§ 11-10.5-103. Definitions

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

1. “Aggregate uninsured public deposits” means the total amount of cash, checks, or drafts on deposit at the close of a business day for credit to the official custodian accounts in an eligible public depository, and which are either not insured by or are in excess of the insurable limits of federal deposit insurance.
2. “Bank” means any bank organized or chartered under this article and articles 101 to 109 of this title or any bank organized or chartered under chapter 2 of title 12 of the United States Code. For purposes of section 11-10.5-104 and 11-10.5-111 (1) only, the definition of “bank” also includes those banks chartered under the laws of other states.
3. “Banking board” means the banking board established by section 11-102-103.
4. “Defaulting depository” means any eligible public depository to which an event of default has occurred.
5. “Eligible collateral” means, with respect to the securing of uninsured public funds, those instruments or obligations approved to be used for such purposes by the banking board pursuant to the provisions of section 11-10.5-107.
6. “Eligible public depository” means any bank which has been designated as an eligible public depository by the banking board.
7. “Event of default” means the issuance of an order by a supervisory authority or a receiver which restrains an eligible public depository from paying its deposit liabilities.
8. “Federal deposit insurance” means deposit insurance or guarantees provided by the federal deposit insurance corporation or any successor agency thereto.
9. “Official custodian” means:
   1. A designee with plenary authority, including control over public funds of a public unit which the official custodian is appointed to serve. For purposes of this paragraph (a), “control” includes possession of public funds, as well as the authority to establish accounts for such public funds in banks and to make deposits, withdrawals, or disbursements of such public funds. If the exercise of plenary authority over the public funds of a public unit requires action by or the consent of two or more putative official custodians, then such official custodians shall be treated as one official custodian with respect to such public funds.
   2. A designee, other than a designee described in paragraph (a) of this subsection (9), with authority, including control, over public funds of an entity, including the state of Colorado; any institution, agency, instrumentality, authority, county, municipality, city and county, school district, special district, or other political subdivision of the state of Colorado, including any institution of higher education; any institution, department, agency, instrumentality, or authority of any of the foregoing, including any county or municipal housing authority; any local government investment pool organized pursuant to part 7 of article 75 of title 24, C.R.S.; any public entity insurance pool organized pursuant to state statute; any public body corporate created or established under the constitution of the state of Colorado or any state statute; and any other entity, organization, or corporation formed by intergovernmental agreement or other contract between or among any of the foregoing. For purposes of this paragraph (b), “control” includes possession of public funds, as well as the authority to establish accounts for such public funds in banks and to make deposits, withdrawals, or disbursements of such public funds. If the exercise of authority over such public funds requires action by or the consent of two or more putative official custodians, then such official custodians shall be treated as one official custodian with respect to such public funds.
10. 1. “Political subdivision” includes any subdivision or any principal department of a public unit:
       1. The creation of which subdivision or principal department has been expressly authorized by state statute;
       2. To which some functions of government have been delegated by state statute; and
       3. To which funds have been allocated by ordinance or state statute for its exclusive use and control.
    2. “Political subdivision” also includes drainage, irrigation, navigation, improvement, levee, sanitary, school, and power districts and bridge and port authorities and any other special district created by state statute or compact between the state of Colorado and one or more states.
    3. “Political subdivision” does not include subordinate or nonautonomous divisions, agencies, or boards within principal departments of a public unit.
11. “Public deposits” means all public funds on deposit in an eligible public depository in any form, whether time, savings, or demand.
12. “Public funds” means all funds of a public unit and all funds of any entity referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (9) of this section.
13. “Public unit” means the state of Colorado, any county, city and county, city, or municipality, including any home rule city or town or territorial charter city, or any political subdivision thereof.

Source: L. 89: Entire article R&RE, p. 594, § 1, effective September 1. L. 91: (2) amended, p. 650, § 8, effective May 1. L. 2003: (3) amended, p. 1206, § 5, effective July 1. L. 2004: (2) amended, p. 324, § 9, effective April 7; (2) amended, p. 1190, § 17, effective August 4.

Editor’s note:

1. This section is similar to former § 11-10.5-103 as it existed prior to 1989.
2. Subsection (2) was amended in House Bill 04-1110. Those amendments were superseded by the amendment of subsection (2) in Senate Bill 04-239.