(1) An individual or corporation commits an offense if without legal privilege such individual or corporation intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:
(a) Obstructs a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, building
entrance, elevator, aisle, stairway, or hallway to which the public or a substantial
group of the public has access or any other place used for the passage of persons,
vehicles, or conveyances, whether the obstruction arises from his acts alone or from
his acts and the acts of others; or
(b) Disobeys a reasonable request or order to move issued by a person the
individual or corporation knows to be a peace officer, a firefighter, or a person with
authority to control the use of the premises, to prevent obstruction of a highway or
passageway or to maintain public safety by dispersing those gathered in dangerous
proximity to a fire, riot, or other hazard.
(2) For purposes of this section, obstruct means to render impassable or to
render passage unreasonably inconvenient or hazardous.
(3) An offense under this section is a petty offense; except that knowingly
obstructing the entrance into, or exit from, a funeral or funeral site, or knowingly
obstructing a highway or other passageway where a funeral procession is taking
place is a class 2 misdemeanor.
(2) In 2006, subsection (3) was amended by the Right to Rest in Peace Act.
For the title and legislative declaration, see section 1 of chapter 262, Session Laws
of Colorado 2006.
L. 71: R&RE, p. 468, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-9-107. L. 97: IP(1) and (1)(b) amended, p. 1012, § 17, effective August 6. L. 2006: (3) amended, p. 1198, § 4, effective May 26. L. 2021: (3) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3202, § 309, effective March 1, 2022.
(1) For obstructing highways, see § 43-5-301.
