Colo. Const. art. XIV § 6 - County commissioners - election - term

• Library: Colorado Constitution
• Edition: 2023 Edition
• Currency: Current through 11/8/2022 Election

In each county having a population of less than seventy thousand there shall be elected, for a term of four years each, three county commissioners who shall hold sessions for the transaction of county business as provided by law; any two of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Two of said commissioners shall be elected at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and four, and at the general election every four years thereafter; and the other one of said commissioners shall be elected at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and six, and at the general election every four years thereafter; provided, that when the population of any county shall equal or exceed seventy thousand, the board of county commissioners may consist of five members, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Three of said commissioners in said county shall be elected at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and four, and at the general election every four years thereafter; and the other two of said commissioners in such county shall be elected at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and six and every four years thereafter; and all of such commissioners shall be elected for the term of four years.

This section shall govern, except as hereafter otherwise expressly directed or permitted by constitutional enactment.

Cite as Colo. Const. art. XIV § 6

Source:

Entire article added, effective August 1, 1876, see L. 1877, p. 67. L. 01: Entire section amended, p. 112. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 2776, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, L. 2001, p. 2391, December 28, 2000.

ANNOTATION

Law reviews. For comment, "Maximum Utilization Collides With Prior Appropriation in A-B Cattle Co. v. United States, 196 Colo. 539, 589 P.2d 57 (1978)", see 57 Den. L.J. 103 (1979).

This section is mandatory as to number of commissioners of counties of less than 70,000. Uzzell v. Anderson, 38 Colo. 32, 89 P. 785 (1906).

The provision of this section adopted at the general election in 1902, by which the number of commissioners in counties of less than 70,000 population was limited to three, did not operate to prevent commissioners elected at that election in counties of less than 70,000, having five commissioners, from qualifying and serving out their terms. Such commissioners were entitled to serve out their terms which by the amendment were extended so as to expire January 1907, instead of January 1906. People ex rel. Lankford v. Long, 32 Colo. 486, 77 P. 251 (1904); Long v. People ex rel. Low, 33 Colo. 159, 79 P. 1132 (1905).