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18-4-509. Defacing Property.
(1) (a) Any person who destroys, defaces, removes, or damages any historical monument commits the crime of defacing property.
(b) Any person who defaces or causes, aids in, or permits the defacing of public property or private property without the consent of the owner by any method of defacement, including but not limited to painting, drawing, writing, or otherwise marring the surface of the property by use of paint, spray paint, ink, or any other substance or object, commits the crime of defacing property.
(2)(a) Defacing property is a class 2 misdemeanor; except that a second or subsequent conviction for the offense of defacing property is a class 1 misdemeanor and the court shall impose a mandatory minimum fine of seven hundred fifty dollars upon conviction.
(b) Any person convicted of defacing property pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection (1) of this section shall be ordered by the court to personally make repairs to any property damaged, or properties similarly damaged, if possible. If the property cannot be repaired, the court shall order a person convicted of defacing property to replace or compensate the owner for the damaged property but may, in the case of a violation of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section, limit such compensation to two thousand five hundred dollars.
(c) In addition, upon each conviction for defacing property pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection (1) of this section, or adjudication as a juvenile delinquent for an act that would constitute defacing property pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section if committed by an adult, the offender's driver's license shall be revoked as provided in section 42-2-125, C. R. S.
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