§ 22-43.7-103 — Definitions

Colorado § 22-43.7-103

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 22: Education
• Art.: Capital Construction Assistance

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As used in this article 43.7, unless the context
otherwise requires:

(1) Applicant means any entity that may directly or indirectly submit an
application for financial assistance to the board if the entity submits such an
application, including:

(a) A school district;

(b) A board of cooperative services;

(c) A charter school; and

(d) The Colorado school for the deaf and blind created and existing pursuant
to section 22-80-102 (1)(a).

(2) Assistance fund means the public school capital construction
assistance fund created in section 22-43.7-104 (1).

(3) Authorizer means the school district that authorized the charter
contract of a charter school or, in the case of an institute charter school, as defined
in section 22-30.5-502 (6), the state charter school institute created and existing
pursuant to section 22-30.5-503 (1)(a).

(4) Board means the public school capital construction assistance board
created in section 22-43.7-106 (1).

(5) Board of cooperative services means a board of cooperative services
created and existing pursuant to section 22-5-104 that is eligible to receive state
moneys pursuant to section 22-5-114.

(6) Capital construction has the same meaning as set forth in section 24-30-1301 (2); except that the term also includes technology, as defined in section 22-43.7-109 (5)(a)(I)(B), and career and technical education capital construction.

(6.5) Capital development committee means the capital development
committee of the general assembly established in section 2-3-1302 (1), C.R.S.

(6.7) Career and technical education capital construction means:

(a) New construction or retrofitting of public school facilities for career and
technical education programs that satisfy the standards prescribed in section 23-8-103 (2); and

(b) Equipment necessary for individual student learning and classroom
instruction, including equipment that provides access to instructional materials or
that is necessary for professional use by a classroom teacher.

(7) Charter school means a charter school as described in section 22-54-124 (1)(f.6)(I)(A) or (1)(f.6)(I)(B).

(8) Department means the department of education created and existing
pursuant to section 24-1-115, C.R.S.

(9) Division means the division of public school capital construction
assistance created in section 22-43.7-105.

(10) Financial assistance means matching grants made by the board from
the assistance fund to applicants or any other expenditures made from the
assistance fund for the purpose of financing public school facility capital
construction as authorized by this article.

(11) Matching moneys means moneys required to be paid to the state or
used directly to pay a portion of the costs of a public school facility capital
construction project by an applicant as a condition of an award of financial
assistance to the applicant pursuant to section 22-43.7-109 (9).

(12) Public school facility means a building or portion of a building used for
educational purposes by a school district, a board of cooperative services, the
Colorado school for the deaf and blind created and existing pursuant to section 22-80-102 (1)(a), or a charter school, including but not limited to school sites,
classrooms, libraries and media centers, cafeterias and kitchens, auditoriums,
multipurpose rooms, and other multi-use spaces; except that public school
facility does not include a learning center, as defined in section 22-30.7-102 (4),
that is not used for any other public school purpose and is not part of a building
otherwise owned, or leased in its entirety, by a school district, a board of
cooperative services, a charter school, or the Colorado school for the deaf and blind
for educational purposes.

(13) Public school lands income means all income received by the state
from:

(a) The sale of timber on public school lands, rental payments for the use and
occupation of public school lands, and rentals or lease payments for sand, gravel,
clay, stone, coal, oil, gas, geothermal resources, gold, silver, or other minerals on
public school lands;

(b) Royalties and other payments for the extraction of any natural resource
on public school lands; and

(c) Interest or income earned on the deposit and investment of moneys in the
public school fund.

(14) School district means a school district, other than a junior or
community college district, organized and existing pursuant to law.

(15) State board means the state board of education created and existing
pursuant to section 1 of article IX of the state constitution.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2008: Entire article R&RE, p. 1041, � 1, effective May 22. L. 2013: (6.5) added, (SB 13-214), ch. 398, p. 2324, � 1, effective June 5. L. 2014: (6) amended, (HB 14-1387), ch. 378, p. 1828, � 32, effective June 6. L. 2016: (7) amended, (SB 16-072), ch. 180, p. 617, � 1, effective May 19. L. 2017: IP and (6) amended, (HB 17-1082), ch. 392, p. 2020, � 1, effective June 6. L. 2019: (6) amended and (6.7) added, (HB 19-1008), ch. 19, p. 70, � 1, effective August 2.