C.R.S. Section 25-4-1602
Definitions

As used in this part 16, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)

“Automated food merchandising enterprise” means the collective activity of the supplying or preparing of food or drink for automated food merchandising machines.

(2)

“Certificate of license” means a grant to operate a retail food establishment without a fee, under the conditions set forth in section 25-4-1607 (9).

(2.5)

“County or district public health agency” means a county or district health department or a county or municipal board of health.

(3)

“Department” means the department of public health and environment, and its authorized employees.

(4)

“Food” means any raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for human consumption.

(5)

“Fund” means the food protection cash fund created in section 25-4-1608.

(6)

“HACCP plan” means a written document setting forth the formal procedures for following hazard analysis critical control point principles.

(6.5)

Intentionally left blank —Ed.

(a)

“Imminent health hazard” means a significant threat or danger to health that is considered to exist when there is evidence sufficient to show that a product, practice, circumstance, or event creates a situation that requires immediate correction or cessation of operation to prevent injury or illness based on the number of potential injuries or illnesses and the nature, severity, and duration of the anticipated injury or illness.

(b)

“Imminent health hazard” includes an emergency such as a fire, flood, extended interruption of electrical or water service, sewage backup, misuse of poisonous or toxic materials, onset of an apparent food-borne illness outbreak, grossly unsanitary occurrence or condition, or other circumstance that may endanger public health.

(7)

“Inspection” means an inspection of a retail food establishment conducted by the department or a county or district board of health to ensure compliance by such establishment with rules promulgated by the department pursuant to this part 16.

(8)

“License” means a grant to a licensee to operate a retail food establishment.

(9)

“Licensee” means a person that is licensed or who holds a certificate of license pursuant to this part 16 and is responsible for the lawful operation of a retail food establishment.
(10)(Deleted by amendment, L. 2009, (SB 09-223), ch. 255, p. 1151, § 2, effective May 15, 2009.)(11) “Modified atmosphere packaging” means the reduction of the amount of oxygen in a package by mechanically evacuating the oxygen, displacing the oxygen with another gas or combination of gases, or otherwise controlling the oxygen content to a level below that normally found in the surrounding atmosphere, which is twenty-one percent oxygen.

(12)

“Nonpotentially hazardous” means any food or beverage that, when stored under normal conditions without refrigeration, will not support the rapid and progressive growth of microorganisms that cause food infections or food intoxications.

(13)

“Person” means a natural person, partnership, association, company, corporation, or organization or a manager, agent, servant, officer, or employee of any of such entities.

(14)

“Retail food establishment” means a retail operation that stores, prepares, or packages food for human consumption or serves or otherwise provides food for human consumption to consumers directly or indirectly through a delivery service, whether such food is consumed on or off the premises or whether there is a charge for such food. “Retail food establishment” does not mean:

(a)

Any private home;

(b)

Private boarding houses;

(c)

Hospital and health facility patient feeding operations licensed by the department;

(d)

Child care centers and other child care facilities licensed by the department of human services;

(e)

Hunting camps and other outdoor recreation locations where food is prepared in the field rather than at a fixed base of operation;

(f)

Food or beverage wholesale manufacturing, processing, or packaging plants, or portions thereof, that are subject to regulatory controls under state or federal laws or regulations;

(g)

Motor vehicles used only for the transport of food;

(h)

Establishments preparing and serving only hot coffee, hot tea, instant hot beverages, and nonpotentially hazardous doughnuts or pastries obtained from sources complying with all laws related to food and food labeling;

(i)

Establishments that handle only nonpotentially hazardous prepackaged food and operations serving only commercially prepared, prepackaged foods requiring no preparation other than the heating of food within its original container or package;

(j)

Farmers markets and roadside markets that offer only uncut fresh fruit and vegetables for sale;

(k)

Automated food merchandising enterprises that supply only prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous food or drink or food or drink in bottles, cans, or cartons only, and operations that dispense only chewing gum or salted nuts in their natural protective covering;

(l)

The donation, preparation, sale, or service of food by a nonprofit or charitable organization in conjunction with an event or celebration if such donation, preparation, sale, or service of food:

(I)

Does not exceed the duration of the event or celebration or a maximum of fifty-two days within a calendar year; and

(II)

Takes place in the county in which such nonprofit or charitable organization resides or is principally located.

(m)

A home, commercial, private, or public kitchen in which a person produces food products sold directly to consumers pursuant to the “Colorado Cottage Foods Act”, section 25-4-1614.

(15)

“Safe food” means food that does not contain any poisonous, deleterious, or disease-causing substance or microorganisms that may render such food injurious to human health.

(16)

“Special event” means an organized event or celebration at which retail food establishments prepare, serve, or otherwise provide food for human consumption.

(17)

“Uniform statewide administration, implementation, interpretation, and enforcement” means the application of the rules adopted by the state board of health and the policy guidance of the department by state and county or district public health agencies responsible for implementation of the rules and policies. The uniform application shall not preclude county or district public health agencies from implementing administrative efficiencies or practices if the practices do not conflict with the state board of health rules or department policies.

Source: Section 25-4-1602 — Definitions, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-25.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

25‑4‑101
Premises sanitation - food defined 25‑4‑102
Sanitary regulations 25‑4‑103
Construction requirements 25‑4‑104
Protection from dirt 25‑4‑105
Toilet rooms and lavatories 25‑4‑106
Nuisances - petty offense 25‑4‑107
Rooms not used for sleeping 25‑4‑108
Work by persons with contagious diseases - forbidden 25‑4‑109
Enforcement 25‑4‑110
Prosecutions - disposition of fines 25‑4‑111
Penalty 25‑4‑112
Rules 25‑4‑201
Pregnant woman to take blood test 25‑4‑203
Birth certificate - blood test 25‑4‑204
Penalty 25‑4‑205
District attorneys to prosecute 25‑4‑301
Inflammation of eyes 25‑4‑401
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑402
Definitions 25‑4‑403
Eligibility - nondiscrimination 25‑4‑404
Rules 25‑4‑405
Reporting requirements - immunity 25‑4‑406
Reports - confidentiality 25‑4‑407
Reporting requirements - research exemption 25‑4‑408
Infection control - duties 25‑4‑409
Minors - treatment - consent 25‑4‑410
Patient consent - rights of patients, victims, and pregnant women 25‑4‑411
Confidential counseling and testing sites - legislative declaration 25‑4‑412
Public safety - public health procedures - orders for compliance - petitions - hearings 25‑4‑413
Emergency public health procedures - injunctions 25‑4‑414
Penalties 25‑4‑500.3
Definitions 25‑4‑501
Tuberculosis declared to be an infectious and communicable disease 25‑4‑502
Tuberculosis to be reported 25‑4‑506
Investigation and examination of suspected or known tuberculosis cases 25‑4‑507
Isolation order - enforcement - court review 25‑4‑508
Inspection of records 25‑4‑509
Violations - penalty 25‑4‑510
Jurisdiction 25‑4‑511
Duties of board of health and department - confidentiality of records - rules 25‑4‑512
Nondiscrimination in the provision of general services 25‑4‑513
Funding 25‑4‑601
Definitions 25‑4‑602
Notice to health department or officer if animal affected or suspected of being affected by rabies 25‑4‑603
Report of person bitten by animal to health department or health officer 25‑4‑604
Animal attacking or biting person to be confined - examination 25‑4‑605
Animals bitten by animals known or suspected of having rabies to be confined 25‑4‑606
Animals to be confined to prevent spread of rabies 25‑4‑607
Order of board of health requiring inoculation of animals - veterinarian waiver of order 25‑4‑608
Notice of order requiring inoculation of animals 25‑4‑609
Effect of order requiring inoculation of animals 25‑4‑610
Uninoculated animals not to run at large - impounding and disposition of animals 25‑4‑611
Report to state department 25‑4‑612
Enforcement of part 6 25‑4‑613
Liability for accident or subsequent disease from inoculation 25‑4‑614
Penalties 25‑4‑615
Further municipal restrictions not prohibited 25‑4‑701
Definitions 25‑4‑702
Board to establish rules - department to administer 25‑4‑709
Quarantine 25‑4‑710
Right of entry - inspections 25‑4‑712
Unlawful acts 25‑4‑713
Penalty for violations 25‑4‑901
Definitions 25‑4‑902
Immunization prior to attending school - standardized immunization information 25‑4‑902.5
Immunization prior to attending a college or university - tuberculosis screening process development 25‑4‑903
Exemptions from immunization - rules 25‑4‑904
Rules - immunization rules - rule-making authority of state board of health 25‑4‑904.5
Annual alignment evaluation 25‑4‑905
Immunization of indigent children 25‑4‑906
Certificate of immunization - forms 25‑4‑907
Noncompliance 25‑4‑908
When exemption from immunization not recognized 25‑4‑909
Vaccine-related injury or death - limitations on liability 25‑4‑910
Immunization data collection 25‑4‑911
Vaccinated children standard - legislative declaration 25‑4‑912
Confidentiality 25‑4‑1001
Short title 25‑4‑1002
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑1002.5
Definitions 25‑4‑1003
Powers and duties of executive director - newborn screening programs - genetic counseling and education programs - rules 25‑4‑1004
Newborn screening - rules 25‑4‑1004.3
Newborn heart defect screening - pulse oximetry - rules - definition 25‑4‑1004.5
Follow-up testing and treatment - second screening - fee - rules 25‑4‑1004.7
Newborn hearing screening - advisory committee - report - rules 25‑4‑1005
Exceptions 25‑4‑1006
Cash funds 25‑4‑1201
Powers and duties of executive director 25‑4‑1202
Streptococcus cash fund 25‑4‑1301
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑1302
Definitions 25‑4‑1303
Labeling - product modules - take-home containers 25‑4‑1304
Bulk food protection 25‑4‑1305
Bulk food display 25‑4‑1306
Dispensing utensils 25‑4‑1307
Materials 25‑4‑1308
Food-contact surfaces 25‑4‑1309
Non-food-contact surfaces 25‑4‑1310
Accessibility 25‑4‑1311
Equipment sanitization 25‑4‑1312
Violation - penalty 25‑4‑1313
Rules and regulations 25‑4‑1314
Limitation 25‑4‑1401
Drug assistance program - program fund - HIV medications rebate fund - created - legislative declaration - no entitlement created 25‑4‑1402
Definitions 25‑4‑1403
Colorado HIV and AIDS prevention grant program 25‑4‑1404
Grant program - rules - conflict of interest 25‑4‑1405
AIDS and HIV prevention fund - administration - limitation 25‑4‑1501
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑1502
Definitions 25‑4‑1503
Fund created 25‑4‑1504
Allocation of fund 25‑4‑1505
Powers and duties of department and advisory board 25‑4‑1601
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑1602
Definitions 25‑4‑1603
Licensing, certification, and food protection agency 25‑4‑1604
Powers and duties of department - rules 25‑4‑1605
Submission of plans for approval - required 25‑4‑1606
Licensure - exception 25‑4‑1607
Fees 25‑4‑1607.5
Retail food establishment regulation - fees - investigations - stakeholder process 25‑4‑1607.7
Health inspection results - development of a uniform system - communication to the public 25‑4‑1607.9
Department targets - audits - reporting 25‑4‑1608
Food protection cash fund - creation 25‑4‑1609.5
Grievance process 25‑4‑1610
Unlawful acts 25‑4‑1611.5
Violations - penalties - review 25‑4‑1612
Judicial review 25‑4‑1614
Home kitchens - exemption - food inspection - short title - definitions - rules 25‑4‑1615
Pet dogs in retail food establishments - prohibited - exceptions 25‑4‑1616
Food donations to nonprofit organizations encouraged 25‑4‑1617
Animal shares and meat sales by farmers and ranchers - short title - definitions 25‑4‑1701
Short title 25‑4‑1702
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑1703
Definitions 25‑4‑1704
Infant immunization program - delegation of authority to immunize minor 25‑4‑1705
Department of public health and environment - powers and duties - rules 25‑4‑1706
Infant immunization program - eligibility 25‑4‑1707
Moneys targeted for medical assistance for infants - reimbursement 25‑4‑1708
Fund created 25‑4‑1709
Limitations on liability 25‑4‑1801
Short title 25‑4‑1802
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑1803
Definitions 25‑4‑1804
Department designated as certifying and inspecting agency 25‑4‑1805
Powers and duties of department - rules 25‑4‑1806
Shellfish dealers - certificate required - application - fees 25‑4‑1807
Record-keeping requirements 25‑4‑1808
Unlawful acts 25‑4‑1809
Inspections - investigations - access - subpoena 25‑4‑1810
Enforcement 25‑4‑1811
Disciplinary actions - denial of certification 25‑4‑1812
Civil penalties 25‑4‑1813
Criminal penalties 25‑4‑1901
Short title 25‑4‑1902
Definitions 25‑4‑1903
Gulf war syndrome registry - creation - reporting 25‑4‑1905
Confidentiality of information collected 25‑4‑1906
Gulf war syndrome registry fund 25‑4‑2001
Short title 25‑4‑2002
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑2003
Definitions 25‑4‑2004
Powers and duties of executive director - hepatitis C program 25‑4‑2005
Hepatitis C testing - recommendations - definitions 25‑4‑2101
Powers and duties of department - rules 25‑4‑2102
Penalties for violations 25‑4‑2103
Parental consent for minors 25‑4‑2201
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑2202
Definitions 25‑4‑2203
Health disparities and community grant program - rules 25‑4‑2204
Office of health equity - creation 25‑4‑2205
Powers and duties of the office of health equity - rules - working group 25‑4‑2206
Health equity commission - creation - repeal 25‑4‑2208
Necessary document program - report - definition 25‑4‑2209
Culturally relevant and affirming health-care training - health-care providers - grants - definitions 25‑4‑2301
Colorado immunization fund - supplemental tobacco litigation settlement moneys account - creation 25‑4‑2401
Short title 25‑4‑2402
Legislative declaration 25‑4‑2403
Department of public health and environment - powers and duties - immunization tracking system - rules - definitions 25‑4‑2404
Vaccines - access to the public - definitions 25‑4‑2501
Short title 25‑4‑2502
Definitions 25‑4‑2503
Cervical cancer immunization program - rules 25‑4‑2504
Public awareness campaign - fund
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§ 25-4-1602’s source at colorado​.gov