Colorado Code
Article 91 - Water Well Construction and Pump Installation Contractors
§ 37-91-102. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(4.5) "Dewatering well" includes any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, fractured, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed when the intended use of such excavation is for temporary dewatering purposes for construction only.
(4.7) "Directly employed" means engaged in employment where the employer is responsible for and directly controls the performance of the employee, and, where applicable, the employee is covered by workers' compensation and unemployment compensation. "Directly employed" does not refer to independent contractors or subcontractors.

(10.5) "Monitoring and observation well" includes any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, fractured, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed when the intended use of such excavation is for locating such well, pumping equipment or aquifer testing, monitoring groundwater, or collection of water quality samples.

(11.5) "Person" means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a municipality, the state, the United States, or any other legal entity, public or private.

(12.5) "Private pump installer" means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, political subdivision, or public agency that uses equipment owned by it to install pumping equipment on a well entirely for its own use on property owned by it.

(15.5) "Supervision" means personal and continuous on-the-site direction by a licensed well construction contractor or licensed pump installation contractor, unless the licensed contractor has applied for and received from the board an exemption from continuous on-the-site direction for a specific task.
(15.7) "Test hole" includes any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, fractured, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed when the intended use of such excavation is for geotechnical, geophysical, or geologic investigation or soil- or rock-sampling.

Source: L. 67: p. 691, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-20-2. L. 85: (3), (4), (8), (10), (12), (15), and (18) amended, (4.5), (4.7), (10.5), (11.5), (12.5), (15.5), and (15.7) added, (13), (14), (16), and (17) R&RE, and (1), (2), (5), (6), (9), and (11) repealed, pp. 1180, 1182, 1189, §§ 2, 3, 16, effective July 1. L. 90: (4.7) amended, p. 574, § 71, effective July 1. L. 92: (16) amended, p. 1971, § 78, effective July 1. L. 95: (16) amended, p. 140, § 3, effective April 7. L. 2003: (4.7), (8), (10), (12), (12.5), (13), (14), (15.5), and (16)(a) amended, p. 1675, § 2, effective May 14.