§ 29-1-703 — Definitions

Colorado § 29-1-703

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 29: Government
• Art.: Budget and Services

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As used in this part 7, unless the context otherwise
requires:

(1) Agency of local government means any municipality, county, home rule
county, or home rule city or any agency, department, division, board, bureau,
commission, institution, or other authority thereof which is a budgetary unit
exercising construction contracting authority or discretion and which is located in a
county of thirty thousand persons or more, or a city or town of thirty thousand
persons or more, according to the state demographer.

(2) Construction contract or contract means any agreement to construct,
alter, improve, repair, or demolish any state-funded public project of any kind.

(3) Cost means the total cost of labor, materials, provisions, supplies,
equipment rentals, equipment purchases, insurance, supervision, engineering, and
clerical and accounting services; the reasonable value of the use of equipment,
including its replacement value, owned by the agency; and the reasonable
estimates of other administrative or indirect costs not otherwise directly
attributable to the state-funded public project which may be reasonably
apportioned to such project in accordance with generally accepted cost-accounting
principles and standards. To determine the reasonable value of the use of
equipment owned by the agency, the agency may utilize rates established in the
department of transportation's published equipment rate schedule in force at the
time of the estimate or rates established in any other similar, generally accepted,
published equipment rate schedule. To determine administrative and indirect costs,
the agency may utilize a good faith percentage estimate of not less than fifteen
percent of the total direct costs.

(4) Defined maintenance project means any project that involves a
significant reconstruction, alteration, or improvement of any existing road, highway,
bridge, structure, facility, or other public improvement, including but not limited to
repairing or seal coating of roads or highways or major internal or external
reconstruction or alteration of existing structures. Defined maintenance project
does not include routine maintenance activities such as snow removal, minor
surface repair of roads or highways, cleaning of ditches, regrading of unsurfaced
roads, repainting, replacement of floor coverings, or minor reconstruction or
alteration of existing structures.

(5) State-funded public project means any construction, alteration, repair,
demolition, or improvement by any agency of local government of any land,
structure, facility, road, highway, bridge, or other public improvement suitable for
and intended for use in the promotion of the public health, welfare, or safety and
any defined maintenance project, which are funded in whole or in part from the
highway users tax fund and which may be reasonably expected to exceed one
hundred fifty thousand dollars in the aggregate for any fiscal year.

Legislative History

Source: L. 89, 1st Ex. Sess.: Entire part added, p. 64, � 21, effective January 1, 1990. L. 91: (3) amended, p. 1069, � 41, effective July 1.