, rent, or otherwise furnish to a minor any video tape, video disc, film
representation, or other form of motion picture if:

(a) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would
find that the work, taken as a whole, predominantly appeals to the interest in
violence; and

(b) The work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, repeated acts
of actual, not simulated, violence resulting in serious bodily injury or death; and

(c) The work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or
scientific value.

(2) For the purposes of this section, minor means any person under
eighteen years of age, and serious bodily injury shall be defined as provided in
section 18-1-901 (3)(p).

(3) Any person who violates subsection (1) of this section is guilty of a civil
infraction and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of one thousand
dollars; except that, for a second or subsequent offense, the fine shall be five
thousand dollars.

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