Colorado Code
Part 14 - Negotiation of Consultants' Contracts
§ 24-30-1402. Definitions

As used in this part 14, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1.5) "Continuing contract" means a contract for professional services entered into pursuant to this part 14 between a state agency or state institution of higher education and a person, whereby the person provides professional services to the state agency or state institution of higher education for work of a specified nature as outlined in the contract required by the state agency or state institution of higher education with no specific time limitation. Any such contract shall provide a termination clause.

(2.2) "Industrial hygienist" means an individual who has obtained a baccalaureate or graduate degree in industrial hygiene, biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, or a closely related physical or biological science from an accredited college or university. The special studies and training of such individual shall be sufficient in the cognate sciences to provide the ability and competency to:

(3.5) "Practice of industrial hygiene" means the performance of professional services, including but not limited to consulting, investigating, sampling, or testing in connection with the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace that may cause sickness, impaired health, or significant discomfort to workers or the public. "Practice of industrial hygiene" includes but is not limited to the identification, sampling, and testing of chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic stresses and the development of physical, administrative, personal protective equipment, and training methods to prevent, eliminate, control, or reduce such factors and stresses and their effects. The term does not include the practice of architecture, as defined in section 12-120-402 (5), or the practice of engineering, as defined in section 12-120-202 (6).

Source: L. 79: Entire part added, p. 890, § 1, effective July 1. L. 85: (6)(b) amended, p. 484, § 3, effective May 24. L. 90: (3) amended, p. 447, § 11, effective April 18. L. 95: (2) amended, p. 650, § 57, effective July 1. L. 97: Entire section amended, p. 109, § 3, effective March 24. L. 2006: (3.5) and (6)(a) amended, p. 762, § 21, effective July 1. L. 2014: (1.5), (5), and (7) amended and (8) added, (HB 14-1387), ch. 378, p. 1838, § 37, effective June 6. L. 2019: (3.5), (6)(a), (6)(b), and (6)(c) amended, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1687, § 126, effective October 1.
Editor's note: Subsection (2.2) was originally enacted as (1.2) by Senate Bill 97-119 but has been renumbered on revision in 2001 for ease of location.
Cross references: (1) For the legislative declaration contained in the 1995 act amending subsection (2), see section 112 of chapter 167, Session Laws of Colorado 1995.
(2) For the legislative declaration in HB 14-1387, see section 1 of chapter 378, Session Laws of Colorado 2014.