(2)Articles 40 to 47 of this title are not intended to apply to employees of
eleemosynary, charitable, fraternal, religious, or social employers who are elected
or appointed to serve in an advisory capacity and receive an annual salary or an
amount not in excess of seven hundred fifty dollars and are not otherwise subject
to the Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado.
(3)Articles 40 to 47 of this title are not intended to apply to employers of
casual farm and ranch labor or employers of persons who do casual maintenance,
repair, remodeling, yard, lawn, tree, or shrub planting or trimming, or similar work
about the place of business, trade, or profession of the employer if such employers
have no other employees subject to said articles 40 to 47, if such employments
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(1) Repealed.
(2) Articles 40 to 47 of this title are not intended to apply to employees of
eleemosynary, charitable, fraternal, religious, or social employers who are elected
or appointed to serve in an advisory capacity and receive an annual salary or an
amount not in excess of seven hundred fifty dollars and are not otherwise subject
to the Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado.
(3) Articles 40 to 47 of this title are not intended to apply to employers of
casual farm and ranch labor or employers of persons who do casual maintenance,
repair, remodeling, yard, lawn, tree, or shrub planting or trimming, or similar work
about the place of business, trade, or profession of the employer if such employers
have no other employees subject to said articles 40 to 47, if such employments are
casual and are not within the course of the trade, business, or profession of said
employers, if the amounts expended for wages paid by the employers to casual
persons employed to do maintenance, repair, remodeling, yard, lawn, tree, or shrub
planting or trimming, or similar work about the place of business, trade, or
profession of the employer do not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars for any
calendar year, and if the amounts expended for wages by the employer of casual
farm and ranch labor do not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars for any
calendar year.
(4) Articles 40 to 47 of this title are not intended to apply to employers of
persons who do domestic work or maintenance, repair, remodeling, yard, lawn, tree,
or shrub planting or trimming, or similar work about the private home of the
employer if such employers have no other employees subject to said articles 40 to
47 and if such employments are not within the course of the trade, business, or
profession of said employers. This exemption shall not apply to such employers if
the persons who perform the work are regularly employed by such employers on a
full-time basis. For purposes of this subsection (4), full-time means work
performed for forty hours or more a week or on five days or more a week.
(5) (a) Any employer excluded under this section may elect to accept the
provisions of articles 40 to 47 of this title by purchasing and keeping in force a
policy of workers' compensation insurance covering said employees.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of articles 40 to 47 of this title, any
working general partner or sole proprietor actively engaged in the business may
elect to be included by endorsement as an employee of the insured and shall be
entitled to elect coverage regardless of whether such working general partner or
sole proprietor employs any other person under any contract of hire.
(6) Articles 40 to 47 of this title are intended to apply to officers of
agricultural corporations; but effective July 1, 1977, any such agricultural
corporation may elect to reject the provisions of articles 40 to 47 of this title for
any or all of said officers.
(7) (a) Any employer, as defined in section 8-40-203, who enters into a bona
fide cooperative education or student internship program sponsored by an
educational institution for the purpose of providing on-the-job training for students
shall be deemed an employer of such students for the purposes of workers'
compensation and liability insurance pursuant to articles 40 to 47 of this title.
(b) If the student placed in an on-the-job training program does not receive
any pay or remuneration from the employer, the educational institution sponsoring
the student in the cooperative education or student internship program shall insure
the student through the institution's workers' compensation and liability insurance
or enter into negotiations with the employer for the purpose of arriving at a
reasonable level of compensation to the employer for the employer's expense of
providing workers' compensation and liability insurance while such student is
participating in on-the-job training with said employer. This paragraph (b) shall not
apply to a student teacher participating in a program authorized pursuant to article
62 of title 22, C.R.S.
(c) As used in this subsection (7), cooperative education or student
internship program means a program sponsored by an educational institution in
which a student is taught through a coordinated combination of specialized in-the-school instruction provided through an educational institution by qualified teachers
and on-the-job training provided through a local business, agency, or organization
or any governmental agency in cooperation with the educational institution.