Colorado § 25-2-118 - Penalties.

§ 25-2-118. Penalties.

(1) Except as otherwise provided for in section 25-2-112.7 with respect to misrepresentation of material information in the preparation of a birth certificate, any person who knowingly and willfully makes any false statement in or supplies any false information for or for purposes of deception applies for, alters, mutilates, uses, attempts to use, applies for amendments thereto, or furnishes to another for deceptive use any vital statistics certificate, and any person who knowingly and willfully and for purposes of deception uses or attempts to use or furnishes for use by another any vital statistics certificate knowing that such certificate contains false information or relates to a person other than the person with respect to whom it purports to relate, and any person who manufactures, advertises for sale, sells, or alters any vital statistics certificate knowing or having reason to know that such document establishes or may be used to establish a false status, occupation, membership, license, privilege, or identity for himself or herself or any other person, and any person who uses any such document to commit a crime commits a class 2 misdemeanor.

(2) Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this article 2 or refuses or neglects to perform any of the duties imposed upon the person by this article 2 commits a petty offense.

Source: L. 67: R&RE, p. 1062, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-8-18. L. 84: (1) amended, p. 750, § 14, effective July 1. L. 2015: (1) amended, (HB 15-1282), ch. 325, p. 1329, § 2, effective July 1. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3233, § 446, effective March 1, 2022.

Cross references: For the penalty for a class 2 misdemeanor, see § 18-1.3-501; for the penalty for a petty offense, see § 18-1.3-503.

ANNOTATION

Malice must be proved. Where an undertaker was issued a permit to remove a body, but sought no burial permit from any registrar of vital statistics prior to interment of body, believing the former to be sufficient, he is guilty of no misdemeanor in the absence of malice. Addington v. Bates, 101 Colo. 293, 73 P.2d 529 (1937).