§ 18-23-102. Recruitment of Juveniles for a Criminal Street Gang

1. A person commits recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang if he or she is eighteen years of age or older and:
   1. Knowingly solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, coerces, or otherwise causes a person younger than eighteen years of age to actively participate in or become a member of a criminal street gang; or
   2. By use of force, threat, or intimidation directed at any person, or by the infliction of bodily injury upon any person, knowingly prevents a person younger than eighteen years of age from leaving a criminal street gang.
2. [ Editor’s note: This version of subsection (2) is effective until March 1, 2022.] Recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang is a class 1 misdemeanor.

   (2) [ Editor’s note: This version of subsection (2) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang in violation of subsection (1)(b) of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor, and recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang in violation of subsection (1)(a) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.

3. Nothing in this section shall affect the ability to charge criminal offenses under article 17 of this title.

Source: L. 2001: Entire article added, p. 987, § 1, effective March 1, 2002. L. 2021: (2) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3219, § 385, effective March 1, 2022.

Editor’s note: Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.