§ 23-60-103 — Definitions

As used in this article 60, unless the context
otherwise requires:

(1) Area technical college means a school offering approved
postsecondary vocational programs for credit, operated by a local school district or
by a board of cooperative services, and designated by the general assembly as an
area technical college in conformity with standards established by the state board
for community colleges and occupational education. Tuition rates and fees charged
any person not enrolled in a secondary school curriculum must be uniform for any
group classification. For the purposes of this article 60, the following schools are
area technical colleges: The Emily Griffith technical college, the technical college
of the Rockies, and the Pickens technical college.

(1.5) Board means the state board for community colleges and
occupational education created in section 23-60-104 (1)(b).

(2) Occupational education means any education designed to facilitate
career and technical or occupational development of individual persons, including,
but not limited to, career and technical training or retraining that is given in schools
or classes, including field or laboratory work incident thereto, under public
supervision and control or under contract with the board or a local educational
agency and that is conducted as a part of a program designed to fit individuals for
gainful employment as semiskilled or skilled workers or technicians in recognized
occupations, but excluding any program to fit individuals for employment in
occupations generally considered to be professional or that require a
baccalaureate or higher degree. The term further includes career and technical
guidance and counseling in connection with such training; instruction related to the
occupation for which the person is being trained or necessary for the person to
benefit from such training; and the training of persons engaged as or preparing to
become career and technical education teachers, teacher-trainers, supervisors, and
directors.

(3) Postsecondary means related to instruction of students over the age of
seventeen years who are not enrolled in a regular program of kindergarten through
grade twelve in a public, independent, or parochial school.

(4) A registered elector of a district means any person who is at least
eighteen years of age, who is a citizen of the United States, who has resided in the
state for thirty-two days, in the local college district thirty-two days, and in the
dissolution election precinct thirty-two days immediately preceding the election,
and who is duly registered.

(5) Workplace literacy program means any program of remedial education
in basic mathematics or literacy skills sponsored by one or more private employers
and offered for the benefit of employees and conducted in the workplace.

Legislative History

Source: L. 67: p. 438, � 3. C.R.S. 1963: � 124-26-3. L. 70: p. 347, � 7. L. 71: p. 564, � 49. L. 72: p. 316, � 46. L. 73: p. 1337, � 2. L. 74: (4) amended, p. 420, � 70, effective April 11; (1) amended, p. 389, � 1, effective May 1. L. 79: (1) amended, p. 789, � 2, effective July 1. L. 88: (5) added, p. 867, � 2, effective July 1. L. 95: (1) amended, p. 198, � 10, effective April 13. L. 2004: (1) amended, p. 929, � 1, effective August 4. L. 2006: (3) amended, p. 1214, � 10, effective July 1, 2007. L. 2009: (1) amended, (SB 09-043), ch. 284, p. 1294, � 3, effective May 20. L. 2016: (1) amended, (HB 16-1082), ch. 58, p. 148, � 26, effective August 10. L. 2017: (2) amended, (SB 17-294), ch. 264, p. 1400, � 62, effective May 25; IP and (1) amended, (HB 17-1258), ch. 219, p. 851, � 2, effective August 9. L. 2025: (1.5) added, (SB 25-275), ch. 377, p. 2055, � 121, effective August 6.