Colorado § 25-4-500.3 Definitions

Colorado Statutes

§ 25-4-500.3 — Definitions

Colorado § 25-4-500.3

Title 25Public

Art.Disease Control

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-500.3 (2026).

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As used in this part 5, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)Active tuberculosis means a diagnosis of tuberculosis demonstrated by clinical, bacteriologic, or diagnostic imaging evidence, or a combination thereof. A person who has been diagnosed as having active tuberculosis and has not completed a course of antituberculosis treatment is still considered to have active tuberculosis and may be infectious.

(2)Board of health means the state board of health created in section 25-1-103.

(3)Contact means a person who has shared the same air space with a person who has active tuberculosis.

(4)Contagious means having a disease that may be transmitted from one living person to another through direct or indirect contact.

(5)Department means the department of public health and

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As used in this part 5, unless the context otherwise
requires:

(1) Active tuberculosis means a diagnosis of tuberculosis demonstrated by
clinical, bacteriologic, or diagnostic imaging evidence, or a combination thereof. A
person who has been diagnosed as having active tuberculosis and has not
completed a course of antituberculosis treatment is still considered to have active
tuberculosis and may be infectious.

(2) Board of health means the state board of health created in section 25-1-103.

(3) Contact means a person who has shared the same air space with a
person who has active tuberculosis.

(4) Contagious means having a disease that may be transmitted from one
living person to another through direct or indirect contact.

(5) Department means the department of public health and environment.

(6) Health officer means the executive director of the department, the
state chief medical officer, and county or district public health directors.

(7) Infectious means contagious.

(8) Isolation means separation of a person infected, or suspected to be
infected, with tuberculosis from other persons to prevent the spread of
tuberculosis.

(9) Latent tuberculosis infection means that tuberculosis organisms are
present in a person's body, but the person does not have tuberculosis or symptoms,
nor is the person infectious. Such a person usually has a positive reaction to the
tuberculin skin test.

(10) Local health officer means the chief medical health officer of a county,
district, or municipal public health agency or the health officer for a public health
nursing service.

(11) Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis means tuberculosis caused by
tuberculosis organisms that are resistant to at least the drugs isoniazid and
rifampin.

(12) Screening means measures used to identify persons who have active
tuberculosis or latent tuberculosis infection.

(13) State chief medical officer means the chief medical officer of the
department, as described in section 25-1-105, or the executive director of the
department.

(14) Suspected case of active tuberculosis, suspected case of
tuberculosis, suspected tuberculosis, or suspected tuberculosis case means a
diagnosis of tuberculosis is being considered for a person, whether or not
antituberculosis therapy has been started.

(15) Tubercle bacilli means tuberculosis organisms.

(16) Tuberculosis means a potentially fatal contagious disease caused by
the bacterial microorganisms of the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that can
affect almost any part of the body but most commonly affects the lungs.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2008: Entire part amended, p. 313, � 1, effective April 7; (13) amended, p. 1906, � 99, effective August 5. L. 2009: (6) amended, (SB 09-179), ch. 112, p. 472, � 13, effective April 9. L. 2010: (10) amended, (HB 10-1422), ch. 419, p. 2093, � 92, effective August 11.