Courts sentencing any person for the commission of a misdemeanor to the custody of the executive director of the department of corrections shall not fix a minimum term but may fix a maximum term less than the maximum provided by law for the offense. The persons so sentenced shall be imprisoned, released under parole, and discharged as provided by other applicable statutes. No person sentenced to a correctional facility for the commission of a misdemeanor shall be subjected to imprisonment for a term exceeding the maximum term provided by the statute fixing the maximum length of the sentence for the crime of which he or she was convicted and for which he or she was sentenced. A person sentenced to a term of imprisonment for the commission of a misdemeanor shall be entitled to the same time credits as if he or she were sentenced to a term of imprisonment for the commission of a felony. No person committed as a juvenile delinquent shall be imprisoned for a term exceeding two years, except as otherwise provided for aggravated juvenile offenders in section 19-2-601, C.R.S.
Source: L. 2002: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1416, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 16-11-302.5 as it existed prior to 2002.