CO Code § 8-1-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 8 - Labor and Industry|Article 1 - Division of Labor - Industrial Claim Appeals Office|§ 8-1-103. Division of Labor Standards and Statistics - Director - Employees - Qualifications - Compensation - Expenses

  There is hereby created a division of labor standards and statistics in the department of labor and employment. Pursuant to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, the executive director of the department of labor and employment shall appoint the director of the division, and the director shall appoint such deputies, experts, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks, and other employees as are necessary to carry out the provisions of law and to perform the duties and exercise the powers conferred by law upon the division and the director. The director shall be the chief administrative officer of the division with such powers, duties, and functions as prescribed by law.    All employees, except experts, shall have been for one year prior to such employment or appointment bona fide residents of this state and, while in the employ of the division, shall receive such compensation as is fixed by the state personnel system laws of this state, such compensation to be paid monthly from funds appropriated for the use of the division. All expenses incurred by the division and its employees pursuant to the provisions of law shall be paid from funds appropriated for its use upon the approval of the director. The traveling expenses of the director or of any employee of the division incurred while on business of the division outside this state shall be paid in the manner prescribed in this subsection (2), but only when such expenses are authorized in advance.    The powers, duties, and functions of the director prescribed under this article, including rule-making, regulation, licensing, promulgation of rules, rates, regulations, and standards, and the rendering of findings, orders, and adjudications, shall be performed under the direction and supervision of the executive director of the department of labor and employment, as prescribed by section 24-1-105 (4), C.R.S.     History. Source: L. 15: P. 566, § 6. L. 21: P. 830, § 3. C.L. § 4330. CSA: C. 97, § 6. CRS 53: § 80-1-5. C.R.S. 1963: § 80-1-5. L. 69: P. 574, § 22. L. 71: P. 106, § 18. L. 83: (3) added, p. 403, § 1, effective May 25. L. 2016: (1) amended,(HB 16-1323), ch. 131, p. 375, § 2, effective August 10. History. Source: L. 15: P. 566, § 6. L. 21: P. 830, § 3. C.L. § 4330. CSA: C. 97, § 6. CRS 53: § 80-1-5. C.R.S. 1963: § 80-1-5. L. 69: P. 574, § 22. L. 71: P. 106, § 18. L. 83: (3) added, p. 403, § 1, effective May 25. L. 2016: (1) amended,(HB 16-1323), ch. 131, p. 375, § 2, effective August 10.    ANNOTATION   The exercise of jurisdiction by the director of the division of labor, or the decision not to exercise jurisdiction, is itself subject to the restraints of the electoral process since the director is subject to the oversight of the executive director of the Department of Labor and Employment and the executive director is in turn politically accountable, serving at the pleasure of the governor. Martin v. Montezuma-Cortez Sch. Dist. RE-1, 841 P.2d 237 (Colo. 1992).   Applied in Matthews v. Indus. Comm'n, 44 Colo. App. 159, 609 P.2d 1127 (1980).