2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 13 - COURTS AND COURT PROCEDURE (§§ 13-1-101 — 13-100-104) › CIVIL PROTECTION ORDERS (§§ 13-14-100.2 — 13-14.5-116) › Article 14.5 - EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDERS (§§ 13-14.5-101 — 13-14.5-116) › Section 13-14.5-102 - Definitions

As used in this article 14.5, unless the context otherwise clearly requires:
(1)
"Community member" means a licensed health- care professional or mental health professional who, through a direct professional relationship, provided care to the respondent or the respondent's child within six months before requesting the protection order or an educator who, through a direct professional relationship, interacted with the respondent or the respondent's child within six months before requesting the protection order.
(2)
"Educator" means a teacher employed to instruct students or a school administrator in a school district, private school, charter school institute, or an individual charter school; or a faculty member at an institution of higher education.
(3)
"Extreme risk protection order" means either a temporary order or a continuing order granted pursuant to this article 14.5.
(4)
"Faculty member" means a president, dean, professor, administrator, instructor, or research worker at an institution of higher education.
(5)
"Family or household member" means, with respect to a respondent, any:
(a)
Person related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the respondent;
(b)
Person who has a child in common with the respondent, regardless of whether such person has been married to the respondent or has lived together with the respondent at any time;
(c)
Person who regularly resides or regularly resided with the respondent within the last six months;
(d)
Domestic partner of the respondent;
(e)
Person who has a biological or legal parent-child relationship with the respondent, including stepparents and stepchildren and grandparents and grandchildren;
(f)
Person who is acting or has acted as the respondent's legal guardian; and
(g)
Person in any other relationship described in section
18-6-800.3 (2)
with the respondent.
(6)
"Firearm" has the same meaning as in section
18-1-901 (3)(h)
.
(7)
"Law enforcement officer" means a peace officer that is:
(a)
Employed by a political subdivision of the state and certified by the P.O.S.T. board pursuant to section
16-2.5-102
;
(b)
Authorized by section
16-2.5-113
when assistance is requested by an individual or entity pursuant to section
24-33.5-412
;
(c)
Authorized by section
16-2.5-114
and who interacted with the respondent in the scope of the law enforcement officer's official duties;
(d)
Employed by a district attorney, designated by a district attorney, and authorized by section
16-2.5-132
or
16-2.5-133
;
(e)
Employed by the department of law, designated by the attorney general, and authorized by section
16-2.5-128
,
16-2.5-129
, or
16-2.5-130
;
(f)
Authorized by section
16-2.5-136
,
16-2.5-137
, or
16-2.5-138
;
(g)
Authorized by section
16-2.5-120
; or
(h)
Authorized by section
16-2.5-149
.
(8)
"Licensed health-care professional" means a school nurse who holds a current nursing license through the department of regulatory agencies and who has applied for or holds a special services license from the department of education pursuant to article
60.5
of title
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or a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse who is a primary provider of health services to a respondent; a psychiatrist; or a licensed emergency room medical care provider, licensed pursuant to title 12.
(9)
"Mental health professional" means a psychologist, licensed professional social worker, marriage and family therapist, licensed professional counselor, or addiction counselor licensed, registered, or certified pursuant to article
245
of title
12
; a psychologist candidate, clinical social worker candidate, marriage and family therapist candidate, licensed professional counselor candidate, or addiction counselor candidate registered pursuant to section
12-245-304 (3)
,
12-245-404 (4)
,
12-245-504 (4)
,
12-245-604 (4)
, or
12-245-804
(3.7), respectively; a school counselor who holds a special services provider license with a school counselor endorsement issued pursuant to article
60.5
of title
22
or who is otherwise endorsed or accredited by a national association to provide school counseling services; school psychologist licensed pursuant to section
22-60.5-210
; school social worker who has obtained the special services license with social work endorsement issued pursuant to article
60.5
of title
22
; or an unlicensed psychotherapist registered pursuant to section
12-245-703
.
(10)
"Petitioner" means the person who petitions for an extreme risk protection order pursuant to this article 14.5.
(11)
"Respondent" means the person who is identified as the respondent in a petition filed pursuant to this article 14.5.
Amended by 2023 Ch. 124,§ 1, eff. 4/28/2023.
Added by 2019 Ch. 108, §1, eff. 4/12/2019.
L. 2019: Entire article added, (HB 19 -1177), ch. 383, p. 383, §1, effective April 12.