Colorado § 31-31-802 - Definitions.
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§ 31-31-802. Definitions.
As used in this part 8, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Assigned duties" means those specific tasks or jobs designated by the employer for a particular position within a job classification. The term does not include the duties of a member's rank or grade that the member is not actually required to regularly perform in the position which the member occupies.
(2) "Dependent child" means an unmarried child under the age of twenty-three and includes, if the board so determines, any child, regardless of age or marital status, who is so mentally or physically incapacitated that the child cannot provide for the child's own care. The term also includes a child who is conceived but unborn at the date of the member's death or the date of disability, whichever applies. Any applicable increase in benefits occurs upon birth.
(3) "Occupational disability" means a disability resulting in an incapacity to perform assigned duties and expected, with reasonable medical probability, to exist for at least one year.
(4) "Permanent occupational disability" means an occupational disability caused by a condition that is permanent or degenerative, and for which there is no prognosis for improvement or recovery through surgical treatment, counseling, medication, therapy, or other means.
(5) "Statewide death and disability plan" or "plan" means the program created in this part 8.
(6) "Temporary occupational disability" means an occupational disability for which there is a prognosis for improvement or recovery through surgical treatment, counseling, medication, therapy, or other means.
(7) "Total disability" means inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that may be expected to result in death or that has lasted or may be expected to last for a period of not less than twelve months.
Source: L. 2026: Entire part R&RE, (SB 26-039), ch. 37, p. 158, § 1, effective August 12.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 31-31-801 as it existed prior to 2026.
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