Colorado Code § 25-2-118

Penalties
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(1) Except as otherwise provided for in section 25-2-112.7 with
respect to misrepresentation of material information in the preparation of a birth certificate, any
person who knowingly and willfully makes any false statement in or supplies any false
information for or for purposes of deception applies for, alters, mutilates, uses, attempts to use,
applies for amendments thereto, or furnishes to another for deceptive use any vital statistics
certificate, and any person who knowingly and willfully and for purposes of deception uses or
attempts to use or furnishes for use by another any vital statistics certificate knowing that such
certificate contains false information or relates to a person other than the person with respect to
whom it purports to relate, and any person who manufactures, advertises for sale, sells, or alters
any vital statistics certificate knowing or having reason to know that such document establishes
or may be used to establish a false status, occupation, membership, license, privilege, or identity
for himself or herself or any other person, and any person who uses any such document to
commit a crime commits a class 2 misdemeanor.
(2) Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this article 2 or refuses or
neglects to perform any of the duties imposed upon the person by this article 2 commits a petty
offense.

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