Section 12-150-103 - DefinitionsAs used in this article 150, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Area operator" means a person who owns, manages, or directs the operation and maintenance of a passenger tramway. "Area operator" may apply to the state or any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof.(2) "Board" means the passenger tramway safety board created by section 12-150-104.(3) "Industry" means the activities of all those persons in this state who own, manage, or direct the operation of passenger tramways.(4) "License" means the formal, legal, written permission of the board to operate a passenger tramway.(5) "Passenger tramway" means a device used to transport passengers uphill on skis, or in cars on tracks, or suspended in the air by the use of steel cables, chains, or belts, or by ropes, and usually supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans. "Passenger tramway" includes, but is not limited to, the following devices: (a) Fixed-grip lifts. "Fixed-grip lift" means an aerial lift on which carriers remain attached to a haul rope. The tramway system may be either continuously or intermittently circulating, and may be either monocable or bicable.(b) Detachable-grip lifts. "Detachable-grip lift" means an aerial lift on which carriers alternately attach to and detach from a moving haul rope. The tramway system may be monocable or bicable.(c) Funiculars. "Funicular" means a device in which a passenger car running on steel or wooden tracks is attached to and propelled by a steel cable, and any similar devices.(d) Chair lifts. "Chair lift" means a type of transportation on which passengers are carried on chairs suspended in the air and attached to a moving cable, chain, or link belt supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans, and any similar devices.(e) Surface lifts. "Surface lift" means a J-bar, T-bar, or platter pull and any similar types of devices or means of transportation that pull skiers riding on skis by means of an attachment to a main overhead cable supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans.(f) Rope tows. "Rope tow" means a type of transportation that pulls the skier riding on skis as the skier grasps the rope manually, and any similar devices.(g) Portable aerial tramway devices. "Portable aerial tramway device" means any device designed for temporary use and operation, without permanent foundations, in changing or variable locations, with a capacity of less than five persons, that transports equipment or personnel, and is not used or intended to be used by the general public.(h) Portable tramway devices. "Portable tramway device" means any device designed to be used and operated as a rope tow or surface lift without permanent foundations and intended for temporary use in changing or variable locations, when used within the boundary of a recognized ski area.(i) Private residence tramways. "Private residence tramway" means a device installed at a private residence or installed in multiple dwellings as a means of access to a private residence in multiple dwelling buildings, so long as the tramway is so installed that it is not accessible to the general public or to other occupants of the building.(j) Reversible aerial tramways. "Reversible aerial tramway" means a device on which passengers are transported in cable-supported carriers and are not in contact with the ground or snow surface, and in which the carriers reciprocate between terminals.(k) Conveyors. "Conveyor" means a type of transportation by which skiers, or passengers on recreational devices, are transported uphill on top of a flexible, moving element such as a belt or a series of rollers.(6) "Program director" means the person who manages the board's offices on a day-to-day basis and works with the supervisory tramway engineer and the board in implementing the policies, decisions, and orders of the board.(7) "Qualified tramway design engineer" or "qualified tramway construction engineer" means an engineer licensed by the state board of licensure for architects, professional engineers, and professional land surveyors pursuant to part 2 of article 120 of this title 12 to practice professional engineering in this state.(8) "Staff" means the program director, the supervisory tramway engineer, and their clerical staff.(9) "Supervisory tramway engineer" means the tramway engineer who works with the program director and the board in implementing the policies, decisions, and orders of the board.Amended by 2019 Ch. 209, § 8, eff. 10/1/2019.Renumbered from C.R.S. §25-5-702 and amended by 2019 Ch. 136, § 1, eff. 10/1/2019.L. 65: p. 709, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-25-2. L. 76: (1) and (4)(c) amended and (1.5) and (5) added, p. 661, § 2, effective May 27. L. 83: (5) amended, p. 1072, § 2, effective May 25. L. 93: (1), (3), and (4) amended and (1.7), (4.5), (6), and (7) added, p. 1533, § 4, effective July 1. L. 2001: (4)(k) added, p. 118, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2004: (5) amended, p. 1311, § 57, effective May 28. L. 2006: (5) amended, p. 743, § 11, effective July 1.(1) This section is similar to former § 25-5-702 as it existed prior to 2019.
(2) Before its relocation in 2019, this section was amended in SB 19-159. Those amendments were superseded by the repeal and reenactment of this title 12, effective October 1, 2019. For those amendments to the former section in effect from May 17, 2019, to October 1, 2019, see SB 19-159, chapter 209, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.