4 Colo. Code Regs. § 723-7-7001

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 22, November 25, 2024

Section 4 CCR 723-7-7001 - Definitions

The following definitions apply throughout this Part 7, except where a specific rule or statute provides otherwise:

(a) "Alterations" or "changes" or "modifications" at a public crossing include, but are not limited to installing sidewalk panels, installing passive warning devices other than crossbucks and yield signs, installing active warning devices, changing crossing detection circuitry, interconnecting a crossing with a traffic signal or queue cutter signal, and adding or removing additional tracks.

(b) "Common carrier" is defined by § 40-1-102(3)(a)(II), C.R.S.

(c) "Imminent safety hazard" means an imminent and unreasonable risk of death or severe personal injury.

(d) "Rail fixed guideway" means any person possessing rail fixed guideway system facilities by ownership or lease.

(e) "Rail fixed guideway system" means "rail fixed guideway system," as defined by § 40-18-101(3), C.R.S. Rail fixed guideway systems include "street railroads," "street railways," and "electric railroads," as those terms are used in Article 24 of Title 40, C.R.S.

(f) "Railroad:"

(I) "Railroad" means either of the following, as the context may require:

(A) facilities, including without limitation: tracks; track roads; bridges used or operated in connection therewith; switches; spurs; and terminal facilities, freight depots, yards, and grounds, including rights-of-way, used or necessary for the transportation of passengers or property; or

(B) any person possessing such facilities by ownership or lease.

(II) "Railroad" does not include rail fixed guideways or rail fixed guideway systems.

(g) "Railroad corporation" means five or more persons associating to form a company for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad, in accordance with the provisions of § 40-20-101, C.R.S.

(h) "Road authority" means any municipality, county, state agency, federal agency, or other governmental or quasi-governmental entity that owns and/or maintains the public highway at the highway-rail crossing or the public pathway at the pathway crossing.

(i) "Transit agency" means "transit agency," as defined by § 40-18-101(6), C.R.S.

4 CCR 723-7-7001

40 CR 14, July 25, 2017, effective 8/14/2017

41 CR 14, July 25, 2018, effective 8/14/2018

42 CR 07, April 10, 2019, effective 4/30/2019

45 CR 11, June 10, 2022, effective 6/30/2022

47 CR 07, April 10, 2024, effective 4/30/2024