County officers - election - term - salary

• Currency: Current through 11/8/2022 Election
• Citation: Colo. Const. art. XIV § 8

There shall be elected in each county, at the same time at which members of the general assembly are elected, commencing in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and every four years thereafter, one county clerk, who shall be ex officio recorder of deeds and clerk of the board of county commissioners; one sheriff; one coroner; one treasurer who shall be collector of taxes; one county surveyor; one county assessor; and one county attorney who may be elected or appointed, as shall be provided by law; and such officers shall be paid such salary or compensation, either from the fees, perquisites and emoluments of their respective offices, or from the general county fund, as may be provided by law. The term of office of all such officials shall be four years, and they shall take office on the second Tuesday in January next following their election, or at such other time as may be provided by law.

Cite as Colo. Const. art. XIV § 8

Source:

Entire article added, effective August 1, 1876, see L. 1877, p. 67. L. 01: Entire section amended, p. 113. Initiated 55: Entire section amended, p. 247. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 2776, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, L. 2001, p. 2391, December 28, 2000.

ANNOTATION

Law reviews. For article, "County Sheriffs in Colorado: Beyond the Myth", see 38 Colo. Law. 19 (Feb. 2009).

Courts may not confer or limit powers of county officers. In general, the powers and duties of county officers such as the treasurer, are prescribed by the constitution or by statute, or both, and they are measured by the terms and necessary implication of the grant, and must be executed in the manner directed and by the officers specified. If broader powers are desirable, they must be conferred by the proper authority. They cannot be merely assumed by administrative officers; nor can they be created by the courts in the proper exercise of their judicial functions. Skidmore v. O'Rourke, 152 Colo. 470, 383 P.2d 473 (1963).

No consideration of public policy can properly induce a court to reject the statutory definition of the powers of a county officer. Skidmore v. O'Rourke, 152 Colo. 470, 383 P.2d 473 (1963).

It is not a proper function of the judiciary to add to, detract from, or impose other conditions governing actions of treasurers. Skidmore v. O'Rourke, 152 Colo. 470, 383 P.2d 473 (1963).

County treasurers are constitutional officers. Skidmore v. O'Rourke, 152 Colo. 470, 383 P.2d 473 (1963).

But they have no constitutional duties to perform or constitutional authority to do any particular act such as commencing a suit. Skidmore v. O'Rourke, 152 Colo. 470, 383 P.2d 473 (1963).