Code of Colorado Regulations
1000 - Department of Public Health and Environment
1010 - Division of Environmental Health and Sustainability
6 CCR 1010-14 - SANITARY STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS FOR PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
Section 6 CCR 1010-14-2.0 - DEFINITIONS

2.1 Public Accommodations means any establishment or building including a rooming house, boarding house, lodging house, hotel, motel or other facility by whatever name known, which is maintained, advertised, offered or rented to a guest as a place where sleeping or rooming accommodations are provided, whether with or without meals.

2.2 Boarding house means an establishment in which meals and sleeping rooms are provided for guests.

2.3 Building. means any structure, or portion thereof, which is used, or designed or intended to be used for human habitation, for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes or any combination thereof.

2.4 Dormitory means a room occupied by more than three guests.

2.5 Dwelling means any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.

2.6 Dwelling Unit means any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living and sleeping and a part of which is exclusively or occasionally appropriated to cooking or eating.

2.7 Exit means a continuous and unobstructed means of egress to a public way, and shall include intervening doorways, corridors, ramps, stairways, smoke-proof enclosures, horizontal exits, exit courts, and yards.

2.8 Garbage means all putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.

2.9 Refuse means all combustible or noncombustible, putrescible or non-putrescible solid or liquid wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes and manure.

2.10 Grounds means exterior yard areas or premises.

2.11 Guest means any person hiring or occupying a room for living or sleeping purposes.

2.12 Guest room is any room used, or intended to be used, by a guest for sleeping purposes.

2.13 Habitable room means a room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for sleeping, living, cooking or eating purposes excluding bath or toilet rooms, service rooms, foyers, connecting corridors, closets, storage spaces, or utility rooms.

2.14 Health department means the "Colorado Department of Health" and its authorized inspectors, agents and employees.

2.15 Hot water means water at a temperature of not less than 120° Fahrenheit.

2.16 Hotel means any establishment offering lodging or sleeping accommodations to guests either with or without meals.

2.17 Kitchen means a room used, or designed to be used, for the preparation of food.

2.18 Lodging house means any dwelling or that part of any dwelling containing one or more rooming units in which space is let to three or more persons.

2.19 Motel see definition of "hotel".

2.20 Multiple dwelling means any dwelling containing more than one dwel-ling unit.

2.21 Nuisance; The following shall be defined as nuisances:

2.22 Occupant means any person living, sleeping, cooking in, or having possession of, a dwelling unit or rooming unit.

2.23 Operator means any person who owns, has charge, care, or control of, a building or part thereof in which dwelling units or rooms are let.

2.24 Person means an individual or group of individuals, association, partnership or corporation.

2.25 Rooming House: See "Lodging House".

2.26 Rooming unit means any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes.

2.27 Sanitary facilities means toilet, privies, lavatories, showers, baths bath tubs, urinals, laundry tubs, and the service rooms provided for installation and use of these units.