Title 6, Consumer and Commercial Affairs
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-101 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that all licensed and certified hospitals provide a service to the public by making health-care services available to the communities they serve. (2) Furthermore, for purposes of the attorney general's authority over…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-102 Definitions
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As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Covered transaction means any transaction that would result in the sale, transfer, lease, exchange, or other disposition of fifty percent or more of the assets of a hospital. A series of transactions taking place…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-103 Procedures for covered transactions - notice - attorney general powers
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(1) The parties to a covered transaction shall provide notice of such transaction to the attorney general no later than sixty days prior to the transaction closing or effective date of the transaction. The notice to the attorney general shall be in writing, shall include the info…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-104 Attorney general - effect on powers
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(1) Nothing in this article shall be construed as limiting the attorney general's common law powers. (2) Nothing in this article shall affect the regulatory authority of any government agency other than the department of law. Source: L. 98: Entire article added, p. 522, � 1, effe…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-201 Scope of part 2
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This part 2 applies to covered transactions involving a nonprofit hospital and another nonprofit entity. Source: L. 98: Entire article added, p. 522, � 1, effective April 30.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-202 Notice
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Notice shall be provided by the parties to a covered transaction according to section 6-19-103 and shall include a statement on the charitable purposes of each nonprofit entity entering into the covered transaction as well as a statement concerning the relationship of these purpo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-203 Attorney general review and assessment
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(1) A covered transaction under this part 2 that will not result in a material change in the charitable purposes to which the assets of the hospital have been dedicated, and will not result in a termination of the attorney general's jurisdiction over those assets caused by a tran…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-301 Scope of part 3
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This part 3 applies to covered transactions where the parties involved in the transaction are all for-profit entities. Source: L. 98: Entire article added, p. 524, � 1, effective April 30.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-302 Notice
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The parties to a covered transaction governed by this part 3 shall provide the notice required by section 6-19-103. Source: L. 98: Entire article added, p. 524, � 1, effective April 30.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-401 Scope of part 4
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This part 4 applies to covered transactions involving a nonprofit hospital and a for-profit entity. Source: L. 98: Entire article added, p. 524, � 1, effective April 30.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-402 Notice and filing
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(1) The notice and filing provided to the attorney general pursuant to section 6-19-103 shall include all proposed agreements relating to the proposed transaction, all agreements regarding collateral transactions that relate to the principal transaction, any reports of financial …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-403 Certification and criteria
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(1) The proposed transaction shall comply with the provisions of this section, and the parties to the transaction shall include in the filing required by section 6-19-402 documentation and certification from the parties, either joint or several as appropriate, that the covered tr…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-404 Attorney general review
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(1) No later than thirty days after the attorney general has received the completed notice and filing pursuant to section 6-19-402, the attorney general shall hold at least one public hearing in the service area of the hospital involved in the transaction, at which the attorney g…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-405 Post-transaction requirements
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For a period of not less than five years, the nonprofit charitable organization receiving the proceeds of the covered transaction shall provide the attorney general with an annual report of its grant-making and other charitable activities related to its use of the proceeds of the…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-406 Attorney general powers
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(1) The attorney general has the following powers: (a) To contract with, consult with, and receive advice from any state agency on those terms and conditions that the attorney general and the executive director deem appropriate; (b) To contract with persons including, but not lim…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-407 Attorney general review and assessment
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(1) The attorney general may review any notice and filing made under this part 4 and assess whether the proposed transaction complies with the requirements of section 6-19-403. (2) If, after review and assessment, the attorney general concludes that all of the requirements of sec…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-20-101 Provider disclosure of average charge
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(1) Each hospital licensed or certified pursuant to section 25-1.5-103 (1)(a), C.R.S., shall disclose to a person seeking care or treatment his or her right to receive notice of the average facility charge for such treatment that is a frequently performed inpatient procedure prio…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-20-102 Limits on facility fees - rules - definitions
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(1) Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) Affiliated with means: (I) Employed by a hospital or health system; or (II) Under a professional services agreement, faculty agreement, or management agreement with a hospital or health system th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-20-201 Definitions
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For the purposes of this part 2, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Collection activity means only those activities provided or performed by a licensed collection agency, using a business name other than the name of the health-care provider, for purposes of collecting a d…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-20-202 Notice to patient of debt
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(1) (a) When a person has health benefit coverage to provide payment for care or treatment rendered by a health-care provider and the person has notified the health-care provider of coverage within thirty days after the date the care or treatment was rendered, and if the health c…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-20-203 Limitations on collection actions - definition
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(1) Beginning June 1, 2022, impermissible extraordinary collection actions may not be used by any medical creditor to collect debts owed for hospital services. (2) Beginning June 1, 2022, no medical creditor collecting on a debt for hospital services shall engage in any permissib…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-22-101 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby declares that the purpose of enacting this article is to protect Colorado consumers by: (a) Requiring roofing contractors offering to perform roofing work on residential property in this state to sign a written contract with property owners detaili…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-22-102 Definitions
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As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Property owner means the owner of residential property or the owner's legal representative. (2) (a) Residential property means: (I) A detached, one- or two-family dwelling; or (II) Multiple single-family dwelling…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-22-103 Contracts for roofing services - writing required - required terms
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(1) Prior to engaging in any roofing work, a roofing contractor shall provide a written contract to the property owner, signed by both the roofing contractor or his or her designee and the property owner, stating at least the following terms: (a) The scope of roofing services and…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-22-104 Residential roofing contract - payment from insurance proceeds - right to rescind - return of payments
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(1) (a) A property owner who enters into a written contract with a roofing contractor to perform roofing work on the property owner’s residential property, the payment for which will be made from the proceeds of a property and casualty insurance policy issued pursuant to part 1 o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-22-105 Waiver of insurance deductible prohibited
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(1) A roofing contractor that performs roofing work, the payment for which will be made from the proceeds of a property and casualty insurance policy issued pursuant to part 1 of article 4 of title 10, C.R.S., shall not advertise or promise to pay, waive, or rebate all or part of…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-23-101 Definitions
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As used in this section: (1) Direct primary care agreement means a written agreement that: (a) Is between a patient, his or her legal representative, a government entity, or a patient's employer and a direct primary health-care provider; (b) Discloses and describes to the patient…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-23-102 Direct primary care - not regulated by the division of insurance
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(1) Direct primary care is not insurance and is not regulated by the commissioner of insurance pursuant to title 10. (2) Direct primary health-care providers and direct primary care agreements that comply with this article 23 shall not be considered to be a health maintenance org…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-23-103 Direct primary health-care provider rights
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(1) A direct primary health-care provider may: (a) Decline to accept patients whose health needs exceed the primary care services offered by the direct primary health-care provider; and (b) Terminate a direct primary care agreement if the termination allows for the transition of …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-23-104 Direct primary health-care providers - prohibitions
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(1) A direct primary health-care provider may not discriminate in the selection of patients on the basis of age, citizenship status, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, health status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual ori…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-23-105 Enforcement
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This article 23 is not subject to enforcement by the attorney general or the district attorney pursuant to this title 6. Source: L. 2017: Entire article added, (HB 17-1115), ch. 151, p. 512, � 2, effective August 9. CEMETERIES
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-101 Definitions
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As used in this article 24, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Burial memorial means any type of gravestone, tombstone, headstone, memorial, monument, or marker that commemorates the permanent disposition of the remains of a human body either below or above the surface of…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-102 Organization as endowment care cemetery - when
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Any person who, after July 1, 1965, establishes or acquires a cemetery within twenty miles from the exterior boundary of any city with a population of five thousand or more, according to the latest federal decennial census, shall be organized as an endowment care cemetery. Source…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-103 Nonendowment section in endowment care cemetery
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Any cemetery authority of an endowment care cemetery that has a nonendowed section that is used only as single graves for indigents may continue to donate the graves for the burial of indigents. Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent a cemetery authority of an endo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-104 Acquisition of land
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Any cemetery authority may acquire suitable and sufficient land for a cemetery in a manner provided by articles 1 to 7 of title 38. Source: L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 17-1244), ch. 239, p. 978, � 1, effective August 9. Editor's note: This section is simil…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-105 Plats of land to be recorded
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Any cemetery authority shall cause its land or the portion thereof as may become necessary for that purpose to be surveyed into blocks, lots, avenues, and walks and platted. The plat of ground as surveyed shall be acknowledged by some officer of the cemetery authority and filed f…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-106 Endowment care fund
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(1) A cemetery authority of an endowment care cemetery shall establish an irrevocable endowment care fund for each endowment care cemetery owned, maintained, or operated by it in a state bank or trust company authorized to act as fiduciary and under the supervision of the banking…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-107 Reports
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(1) Each cemetery authority shall keep on file annually, within three months after the end of its fiscal year, a written report setting forth: (a) The total amount deposited in the endowment care fund, listing separately the total amounts paid for endowment of grave spaces, for n…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-108 Delivery of copy of contract - required
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A duplicate original of any contract entered into between a purchaser of any lot, grave space, interment right, niche, or crypt and any cemetery authority shall be given to the buyer at the time both parties become bound by the contract and any consideration whatsoever is given b…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-109 Burial memorial - changes - notice of ownership
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(1) No person other than the owner of a burial memorial or a person authorized by the owner of the burial memorial shall make a change to the inscription on the burial memorial. (2) If a burial memorial is to be placed at a grave space, niche, or crypt that is purchased on or aft…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-110 Discrimination
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There shall be no limitation, restriction, or covenant based upon race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, national origin, or ancestry on the size, placement, location, sale, or transfer of any cemetery grave space, ni…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-111 Violations - penalties
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(1) It is unlawful for any person to sell or offer to sell a grave space, niche, or crypt upon the promise, representation, or inducement of resale at a financial profit. (2) Any person who violates any provision of this article 24 commits a class 2 misdemeanor. Whenever any pers…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-112 Abandoned graves - right to reclaim
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(1) If there is a lot, grave space, niche, or crypt in a cemetery in which no remains have been interred, no burial memorial has been placed, and no other improvement has been made for a continuous period of no less than seventy-five years, a cemetery authority may initiate the p…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-25-101 Definitions - evidence of intent
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As used in this part 1, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Agreement with the public establishment means any written or verbal agreement as to the price to be charged for, and the acceptance of, food, beverage, service, or accommodations where the price to be charged ther…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-25-102 Public establishment - vendor contract
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A contract between a vendor and a public establishment shall be invalid unless the vendor enters into the contract directly with the public establishment's owner, general manager, or a person with authority to enter into a contract as specifically designated in writing by the own…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-25-103 Defrauding an innkeeper - repeal. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 17-1245), ch. 240, p. 986, � 1, effective August 9. L. 2021: (2) added by revision, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, pp. 3135, 3331, �� 67, 803. Editor's note: (1) This section was similar to former � 12-44-102 as it existed prior …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-25-104 Notice prerequisite to conviction - repeal. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 17-1245), ch. 240, p. 986, � 1, effective August 9. L. 2021: (2) added by revision, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, pp. 3136, 3331, �� 68, 803. Editor's note: (1) This section was similar to former � 12-44-103 as it existed prior …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-25-105 Jurisdiction - repeal. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 17-1245), ch. 240, p. 987, � 1, effective August 9. L. 2021: (2) added by revision, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, pp. 3136, 3331, �� 69, 803. Editor's note: (1) This section was similar to former � 12-44-104 as it existed prior …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-25-106 Safe for valuables - notice
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Every landlord or keeper of a hotel or public inn in this state who provides in the office of his or her hotel, inn, or other convenient place a safe, vault, or other suitable receptacle, for the secure custody of money, jewelry, ornaments, or other valuable articles other than n…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-25-107 Maximum amount landlord bound to receive
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No landlord or keeper of any hotel or public inn is obliged to receive property from any guest or patron for custody under the provisions of section 6-25-106, exceeding in value the sum of five thousand dollars, nor is he or she liable for any loss thereof by theft or otherwise i…