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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(1) A person commits possession of forgery devices if he possesses any tools, photographic equipment, printing equipment, or any other device adapted, designed, or commonly used for committing or facilitating the commission of an offense involving the unauthorized manufacture, printing, embossing, or magnetic encoding of a financial transaction device or the altering or addition of any uniform product codes, optical characters, or holographic images to a financial transaction device, and intends to use the thing possessed, or knows that some person intends to use the thing possessed, in the commission of such an offense.
(2) Possession of a forgery device is a class 5 felony.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Colorado Revised Statutes Title 18. Criminal Code § 18-5-706. Criminal possession of forgery devices - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-18-criminal-code/co-rev-st-sect-18-5-706/
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