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