Colorado Code — 25
Browse 1,749 sections in division 25 of the Colorado code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 25-1-100.3. Definitions.
- § 25-1-101. Construction of terms.
- § 25-1-101.5. Authority of revisor of statutes to amend references to department - affected statutory provisions.
- § 25-1-102. Department created - executive director - divisions.
- § 25-1-103. State board of health created - membership.
- § 25-1-104. State board - organization.
- § 25-1-105. Executive director - chief medical officer - qualifications - salary - office - duties - crisis standards of care.
- § 25-1-106. Division personnel.
- § 25-1-107. Powers and duties of the department - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-107.5. Additional authority of department - rules - remedies against nursing facilities - criteria for recommending assessments for civil penalties - cooperation with department of health care policy and financing - nursing home penalty cash fund - nursing home innovations grant board - reports - transfer of contracts to the department.
- § 25-1-108. Powers and duties of state board of health - rules - definitions.
- § 25-1-108.5. Additional powers and duties of state board of health and department - programs that receive tobacco settlement moneys - definitions - monitoring - annual report. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-108.7. Health care credentials uniform application act - legislative declaration - definitions - state board of health rules. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-109. Powers and duties of division of administration.
- § 25-1-110. Higher standards permissible.
- § 25-1-111. Revenues of department. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-112. Legal adviser - attorney general - actions.
- § 25-1-113. Judicial review of decisions.
- § 25-1-114. Unlawful acts - penalties.
- § 25-1-114.1. Civil remedies and penalties.
- § 25-1-114.5. Voluntary disclosure arising from self-evaluation - presumption against imposition of administrative or civil penalties.
- § 25-1-114.6. Implementation of environmental self-audit law - pilot project - legislative declaration.
- § 25-1-115. Treatment - religious belief.
- § 25-1-116. Licensed healing systems not affected.
- § 25-1-117. Acquisition of federal surplus property.
- § 25-1-118. Rental properties - salvage - fund created - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-119. Disposition and expenditures of moneys from fund. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-120. Nursing facilities - rights of patients.
- § 25-1-121. Patient grievance mechanism - institution's obligations to patient.
- § 25-1-122. Named reporting of certain diseases and conditions - access to medical records - confidentiality of reports and records.
- § 25-1-122.5. Confidentiality of genetic testing records - "Uniform Parentage Act".
- § 25-1-123. Restructure of health and human services - development of plan - participation of department required.
- § 25-1-124. Health-care facilities - consumer information - reporting - release.
- § 25-1-124.3. Dementia care services - information disclosure form - requirements - assisted living residence improvement cash fund - rules - definitions.
- § 25-1-124.5. Nursing care facilities - employees - record check - adult protective services data system check - definition.
- § 25-1-124.7. Health facilities - employees - adult protective services data system check.
- § 25-1-125. Applications for licenses - authority to suspend licenses - rules.
- § 25-1-126. County practitioner rural recruitment grant program - creation - legislative declaration - administration - report - definitions - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-127. Medical equipment for rural communities grant program - creation - legislative declaration - administration - report - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-128. Designation of caregiver - notice - instructions - definitions - rules.
- § 25-1-129. Prescription drug monitoring program integration methods - health care provider report cards - report - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-130. Standing order - post-exposure prophylaxis - definition.
- § 25-1-131. Firearms safe storage education campaign.
- § 25-1-132. Two-year appropriation to the department - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-133. Environmental equity and cumulative impact analyses - selection of contractor - required components of analyses - selection of locations - requirements for contractors - definitions - report.
- § 25-1-133.5. Office of environmental justice - created - powers and duties - definitions.
- § 25-1-134. Environmental justice - ombudsperson - advisory board - grant program - annual report - definitions - repeal.
- § 25-1-135. Health-care services reserve corps task force - created - powers and duties - report - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-136. Kidney disease prevention and education task force - created - powers and duties - report - selection of chair and vice-chair - sunset review - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-137. Task force to reduce youth violence, suicide, and delinquency risk factors - creation - membership - reporting - definitions.
- § 25-1-138. Health facilities - on-site administered topical medication - use for continued treatment - definitions.
- § 25-1-401. Office of state chemist created.
- § 25-1-402. Employment of assistants.
- § 25-1-403. Analyses of food and drugs.
- § 25-1-404. Certificate presumptive evidence.
- § 25-1-501. Legislative declaration.
- § 25-1-502. Definitions.
- § 25-1-503. State board - public health duties.
- § 25-1-504. Comprehensive public health plan - development - approval - reassessment - cash fund.
- § 25-1-505. County and district public health plans - approval.
- § 25-1-506. County or district public health agency.
- § 25-1-507. Municipal board of health.
- § 25-1-508. County or district boards of public health - public health directors.
- § 25-1-509. County and district public health directors.
- § 25-1-510. County or district board unable or unwilling to act.
- § 25-1-511. County treasurer - agency funds.
- § 25-1-512. Allocation of moneys - public health services support fund - created.
- § 25-1-513. Enlargement of or withdrawal from public health agency.
- § 25-1-514. Legal adviser - county attorney - actions.
- § 25-1-515. Judicial review of decisions.
- § 25-1-516. Unlawful acts - penalties.
- § 25-1-517. Mode of treatment inconsistent with religious creed or tenet.
- § 25-1-518. Nuisances.
- § 25-1-519. Existing intergovernmental agreements.
- § 25-1-520. Clean syringe exchange programs - operation - approval - testing supplies.
- § 25-1-521. State department - local public health agencies - address substance use disorders - appropriation - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1-800.3. Definitions.
- § 25-1-801. Patient records in custody of health-care facility - definitions.
- § 25-1-802. Patient records in custody of individual health-care providers - definitions.
- § 25-1-803. Effect of this part 8 on similar rights of a patient.
- § 25-1-1001. Legislative declaration.
- § 25-1-1002. Definitions.
- § 25-1-1003. Grant program - requirements - use of medical assistance funds prohibited.
- § 25-1-1004. Study of statutes and rules and regulations pertaining to nursing home facilities and day care centers.
- § 25-1-1201. Legislative declaration.
- § 25-1-1202. Index of statutory sections regarding medical record confidentiality and health information.
- § 25-1-1203. Electronic storage of medical records.
- § 25-1-1204. Online exchange of advanced directives forms permitted.
- § 25-1-1501. Legislative declaration.
- § 25-1-1502. Definitions.
- § 25-1-1503. Colorado rare disease advisory council - creation.
- § 25-1-1504. Council membership.
- § 25-1-1505. Activities carried out by the council - duties.
- § 25-1-1506. Department - fiscal agent.
- § 25-1-1507. Council facilitator - duties.
- § 25-1-1508. Council meetings - requirements - transparency - information.
- § 25-1-1509. Reporting - recommendations.
- § 25-1-1510. Funding - gifts, grants, or donations.
- § 25-1-1511. Repeal of part - sunset review.
- § 25-1.5-100.3. Definitions.
- § 25-1.5-101. Powers and duties of department - laboratory cash fund - office of suicide prevention - suicide prevention coordination cash fund - immigration facility inspection and detention cash fund - dispensation of payments under contracts with grantees - report - rules - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-102. Epidemic and communicable diseases - powers and duties of department - rules - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-103. Health facilities - powers and duties of department - rules - limitations on rules - definitions - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-104. Regulation of standards relating to food - powers and duties of department.
- § 25-1.5-105. Detection of diseases - powers and duties of department.
- § 25-1.5-106. Medical marijuana program - powers and duties of state health agency - rules - enforcement - fees - medical marijuana program cash fund - subaccount - "Ethan's Law" - definitions - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-106.1. Medical marijuana use in health facilities - short title - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-106.5. Medical marijuana health research grant program.
- § 25-1.5-107. Pandemic influenza - purchase of antiviral therapy - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-108. Regulation of dialysis treatment clinics - training for hemodialysis technicians - state board of health rules - definitions - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-108.5. Regulation of recovery residences - definition - rules. (Repealed)
- § 25-1.5-109. Food allergies and anaphylaxis form for schools - powers and duties of department.
- § 25-1.5-110. Monitor health effects of marijuana - report.
- § 25-1.5-111. Suicide prevention commission - created - responsibilities - gifts, grants, or donations - reimbursement for expenses - definition - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-112. Colorado suicide prevention plan - established - goals - responsibilities - funding - definition.
- § 25-1.5-113. Crisis and suicide prevention training grant program - creation - process - reporting requirements - fund - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-113.5. Behavioral health first aid training program - creation - appropriation - report - rules - definitions - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-114. Freestanding emergency departments - licensure - requirements - rules - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-114.5. Critical access hospitals - licensure - rules - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-115. Opioid antagonist bulk purchase fund - creation - rules - report - appropriation - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-115.1. Opioid antagonist distribution - eligible entity list - standing order - annual youth overdose prevention report.
- § 25-1.5-115.3. Non-laboratory synthetic opioid detection tests - appropriation - definitions - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1.5-115.5. Fentanyl prevention and education campaign - website.
- § 25-1.5-116. Costs associated with living organ donation - definitions. (Repealed)
- § 25-1.5-117. Hospitals - standardized health benefit plan - participation - penalties.
- § 25-1.5-118. Training for staff providing direct-care services to residents with dementia - rules - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-119. Drug repository task force - creation - report - definitions - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-1.5-120. Natural medicine testing and standards - rules.
- § 25-1.5-120.5. Natural medicine health effects - data collection - pilot data collection study - report - rules - definitions - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-121. Arie P. Taylor sickle cell disease outreach program - contracts - administration - report - legislative declaration - definition - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-122. Pharmacy labels - prescription accessibility grant program - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-123. Colorado offender identification program.
- § 25-1.5-201. Definitions.
- § 25-1.5-202. Water - minimum general sanitary standards.
- § 25-1.5-203. Water - powers and duties of department - rules.
- § 25-1.5-204. Inspection for violations of minimum general sanitary standards relating to quality of drinking water.
- § 25-1.5-205. Advice to other entities.
- § 25-1.5-206. Applicability.
- § 25-1.5-207. Damages and injunctive relief to prevent or abate release of contaminants in water.
- § 25-1.5-208. Grant program for public water systems and domestic wastewater treatment works - small communities water and wastewater grant fund - rules - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-209. Drinking water fee - drinking water cash fund.
- § 25-1.5-210. Best practices for residential rooftop precipitation collection.
- § 25-1.5-301. Definitions.
- § 25-1.5-302. Administration of medications - powers and duties of department - record checks - rules.
- § 25-1.5-303. Medication reminder boxes or systems - medication cash fund - repeal.
- § 25-1.5-304. Repeal of part. (Repealed)
- § 25-1.5-401. Legislative declaration.
- § 25-1.5-402. Definitions.
- § 25-1.5-403. Primary care office - creation.
- § 25-1.5-404. Primary care office - powers and duties - rules.
- § 25-1.5-405. Visa waiver program fund.
- § 25-1.5-406. School nurse grant program - creation - eligibility - award of grants - rules - report - legislative declaration - definitions.
- § 25-1.5-407. Practice-based health education grant program - creation - primary care office to administer.
- § 25-1.5-501. Legislative declaration.
- § 25-1.5-502. Definitions.
- § 25-1.5-503. Colorado health service corps - program - creation - conditions.
- § 25-1.5-503.5. Scholarship program for addiction counselors - creation - eligibility - conditions.
- § 25-1.5-504. Colorado health service corps advisory council - creation - membership - duties.
- § 25-1.5-505. Advisory council - report.
- § 25-1.5-506. Colorado health service corps fund - created - acceptance of grants and donations - annual appropriation from marijuana tax cash fund.
- § 25-1.5-601. Short title.
- § 25-1.5-602. Definitions.
- § 25-1.5-603. Applicability to volunteer health practitioners.
- § 25-1.5-604. Regulation of services during emergency.
- § 25-1.5-605. Volunteer health practitioner registration systems.
- § 25-1.5-606. Recognition of volunteer health practitioners licensed in other states.
- § 25-1.5-607. No effect on credentialing and privileging.
- § 25-1.5-608. Provision of volunteer health or veterinary services - administrative sanctions.
- § 25-1.5-609. Relation to other laws.
- § 25-1.5-610. Rules.
- § 25-1.5-611. Civil liability for volunteer health practitioners - vicarious liability.
- § 25-1.5-612. Workers' compensation coverage. (Reserved)
- § 25-1.5-613. Uniformity of application and construction.
- § 25-1.5-701. Health survey of birthing parents.
- § 25-2-101. Short title.
- § 25-2-102. Definitions.
- § 25-2-103. Centralized registration system for all vital statistics - office of the state registrar of vital statistics created - appointment of registrar - rules.
- § 25-2-104. Registration of vital statistics.
- § 25-2-105. Vital statistics, reports, and certificates - forms and information to be included.
- § 25-2-106. Reports of marriage.
- § 25-2-106.5. Reports of civil unions.
- § 25-2-107. Reports of adoption, dissolution of marriage, parentage, and other court proceedings affecting vital statistics - tax on court action affecting vital statistics.
- § 25-2-107.5. Reports of dissolution of civil unions, legal separation of civil unions, or declarations of invalidity of civil unions - fee.
- § 25-2-108. Reports and certificates as to births and deaths. (Repealed)
- § 25-2-108.5. Reports of induced terminations of pregnancy - confidentiality - penalty.
- § 25-2-109. Local registration districts for processing of birth and death certificates. (Repealed)
- § 25-2-110. Certificates of death - electronic death registration system - amended certificate of death following a change in gender - rules - definitions.
- § 25-2-110.5. Fetal deaths - treatment of remains.
- § 25-2-111. Dead bodies - disposition - removal from state - records.
- § 25-2-111.5. Transfer of fetal tissue from induced termination of pregnancy - legislative declaration.
- § 25-2-112. Certificates of birth - filing - establishment of parentage - notice to collegeinvest.
- § 25-2-112.3. Certificates of stillbirth - filing - delayed registration - rules.
- § 25-2-112.5. Social security account numbers - acknowledgments of paternity - to be furnished.
- § 25-2-112.7. Crime of misrepresentation of material information in the preparation of a birth certificate - definitions.
- § 25-2-113. New certificates of birth following adoption - parentage determination.
- § 25-2-113.5. Limited access to information upon consent of all parties - voluntary adoption registry - definitions.
- § 25-2-113.8. Birth certificate modernization act - new birth certificate following a change in gender designation - short title - definition.
- § 25-2-113.9. Gender selection for death certificates.
- § 25-2-114. Delayed registration of births and deaths.
- § 25-2-115. Alteration of reports and certificates - amended reports and certificates - rules.
- § 25-2-116. Institutions to keep records - persons to furnish information.
- § 25-2-117. Certified copies furnished - fee.
- § 25-2-118. Penalties.
- § 25-2-119. Tax on court action affecting vital statistics. (Repealed)
- § 25-2-120. Reports of electroconvulsive treatment.
- § 25-2-121. Fee adjustments - vital statistics records cash fund created - definition.
- § 25-2-122. Heirloom birth and marriage certificates - funds created - report - rules - definitions.
- § 25-3-100.5. Definitions.
- § 25-3-101. Hospitals - health facilities - licensed - definitions.
- § 25-3-102. License - application - issuance - waiver - certificate of compliance required - rules.
- § 25-3-102.1. Deemed status for certain facilities.
- § 25-3-102.5. Nursing facilities - consumer satisfaction survey - pilot survey.
- § 25-3-103. License denial or revocation - provisional license - rules.
- § 25-3-103.1. Health facilities general licensure cash fund.
- § 25-3-103.5. Nondiscrimination - hospital surgical privileges - hospital rules and regulations.
- § 25-3-103.7. Employment of physicians - when permissible - conditions - definitions.
- § 25-3-104. Reports.
- § 25-3-105. License - fee - rules - performance incentive system - penalty.
- § 25-3-106. Unincorporated associations.
- § 25-3-107. Disciplinary actions reported to Colorado medical board or podiatry board.
- § 25-3-108. Receivership.
- § 25-3-109. Quality management functions - confidentiality and immunity.
- § 25-3-110. Emergency contraception - definitions.
- § 25-3-111. Authentication of verbal orders - hospital policies or bylaws.
- § 25-3-112. Hospitals - charity care information - charges for the uninsured - reports to department - department review - collections protection - hospital financial assistance standards committee established - rules. (Repealed)
- § 25-3-113. Health-care facility stakeholder forum - creation - membership - duties.
- § 25-3-114. STEMI task force - creation - membership - duties - report - notice of funding through gifts, grants, and donations - definitions - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-3-115. Stroke advisory board - creation - membership - duties - report - definition - repeal.
- § 25-3-116. Department recognition of national certification - suspension or revocation of recognition.
- § 25-3-117. Heart attack database - hospitals to report data on heart attack care.
- § 25-3-118. Hospital off-campus location - obtain and use unique NPI - definitions.
- § 25-3-119. Freestanding emergency departments - required notices - disclosures - rules - definitions.
- § 25-3-120. Regulation of surgical smoke - requirement to adopt a policy - definitions - applicability.
- § 25-3-121. Health-care facilities - emergency and nonemergency services - required disclosures - balance billing - unfair or deceptive trade practice - rules - definitions.
- § 25-3-122. Out-of-network facilities - emergency medical services - billing - payment - unfair or deceptive trade practice.
- § 25-3-123. Mental health facility pilot program - establishment - rules - definitions.
- § 25-3-124. Food donations to nonprofit organizations encouraged.
- § 25-3-125. Visitation rights - hospital patients - residents in nursing care facilities or assisted living residences - limitations - definitions - short title.
- § 25-3-126. Health facilities - health-care practitioners - requirements related to labor and childbirth - rules - definitions.
- § 25-3-127. Emergency room intake data - marijuana use - annual report.
- § 25-3-128. Hospitals - nurses, nurse aides, and EMS providers - staffing requirements - enforcement - waiver - rules - definitions.
- § 25-3-129. Office of saving people money on health care - study - report.
- § 25-3-130. Intimate examination of sedated or unconscious patient - informed consent required - rules - definitions.
- § 25-3-131. Maternal health-care services - discontinuation - required notifications - definitions - repeal.
- § 25-3-132. Rural and frontier hospital capital needs study - task force - creation - report - legislative declaration - definitions - repeal.
- § 25-3-133. Emergency medical condition - emergency medical services - transfer - discharge - nonliability - enforcement - definitions.
- § 25-3-134. 340B drug pricing program transparency - definitions.
- § 25-3-301. Establishment of public hospital.
- § 25-3-302. Board of trustees.
- § 25-3-303. Organization of trustees.
- § 25-3-304. Trustees - powers and duties - ability to designate hospital as enterprise - definition.
- § 25-3-304.5. Hospital collaborative agreements - additional powers.
- § 25-3-305. Vacancies - removal for cause.
- § 25-3-306. Right of eminent domain.
- § 25-3-307. Building requirements.
- § 25-3-308. Improvements, operations, or enlargements.
- § 25-3-309. Hospital fees.
- § 25-3-310. Rules and regulations.
- § 25-3-311. Donations permitted.
- § 25-3-312. Training school for nurses.
- § 25-3-313. Lease of hospital.
- § 25-3-314. Charge for professional services.
- § 25-3-315. Records of hospital.
- § 25-3-401. Department to administer plan.
- § 25-3-402. State advisory hospital and mental retardation facilities and community mental health centers council. (Repealed)
- § 25-3-403. Department to administer federal mental health construction funds.
- § 25-3-601. Definitions.
- § 25-3-602. Health facility reports - advisory committee - creation - duties.
- § 25-3-603. Department reports.
- § 25-3-604. Privacy.
- § 25-3-605. Confidentiality.
- § 25-3-606. Penalties.
- § 25-3-607. Regulatory oversight.
- § 25-3-701. Short title.
- § 25-3-702. Comprehensive hospital information system - executive director - duties - definitions. (Repealed)
- § 25-3-703. Hospital report card - rules - exemption.
- § 25-3-704. Fees.
- § 25-3-705. Health-care charge transparency - hospital charge report - definitions.
- § 25-3.5-101. Short title.
- § 25-3.5-102. Legislative declaration.
- § 25-3.5-103. Definitions.
- § 25-3.5-104. Emergency medical and trauma services advisory council - creation - duties.
- § 25-3.5-104.3. State trauma advisory council - duties. (Repealed)
- § 25-3.5-104.5. Joint advisory council - duties. (Repealed)
- § 25-3.5-105. Rules and regulations.
- § 25-3.5-106. Local standards - uninterrupted service - repeal. (Repealed)
- § 25-3.5-107. Religious exception.
- § 25-3.5-108. EMS system sustainability task force - created - powers and duties - membership - reports - repeal.
- § 25-3.5-201. Training programs.
- § 25-3.5-202. Personnel - basic requirements.
- § 25-3.5-203. Emergency medical service providers - licensure - renewal of license - duties of department - rules - record checks - definitions.
- § 25-3.5-203.5. Community paramedic endorsement - rules.
- § 25-3.5-204. Emergency medical services for children.
- § 25-3.5-205. Emergency medical service providers - investigation - discipline.
- § 25-3.5-206. Emergency medical practice advisory council - creation - powers and duties - emergency medical service provider scope of practice - definitions - rules.
- § 25-3.5-207. Ability of certified or licensed emergency medical service providers to work in clinical settings - restrictions - definitions - rules.
- § 25-3.5-208. Emergency medical service providers' peer health assistance program - fund - rules.
- § 25-3.5-209. Use of ketamine in prehospital setting when peace officer is present - definition.
- § 25-3.5-210. Report on statewide use of ketamine.
- § 25-3.5-301. Number of individuals needed for ambulance operation - exception.