{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-12-135-503","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 12-135-503","heading":"Criminal history - rules.","body":"(1) Subject to section 24-5-101, a licensee or an applicant for a license under this part 5 has a disqualifying criminal history if the licensee or applicant has been convicted of, plead guilty to, plead nolo contendere to, or received a deferred sentence for:\n\n(a) A felony committed in the course of and related to practicing as, interning as, or having a workplace learning experience as a funeral director, a mortuary science practitioner, an embalmer, a cremationist, or a natural reductionist;\n\n(b) A felony committed in the course of and related to being an employee of or being an agent of a funeral establishment registered in accordance with section 12-135-110;\n\n(c) A violation of section 18-13-101;\n\n(d) A felony listed in article 4 or 5 of title 18; or\n\n(e) A violation of a statute of another state if the violation is substantially similar to a violation listed in subsection (1)(a), (1)(b), (1)(c), (1)(d), or (2) of this section.\n\n(2) The director may promulgate rules to categorize a violation of any of the following as disqualifying criminal history under this part 5:\n\n(a) Article 140 of this title 12;\n\n(b) Article 15 of title 10; or\n\n(c) Title 6.","path":["Title 12 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS","Article 135 - Mortuary Science Code","Part 5 - LICENSING OF MORTUARY SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-12.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"3e36f10b250e5c2681ce5c4fc6f533ac3b633441e762becb2083ac6965accdcc","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-12-135-502","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-12-135-504"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}