As used in this article, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) Commission means the industrial commission of Colorado, as said
commission existed prior to July 1, 1986.
(2) Commissioner means one of the members of the commission.
(2.5) Department means the department of labor and employment.
(3) Deputy means any person employed by the division designated as such
deputy by the director, and who may be engaged in the performance of duties
under the direction of the director.
(4) Director means the director of the division of labor standards and
statistics.
(5) Division means the division of labor standards and statistics in the
department of labor and employment.
(6) Employee means every person in the service of an employer, under any
contract of hire, express or implied, not including an elective official of the state, or
of any county, city, town, irrigation, drainage, or school district thereof, and not
including any officers or enlisted men of the National Guard of the state of
Colorado.
(7) (a) Employer means:
(I) The state, and each county, city, town, irrigation, and school district
therein, and all public institutions and administrative boards thereof having four or
more employees;
(II) Every person, association of persons, firm, and private corporation,
including any public service corporation, manager, personal representative,
assignee, trustee, and receiver, who has four or more persons regularly engaged in
the same business or employment, except as otherwise expressly provided in this
article, in service under any contract of hire, expressed or implied.
(b) This article is not intended to apply to employers of private domestic
servants or farm and ranch labor; nor to employers who employ less than four
employees regularly in the same business, or in or about the same place of
employment.
(8) Employment means any trade, occupation, job, position, or process of
manufacture or any method of carrying on any such trade, occupation, job, position,
or process of manufacture in which any person is engaged, except as otherwise
expressly provided in this article.
(8.5) Executive director means the executive director of the department of
labor and employment.
(9) General order means an order of the director applying generally
throughout the state to all persons, employments, or places of employment under
the jurisdiction of the division. All other orders of the director shall be considered
special orders.
(10) Local order means any ordinance, order, rule, or determination of any
common council, board of aldermen, board of supervisors, board of trustees, or
board of commissioners of any county, town, city, or city and county operating
under any general or special law of this state or of the board of health of the state
or any municipality therein or any order or direction of any official of the state or
municipality therein.
(11) Order means any decision, rule, regulation, requirement, or standard
promulgated by the director.
(12) Place of employment means every place, whether indoors or outdoors
or underground, and the premises, work places, works, and plants appertaining
thereto or used in connection therewith where either temporarily or permanently
any industry, trade, or business is carried on, or where any process or operation
directly or indirectly relating to any industry, trade, or business is carried on, or
where any person is directly or indirectly employed by another for direct or indirect
gain or profit, except as otherwise expressly provided in this article.
(13) Safe or safety, as applied to an employment or place of employment,
means such freedom from danger to the life, health, and safety of employees and
such reasonable means of notification, egress, and escape in case of catastrophe as
the nature of the employment reasonably permits.
(14) State personnel system means the personnel system of the state as
described in section 13 of article XII of the state constitution and the state
personnel system as described in article 50 of title 24, C.R.S.