6 Colo. Code Regs. § 1010-14-2.0

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 20, October 25, 2024

Section 6 CCR 1010-14-2.0 - DEFINITIONS

For the purpose of these regulations:

2.1Public 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.

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

2.3Building. 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.

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

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

2.6Dwelling 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.

2.7Exit 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.

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

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

2.10Grounds means exterior yard areas or premises.

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

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

2.13Habitable 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.

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

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

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

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

2.18Lodging 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.

2.19Motel see definition of "hotel".

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

2.21Nuisance; The following shall be defined as nuisances:

a. Any public nuisance known at common law or in equity jurisprudence;

b. An attractive nuisance known at common law or in equity jurisprudence;

c. Whatever is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health;

d. Overcrowding a room with occupants;

e. Insufficient ventilation, illumination, or heating;

f. Inadequate or insanitary sewerage or plumbing facilities;

g. Insanitary conditions;

h. Whatever renders air, food or drink unwholesome or detrimental to the health of human beings.

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

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

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

2.25Rooming House: See "Lodging House".

2.26Rooming 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.

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

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