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/* R FRINGE COMMENTARY: Here's the Colorado Computer Crimes Law,
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Colorado Revised Statutes, Criminal Code, Section 18-5.5-101*.
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SECTION 18-5.5-101. Definitions
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As used in this article, unless the context otherwise
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requires:
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(1) "Authorization" means the express consent of a person
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which may include an employee's job description to use said
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person's computer, computer network, computer program, computer
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software, computer system, property, or services as those terms
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are defined in this section.
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(2) "Computer" means an electronic device which performs
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logical, arithmetic, or memory functions by the manipulations of
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electronic or magnetic impulses, and includes all input, output,
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processing, storage, software, or communication facilities which
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are connected or related to such a device in a system or network.
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(3) "Computer network" means the interconnection of
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communications lines (including microwave or other means of
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electronic communication) with a computer through remote
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terminals, or a complex consisting of two or more interconnected
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computers.
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(4) "Computer program" means an series of instructions or
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statements, in a form acceptable to a computer, which permits the
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functioning of a computer system in a manner designed to provide
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appropriate products from such computer system.
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(5) "Computer software" a set of computer programs,
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procedures and associated documentation concerned with the
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operation of a computer system.
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(6) "Computer system" means a set of related, connected or
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unconnected computer equipment, devices and software.
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(7) "Financial instrument" means any check, draft, money
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order, certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of
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exchange, credit card, debit card, or marketable security.
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(8) "Property" includes but is not limited to, financial
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instruments, information, including electronically produced data,
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and computer software and programs, in either machine human
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readable form, and any other tangible or intangible item of
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value.
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(9) "Services" includes, but is not limited to, computer
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time, data processing and storage functions.
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(10) To "use" means to instruct, communicated with, store
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data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any of the
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resources of a computer, computer system, or computer network.
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SECTION 18-5.5-102. Computer crime
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(1) Any person who knowingly uses any computer, computer
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system, computer network, or any part thereof for the purpose of
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devising or executing any scheme or artifice to defraud;
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obtaining property or services, by means of false or
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fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises; using the
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property or services of another without authorization; or
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committing theft commits computer crime.
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(2) Any person who knowingly and without authorization, uses
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alters, damages, destroys any computer, computer system, computer
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network, described in section 18-5.5-101, or any computer
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software, program or data contained in such computer, computer
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system or computer network commits computer crime.
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(3) If the loss, damage, or thing of value taken in
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violation of this section is less than fifty dollars, computer
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crime is a class 3 misdemeanor; if fifty dollars or more but less
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than three hundred dollars, computer crime is a class 2
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misdemeanor; if three hundred dollars or more but less than ten
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thousand dollars, computer crime is a class 4 felony; if ten
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thousand dollars or more, computer crime is a class 3 felony.
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