Domestic Violence - Violation of Protection Order

Under Colorado law, a person commits the crime of violation of a protection order if, after the person has been personally served with a protection order that identifies the person as a restrained person or otherwise has acquired from the court of law enforcement personnel actually knowledge of the contents of a protection order that identifies the person as a restrained person, the person contacts, harasses, injures, intimidates, molests, threatens, or touches the protected person or protected property, including an animal, identified in the protection order or enters or remain on premises or comes within a specified distance of the protected person, protected property, including an animal, or premises or violates any other provision of the protection order to protect the protected person from imminent danger to life or health, and such conduct is prohibited by the protection order; or hires, employs, or otherwise contracts with another person to locate or assist in the location of the protected person.

 

Violation of a protection order is a class 2 misdemeanor; except that, if the restrained person has previously been convicted of violating this protection order statute or a similar ordinance or if the protection order is issued pursuant to a criminal case, the violation is a class 1 misdemeanor.

 

A second or subsequent violation of a protection order is an extraordinary risk crime that is subject to a modified sentencing range.