2021 Colorado Code
Title 17 - Corrections
Article 10 - Cost of Care Reimbursement
§ 17-10-102. Definitions

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

1. “Cost of care” means the cost to the department or a county or a city and county charged with the custody of an offender for providing room, board, clothing, medical care, and other normal living expenses for an offender confined to a local jail or a correctional facility, or any costs associated with maintaining an offender in a home detention program contracted for by the department of public safety, as determined by the executive director of the department of corrections or the executive director of the department of public safety, whichever is appropriate, or the cost of supervision of probation when the offender is granted probation, or the cost of supervision of parole when the offender is placed on parole by the state board of parole, as determined by the court.
2. “Estate” means any tangible or intangible properties, real or personal, belonging to or due to an offender, including income or payments to such person received or earned prior to or during incarceration from salary or wages, bonuses, annuities, pensions, or retirement benefits, or any source whatsoever except federal benefits of any kind. Real property that is held in joint ownership or ownership in common with an offender's spouse, while being used and occupied by the spouse as a place of residence, shall not be considered a part of the estate of the offender for the purposes of this article.
3. “Offender” means a person confined to a correctional facility or a local jail as the result of a conviction of a crime or to home detention, a person placed on probation by the sentencing court, or a person placed on parole by the state board of parole.

History. Source: L. 94: Entire article R&RE, p. 1360, § 4, effective July 1. L. 96: (2) amended, p. 1844, § 16, effective July 1.

This section is similar to former § 17-10-102 as it existed prior to 1994.