Colorado § 30-1-101 - Classification of counties - fixing fees.

§ 30-1-101. Classification of counties - fixing fees.

(1) For the purpose of fixing fees, chargeable and to be collected by county and other officers, and for no other purpose, the several counties of this state are divided into five classes, which classes shall be known as the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth, as follows:

(a) The city and county of Denver is a county of the first class;

(b) The counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Pueblo, and Weld are counties of the second class;

(c) The counties of Delta, Garfield, Larimer, Las Animas, Logan, Mesa, Montezuma, Montrose, Morgan, and Otero are counties of the third class;

(d) The counties of Alamosa, Archuleta, Bent, city and county of Broomfield, Chaffee, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Eagle, Elbert, Fremont, Gilpin, Gunnison, Huerfano, Kit Carson, Lake, La Plata, Lincoln, Ouray, Park, Phillips, Prowers, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, San Miguel, Sedgwick, Teller, Washington, and Yuma are counties of the fourth class;

(e) The counties of Baca, Custer, Dolores, Grand, Hinsdale, Jackson, Kiowa, Mineral, Moffat, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, San Juan, and Summit are counties of the fifth class.

Source: L. 1891: p. 200, § 1. R.S. 08: § 2521. L. 13: p. 276, § 1. C.L. § 7869. L. 25: p. 243, § 1. CSA: C. 66, § 3. CRS 53: § 56-4-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 56-4-1. L. 69: p. 385, § 1. L. 2001: Entire section amended, p. 330, § 1, effective April 12; (1)(d) amended, p. 256, § 2, effective November 15. L. 2009: (1)(c) and (1)(d) amended, (HB 09-1203), ch. 102, p. 377, § 1, effective August 5.

Editor's note: Amendments to subsection (1)(d) by Senate Bill 01-102 and Senate Bill 01-130 were harmonized.

ANNOTATION

Section 15 of art. XIV, Colo. Const., empowers the general assembly to classify counties according to population for the purpose of fixing fees. Frost v. Pfeiffer, 26 Colo. 338, 58 P. 147 (1899).

Assumed to be classified by population. The assignment of a new county by the act creating it to a certain class for the purpose of fixing the fees of its officers is not special legislation in the meaning of the constitution, and it will be assumed that the general assembly classified the county according to its population. Frost v. Pfeiffer, 26 Colo. 338, 58 P. 147 (1899).

By the Session Laws of 1891 all the counties of the state were divided into five classes, according to population as ascertained by the federal census of the year 1890, and the fees prescribed under each class are different from the fees under any of the others, and a material reduction in the amount of charges was made from that which theretofore prevailed. Airy v. People, 21 Colo. 144, 40 P. 362 (1895).