Colorado § 8-4-114 - Criminal penalties.

§ 8-4-114. Criminal penalties.

(1) Any employer who violates the provisions of section 8-4-103 (6) commits:

(a) A petty offense if the amount is less than three hundred dollars;

(b) A class 2 misdemeanor if the amount is three hundred dollars or more but less than one thousand dollars;

(c) A class 1 misdemeanor if the amount is one thousand dollars or more but less than two thousand dollars;

(d) A class 6 felony if the amount is two thousand dollars or more but less than five thousand dollars;

(e) A class 5 felony if the amount is five thousand dollars or more but less than twenty thousand dollars;

(f) A class 4 felony if the amount is twenty thousand dollars or more but less than one hundred thousand dollars;

(g) A class 3 felony if the amount is one hundred thousand dollars or more but less than one million dollars; and

(h) A class 2 felony if the amount is one million dollars or more.

(2) In addition to any other penalty imposed by this article 4, any employer or agent of an employer who willfully refuses to pay wages or compensation as provided in this article 4, or falsely denies the amount of a wage claim, or the validity thereof, or that the same is due, with intent to secure for himself, herself, or another person any discount upon such indebtedness or any underpayment of such indebtedness or with intent to annoy, harass, oppress, hinder, coerce, delay, or defraud the person to whom such indebtedness is due, commits theft as defined in section 18-4-401.

Source: L. 2003: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 1859, § 1, effective August 6. L. 2019: (2) amended, (HB 19-1267), ch. 182, p. 2059, § 3, effective January 1, 2020. L. 2021: (1) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3140, § 87, effective March 1, 2022.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former §§ 8-4-116 and 8-4-117 as they existed prior to 2003, and the former § 8-4-114 was repealed.

Cross references: (1) For the penalty for a petty offense, see § 18-1.3-503; for the penalty for a class 1 or class 2 misdemeanor, see § 18-1.3-501; and for the penalty for a class 2, class 3, class 4, class 5, or class 6 felony, see § 18-1.3-401.

(2) For the legislative declaration in HB 19-1267, see section 1 of chapter 182, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.