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Larimer and Weld counties, Colorado

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Restitution extended to non-traffic offenses

·Fort Collins·Larimer County

From the Fort Collins City Council meeting of

The ordinance would allow victims of all non-traffic offenses, including petty offenses and civil infractions, to seek restitution. A law enforcement officer, code enforcement officer, the City Attorney or their designee could ask a Municipal Judge to order payment for pecuniary losses, including out-of-pocket expenses and other losses or injuries proximately caused by an offender’s conduct that can be reasonably calculated and recompensed in money. Restitution would exclude losses compensable through private insurance, pain and suffering, loss of future earnings and punitive damages. The amendment would also make restitution subsection (f) and penalties subsection (g) of Section 1-15 and replace specific subsection references in other Code provisions with general references to that section.

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