CO Code § 43-4-1202 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 43 - Transportation|Article 4 - Financing|Part 12 - Clean Transit|§ 43-4-1202. Definitions

 As used in this part 12, unless the context otherwise requires:    “Battery electric motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle that is powered exclusively by a rechargeable battery pack that can be recharged by being plugged into an external source of electricity and that has no secondary source of propulsion.    “Board” means the governing board of the enterprise.    “Commission” means the transportation commission created in section 43-1-106 (1).    “Department” means the department of transportation created in section 24-1-128.7.      “Disproportionately impacted community” means a community that is in a census block group, as determined in accordance with the most recent United States decennial census, where the proportion of households that are low income is greater than forty percent, the proportion of households that identify as minority is greater than forty percent, or the proportion of households that are housing cost-burdened is greater than forty percent.    As used in this subsection (5):   “Cost-burdened” means a household that spends more than thirty percent of its income on housing.    “Low income” means the median household income is less than or equal to two hundred percent of the federal poverty guideline.          “Electric motor vehicle” means a battery electric motor vehicle, a hydrogen fuel cell motor vehicle, or a plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle.    “Electric motor vehicle charging infrastructure” means electric vehicle charging systems and other electrical equipment installed on site to support electric motor vehicle charging including but not limited to battery energy storage systems.    “Enterprise” means the clean transit enterprise created in section 43-4-1203 (1)(a).    “Fund” means the clean transit enterprise fund created in section 43-4-1203 (5).    “Hydrogen fuel cell motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle that is powered by electricity produced from a fuel cell that uses hydrogen gas as fuel.    “Inflation” means the average annual percentage change in the United States department of labor, bureau of labor statistics, consumer price index for Denver-Aurora-Lakewood for all items and all urban consumers, or its applicable predecessor or successor index, for the five years ending on the last December 31 before a state fiscal year for which an inflation adjustment to be made to the clean transit retail delivery fee imposed pursuant to section 43-4-1203 (7) begins.    “Motor vehicle” has the same meaning as set forth in section 42-1-102 (58). The term does not include a personal delivery device.    “Personal delivery device” means an autonomously operated robot that is:   Designed and manufactured for the purpose of transporting tangible personal property primarily on sidewalks, crosswalks, and other public rights-of-way that are typically used by pedestrians;    Weighs no more than five hundred fifty pounds, excluding any tangible personal property being transported; and    Operates at speeds of less than ten miles per hour when on sidewalks, crosswalks, and other public rights-of-way that are typically used by pedestrians.       “Plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle that is powered by both a rechargeable battery pack that can be recharged by being plugged into an external source of electricity and a secondary source of propulsion such as an internal combustion engine.    “Retail delivery” means a retail sale of tangible personal property by a retailer for delivery by a motor vehicle owned or operated by the retailer or any other person to the purchaser at a location in the state, which sale includes at least one item of tangible personal property that is subject to taxation under article 26 of title 39. Each such retail sale is a single retail delivery regardless of the number of shipments necessary to deliver the items of tangible personal property purchased.    “Retailer” has the same meaning as set forth in section 39-26-102 (8).    “Retail sale” has the same meaning as set forth in section 39-26-102 (9).    “Tangible personal property” has the same meaning as set forth in section 39-26-102 (15).    “Transit” means mass transit, as defined in section 43-1-102 (4).    “Zero emissions motor vehicle” means a battery electric motor vehicle or a hydrogen fuel cell motor vehicle.      History. Source: L. 2021: Entire part added, (SB 21-260), ch. 250, p. 1454, § 52, effective June 17.