The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Colorado
- Level
- State
- Authority
- C.R.S. §§ 25-1.5-102(1)(a)(II), 25-1-122 (reporting and rulemaking); 6 CCR 1009-1
- Issued
- 2019-04-17 Apr. 17, 2019
- Effective
- 2019-06-14
- End
- standing (later amendments not saved) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since June 14, 2019 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- employers (food service, food processing and dairy employers under Reg. 7; every business subject to investigation under Reg. 5); health care providers and laboratories (reporting)
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Colorado DUT-CO
Operative words
The employer is responsible for ensuring the absence from work of an employee with an infectious disease for which there is evidence of transmission to persons in a food service, food processing, milk producing, or milk processing setting, as determined by the Department.
Penalty
Through § 25-1-114(1)(a), (b), (4) (violation of a rule of the board; failure to file required disease reports)
What it required
Board of Health rules with the force of § 25-1-114(1)(a): reporting of reportable diseases and of 'any unusual illness, or outbreak, or epidemic of illnesses' (Reg. 1); public-health investigations that may enter 'a public or private entity, such as a business or school,' obtain 'from public or private businesses or institutions the lists of persons with a similar or common potential exposure,' and interview any 'employer, employee of a public or private business' (Reg. 5.D, E, H); and the food-service employer's duty to exclude infected workers (Reg. 7).
Retrieval noteHeader: 'Adopted by the Board of Health on April 17, 2019. Effective June 14, 2019.' Regulation 7 in full: 'No person, while infected with a disease in a communicable form which can be transmitted by foods or who is afflicted by a boil, or an infected wound, shall work in a food processing, milk producing, milk processing or food service setting in any capacity in which there is a likelihood of such person contaminating food or food contact surfaces with pathogenic organisms or transmitting diseases to other persons.' followed by the quoted employer sentence. Regulation 5.H: investigators may enter 'a public or private entity, such as a business or school, for the purpose of conducting investigations of those processes, conditions, structures, machines, apparatus, devices, equipment, records, and materials within the place of employment which are relevant, pertinent, and necessary to the investigation'. COVID-19 was added to the reportable-disease table by 2020 emergency rulemaking and the rules were amended during 2020-2021; those versions are not saved here (the Secretary of State's registry lists later versions, including one adopted Jan. 21, 2026). Regulation 5 also lists 'Review of workers' compensation claims' (5.I).