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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 19 - Children's Code » Article 2.5 - The Colorado Juvenile Justice System » Part 11 - Sentencing » § 19-2.5-1118. Sentencing – Persons Eighteen Years of Age or Older – County Jail – Community Corrections – Definitions
  1. Except as otherwise required by section 19-2.5-1127 for an aggravated juvenile offender, the court may commit a person eighteen years of age or older but less than twenty-one years of age to the department of human services if the person is adjudicated a juvenile delinquent for an act committed prior to the person’s eighteenth birthday or upon revocation of probation.
  2. Except as otherwise required by section 19-2.5-1127 for an aggravated juvenile offender, the court may sentence a person who is eighteen years of age or older on the date of a sentencing hearing to the county jail for a period not to exceed six months or to a community correctional facility or program for a period not to exceed one year, which may be served consecutively or in intervals, if the person is adjudicated a juvenile delinquent for an act committed prior to the person’s eighteenth birthday.

Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 654, § 2, effective October 1.

Editor’s note: This section is similar to former § 19-2-910 as it existed prior to 2021.