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CO Code § 30-11-502 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-502. Charter Commission

  Following the adoption of a resolution by the board of county commissioners, or upon the submission of a petition of not less than five percent of the registered electors of the county, requesting that a charter commission be established, the board of county commissioners shall call an election to be held on or before the next general election for the purpose of determining whether or not a charter commission shall be elected. The board of county commissioners shall publish notice of the election at least sixty days prior to the election.      At least sixty days before the election provided for in section 30-11-503, the board of county commissioners shall divide the county into three compact districts; such districts to be as nearly equal in population as possible, for the purpose of electing charter commission members by district according to subsection (4) of this section.    If the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection (2) are not met before sixty days prior to the election provided for in section 30-11-503, no member of the board of county commissioners of the county shall thereafter be entitled to or earn any compensation for his services or receive any payment for salary or expenses, nor shall any member be eligible to succeed himself in office.         The charter commission shall consist of the following members and be elected from the district as follows:   In counties having a population of less than fifty thousand, eleven members, three of whom shall reside in and be elected from each commissioner district within the county and two to be elected at large;    In counties having a population of fifty thousand or more, twenty-one members, six of whom shall reside in and be elected from each commissioner district and three to be elected at large.       Eligibility to serve on the commission shall extend to all qualified electors of the county. Any vacancy in the charter commission shall be filled by majority vote of the members of the charter commission.       Candidates for the charter commission shall be nominated by filing with the county clerk and recorder, on forms supplied by the county clerk and recorder, a nomination petition signed by at least twenty-five registered electors of the county and a statement by the candidate consenting to serve if elected. Said petition and statement must be filed within thirty days after publication of the election notice. A second notice of the election shall be published by the said commissioners and include the names of candidates for the charter commission.     History. Source: L. 71: P. 349, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-2 . L. 85: (1) and (4) amended, p. 1344, § 9, effective April 30.    Editor's note:   In 2004, the provisions within subsection (3) were renumbered on revision to conform to statutory format.
CO Code § 30-11-503 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-503. Election on Formation of Charter Convention and Designation of Members

  At the election, voters shall cast ballots for or against forming the charter commission. If a majority of the registered electors voting thereon vote for forming the charter commission, a commission to frame a charter shall be deemed formed.    At the election voters shall also cast ballots for electing the requisite number of charter commission members. Those candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected. In the event of tie votes for the last available vacancy, the clerk shall determine by lot the person who shall be elected.     History. Source: L. 71: P. 350, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-3 . L. 85: (1) amended, p. 1345, § 10, effective April 30.
CO Code § 30-11-505 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-505. Referendum Election on Charter - Adoption or Rejection

  Upon submission to the board of county commissioners of a charter by the charter commission, the board of county commissioners shall call a special election, to be paid for from the special county charter fund and held pursuant to the Colorado election laws. The special election shall be held not more than ninety days nor less than forty-five days after the board of county commissioners receives the proposed charter; however, if a coordinated election or general election is to be held within sixty days after the board of county commissioners receives the proposed charter, the special election shall be held as part of the coordinated election or general election. The board of county commissioners shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation within the county a complete text of the proposed charter not less than ten days prior to the special election. At the special election a referendum of the registered electors of the county shall be held to determine the question of whether the proposed charter as submitted shall be adopted. Notice of the election on the proposed charter shall be published at least thirty days prior to the election.    If a majority of those voting on the question favor the adoption of the charter, the said charter shall become effective January 1 of the succeeding year or at such other time as the charter may provide. Such charter, once adopted by the electors, may be amended only by the registered electors of the county.    If a majority of the voters disapprove the proposed charter, the charter commission may proceed to prepare a revised proposed charter in the same manner provided for preparation, submission, and election on the proposed charter. The election on any revised proposed charter must be held not less than ninety nor more than one hundred eighty days after the election rejecting the proposed charter. The charter commission shall not submit more than one proposed charter and one revised proposed charter. If a majority of the voters disapprove the proposed charter, or the revised proposed charter, if one is submitted, no new referendum may be held during the next twelve months following the date of the last disapproval.    Upon acceptance or rejection of the proposed charter or the revised proposed charter, if one is submitted by the registered electors of the county, the charter commission shall be dissolved, and all property of the charter commission shall thereupon become the property of the county, and the board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution to that effect.     History. Source: L. 71: P. 351, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-5 . L. 85: (1), (2), and (4) amended, p. 1345, § 11, effective June 4. L. 2006: (1) amended, p. 2036, § 25, effective June 6.
CO Code § 30-11-506 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-506. Procedure to Amend or Repeal Charter

  Action to amend a charter shall be initiated by:   A petition signed by at least five percent of the registered electors of the county; or    A resolution adopted by the board of county commissioners submitting the proposed amendment to the registered electors.       Action to repeal a charter or to form a new charter commission may be initiated by a petition signed by at least fifteen percent of the registered electors of the county.      Within thirty days of initiation of a proposed amendment, repeal, or charter convention measure, the board of county commissioners shall publish notice of and call an election to be held not less than thirty nor more than one hundred twenty days after said publication. The text of any proposed amendment shall be published with said notice.    If the proposal is for a charter commission, the election shall be scheduled at least sixty days after publication of the notice. The procedure for the forming and functioning of a new charter commission shall comply as nearly as practicable with provisions relating to formation and functioning of an initial charter commission.       If a majority of the registered electors voting thereon vote for a proposed amendment, the amendment shall be deemed approved. If a majority of the registered electors voting thereon vote for repeal of the charter, the charter shall be deemed repealed, and the county shall proceed to organize and operate pursuant to the statutes applicable to statutory counties.      History. Source: L. 71: P. 352, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-6 . L. 85: (1)(a), (1)(b), (2), and (4) amended, p. 1345, § 12, effective June 4.
CO Code § 30-11-507 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-507. Filings - Effect Of

  Within twenty days after voter approval, a certified copy of the charter shall be filed with the division of local government and with the county clerk and recorder.    This section shall also apply to an amendment or repeal of a charter.     History. Source: L. 71: P. 353, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-7 .
CO Code § 30-11-508 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-508. Initiative, Referendum, and Recall

 Every charter shall contain procedures for the initiative and referendum of measures and for the recall of elected officers.   History. Source: L. 71: P. 353, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-8 .    ANNOTATION   The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not command Colorado to grant the power of initiative to the electors of statutory counties simply because it has granted that power to the electors of home rule counties. Save Palisade FruitLands v. Todd, 279 F.3d 1204 (10th Cir. 2002).
CO Code § 30-11-509 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-509. Time Limit on Submission of Similar Proposals

 No proposal for a charter commission, charter amendment, or repeal of a charter shall be initiated within twelve months after rejection of a substantially similar proposal.   History. Source: L. 71: P. 353, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-9 .
CO Code § 30-11-510 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-510. Publication Requirements

 ”Publish“ or ”publication“ means one publication in one newspaper of general circulation in the county. If there is no such newspaper, publication shall be by posting in at least three public places within the county.   History. Source: L. 71: P. 353, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-10 .
CO Code § 30-11-511 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-511. Board of County Commissioners - Home Rule Counties

 A home rule county shall provide all mandatory county functions, services, and facilities and shall exercise all mandatory powers required by statute. A home rule county may provide such permissive functions, services, and facilities and may exercise such permissive powers as authorized by statute applicable to nonhome rule counties, except as may be otherwise prohibited or limited by the county charter or the constitution of Colorado. Any power, function, service, or facility vested by statute in a particular county officer, agency, or board, including a board of county commissioners, may be exercised or performed within a home rule county by such county officer, agency, or board or by any other county officer, agency, or board designated in the home rule charter. For home rule counties, the term ”board of county commissioners“ means the governing body of the county designated by the county.   History. Source: L. 71: P. 353, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-11 . L. 76: Entire section R&RE, p. 693, § 1, effective March 16.
CO Code § 30-11-512 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-512. Finality

 No proceeding contesting the adoption of a charter, charter amendment, or repeal thereof shall be brought unless commenced within one hundred eighty days after the election adopting the measure.   History. Source: L. 71: P. 353, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-12 .
CO Code § 30-11-513 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 5 - County Home Rule Charters|§ 30-11-513. Officers

 Officers of a home rule county shall be appointed or elected as provided for in the charter; the terms of office and qualifications of such officers shall also be provided for in the charter; however, the duties of such officers shall be as provided by statute. The charter shall designate the officers who shall respectively perform the acts and duties required of county officers by statute. No elected official shall receive any increase or decrease in compensation under any resolution passed during the term for which he was elected.   History. Source: L. 71: P. 353, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-28-13 .
CO Code § 30-11-601 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 6 - Telecommunications Research Facilities of the United States|§ 30-11-601. Short Title

 This part 6 shall be known and may be cited as the ”Telecommunications Research Facilities of the United States Protection Act of 1969“.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 235, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-26-1 .
CO Code § 30-11-602 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 6 - Telecommunications Research Facilities of the United States|§ 30-11-602. Legislative Declaration

  The general assembly hereby declares that it is the purpose of this part 6 to assist in promoting and protecting telecommunications research facilities of the United States which are located within the state of Colorado.    Specifically, it is the purpose of this part 6 to:   Avoid undue interferences caused by emanation of electrical impulses from electrical equipment functioning in the area surrounding telecommunications research facilities of the United States;    Promote the public interest by encouraging economic improvement and development of this state, and further, to promote educational and scientific research within this state;    Encourage the continued operational capability of telecommunications research facilities of the United States in areas of this state, which, in turn, will encourage and contribute to the economic improvement and development of the state and will promote educational and scientific research within this state.        History. Source: L. 69: P. 235, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-26-2 .
CO Code § 30-11-603 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 6 - Telecommunications Research Facilities of the United States|§ 30-11-603. Definitions

 As used in this part 6, unless the context otherwise requires:    ”Expressways“ or ”major arterials“ means those rights-of-way used primarily for fast or heavy traffic; and ”collector streets“ means those rights-of-way which have four lanes or more of moving traffic which carry traffic from local streets to the system of major arterials and highways and move traffic to parks, schools, and shopping centers serving residential neighborhoods.    ”Governing body“ means a city council, a board of trustees of a town, or a board of county commissioners.    ”Planning commission“ means the regional planning commission, county planning commission, district planning commission, or zoning commission, as the case may be, which has the responsibility of preparing plans for zoning or the making or adopting of plans for the physical development of the unincorporated and incorporated territory located within a distance of two miles from the perimeter of any telecommunications research facility of the United States.    ”Telecommunications research facility of the United States“ means a site presently owned by the United States in this state consisting of not less than fifteen hundred contiguous acres in area and having located thereon technical electronic facilities of a value of more than five million dollars operated by an agency of the United States, and which technical electronic facilities are principally utilized in a program of scientific research in telecommunications and related atmospheric science, involving highly sensitive reception, observation, measurement, and recording of radio waves from distant emanation of experimental signals, radio astronomical sources, or electromagnetic phenomena of the atmosphere or ionosphere.     History. Source: L. 69: P. 236, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-26-3 .    Cross references:   For definitions applicable to this article, see § 30-26-301 (2)(d) .
CO Code § 30-11-604 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 11 - County Powers and Functions|Part 6 - Telecommunications Research Facilities of the United States|§ 30-11-604. Scope of Part 6

 Nothing in this part 6 shall be construed to change any zoning or restrict or limit any land use in effect on and after April 23, 1969, within a city, town, or a county in which a telecommunications research facility of the United States is wholly or partially located.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 236, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 36-26-4 .
CO Code § 30-15-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 15 - Regulation Under Police Power|Part 1 - Control and Licensing of Pet Animals|§ 30-15-103. Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures

 All fines and forfeitures for the violation of county resolutions adopted pursuant to this part 1 and all moneys collected by the county for licenses or otherwise shall be paid into the treasury of the county at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by resolution; or, if there is no resolution providing for the payment, it shall be paid to the county treasurer at once.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire part R&RE, p. 1444, § 1, effective July 14.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 30-15-105 as it existed prior to 1977.
CO Code § 30-15-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 15 - Regulation Under Police Power|Part 1 - Control and Licensing of Pet Animals|§ 30-15-104. Liability for Accident or Subsequent Disease From Impoundment

 The board of county commissioners, city council, board of trustees, or other governing body of a municipality, any of their assistants or employees, or any other person authorized to enforce the provisions of any dog control resolution or ordinance or any resolution concerning the control of pet animals shall not be held responsible for any accident or subsequent disease that may occur to the animal in connection with the administration of the resolution or ordinance.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire part R&RE, p. 1444, § 1, effective July 7. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 1241, § 12, effective May 22.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 30-15-104 as it existed prior to 1977.
CO Code § 30-15-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 15 - Regulation Under Police Power|Part 1 - Control and Licensing of Pet Animals|§ 30-15-105. Animal Control Officers - Peace Officer Designation

 Personnel engaged in animal control, however titled or administratively assigned, may issue citations or summonses and complaints enforcing the county dog control resolution or any other county resolution concerning the control of pet animals or municipal ordinance without regard to the certification requirements of part 3 of article 31 of title 24, C.R.S. Personnel so engaged shall be included within the definition of ”peace officer, firefighter, or emergency medical service provider engaged in the performance of his or her duties“ in section 18-3-201 (2) , C.R.S. Nothing in this part 1 is intended to vest authority in any person so engaged to enforce any resolution, ordinance, or statute other than the county dog control resolution or any other county resolution concerning the control of pet animals or municipal ordinance.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire part R&RE, p. 1445, § 1, effective July 7. L. 83: Entire section amended, p. 962, § 9, effective July 1, 1984. L. 92: Entire section amended, p. 1098, § 8, effective March 6. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 1241, § 13, effective May 22. L. 97: Entire section amended, p. 1027, § 56, effective August 6. L. 2014: Entire section amended,(HB 14-1214), ch. 336, p. 1499, § 13, effective August 6.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 30-15-103 as it existed prior to 1977.   Cross references:   For the legislative declaration contained in the 1992 act amending this section, see section 12 of chapter 167, Session Laws of Colorado 1992.
CO Code § 30-15-201 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 30 - Government - County|Article 15 - Regulation Under Police Power|Part 2 - Campfires - Extinguishing|§ 30-15-201. Penalty for Leaving Campfire Unattended

     Any person who starts or maintains a campfire commits the offense of leaving a campfire unattended if he or she knowingly or recklessly:   Fails to reasonably attend the campfire at all times; or    Fails to thoroughly extinguish the campfire before leaving the site.         [ ] A person who commits the offense of leaving a campfire unattended commits a class 2 petty offense and, upon conviction of the offense, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars. (b) (I) [ ] A person who commits the offense of leaving a campfire unattended commits a class 2 petty offense and, upon conviction of the offense, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars.    A person who commits the offense of leaving a campfire unattended where the campfire is located in a forested or grassland area commits a class 3 misdemeanor and, upon conviction of the offense, shall be punished by a minimum sentence of a fifty dollar fine up to a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment or a seven hundred fifty dollar fine, or both.    [ ] A person who commits the offense of leaving a campfire unattended commits a petty offense.    A person who commits the offense of leaving a campfire unattended where the campfire is located in a forested or grassland area commits a class 2 misdemeanor.          (Deleted by amendment, L. 2018.)     Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(b) is effective until March 1, 2022. Editor's note: This version of subsection (1)(b) is effective March 1, 2022.  History. Source: L. 1885: P. 161, § 1. L. 1891: P. 115, § 1. R.S. 08: § 1227. C.L. § 8704. CSA: C. 45, § 51. CRS 53: § 36-14-1 . C.R.S. 1963: § 36-14-1 . L. 73: P. 1402, § 27. L. 74: (1) amended, p. 407, § 21, effective April 11. L. 84: (1) amended, p. 924, § 18, effective May 11. L. 2002: (2) amended, p. 1247, § 21, effective August 7. L. 2018: Entire section amended,(HB 18-1051), ch. 57, p. 598, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2021: (1)(b) amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3248, § 502, effective March 1, 2022.    Editor's note:   Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.   Cross references:   For transfer of duties of the state board of forestry to the state board of agriculture, see part 2 of article 31 of title 23; for unlawful acts concerning fires, see § 33-15-106 .