2021 Colorado Code
Title 38 - Property - Real and Personal
Article 12 - Tenants and Landlords
Part 5 - Obligation to Maintain Residential Premises - Unlawful Removal
§ 38-12-502. Definitions

As used in this part 5 and part 8 of this article 12, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Appliance” means a refrigerator, range stove, or oven that is included within a residential premises by a landlord for the use of the tenant pursuant to the rental agreement or any other agreement between the landlord and the tenant. Nothing in this section requires a landlord to provide any appliance, and section 38-12-505 applies to appliances solely to the extent that appliances are part of a written agreement between the landlord and the tenant or are otherwise actually provided to a tenant by the landlord at the inception of the tenant's occupancy of the residential premises.
2. “Common areas” means the facilities and appurtenances to a residential premises, including the grounds, areas, and facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or whose use is promised to a tenant.
3. “Dwelling unit” means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a home, residence, or sleeping place by a tenant.
4. “Electronic notice” means notice by electronic mail or an electronic portal or management communications system that is available to both a landlord and a tenant.
5. “Landlord” means the owner, manager, lessor, or sublessor of a residential premises.
6. “Mold” means microscopic organisms or fungi that can grow in damp conditions in the interior of a building.
7. “Rental agreement” means the agreement, written or oral, embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a residential premises.
8. “Residential premises” means a dwelling unit, the structure of which the unit is a part, and the common areas.
9. “Tenant” means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling unit to the exclusion of others.

History. Source: L. 2008: Entire part added, p. 1820, § 3, effective September 1. L. 2018: IP amended, (SB 18-010), ch. 61, p. 608, § 1, effective August 8. L. 2019: Entire section amended, (HB 19-1170), ch. 229, p. 2305, § 2, effective August 2.