2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
General - Continued
Article 59 - Private Occupational Schools
§ 12-59-103. Definitions

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

(1) "Administrative law judge" means a person, appointed by the authority from a list provided by the attorney general, who shall conduct hearings on any matter which is within the jurisdiction of the division and which is referred to such administrative law judge by the division.

(1.5) "Agent" means any person owning any interest in, employed by, or representing for remuneration or other consideration a private occupational school located within or without this state who enrolls or who, in places other than the principal school premises, offers or attempts to secure the enrollment of any person within this state for education in a school.

(2) "Agent's permit" means a nontransferable written authorization issued to an agent pursuant to the provisions of this article by the division upon approval by the executive director.

(2.5) "Associate degree" means a degree offered by a school on the successful completion of the degree requirements as established by the division.

(2.6) "Board" means the private occupational school board created in section 12-59-105.1.

(2.7) "Ceasing operation" means the voluntary discontinuation of operation by a private occupational school or the discontinuation of operation by a private occupational school due to the denial, expiration, revocation, or suspension of such school's certificate of approval by the division.

(2.8) "Certificate" means an award for the successful completion of a specific course or program objective.

(3) "Certificate of approval" means a written authorization issued by the division, upon approval by the executive director, to the principal owners of a school in the name of such school, pursuant to the provisions of this article, to operate a school in this state.

(3.5) "Diploma" means an award for the successful completion of an approved prescribed program of study in a particular field of endeavor.

(3.6) "Director" means the director of the private occupational school division created pursuant to section 12-59-104.1.

(3.7) "Division" means the private occupational school division created pursuant to section 12-59-104.1.

(4) "Educational credentials" means certificates, diplomas, associate degrees, transcripts, reports, numbers, or words which signify or are generally taken to signify enrollment, attendance, progress, or satisfactory completion of the requirements for education at a school.

(5) "Educational services" or "education" includes, but is not limited to, any class, course, or program of training, instruction, or study which is designed or is purported to meet all or part of the requirements for employment in an agricultural, trade, industrial, technical, business, office, sales, service, or health occupation and which constitutes occupational education.

(6) "Entity" includes, but is not limited to, any person, society, association, partnership, corporation, or trust.

(7) "Executive director" means the executive director of the department of higher education appointed pursuant to section 23-1-110 (2), C.R.S.

(8) "New school" means a private occupational school that does not hold an existing certificate of approval as of June 30, 1981, or a school holding an existing certificate of approval as of June 30, 1981, which subsequently expires pursuant to the provisions of section 12-59-108 (4) or is revoked or denied pursuant to the provisions of this article.

(8.5) "Occupational education" means any education designed to facilitate the vocational, technical, or occupational development of individual persons including, but not limited to, vocational or technical training or retraining which is given in schools or classes, including field or laboratory work incident thereto, which is conducted as a part of a program designed to fit individuals for gainful employment as semiskilled or skilled workers or technicians in recognized occupations requiring less than a four-year baccalaureate degree. The term also includes instruction related to the occupation for which the person is being trained or which is necessary for him to benefit from such training.

(9) "Offer" or "offering" includes, in addition to its usual meaning, advertising, publicizing, soliciting, or encouraging any person in any manner to perform the act described.

(10) "Operate" or "operating", when used with respect to a school, means to establish, keep, or maintain any facility or location in this state where, from, or through which educational services are offered or educational credentials are offered or granted.

(11) "Private occupational school" or "school" means any entity or institution for profit or not for profit located within or without this state which offers educational credentials or educational services that constitute occupational education in this state and which is not specifically exempt from the provisions of this article.

(12) Repealed.

(13) "Train-out" means the opportunity for a student of a private occupational school ceasing operation to meet such student's educational objectives through training provided by another approved private occupational school, a community college, an area technical college, or any other training arrangement acceptable to the division.