C.R.S. Section 35-43-117
Use of false brand

  • damages

Any person who brands or marks, or causes to be branded or marked, any animal which is the property of another with his brand or any brand which is not the recorded brand of the owner or effaces, defaces, or obliterates any brand or mark upon any animal is guilty of theft and, upon conviction thereof, shall be liable to the owner thereof for three times the value of the animal so branded or marked or upon which the brand or mark has been effaced, defaced, or obliterated. Payment of the forfeiture provided in this section shall not entitle the person so branding, effacing, defacing, or obliterating a brand to the property right in the animal so branded or upon which the brand was effaced, defaced, or obliterated, but such animal shall be surrendered to the proper owner.

Source: Section 35-43-117 — Use of false brand - damages, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-35.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

35‑43‑101
Brands on livestock - evidence
35‑43‑102
Branding - evidence of ownership - penalty
35‑43‑103
Earmarks
35‑43‑104
Brand distinctions - recording office
35‑43‑105
Fee to record brands - unlawful use - penalty
35‑43‑106
Certified copy of brand - fee
35‑43‑107
Recording by county clerk and recorder
35‑43‑108
Brand book
35‑43‑109
Brands personal property - recording by board - rules - effect
35‑43‑110
Proof of ownership - evidence
35‑43‑111
Earmarking sheep and hogs
35‑43‑112
Other animals - earmarks
35‑43‑113
Publication of brands and transfers
35‑43‑114
Fees - disposition - report
35‑43‑115
Assessment of brands - rules
35‑43‑115.5
Abandoned brands - procedure - sale - proceeds
35‑43‑116
Wrongful branding - penalty
35‑43‑117
Use of false brand - damages
35‑43‑118
Maverick defined - branding penalty
35‑43‑119
Stock mixed with drove - penalty
35‑43‑120
Trespassing on lands - injuring resident - penalty
35‑43‑123
Thoroughbred rams must be herded
35‑43‑124
Fines paid into school fund
35‑43‑125
No hogs to run at large
35‑43‑126
Dog worrying stock
35‑43‑127
Skinning carcass without right
35‑43‑128
Theft of certain animals - penalty
35‑43‑129
Branding of calves required - exceptions
35‑43‑130
Cattle in feedlots
35‑43‑201
Definitions
35‑43‑202
Brand inspections - custom processing houses - packing plants - feedlots - acceptable forms of evidence - rules
35‑43‑203
Requirements for slaughterer business
35‑43‑204
Investigations
35‑43‑205
Exemption - limitation
35‑43‑206
Records - hides - open to public view
35‑43‑207
Sales by persons other than slaughterers - requirements
35‑43‑208
Person killing for own use
35‑43‑209
When hides admitted as evidence
35‑43‑210
Inspection of hide
35‑43‑211
Grounds for search warrant
35‑43‑212
Violations - penalties
35‑43‑213
Brand inspection - certificate - evidence
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Current through Fall 2024

§ 35-43-117’s source at colorado​.gov