Colorado § 18-7-601 - Dispensing violent films to minors - misdemeanors.
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§ 18-7-601. Dispensing violent films to minors - misdemeanors.
(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.
Source: L. 88: Entire part added, p. 735, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2021: (3) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3194, § 270, effective March 1, 2022.
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