Colorado Trespass Law

September 7, 2024 8:36 PM

I'm looking for some details of trespass law in Colorado, USA. In particular I'm interested in what the owner of real property needs to do in order to warn potential trespassers.

For a comparable example, New Mexico statute 30-14-6 states:

The owner, lessee or person lawfully in possession of real property in New Mexico, except property owned by the state or federal government, desiring to prevent trespass or entry onto the real property shall post notices parallel to and along the exterior boundaries of the property to be posted, at each roadway or other way of access in conspicuous places, and if the property is not fenced, such notices shall be posted every five hundred feet along the exterior boundaries of such land.

posted by falsedmitri to Law & Government (1 answer total)

Best answer: C.R.S. 18-4-201 states:
"Except as is otherwise provided in section 33-6-116 (1), C.R.S., a person who enters or remains upon unimproved and apparently unused land that is neither fenced nor otherwise enclosed in a manner designed to exclude intruders does so with license and privilege unless notice against trespass is personally communicated to the person by the owner of the land or some other authorized person or unless notice forbidding entry is given by posting with signs at intervals of not more than four hundred forty yards or, if there is a readily identifiable entrance to the land, by posting with signs at such entrance to the private land or the forbidden part of the land."
posted by sriracha at 6:49 AM on September 8 [3 favorites]