NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/27/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1060
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Mitsch Bush, Moreno, Rosenthal;
      also SENATOR(S) Schwartz, Heath.
      
      
      Concerning the authority of a municipality to compensate
           members of a municipal planning commission.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 31-23-203, amend (3)
      as follows:
      
           31-23-203.  Personnel of the commission. (3)  All members of the
      commission shall serve without compensation unless otherwise
      provided by ordinance and the appointed members shall hold no other
      municipal office; except that one such appointed member may be a member
      of the zoning board of adjustment or appeals. The terms of ex officio
      members shall correspond to their respective official tenures; except that
      the term of the administrative official selected by the mayor shall terminate
      with the expiration of the term of the mayor who selected him or her. The
      term of each appointed member shall be six years or until his or her
      successor takes office; except that the respective terms of one-third of the
      members first appointed shall be two years, one-third shall be four years,
      and one-third shall be six years. Members other than the member
      representing the governing body may be removed, after public hearings, by
      the mayor for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office, and
      the governing body may remove the member representing it for the same
      reasons. The mayor or the governing body, as the case may be, shall file a
      written statement of reasons for such removal. Vacancies occurring
      otherwise than through the expiration of term shall be filled for the
      remainder of the unexpired term by the mayor in the case of members
      selected or appointed by him the mayor, by the governing body in the
      case of the member appointed by it, and by the appointing power
      designated by the governing body in municipalities in which the mayor is
      not an elective officer.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2014
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Mark Ferrandino                        Morgan Carroll
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO