The director is vested with the power and jurisdiction to have such supervision of every employment and place of employment in this state as may be necessary adequately to ascertain and determine the conditions under which the employees labor, and the manner and extent of the obedience by the employer to all laws and all lawful orders requiring such employment and places of employment to be safe, and requiring the protection of the life, health, and safety of every employee in such employment or place of employment, and to enforce all provisions of law relating thereto. The director is also vested with power and jurisdiction to administer all provisions of this article with respect to the relations between employer and employee and to do all other acts and things convenient and necessary to accomplish the purposes of this article including entering into reciprocal agreements with other states and governmental entities.
Source: L. 15: p. 571, § 15. C.L. § 4339. CSA: C. 97, § 17. CRS 53: § 80-1-15. C.R.S. 1963: § 80-1-15. L. 69: p. 578, § 29. L. 72: p. 602, § 99. L. 93: Entire section amended, p. 867, § 1, effective May 6.
Structure Colorado Code
Article 1 - Division of Labor - Industrial Claim Appeals Office
§ 8-1-102. Industrial Claim Appeals Office - Creation - Powers and Duties
§ 8-1-105. Offices and Supplies
§ 8-1-107. Powers and Duties of Director - Rules
§ 8-1-108. Orders Effective - When - Validity Presumed
§ 8-1-111. Jurisdiction Over Employer and Employee Relation
§ 8-1-112. Officers to Assist in Enforcing Orders
§ 8-1-113. Agents of Division and Director - Powers
§ 8-1-114. Employers and Employees to Furnish Information - Penalty
§ 8-1-115. Information Not Public - Penalty for Divulging
§ 8-1-116. Investigators to Have Access to Premises
§ 8-1-117. Director to Have Access to Books - Penalty
§ 8-1-118. Rules of Evidence - Procedure
§ 8-1-119. Record of Proceedings
§ 8-1-121. Contempt - Punishment - Fees
§ 8-1-122. Inquiries - Scope - Report
§ 8-1-125. Disputes - Jurisdiction - Request for Intervention - Penalty
§ 8-1-126. Lockouts and Strikes Unlawful - When
§ 8-1-128. Petition - Writ - Dissolution
§ 8-1-129. Strikes and Lockouts - Penalties
§ 8-1-129. Strikes and Lockouts - Penalties
§ 8-1-139. Failure of Witness to Appear or Testify - Penalty - Repeal
§ 8-1-140. Violation - Penalty
§ 8-1-141. Each Day Separate Offense
§ 8-1-142. Collection of Penalties
§ 8-1-143. Costs - Counsel for Director - Attorney General and District Attorney to Enforce
§ 8-1-144. Penalty for False Statements
§ 8-1-145. Authority of Department of Public Health and Environment Not Affected
§ 8-1-146. Effect of Transfer of Powers, Duties, and Functions
§ 8-1-151. Public Safety Inspection Fund Created
§ 8-1-152. Applications for Licenses - Authority to Suspend Licenses - Rules
§ 8-1-153. Private Employers - Veterans' Preference Hiring Policy - Definitions