Colorado Revised Statutes Title 26. Human Services Code § 26-2-306. Trafficking in food stamps

(a) Any bona fide recipient of food stamps, or his authorized representative who knowingly transfers food stamps to another who does not, or does not intend to, use the said food stamps for the benefit of the food stamp household for whom the food stamps were intended as the same is defined in the rules and regulations of the state department;

(b) Any person who knowingly acquires, accepts, uses, or transfers to another for consideration food stamps not issued to him or an authorized representative or to a member of a food stamp household of which he is a member by the state department or another authorized issuing agency in another state;

(c) Any person who knowingly receives, possesses, alters, transfers, or redeems food stamps received, used, or transferred in violation of any federal statute.

(a) Deleted by Laws 2007, Ch. 384, § 15, eff. July 1, 2007.

(b) A petty offense if the amount is less than three hundred dollars;

(b.5) A class 2 misdemeanor if the amount is three hundred dollars or more but less than one thousand dollars;

(b.7) A class 1 misdemeanor if the amount is one thousand dollars or more but less than two thousand dollars;

(c) A class 6 felony if the amount is two thousand dollars or more but less than five thousand dollars;

(d) A class 5 felony if the amount is five thousand dollars or more but less than twenty thousand dollars;

(e) A class 4 felony if the amount is twenty thousand dollars or more but less than one hundred thousand dollars;

(f) A class 3 felony if the amount is one hundred thousand dollars or more but less than one million dollars; and

(g) A class 2 felony if the amount is one million dollars or more.