{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-38-12-902","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 38-12-902","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this part 9, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n(1) \"Amount of income\" means a tenant's or prospective tenant's income from salaries, wages, commissions, payments received as an independent contractor, bonuses, or a housing subsidy or derived from any other public or private source and includes all of a tenant's or prospective tenant's cash assets.\n\n(1.2) \"Consumer report\" has the meaning set forth in section 5-18-103 (3).\n\n(1.3) \"Consumer reporting agency\" has the meaning set forth in section 5-18-103 (4).\n\n(1.5) \"Dwelling unit\" means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a home, residence, or sleeping place.\n\n(1.7) \"Housing subsidy\" means any portion of a rental payment that is derived from a public or private assistance, grant, or loan program and that is paid by the program directly, indirectly, or on behalf of a tenant to a landlord.\n\n(2) \"Landlord\" means the owner, manager, lessor, or sublessor of a dwelling unit.\n\n(2.5) \"Portable tenant screening report\" or \"screening report\" means a consumer report prepared at the request of a prospective tenant that includes information provided by a consumer reporting agency, which report includes the following information about a prospective tenant and the date through which the information contained in the report is current:\n\n(a) Name;\n\n(b) Contact information;\n\n(c) Verification of employment and income;\n\n(d) Last-known address;\n\n(e) For each jurisdiction indicated in the consumer report as a prior residence of the prospective tenant, regardless of whether the residence is reported by the prospective tenant or by the consumer reporting agency preparing the consumer report:\n\n(I) A rental and credit history report for the prospective tenant that complies with section 38-12-904 concerning a landlord's consideration of a prospective tenant's rental history; except that a credit history report, a credit score, or an adverse credit event is not required to be included in a portable tenant screening report concerning a prospective tenant who is seeking to rent with the assistance of a housing subsidy; and\n\n(II) A criminal history record check for all federal, state, and local convictions of the prospective tenant that complies with section 38-12-904 (1)(b) concerning a landlord's consideration of a prospective tenant's arrest records.\n\n(3) \"Rental agreement\" means any agreement, written or oral, between a landlord and a tenant embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a dwelling unit.\n\n(4) \"Rental application\" means any information, written or oral, submitted to a landlord by a prospective tenant for the purpose of entering into a rental agreement. \"Rental application\" includes a portable tenant screening report.\n\n(5) \"Rental application fee\" means any sum of money, however denominated, that is charged or accepted by a landlord from a prospective tenant in connection with the prospective tenant's submission of a rental application or any nonrefundable fee that precedes the onset of tenancy. \"Rental application fee\" does not include a refundable security deposit or any rent that is paid before the onset of tenancy.\n\n(6) \"Tenant\" means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling unit to the exclusion of others.","path":["Title 38 - PROPERTY - REAL AND PERSONAL","Article 12 - Tenants and Landlords","Part 9 - RENTAL APPLICATION FAIRNESS ACT"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-38.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"688a139e0aad89143084c19887a7d0ee6d1d0e1de41308b5df5d01442c3fb5bd","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-38-12-901","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-38-12-903"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}