Colorado § 1-12-209 - Terms of persons filling vacancies.
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§ 1-12-209. Terms of persons filling vacancies.
Except for appointments on nonpartisan boards, any officers elected or appointed to fill vacancies as provided in this article shall qualify and enter upon the duties of their offices immediately thereafter. If elected or appointed, the officers shall hold the office during the unexpired term for which they were elected or appointed until the next regularly scheduled general election, or for county commissioner or general assembly vacancies, until the next regularly scheduled coordinated or general election, whichever is applicable, at which time the remainder of the vacant term, if any, shall be filled by election, except as otherwise provided by law, in accordance with section 1-1-201.
Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 802, § 15, effective January 1, 1993. L. 2026: Entire section amended, (HB 26-1113), ch. 267, p. 1514, § 60, effective June 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 1-12-108 as it existed prior to 1992.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. The following annotations include a case decided under former provisions similar to this section.
One appointed to fill the vacant and unexpired term of a public office holds precisely as his predecessor would have done had the vacancy not occurred. People ex rel. Callaway v. De Guelle, 47 Colo. 13, 105 P. 1110 (1909).
And one elected to a public office has a contingent or inchoate right which becomes absolute upon qualification. No one else can enter into the office during the term for which another is elected, until the officer elected is ousted, or his right terminated, which can never occur until the day appointed by law for the enforcement of his term. If at that date he has failed to qualify, the office is vacant. People ex rel. Callaway v. De Guelle, 47 Colo. 13, 105 P. 1110 (1909).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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