As used in this part 8, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1)Accredited local organization for civil defense means a local
organization for civil defense that is certified by the office of emergency
management as conforming with the Plan and Program for the Civil Defense of this
State prepared by the governor of Colorado or under the governor's direction. A
local organization for civil defense remains accredited only while the certificate of
the Colorado state civil defense agency is in effect and is not revoked.
(1.5) Adjusting agent means the third-party workers' compensation insurer
with which the office of emergency management contracts, in accordance with
section 24-33.5-809, for the adjustment and disposition of claims and provision of
compensation pursuant to this p
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As used in this part 8, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Accredited local organization for civil defense means a local
organization for civil defense that is certified by the office of emergency
management as conforming with the Plan and Program for the Civil Defense of this
State prepared by the governor of Colorado or under the governor's direction. A
local organization for civil defense remains accredited only while the certificate of
the Colorado state civil defense agency is in effect and is not revoked.
(1.5) Adjusting agent means the third-party workers' compensation insurer
with which the office of emergency management contracts, in accordance with
section 24-33.5-809, for the adjustment and disposition of claims and provision of
compensation pursuant to this part 8.
(2) Civil defense service means all activities authorized by and carried on
pursuant to the provisions of the Colorado Disaster Emergency Act, part 7 of this
article, including training necessary or proper to engage in such activities.
(3) Civil defense worker means any natural person who is registered with
the office of emergency management or with a local organization for civil defense
for the purpose of engaging in civil defense service pursuant to the provisions of
this part 8 or is a physician, health-care provider, public health worker, or
emergency medical service provider who is ordered by the governor or a member of
the disaster emergency forces of this state to provide specific medical or public
health services during and related to an emergency epidemic.
(3.3) Colorado ranger means a peace officer acting under the authority of
an agency requesting assistance from the Colorado rangers law enforcement
shared reserve through an intergovernmental agreement or mutual aid agreement
or as otherwise granted by law.
(3.5) Colorado rangers law enforcement shared reserve means the
statewide shared reserve law enforcement agency that is a political subdivision of
the state through the execution of an intergovernmental agreement pursuant to
section 29-1-203.
(4) Disaster has the meaning set forth in section 24-33.5-703.
(5) Emergency volunteer service means all activities authorized and carried
out by a volunteer who is a member of a qualified volunteer organization as directed
by a county sheriff, local government, local emergency planning committee, or
state agency in the event of disaster or during a training exercise, drill, or class
conducted in preparation for a disaster, which exercise, drill, or class is organized or
under the direction of such county sheriff, local government, local emergency
planning committee, or state agency.
(6) Injury means and includes all accidental injuries and all occupational
diseases recognized and compensated by the Workers' Compensation Act of
Colorado, articles 40 to 47 of title 8, C.R.S., as well as any illness that is caused by
an emergency epidemic declared to be a disaster emergency.
(7) Local emergency planning committee means a committee that meets
the criteria specified in section 24-33.5-1504.
(8) Local organization for civil defense means a public agency which is
empowered to register and direct the activities of civil defense workers within the
area of the county or city or any part thereof and is thus, because of such
registration and direction, acting as an instrumentality of the state in aid of the
carrying out of the general governmental functions and policy of the state and
includes a local organization for civil defense established by ordinance.
(9) Qualified volunteer means a volunteer who meets the criteria specified
in section 24-33.5-824 (1).
(10) Volunteer means a volunteer who is a member of a volunteer
organization and provides volunteer services through the organization in the event
of a disaster.
(11) Volunteer organization means an organization that provides emergency
services on a state or local level pursuant to this part 8.