§ 62-70. Violation of protection orders.

(a)

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Protected person means the person identified in the protection order as the person for whose benefit the protection order was issued.

Protection order means any order that prohibits the restrained person from contacting, harassing, injuring, intimidating, molesting, threatening, or touching any person, or from entering or remaining on premises, or from coming within a specified distance of a protected person or premises, that is issued by a court of this state or a municipal court, and that is issued pursuant to C.R.S. § 13-14-102(1)(a) or (b), C.R.S. §§ 14-4-101 to 14-4-104, Rule 365 of the Colorado Rules of County Court Civil Procedure, or an order issued as part of the proceedings concerning a criminal municipal ordinance violation. For purposes of this section only, "protection order" includes any order that amends, modifies, supplements, or supercedes the initial protection order, and includes any restraining order entered prior to July 1, 2003.

Restrained person means the person identified in the order as the person prohibited from doing the specified act or acts.

(b)

A person commits the crime of violation of a protection order if such person contacts, harasses, injures, intimidates, molests, threatens, or touches any protected person or enters or remains on premises or comes within a specified distance of a protected person or premises, and such conduct is prohibited by a protection order, after such person has been personally served with any such order or otherwise has acquired from the court actual knowledge of the contents of any such order.

(c)

Any sentence imposed for a violation of this section shall run consecutively and not concurrently with any sentence imposed for any crime which gave rise to the issuing of the protection order.

(d)

Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter or diminish the inherent authority of the court to enforce its orders through civil or criminal contempt proceedings.

(e)

No person charged with the violation of an order pursuant to this section shall be permitted, in the criminal action resultingfrom such charges, to collaterally attack the validity of the order which such person is accused of violating.

(Code 1981, § 21-37; Ord. No. 2939, § 6, 12-7-1992; Ord. No. 3619, § 1, 5-15-2000; Ord. No. 3692, § 1, 5-7-2001)

State law reference

Crime of violation of a protection order, C.R.S. § 18-6-803.5.