As used in this article 7.5, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Battery electric motor vehicle means a motor vehicle that is powered
exclusively by a rechargeable battery pack that can be recharged by being plugged
into an external source of electricity and that has no secondary source of
propulsion.
(2) Board means the governing board of the enterprise.
(3) Car share ride means a prearranged ride for which the rider agrees, at
the time the rider requests the ride through a digital network, to be transported
with another rider who has separately requested a prearranged ride regardless of
whether or not another rider is actually transported with the rider.
(4) Commission means the air quality control commission created in
section 25-7-104.
(5) Compressed natural gas motor vehicle means a vehicle that is powered
by an engine fueled by compressed natural gas.
(6) Department means the department of public health and environment
created in section 24-1-119 (1).
(7) Disproportionately impacted community has the meaning set forth in
section 24-4-109 (2)(b)(II).
(8) Electric motor vehicle means a battery electric motor vehicle, a
hydrogen fuel cell motor vehicle, or a plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle.
(9) Enterprise means the clean fleet enterprise created in section 25-7.5-103 (1)(a)(I).
(10) Fund means the clean fleet enterprise fund created in section 25-7.5-103 (5).
(11) Heavy-duty motor vehicle means a motor vehicle that has a gross
vehicle weight rating, as defined in section 42-2-402 (6), of greater than twenty-six
thousand pounds.
(12) Hydrogen fuel cell motor vehicle means a motor vehicle that is
powered by electricity produced from a fuel cell that uses hydrogen gas as fuel.
(13) Inflation means the average annual percentage change in the United
States department of labor, bureau of labor statistics, consumer price index for
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood for all items and all urban consumers, or its applicable
predecessor or successor index, for the five years ending on the last December 31
before a state fiscal year for which an inflation adjustment to be made to the clean
fleet per ride fee imposed by section 25-7.5-103 (7) or the clean fleet retail delivery
fee imposed by section 25-7.5-103 (8) begins.
(14) Medium-duty motor vehicle means a motor vehicle that has a gross
vehicle weight rating, as defined in section 42-2-402 (6), of more than ten thousand
pounds and not more than twenty-six thousand pounds.
(15) Motor vehicle has the meaning set forth in section 42-1-102 (58). The
term does not include a personal delivery device.
(16) Motor vehicle fleet means a group of motor vehicles that is owned or
operated:
(a) By a governmental entity for a public purpose including but not limited to
public school transportation or law enforcement; or
(b) By a business entity for a business if:
(I) The group of motor vehicles is composed primarily of heavy-duty motor
vehicles, medium-duty motor vehicles, or refrigerated trailer units; or
(II) The group of motor vehicles is owned or operated by a company that
rents motor vehicles in the fleet to transportation network company drivers for use
in providing transportation network company services or is owned and operated
directly, or indirectly through independent contractors who own or lease individual
motor vehicles in the group, by a transportation network company or by a retailer
for the purpose of making retail deliveries.
(17) Personal delivery device means an autonomously operated robot that
is:
(a) Designed and manufactured for the purpose of transporting tangible
personal property primarily on sidewalks, crosswalks, and other public rights-of-way that are typically used by pedestrians;
(b) Weighs no more than five hundred fifty pounds, excluding any tangible
personal property being transported; and
(c) Operates at speeds of less than ten miles per hour when on sidewalks,
crosswalks, and other public rights-of-way that are typically used by pedestrians.
(18) Plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle means a motor vehicle that is
powered by both a rechargeable battery pack that can be recharged by being
plugged into an external source of electricity and a secondary source of propulsion
such as an internal combustion engine.
(19) Prearranged ride has the same meaning as set forth in section 40-10.1-602 (2).
(20) Recovered methane means any of the following if the air pollution
control division determines them to provide a net reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions:
(a) Biomethane;
(b) Methane derived from:
(I) Municipal solid waste;
(II) Biomass pyrolysis or enzymatic biomass; or
(III) Wastewater treatment; and
(c) Coal mine methane, as defined in section 40-2-124 (1)(a)(II).
(21) Retail delivery has the same meaning as set forth in section 43-4-218
(2)(e).
(22) Retailer has the same meaning as set forth in section 39-26-102 (8).
(23) Repealed.
(24) Rider has the same meaning as set forth in section 40-10.1-602 (5).
(25) Tangible personal property has the same meaning as set forth in
section 39-26-102 (15).
(26) Transportation network company has the same meaning as set forth in
section 40-10.1-602 (3).
(27) Transportation network company driver has the same meaning as set
forth in section 40-10.1-602 (4).
(28) Transportation network company services has the same meaning as
set forth in section 40-10.1-602 (6).
(29) Zero emissions motor vehicle means a battery electric motor vehicle
or a hydrogen fuel cell motor vehicle.