Colorado Code § 18-5-502

Failure to pay over assigned accounts
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(1) When, under the terms of an
assignment of an account, as defined in section 4-9-102 (a)(2), the assignor, being permitted to
collect the proceeds from the debtor, is to pay over to the assignee any of the proceeds and, after
collection thereof, the assignor willfully and wrongfully fails to pay over to the assignee the
proceeds, the person commits failure to pay over assigned accounts.
(2) Failure to pay over assigned accounts is:
(a) A petty offense if the amount is less than three hundred dollars;
(b) A class 2 misdemeanor if the amount is three hundred dollars or more but less than
one thousand dollars;
(c) A class 1 misdemeanor if the amount is one thousand dollars or more but less than
two thousand dollars;
(d) A class 6 felony if the amount is more than two thousand dollars but less than five
thousand dollars;
(e) A class 5 felony if the amount is five thousand dollars or more but less than twenty
thousand dollars;
(f) A class 4 felony if the amount is twenty thousand dollars or more but less than one
hundred thousand dollars;
(g) A class 3 felony if the amount is one hundred thousand dollars or more but less than
one million dollars; and
(h) A class 2 felony if the amount is one million dollars or more.

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