SENATE
                Amended 2nd Reading
                      April 20, 2015First Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
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 LLS NO. R15-0806.01 Gregg Fraser x4325           SCR15-001
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               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 15-001 
       Submitting to the registered electors of the state of
            Colorado an amendment to the Colorado constitution
            concerning the repeal of the requirement that each
            county in the state elect a county surveyor, and, in
            connection therewith, giving each county the power to
            decide whether to have a surveyor and the amount of
            any salary paid to the surveyor.
       
       
                        Resolution Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this resolution as introduced and
       does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this
       resolution passes third reading in the house of introduction, a resolution
       summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this resolution will be
       available at http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The Colorado constitution currently requires a county surveyor to
       be elected in each county. The concurrent resolution eliminates this
       requirement.
       
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Seventieth General Assembly
       of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:
            SECTION 1.  At the election held on November 8, 2016, the
       secretary of state shall submit to the registered electors of the state the
       ballot title set forth in section 2 for the following amendment to the state
       constitution:
            In the constitution of the state of Colorado, amend section 8 of
       article XIV as follows:
            Section 8.  County officers - election - term - salary. There shall
       be elected in each county, at the same time at which members of the
       general assembly are elected, commencing in the year nineteen hundred
       and fifty-four, and every four years thereafter, one county clerk, who shall
       be ex officio recorder of deeds and clerk of the board of county
       commissioners; one sheriff; one coroner; one treasurer who shall be
       collector of taxes; one county surveyor; one county assessor; and one
       county attorney who may be elected or appointed, as shall be provided by
       law; and such officers shall be paid such salary or compensation, either
       from the fees, perquisites and emoluments of their respective offices, or
       from the general county fund, as may be provided by law. The term of
       office of all such officials shall be four years, and they shall take office
       on the second Tuesday in January next following their election, or at such
       other time as may be provided by law. There may be in each county,
       at the discretion of the county, one county surveyor, who may
       be elected or appointed as provided by ordinance of the county.
       Any salary or compensation paid and the term of office of a
       county surveyor shall be as provided by ordinance of the
       county.
            SECTION 2.  Each elector voting at the election may cast a vote
       either "Yes/For" or "No/Against" on the following ballot title: "Shall
       there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the repeal
       of the requirement that each county in the state elect a county surveyor,
       and, in connection therewith, giving each county the power to decide
       whether to have a surveyor and the amount of any salary paid to the
       surveyor?
            SECTION 3.  Except as otherwise provided in section 1-40-123,
       Colorado Revised Statutes, if a majority of the electors voting on the
       ballot title vote "Yes/For", then the amendment will become part of the
       state constitution.