As used in parts 3 to 10 of this article 34, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (1) Age means a chronological age of at least forty years.
2. (2) Agency or state agency means any board, bureau, commission, department, institution, division, section, or officer of the state.
3. (3) Basic access or basic accessibility constitute public safety issues and mean the general practice of making information, activities, and environments sensible, meaningful, usable, and safe for as many people as possible.
4. (3.5) Chosen name means a name that an individual requests to be known as in connection to the individual's disability, race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, or ancestry, so long as the name does not contain offensive language and the individual is not requesting the name for frivolous purposes.
5. (4) Commission means the Colorado civil rights commission created in section 24-34-303.
6. (5) Commissioner means a member of the Colorado civil rights commission.
7. (6) Director means the director of the Colorado civil rights division created in section 24-34-302.
8. (7) Disability has the same meaning as set forth in the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. sec. 12101 et seq., and its related amendments and implementing regulations.
9. (8) Division means the Colorado civil rights division, created in section 24-34-302.
10. (9) Gender expression means an individual's way of reflecting and expressing the individual's gender to the outside world, typically demonstrated through appearance, dress, behavior, chosen name, and how the individual chooses to be addressed.
11. (10) Gender identity means an individual's innate sense of the individual's own gender, which may or may not correspond with the individual's sex assigned at birth.
12. (11) Housing means a building, structure, vacant land, or part thereof offered for sale, lease, rent, or transfer of ownership; except that housing does not include any room offered for rent or lease in a single-family dwelling maintained and occupied in part by the owner or lessee of the dwelling as the owner's or lessee's household.
13. (12) Housing accommodations means any real property or portion thereof that is used or occupied, or intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence, or sleeping place of one or more persons but does not include any single family residence, the occupants of which rent, lease, or furnish for compensation not more than one room in that residence.
14. (13) Individual with a disability means an individual with a disability or disabilities.
15. (14) Marital status means a relationship or a spousal status of an individual, including, but not limited to, being single, cohabitating, engaged, widowed, married, in a civil union, or legally separated, or a relationship or a spousal status of an individual who has had or is in the process of having a marriage or civil union dissolved or declared invalid.

16. (15)

    1. (a) Person means one or more individuals, limited liability companies, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, receivers, or the state of Colorado and all of its political subdivisions and agencies.
    2. (b) For the purposes of part 5 of this article 34, person does not include any private club not open to the public that, as an incident to its primary purpose or purposes, provides lodgings that it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose, unless the club has the purpose of promoting discrimination in the matter of housing against any person because of disability, race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, or ancestry.
17. (16) Place of public accommodation or public accommodation has the same meaning as set forth in Title III of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. sec. 12181 (7), and its related amendments and implementing regulations.
18. (17) Protective hairstyle includes such hairstyles as braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, Bantu knots, Afros, and headwraps.

19. (18) Public entity means:

    1. (a) Any state or local government; or
    2. (b) Any department, agency, special district, or other instrumentality of a state or local government.
20. (19) Public transportation service means a common carrier of passengers or any other means of public conveyance or modes of transportation, including, but not limited to, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, streetcars, boats, or taxis.
21. (20) Qualified individual with a disability or individual with a disability has the same meaning as set forth in the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. sec. 12131, and its related amendments and implementing regulations.
22. (21) Race includes hair texture, hair type, hair length, or a protective hairstyle that is commonly or historically associated with race.
23. (22) Respondent means any person, agency, organization, or other entity against whom a charge is filed pursuant to any of the provisions of parts 3 to 8 of this article 34.
24. (23) Service animal has the same meaning as set forth in the implementing regulations of Title II and Title III of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. sec. 12101 et seq.
25. (24) Sexual orientation means an individual's identity, or another individual's perception thereof, in relation to the gender or genders to which the individual is sexually or emotionally attracted and the behavior or social affiliation that may result from the attraction.
26. (25) Trainer of a service animal means a person who individually trains a service animal.

Source: L. 79: Entire part R&RE, p. 923, § 3, effective July 1. L. 86: (1) R&RE and (1.5) and (1.6) added, p. 930, §§ 1, 2, effective May 8. L. 89: (4) amended, p. 1037, § 1, effective July 1. L. 90: (5) amended, p. 447, § 13, effective April 18. L. 92: (4)(b)(I) amended, p. 1121, § 1, effective July 1. L. 93: (2.5) added and (4) amended, p. 1655, § 59, effective July 1. L. 2008: (7) added, p. 1593, § 2, effective May 29. L. 2013: (4.5) added, (SB 13-011), ch. 49, p. 168, § 26, effective May 1; (1) amended, (HB 13-1136), ch. 168, p. 554, § 3, effective August 7. L. 2014: Entire section amended, (SB 14-118), ch. 250, p. 974, § 1, effective August 6. L. 2020: IP and (5.3) amended and (5.1) and (5.8) added, (HB 20-1048), ch. 8, p. 19, § 10, effective September 14. L. 2021: (5.4) amended, (HB 21-1110), ch. 402, p. 2675, § 1, effective June 30; (3.3) and (3.5) added and (5)(b) and (7) amended, (HB 21-1108), ch. 156, p. 883, § 2, effective September 7. L. 2023: Entire section amended, (HB 23-1296), ch. 269, p. 1597, § 2, effective May 25. L. 2024: (21) amended, (HB 24-1451), ch. 354, p. 2413, § 8, effective June 3. L. 2025: (3.5) added and (9) amended, (HB 25-1312), ch. 205, p. 929, § 8, effective May 16.

Cross references: (1) For the legislative declaration contained in the 2008 act enacting subsection (7), see section 1 of chapter 341, Session Laws of Colorado 2008.

(2) For the short title (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2020 or CROWN Act of 2020) and the legislative declaration in HB 20-1048, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 8, Session Laws of Colorado 2020.

(3) For the legislative declaration in HB 21-1108, see section 1 of chapter 156, Session Laws of Colorado 2021.

(4) For the short title (Kelly Loving Act) in HB 25-1312, see section 1 of chapter 205, Session Laws of Colorado 2025.