2021 Colorado Code
Title 13 - Courts and Court Procedure
Article 14.5 - Extreme Risk Protection Orders
§ 13-14.5-102. Definitions

Universal Citation: CO Code § 13-14.5-102 (2021)

As used in this article 14.5, unless the context otherwise clearly requires:

  1. “Extreme risk protection order” means either a temporary order or a continuing order granted pursuant to this article 14.5.
  2. “Family or household member” means, with respect to a respondent, any:
    1. Person related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the respondent;
    2. Person who has a child in common with the respondent, regardless of whether such person has been married to the respondent or has lived together with the respondent at any time;
    3. Person who regularly resides or regularly resided with the respondent within the last six months;
    4. Domestic partner of the respondent;
    5. Person who has a biological or legal parent-child relationship with the respondent, including stepparents and stepchildren and grandparents and grandchildren;
    6. Person who is acting or has acted as the respondent's legal guardian; and
    7. A person in any other relationship described in section 18-6-800.3 (2) with the respondent.
  3. “Firearm” has the same meaning as in section 18-1-901 (3)(h).
  4. “Petitioner” means the person who petitions for an extreme risk protection order pursuant to this article 14.5.
  5. “Respondent” means the person who is identified as the respondent in a petition filed pursuant to this article 14.5.

History. Source: L. 2019: Entire article added,(HB 19-1177), ch. 108, p. 383, § 1, effective April 12.


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