Colorado Code § 42-2-136

Unlawful possession or use of license
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(1) (a) No person shall have in such
person's possession a lawfully issued driver's, minor driver's, or temporary driver's license or
instruction permit, knowing that such license or permit has been falsely altered by means of
erasure, obliteration, deletion, insertion of new matter, transposition of matter, or any other
means so that such license or permit in its thus altered form falsely appears or purports to be in
all respects an authentic and lawfully issued license or permit.
(b) No person shall fraudulently obtain a driver's, minor driver's, or temporary driver's
license or an instruction permit.
(2) No person shall have in such person's possession a paper, document, or other
instrument which falsely appears or purports to be in all respects a lawfully issued and authentic
driver's, minor driver's, or temporary driver's license or instruction permit, knowing that such
instrument was falsely made and was not lawfully issued.
(3) No person shall display or represent as being such person's own any driver's, minor
driver's, or temporary driver's license or any instruction permit which was lawfully issued to
another person.
(4) No person shall fail or refuse to surrender to the department upon its lawful demand
any driver's, minor driver's, or temporary driver's license or any instruction or temporary permit
issued to such person which has been suspended, revoked, or canceled by the department. The
department shall notify the district attorney's office in the county where such violation occurred,
in writing, of all violations of this subsection (4).
(5) No person shall permit any unlawful use of a driver's license issued to such person.
(5.5) No person shall photograph, photostat, duplicate, or in any way reproduce any
driver's license or facsimile thereof for the purpose of distribution, resale, reuse, or manipulation
of the data or images contained in such driver's license unless authorized by the department or
otherwise authorized by law.
(6) (a) Any person who violates any provision of subsections (1) to (5) of this section
commits a class 2 misdemeanor.
(b) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (5.5) of this section commits a
petty offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-503.

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