Colorado § 1-45-112 - Duties of municipal clerk.
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§ 1-45-112. Duties of municipal clerk.
(1) The municipal clerk shall:
(a) Develop a filing and indexing system for their offices consistent with the purposes of this article;
(b) Keep a copy of any report or statement required to be filed by this article for a period of ten years from the date of filing. In the case of candidates who were elected, those candidate's reports and filings shall be kept for six years after the candidate leaves office.
(c) Make reports and statements filed under this article available to the public for inspection and copying no later than the end of the next business day after the date of filing. No information copied from such reports and statements shall be sold or used by any person for the purpose of soliciting contributions or for any commercial purpose.
(c.5) Make publicly available without charge on a website, or for in-person inspection, any reports, disclosures, or statements that are filed pursuant to this article 45 and are subject to the retention requirements set forth in subsection (1)(b) of this section. For an individual who submits an open records request involving such reports, disclosures, or statements, if printouts or photographs relating to such an open records request are requested, the municipal clerk may charge appropriate fees.
(d) Upon request by the secretary of state, transmit records and statements filed under this article to the secretary of state;
(e) Notify any person under their jurisdiction who has failed to fully comply with the provisions of this article and notify any person if a complaint has been filed with the secretary of state alleging a violation of this article.
(f) Repealed.
(2) The secretary of state shall reimburse the municipal clerk of each municipality at the rate of two dollars per candidate per election to help defray the cost of implementing this article.
Source: Initiated 96: Entire article R&RE, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, January 15, 1997. L. 2008: (1)(f) repealed, p. 350, § 2, effective April 10. L. 2009: IP(1) and (2) amended, (HB 09-1357), ch. 361, p. 1874, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2023: (1)(b) amended and (1)(c.5) added, (HB 23-1245), ch. 417, p. 2467, § 4, effective January 1, 2024.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 1-45-115 as it existed prior to 1996.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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