Colorado Code
Part 1 - Extended Benefits
§ 8-75-101. Definitions

As used in this part 1, unless the context otherwise requires:




















(4.5) "High unemployment period" means a period in which the seasonally adjusted total unemployment rate, as determined by the United States secretary of labor, for the most recent three months for which data for all states is published, equals or exceeds eight percent.





(9.5) "Total unemployment rate" or "TUR" means the percentage derived by dividing the number of all unemployed persons in the civilian labor force by the number of individuals comprising the total labor force, including both employed and unemployed individuals, and then multiplying that number by one hundred.












Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 943, § 18. C.R.S. 1963: § 82-13-1. L. 73: p. 961, § 12. L. 76: (2) R&RE, p. 349, § 15, effective October 1. L. 77: (2)(a)(V) amended and (5), (6), (10), and (11) R&RE, pp. 465, 466, §§ 17, 18, effective July 7. L. 82: (3)(a)(I), (3)(a)(II)(A), (3)(b), (7), (10), and (11)(a) amended and (5), (6), and (11)(b) repealed, pp. 237, 240, §§ 5, 11, effective July 1. L. 83: (10) amended, p. 2047, § 1, effective October 14. L. 90: (4) and (8) amended, p. 604, § 8, effective April 3. L. 92: (2)(a)(V) amended, p. 1796, § 6, effective April 10. L. 2000: (9) amended, p. 1838, § 3, effective August 2. L. 2009: (4.5) and (9.5) added, (SB 09-247), ch. 405, p. 2235, § 8, effective July 1. L. 2010: IP and IP(2)(a) amended and (2)(a)(VI) added, (SB 10-028), ch. 397, p. 1890, § 2, effective June 9. L. 2011: (10) and (11)(a) amended, (SB 11-010), ch. 76, p. 209, § 2, effective March 29.
Cross references: For 5 U.S.C. chapter 85, see 5 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq.; for section 3304 of the "Federal Unemployment Tax Act", see 26 U.S.C. § 3304; for the "Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act", see 45 U.S.C. § 351 et seq.; for the "Trade Expansion Act of 1962", see 19 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq.

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