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CO Code § 2-3-503 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 5 - Committee on Legal Services - Office of Legislative Legal Services|§ 2-3-503. Director - Staff - Revisor

  The committee shall interview persons applying for the position of staff director as to qualifications and ability and shall make recommendations thereon to the executive committee, which shall appoint the director as provided in section 2-3-303 (3). The director of the office of legislative legal services shall be an attorney-at-law. The director shall be responsible to the committee for the provision of staff assistance in the performance of the committee's duties and functions. The director, with the approval of the committee, may appoint such attorneys-at-law and technical and clerical personnel as may be necessary for the efficient operation of the office. The director and all employees of the office shall be appointed without regard to affiliation and solely on the basis of their ability to perform their duties. They shall be employees of the general assembly and shall not be subject to the state personnel system laws. The director shall be paid a salary determined by the executive committee in accordance with section 2-3-303 (3).    The director shall be, ex officio, the revisor of statutes; except that the director, in his discretion, may appoint an employee of the office to be the revisor of statutes and to exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions assigned to the revisor by part 7 of this article or by any other law.     History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 140, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-3. L. 88: Entire section R&RE, p. 307, § 9, effective May 23. L. 93: (1) amended, p. 2108, § 11, effective June 9. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 1625, § 14, effective May 31. L. 99: (1) amended, p. 163, § 22, effective August 4. History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 140, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-3. L. 88: Entire section R&RE, p. 307, § 9, effective May 23. L. 93: (1) amended, p. 2108, § 11, effective June 9. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 1625, § 14, effective May 31. L. 99: (1) amended, p. 163, § 22, effective August 4.
CO Code § 2-3-504 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 5 - Committee on Legal Services - Office of Legislative Legal Services|§ 2-3-504. Duties of Office

  The office shall:   Upon the request of any member of the general assembly or the governor, draft or aid in drafting legislative bills, resolutions, memorials, amendments thereto, conference reports, and such other legislative documents and papers as may be required in the legislative process;    Prepare a digest of laws enacted by the general assembly, approved or vetoed by the governor, immediately upon the adjournment of any regular or special session;    In the interim between sessions of the general assembly, prepare drafts of proposed legislation for legislative interim committees appointed by the legislative council or otherwise;    Prepare, at the request of any legislative committee, summaries of existing laws affected by proposed legislation, compilations of laws in other states relating to the subject matter of such legislation, and statements on the operation and effect of such laws;    Keep on file records concerning legislative bills and the proceedings of the general assembly with respect to such bills; subject indexes of bills introduced at each session of the general assembly; files on each bill prepared for members of the general assembly and the governor; and such documents, pamphlets, or other literature relating to proposed or pending legislation, without undue duplication of material contained in the office of the legislative council or in the supreme court library. All such records and documents shall be made available in the office at reasonable times to the public for reference purposes, unless said records are classed as confidential under this part 5.    Cooperate with legislative drafting offices or corresponding services of other states, and with other legislative drafting service agencies, either public or private;    Aid and assist in the enrolling and engrossing of bills and such other services as the general assembly may require.        History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 141, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-4. L. 88: (1)(g) added, p. 308, § 10, effective May 23. History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 141, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-4. L. 88: (1)(g) added, p. 308, § 10, effective May 23.
CO Code § 2-3-506 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 5 - Committee on Legal Services - Office of Legislative Legal Services|§ 2-3-506. Use of Supreme Court Library

 The librarian of the supreme court library shall facilitate the work of the office by permitting the liberal withdrawal of materials and data therefrom, subject to such reasonable rules as may be necessary for the proper operation of the library.   History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 141, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-6. History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 141, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-6.
CO Code § 2-3-507 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 5 - Committee on Legal Services - Office of Legislative Legal Services|§ 2-3-507. Office Space in Capitol - Office Hours - Appropriations

  The office shall be provided with suitable office space in the state capitol, so situated as to be convenient for the members of the general assembly. Throughout the year, the office shall be kept open during the hours prevailing in other offices in the state capitol, and at such other times in order to efficiently serve the general assembly.    Adequate appropriations shall be made to carry out the purposes of this part 5, to be included in the appropriation to the legislative department. The controller is authorized and directed to draw warrants monthly in payment of the salaries of personnel, and in payment of expenditures of the office, on vouchers signed by the chair of the committee or, in the absence of the chair, by the vice-chair; except that any payroll voucher or any other voucher that does not exceed five thousand dollars may be signed by the staff director or, with prior written approval of the chair of the committee, by the staff director's authorized designee.     History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 141, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-7. L. 93: (2) amended, p. 348, § 1, effective April 12. L. 2016: (2) amended, (SB 16-031), ch. 23, p. 55, § 1, effective March 18. History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 141, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-7. L. 93: (2) amended, p. 348, § 1, effective April 12. L. 2016: (2) amended, (SB 16-031), ch. 23, p. 55, § 1, effective March 18.
CO Code § 2-3-508 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 5 - Committee on Legal Services - Office of Legislative Legal Services|§ 2-3-508. Terminology - References

 The office of legislative legal services shall be the successor in every way of the legislative drafting office and the office of revisor of statutes, and every contract, agreement, or other document entered into by the legislative drafting office or the office of revisor of statutes prior to May 23, 1988, is deemed to have been entered into by the office of legislative legal services. The director and the employees of the legislative drafting office and the office of revisor of statutes shall become employees of the office of legislative legal services on May 23, 1988. The director and such employees shall retain all accrued rights to retirement and other benefits under the laws of the state, and their service shall be deemed to have been continuous. If any law of this state refers to the legislative drafting office or the office of revisor of statutes, said law shall be construed as referring to the office of legislative legal services.   History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 142, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-8. L. 88: Entire section R&RE, p. 308, § 12, effective May 23. History. Source: L. 68: R&RE, p. 142, § 178. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-8. L. 88: Entire section R&RE, p. 308, § 12, effective May 23.
CO Code § 2-3-601 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 6 - Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws|§ 2-3-601. Commission on Uniform State Laws - Creation

  There is hereby created the Colorado commission on uniform state laws, referred to in this part 6 as the “commission”, which shall consist of six members appointed for terms of two years each and until their successors are appointed and, in addition thereto, any citizen of this state who is elected a life member of the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws.    The six members shall be appointed or reappointed by joint resolution of the general assembly no later than ten days after the convening of the first regular session of the general assembly held in each odd-numbered year. At least two commissioners shall be appointed from the general assembly and at least two commissioners from the public at large. Appointments to fill vacancies shall be made by the committee on legal services for the unexpired term of the vacant office.    The six members of the commission shall be attorneys admitted to practice law in the state of Colorado.    The terms of the two members of the commission appointed after July 18, 1975, shall be effective August 11, 1975; thereafter, the appointment of members to succeeding terms shall be in conformance with subsection (2) of this section.     History. Source: L. 68: P. 143, § 182. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-7-1. L. 75: Entire section amended, p. 200, § 1, effective July 18. L. 81: (1) amended, p. 2022, § 1, effective July 14. History. Source: L. 68: P. 143, § 182. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-7-1. L. 75: Entire section amended, p. 200, § 1, effective July 18. L. 81: (1) amended, p. 2022, § 1, effective July 14.    ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, “Uniform State Laws”, see 26 Rocky Mt. L. Rev. 450 (1954).
CO Code § 2-3-602 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 6 - Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws|§ 2-3-602. Compensation - Expenses

 The members of the commission shall receive a per diem of twenty dollars for each day actually spent in the transaction of official business of the commission in the state of Colorado. In addition thereto, each member shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of official duties.   History. Source: L. 68: P. 143, § 182. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-7-2. History. Source: L. 68: P. 143, § 182. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-7-2.
CO Code § 2-3-603 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 6 - Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws|§ 2-3-603. Meetings - Organization

 The commissioners shall meet at least once a year and shall organize by the election of a chairman who shall hold office for a term of one year and until his successor is elected. The director of the office of legislative legal services shall be ex officio the secretary of the commission, or the director may designate an employee of the office to act as secretary of the commission. The office shall provide assistance to the commissioners who are members of the general assembly in their efforts to enact legislation concerning subjects upon which uniformity may be deemed desirable.   History. Source: L. 68: P. 143, § 182. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-7-3. L. 88: Entire section amended, p. 308, § 13, effective May 23. History. Source: L. 68: P. 143, § 182. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-7-3. L. 88: Entire section amended, p. 308, § 13, effective May 23.
CO Code § 2-3-603.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 6 - Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws|§ 2-3-603.5. Status of Commissioners

  Any citizen elected a life member of the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws pursuant to section 2-3-601 (1) and the person serving as ex officio secretary of the commission in accordance with section 2-3-603 shall have the same status as members of the commission appointed pursuant to section 2-3-601 (1) for purposes of participating in the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws, including, but not limited to:   Having the same voting rights at meetings of said national conference; and    Having the same eligibility to be elected to any office of said national conference.        History. Source: L. 2008: Entire section added, p. 31, § 1, effective March 13.
CO Code § 2-3-604 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 6 - Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws|§ 2-3-604. Duties of Commissioners

 Each commissioner shall attend the meeting of the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws and, both in and out of such national conference, shall do all in his power to promote uniformity in state laws where uniformity may be deemed desirable and practicable. The commission shall prepare and transmit a report and its recommendations to the general assembly on or before January 1 of each year concerning subjects of legislation upon which uniformity among the states may be deemed desirable and concerning the proceedings and recommendations of the most recent meeting of the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws.   History. Source: L. 68: P. 143, § 182. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-7-4. History. Source: L. 68: P. 143, § 182. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-7-4.
CO Code § 2-3-701 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 7 - Committee on Legal Services - Revisor of Statutes|§ 2-3-701. Function of Committee - Statute Revision

  With respect to statute revision, it is the function of the committee on legal services:   Repealed.    To supervise and direct the activities of the revisor; and to exercise the powers and to perform the duties and functions prescribed in articles 4 and 5 of this title, concerning the preparation and publication of the statutes of this state and other materials, and as prescribed in part 2 of article 70 of title 24, C.R.S., concerning the preparation and publication of the session laws of this state.        History. Source: L. 69: P. 465, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-11. L. 88: (1)(a) repealed, p. 313, § 24, effective May 23. History. Source: L. 69: P. 465, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-11. L. 88: (1)(a) repealed, p. 313, § 24, effective May 23.    ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, “Colorado Statutes: Past, Present and Future”, see 33 Rocky Mt. L. Rev. 36 (1960).   Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.   The committee is a legislative instrumentality created by this part of article 3 of title 2 for a service to the general assembly. In re Interrogatories of House of Representatives, 127 Colo. 160 , 254 P.2d 853 (1953).   And its work in collecting, compiling, editing, and preparing the statutes as directed, is without effect standing alone. In re Interrogatories of House of Representatives, 127 Colo. 160 , 254 P.2d 853 (1953).   In a sense, its province is clearly intended to be that of compiling and arranging the details for the general assembly. In re Interrogatories of House of Representatives, 127 Colo. 160 , 254 P.2d 853 (1953).   And the action of the general assembly, as taken in its consideration, adoption, and approval of the work of the committee is final, definite and conclusive. In re Interrogatories of House of Representatives, 127 Colo. 160 , 254 P.2d 853 (1953).   All authority delegated to the committee is subject to the final approval or withdrawal by the general assembly. In re Interrogatories of House of Representatives, 127 Colo. 160 , 254 P.2d 853 (1953).
CO Code § 2-3-702 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 7 - Committee on Legal Services - Revisor of Statutes|§ 2-3-702. Revisor of Statutes - Duties

 The revisor shall compile, edit, arrange, and prepare for publication the declaration of independence, the constitutions of the United States and the state of Colorado, the act admitting Colorado into the union, and all laws of the state of Colorado of a general and permanent nature, together with a complete index thereto and comparative tables of such statutes with prior compilations. The statutory laws shall be arranged into appropriate and convenient volumes, titles, chapters, articles, and sections, so collated and in such form as the committee directs. At the end of each section, reference shall be made to the statutory history of such section. Annotations of decisions of the supreme court of the United States, the supreme court of the state of Colorado, and such other state and federal courts as are appropriate, construing, applying, or interpreting each section, or relating to the subject matter thereof, and such other matter as the committee deems advisable or advantageous shall also be prepared for publication with such statutory laws.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 465, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-12. History. Source: L. 69: P. 465, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-12.
CO Code § 2-3-702.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 7 - Committee on Legal Services - Revisor of Statutes|§ 2-3-702.5. Directive to the Revisor of Statutes - Changes in Arrangement - repeal.(repealed)

 History. Source: L. 2016: Entire section added,(HB 16-1192), ch. 83, p. 212, § 1, effective April 14.    Editor's note:   Subsection (2) provided for the repeal of this section, effective July 1, 2018. (See L. 2016, p. 212 .)
CO Code § 2-3-703 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 7 - Committee on Legal Services - Revisor of Statutes|§ 2-3-703. Revision - Editorial Work

 In the course of collating, compiling, editing, arranging, and preparing such statutes, the revisor, with the approval of the committee, shall adopt a uniform system of punctuation, capitalization, numbering, and wording; eliminate all obsolete and redundant words; correct obvious errors and inconsistencies; eliminate duplications and laws repealed directly or by implication; correct defective section structure in arrangement of the subject matter of existing statutes; and clarify existing laws and such other similar matter as the committee directs. The foregoing duties shall be performed in such form and manner as to preserve the intent, effect, and meaning of any and every such statute revised.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 466, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-13. History. Source: L. 69: P. 466, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-13.    Cross references:   For preparation of Colorado Revised Statutes, see § 2-5-103 ; for legislative construction not based on editorial matters, see § 2-5-113 (4) .   ANNOTATION   There is no substantive significance to the revisor's bifurcation of a section into two separate subsections. People v. North Ave. Furn. & Appliance, Inc., 645 P.2d 1291 (Colo. 1982).   Applied in People v. Owens, 670 P.2d 1233 (Colo. 1983).
CO Code § 2-3-705 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 7 - Committee on Legal Services - Revisor of Statutes|§ 2-3-705. Distribution of Statutes

 The distribution of the statutes of this state shall be in such numbers and to such offices and persons as the general assembly directs at the time of approval for publication of such statutes; but the committee shall be able to distribute such additional statutes of this state to such offices and persons as it may from time to time deem necessary.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 466, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-15. History. Source: L. 69: P. 466, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 63-3-15.
CO Code § 2-3-902 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 9 - Statutory Revision Committee|§ 2-3-902. Duties of Committee

  The committee shall:   Make an ongoing examination of the statutes of the state and current judicial decisions for the purpose of discovering defects and anachronisms in the law and recommending needed reforms; except that the committee shall not consider any matter that is currently pending or appealable before any court;    Receive, solicit, and consider proposed changes in the law recommended by the American law institute, any bar association, or other learned bodies;    Receive, solicit, and consider suggestions from justices, judges, legislators, and other public officials, lawyers, and the public generally as to defects and anachronisms in the law;    Recommend, upon an affirmative vote by at least five legislative members of the committee, and in accordance with subsection (3) of this section, legislation annually to effect such changes in the law as it deems necessary in order to modify or eliminate antiquated, redundant, or contradictory rules of law and to bring the law of this state into harmony with modern conditions; and    Report its findings and recommendations on or before July 1 of each year to the legislature and, if it deems advisable, attach to its report copies of any proposed bills intended to carry out any of its recommendations.       Any legislation proposed by the committee and sponsored by a committee member under paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section is exempt from the five-bill limitation specified in rule 24 of the joint rules of the senate and the house of representatives.    The committee shall propose legislation only to streamline, reduce, or repeal provisions of the Colorado Revised Statutes. The committee shall endeavor to recommend legislation that cumulatively has, in each legislative session, no net increase in the number of laws or pages of laws in the Colorado Revised Statutes.     History. Source: L. 2016: Entire part RC&RE, (HB 16-1077), ch. 326, p. 1325, § 1, effective June 10. L. 2020: (1)(e) amended, (SB 20-034), ch. 4, p. 6, § 1, effective March 5.
CO Code § 2-3-1001 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 2 - Legislative|Article 3 - Legislative Services|Part 10 - Committee on Legal Services - Legal Counsel for Legislative Branch|§ 2-3-1001. Legal Counsel Retained

 The committee on legal services may retain legal counsel to represent or otherwise render legal services for the general assembly, or either house thereof or any committee thereof, or any member or agency of the legislative branch of government, in all actions and proceedings in connection with the performance of the powers, duties, and functions thereof, and shall pay the compensation and expenses of such legal counsel and any necessary expense of such actions and proceedings from appropriations made by law to the committee. The committee may retain legal counsel to represent or otherwise render legal services for the state auditor in any situation in which the state auditor is not represented by the attorney general in accordance with section 2-3-104.5 .   History. Source: L. 77: Entire part added, p. 263, § 1, effective June 2. L. 2020: Entire section amended, (SB 20-063), ch. 12, p. 56, § 13, effective September 14.