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 county of Broomfield or approve increased sales, use, or property taxes within the city and county of Broomfield. Any violation of any criminal statutes of the state of Colorado occurring on or before November 14, 2001, shall continue to be prosecuted within the county where the violation originally occurred.

Source: L. 98: Entire section added, p. 2228, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, L. 99, p. 2269, December 30, 1998.

Section 13.Sections self-executing - appropriations. Sections 10 through 13 of this article shall be in all respects self-executing and shall be construed so as to supersede any conflicting constitutional or statutory provision that would otherwise impede the creation of the city and county of Broomfield or limit any of the provisions of those sections. Except as otherwise provided in sections 10 through 13, said sections shall be effective on and after November 15, 2001. After the adoption of the constitutional provisions creating and governing the city and county of Broomfield, the general assembly may appropriate funds, if necessary, in cooperation with the city and county of Broomfield to implement these constitutional provisions at the state level.

Source: L. 98: Entire section added, p. 2228, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, L. 99, p. 2269, December 30, 1998.

Cross references: (1) For the legislative declaration and harmonization of statutory recall election provisions with the recall provisions of this article to reflect the manner in which contemporary elections are conducted and the aligning of circulator regulation and petition requirements with initiative and referendum circulator and petition requirements, see Senate Bill 14-158; for definitions relating to the purposes of this article, see §§ 1-12-100.5 and 1-12-114.

(2) For recall of state and county officers, see part 1 of article 12 of title 1; for recall of municipal officers see part 5 of article 4 of title 31.

Law reviews: For comment, "Recall Me Maybe? The Corrosive Effect of Recall Elections on State Legislative Politics", see 86 U. Colo. L. Rev. 307 (2015).

Section 1.State officers may be recalled. Every elective public officer of the state of Colorado may be recalled from office at any time by the registered electors entitled to vote for a successor of such incumbent through the procedure and in the manner herein provided for, which procedure shall be known as the recall, and shall be in addition to and without excluding any other method of removal provided by law.

The procedure hereunder to effect the recall of an elective public officer shall be as follows:

A petition signed by registered electors entitled to vote for a successor of the incumbent sought to be recalled, equal in number to twenty-five percent of the entire vote cast at the last Colorado Revised Statutes 2020