2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 26 - Human Services Code
Article 21 - Colorado Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
§ 26-21-103. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Administrator" means the person who is responsible for the overall management and development of the commission office and of programs included in the commission's statutory duties.

(2) "Auxiliary services" means qualified interpreters, communication access realtime translation providers, assistive listening devices or systems, and other effective methods of making spoken or written information available to deaf or hard of hearing individuals.

(3) "Commission" means the Colorado commission for the deaf and hard of hearing.

(3.3) "Deaf-blind" or "deaf-blind community" includes persons whose varying degrees of hearing and visual acuity limit total aural and visual comprehension.

(3.6) "Deaf or hard of hearing" or "deaf and hard of hearing community" includes:

(a) Persons whose varying degrees of hearing acuity limit total aural comprehension; and

(b) Persons whose varying degrees of hearing acuity and visual acuity limit total aural and visual comprehension.

(4) "Fund" means the Colorado commission for the deaf and hard of hearing cash fund created in section 26-21-107.

(5) "Grant program" means the Colorado commission for the deaf and hard of hearing grant program created in section 26-21-107.5.

(6) "Late deafened" means a person whose hearing loss began in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the person acquired oral language skills.

(7) "State court system" means the system of courts, or any part thereof, established pursuant to articles 1 to 9 of title 13, C.R.S., and article VI of the state constitution. "State court system" shall not include the municipal courts or any part thereof.

(8) "Telecommunications" means the science and technology of transmitting voice, audio, facsimile, image, video, computer data, and multimedia information over significant distances by the use of electromagnetic energy in the form of electricity, radio, or fiber optics.