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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25.5-10-237 (2024)

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✓ C.R.S. 2024: the 2025 and 2026 sessions are not included
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(1) Whenever the terms "insane", "insanity", "mentally or mental incompetent", "mental incompetency", or "of unsound mind" are used in the laws of the state of Colorado, they shall be deemed to refer to the insane, as defined in section 16-8-101, C.R.S., or to a person with an intellectual and developmental disability, as defined in section 25.5-10-202, as the context of the particular law requires.

(2) Whenever the term "mentally deficient person" is used in the laws of the state of Colorado, it shall be deemed to mean and be included with the term "person with an intellectual and developmental disability", as defined in section 25.5-10-202.

Source: L. 2013: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1780, § 1, effective March 1, 2014.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 27-10.5-135 as it existed prior to 2013.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2019–2025 · leading case: LT Income, LLC v. Purnell, 2025 COA 74, 578 P.3d 843.
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LT Income, LLC v. Purnell, 2025 COA 74, 578 P.3d 843. · cites it 4× “§ 25.5-10-237(1), C.R.S. 2025; see Southard v.”
Branch v. United Parcel Serv., No. 1:18-cv-03358 (D. Colo. Aug. 20, 2019). “§ 25.5-10-237, which must be “determined by a community-centered board.”
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25.5-10-237(1): 1 case
LT Income, LLC v. Purnell, 2025 COA 74, 578 P.3d 843. “§ 25.5-10-237(1), C.R.S. 2025; see Southard v.”
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