SENATE
                Amended 2nd Reading
                        May 2, 2016Second Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
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 LLS NO. R16-0033.01 Gregg Fraser x4325           SCR16-005
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               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 16-005 
       Submitting to the registered electors of the state of
            Colorado an amendment to the Colorado constitution
            concerning county surveyors, and, in connection
            therewith, repealing a requirement that each county
            in the state elect a county surveyor and allowing each
            county to determine whether a surveyor should be
            elected or appointed and to establish the term and any
            compensation to be provided to a 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 and allows each county, by ordinance, to determine:
                 Whether to have a county surveyor;
                 Whether the surveyor should be elected or appointed;
                 The term of the surveyor; and
                 The salary or compensation to be provided to the surveyor.
       
       
       
            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. Nothing in this section, as amended, shall be construed
       to extinguish or otherwise limit the term of a county surveyor
       serving a term or elected to serve a term commencing in January
       2017.
            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 county
       surveyors, and, in connection therewith, repealing a requirement that each
       county in the state elect a county surveyor and allowing each county to
       determine whether a surveyor should be elected or appointed and to
       establish the term and any compensation to be provided to a 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.