2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 25 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT (§§ 25-1-101 — 25-59-106) › ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL (§§ 25-6.5-101 — 25-18.9-105) › Article 7.5 - CLEAN MOTOR VEHICLE FLEET SUPPORT (§§ 25-7.5-101 — 25-7.5-103) › Section 25-7.5-102 - Definitions

As used in this article 7.5, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"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.
(2)
"Board" means the governing board of the enterprise.
(3)
"Car share ride" means a prearranged ride for which the rider agrees, at the time the rider requests the ride through a digital network, to be transported with another rider who has separately requested a prearranged ride regardless of whether or not another rider is actually transported with the rider.
(4)
"Commission" means the air quality control commission created in section
25-7-104
.
(5)
"Compressed natural gas motor vehicle" means a vehicle that is powered by an engine fueled by compressed natural gas.
(6)
"Department" means the department of public health and environment created in section
24-1-119 (1)
.
(7)
"Disproportionately impacted community" has the meaning set forth in section
24-4-109 (2)(b)(II)
.
(8)
"Electric motor vehicle" means a battery electric motor vehicle, a hydrogen fuel cell motor vehicle, or a plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle.
(9)
"Enterprise" means the clean fleet enterprise created in section
25-7.5-103 (1)(a)(I)
.
(10)
"Fund" means the clean fleet enterprise fund created in section
25-7.5-103 (5)
.
(11)
"Heavy-duty motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle that has a gross vehicle weight rating, as defined in section
42-2-402 (6)
, of greater than twenty-six thousand pounds.
(12)
"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.
(13)
"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 fleet per ride fee imposed by section
25-7.5-103 (7)
or the clean fleet retail delivery fee imposed by section
25-7.5-103 (8)
begins.
(14)
"Medium-duty motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle that has a gross vehicle weight rating, as defined in section
42-2-402 (6)
, of more than ten thousand pounds and not more than twenty-six thousand pounds.
(15)
"Motor vehicle" has the meaning set forth in section
42-1-102 (58)
. The term does not include a personal delivery device.
(16)
"Motor vehicle fleet" means a group of motor vehicles that is owned or operated:
(a)
By a governmental entity for a public purpose including but not limited to public school transportation or law enforcement; or
(b)
By a business entity for a business if:
(I)
The group of motor vehicles is composed primarily of heavy-duty motor vehicles, medium-duty motor vehicles, or refrigerated trailer units; or
(II)
The group of motor vehicles is owned or operated by a company that rents motor vehicles in the fleet to transportation network company drivers for use in providing transportation network company services or is owned and operated directly, or indirectly through independent contractors who own or lease individual motor vehicles in the group, by a transportation network company or by a retailer for the purpose of making retail deliveries.
(17)
"Personal delivery device" means an autonomously operated robot that is:
(a)
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;
(b)
Weighs no more than five hundred fifty pounds, excluding any tangible personal property being transported; and
(c)
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.
(18)
"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.
(19)
"Prearranged ride" has the same meaning as set forth in section
40-10.1-602 (2)
.
(20)
"Recovered methane" means any of the following if the air pollution control division determines them to provide a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions:
(a)
Biomethane;
(b)
Methane derived from:
(I)
Municipal solid waste;
(II)
Biomass pyrolysis or enzymatic biomass; or
(III)
Wastewater treatment; and
(c)
Coal mine methane, as defined in section
40-2-124 (1)(a)(II)
.
(21)
"Retail delivery" has the same meaning as set forth in section
43-4-218 (2)(e)
.
(22)
"Retailer" has the same meaning as set forth in section
39-26-102 (8)
.
(23)
Repealed.
(24)
"Rider" has the same meaning as set forth in section
40-10.1-602 (5)
.
(25)
"Tangible personal property" has the same meaning as set forth in section
39-26-102 (15)
.
(26)
"Transportation network company" has the same meaning as set forth in section
40-10.1-602 (3)
.
(27)
"Transportation network company driver" has the same meaning as set forth in section
40-10.1-602 (4)
.
(28)
"Transportation network company services" has the same meaning as set forth in section
40-10.1-602 (6)
.
(29)
"Zero emissions motor vehicle" means a battery electric motor vehicle or a hydrogen fuel cell motor vehicle.
Amended by 2023 Ch. 153,§ 4, eff. 7/1/2023.
Amended by 2023 Ch. 245,§ 18, eff. 5/23/2023.
Added by 2021 Ch. 250, § 11, eff. 6/17/2021.
L. 2021: Entire article added, (SB 21-260), ch. 1390, p. 1390, § 11, effective June 17.