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Colorado Revised Statutes Title 8. Labor and Industry § 8-47-101. Division of workers' compensation--creation--powers, duties, and functions--transfer of functions

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) There is hereby created the division of workers' compensation in the department of labor and employment. Pursuant to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, the executive director of the department of labor and employment shall appoint the director of the division of workers' compensation, and the director shall appoint such employees as are necessary to carry out the duties and exercise the powers conferred by law upon the division of workers' compensation and the director.

(2) The director and the division of workers' compensation shall enforce and administer the provisions of the “Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado”, articles 40 to 47 of this title, as provided in said articles and the provisions of article 14.5 of this title.

(3)(a) The division of workers' compensation shall, on and after July 1, 1991, execute, administer, perform, and enforce the rights, powers, duties, functions, and obligations vested in the division of labor prior to July 1, 1991, concerning the duties and functions transferred to the division of workers' compensation. On July 1, 1991, all employees of the division of labor whose principal duties are concerned with the duties and functions transferred to the division of workers' compensation and whose employment in the division of workers' compensation is deemed necessary by the executive director of the department of labor and employment to carry out the purposes of this article 47 shall be transferred to the division of workers' compensation and shall become employees thereof. The employees shall retain all rights to the state personnel system and retirement benefits under the laws of this state, and their services shall be deemed to have been continuous. All transfers and any abolishment of positions in the state personnel system shall be made and processed in accordance with state personnel system laws and rules. The division of workers' compensation and the division's director are type 2 entities, as defined in section 24-1-105.

(b) Repealed by Laws 2006, Ch. 46, § 4, eff. Aug. 7, 2006.

(c) Whenever the division of labor is referred to or designated by any contract or other document in connection with the duties and functions transferred to the division of workers' compensation, such reference or designation is deemed to apply to the division of workers' compensation. All contracts entered into by the division of labor prior to July 1, 1991, in connection with the duties and functions transferred to the division of workers' compensation, are hereby validated, with the division of workers' compensation succeeding to all the rights and obligations of such contracts. Any appropriations of funds from prior fiscal years open to satisfy obligations incurred under such contracts are hereby transferred and appropriated to the division of workers' compensation for the payment of such obligations.

(d)(I) Repealed by Laws 1995, S.B.95-199, § 1, eff. May 16, 1995.

(II) At the discretion of the state auditor, the state auditor may conduct or cause to be conducted a performance review of the administrative law judges in the office of administrative courts who hear cases under articles 40 to 47 of this title. The review must include, but is not limited to, the following topics: The time elapsed from the date of hearing until decisions are rendered by the administrative law judges; the time elapsed from the point at which the file is complete and the case is ready for order until the decision is rendered by the administrative law judges; the number of decisions that are reversed upon appeal to the industrial claim appeals panel and to the court of appeals respectively; the workload or number of cases assigned to each administrative law judge; and the public perception of the quality of the performance of the office of administrative courts with respect to matters arising under the “Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado”.

(4) Repealed by Laws 1996, H.B.96-1167, § 45, eff. Aug. 7, 1996.

(5) On and after July 1, 1991, when any provision of articles 40 to 47 of this title 8 refers to the division of labor, said law shall be construed as referring to the division of workers' compensation.

(6) Repealed by Laws 2024, Ch. 490 (H.B. 24-1450), § 13, eff. August 7, 2024.

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