Colorado § 18-1.3-906 - Commencement of proceedings.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 18-1.3-906 — Commencement of proceedings., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 18-1.3-906. Commencement of proceedings.
Within twenty-one days after the conviction of a sex offense, upon the motion of the district attorney, the defendant, or the court, the court shall commence proceedings under this part 9 by ordering the district attorney to prepare a notice of the commencement of proceedings and to serve that notice upon the defendant personally.
Source: L. 2002: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1431, § 2, effective October 1. L. 2012: Entire section amended, (SB 12-175), ch. 208, p. 867, § 113, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 16-13-205 as it existed prior to 2002.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. Since § 18-1.3-906 is similar to § 16-13-205 as it existed prior to the 2002 relocation of certain criminal sentencing provisions, relevant cases construing those provisions have been included in the annotations to this section.
Conviction as basis for commencing action. This section does not make the commission of a specified crime the basis for sentencing; rather it makes one conviction the basis for commencing another proceeding under the sex offenders act to determine whether a person constitutes a threat of bodily harm to the public, or is an habitual offender and mentally ill. Specht v. Patterson, 386 U.S. 605 (1967) (decided under repealed § 39-19-1, C.R.S. 1963).
Any defendant convicted either by plea or trial by court or jury may request commencement of proceedings under the act within 20 days following the conviction. People v. Medina, 193 Colo. 190, 564 P.2d 119 (1977).
Where trial court failed to meet certain deadlines contained in the statutes, the trial court could not, on its own motion, sentence the defendant under the Sex Offender's Act of 1968. People v. Wortham, 928 P.2d 771 (Colo. App. 1996).
Applied in People v. Lyons, 196 Colo. 384, 585 P.2d 916 (1978).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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