§ 13-22-703 — Definitions

Colorado § 13-22-703

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 13: Courts
• Art.: Age of Competence - Arbitration

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As used in this part 7, unless the context otherwise
requires:

(1) Minor means a person under eighteen years of age.

(2) Parent means the natural or adoptive mother and father of the minor
who is pregnant, if they are both living; one parent of the minor if only one is living,
or if the other parent cannot be served with notice, as hereinafter provided; or the
court-appointed guardian of such minor if she has one or any foster parent to whom
the care and custody of such minor shall have been assigned by any agency of the
state or county making such placement.

(3) Abortion for purposes of this part 7 means the use of any means to
terminate the pregnancy of a minor with knowledge that the termination by those
means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the minor's unborn
offspring.

(4) Clergy member means a priest; a rabbi; a duly ordained, commissioned,
or licensed minister of a church; a member of a religious order; or a recognized
leader of any religious body.

(5) Medical emergency means a condition that, on the basis of the
physician's good-faith clinical judgment, so complicates the medical condition of a
pregnant minor as to necessitate a medical procedure necessary to prevent the
pregnant minor's death or for which a delay will create a serious risk of substantial
and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.

(6) Relative of the minor means a minor's grandparent, adult aunt, or adult
uncle, if the minor is not residing with a parent and resides with the grandparent,
adult aunt, or adult uncle.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2018: Entire part added with relocations, (SB 18-032), ch. 8, p. 146, � 1, effective October 1.