Opinion ID: 1366261
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Heading: R.S.1963, section 80-14-5, a predecessor statute to section 8-13-105, was amended in 1973 by S.B. 203 to read as follows:

Text: 80-14-5. Emergency Cases. Nothing in section 80-14-4 shall be construed so as to prevent work in excess of eight hours a day. Hours in excess of eight a day shall be treated as constituting part of a subsequent day's work; except that the board of county commissioners of any county may compensate for hours in excess of eight a day at the regular hourly rate in cash, or in such compensatory time as in the board's discretion it may deem advisable. Compensatory time shall mean time during regularly scheduled hours of work. Ch. 270, sec. 1, § 80-14-5, 1973 Colo.Sess. Laws 940 (emphasis added). The title of S.B. 203 was [a]n act concerning compensation of county employees for working in excess of eight hours per day at the regular rate. With the recodification of C.R.S. in 1973, section 80-14-5 was renumbered as section 80-13-105, 3 C.R.S. (1973). The only change in language upon recodification was compressing the phrase shall be treated as constituting part of a subsequent day's work ... to shall constitute part of a subsequent day's work.... The 1973 statute was in turn amended in 1975 by H.B. 1282. As noted above, it is this version, which deleted the reference to board of county commissioners, but contained the phrase in the board's discretion. The statutes passed by the legislature concerning compensation for working in excess of eight hours per day prior to 1975, therefore, contained unambiguous references to the board of county commissioners. H.B. 1282 amended a statute in 1975 which previously had only covered county employees.