Colorado § 23-30-118 - Board to fix salaries.

§ 23-30-118. Board to fix salaries.

The board shall fix the salaries of the chancellor, presidents, and other system staff that report directly to the board and shall prescribe their respective duties. The board may delegate the authority to set salaries for professors and other employees of the system to the chancellor and presidents. The board may remove the chancellor, presidents, or subordinate officers and fill all vacancies.

Source: L. 2007: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 523, § 1, effective August 3. L. 2012: Entire section amended, (HB 12-1220), ch. 100, p. 336, § 10, effective August 8.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 23-31-111 as it existed prior to 2007.

ANNOTATION

Annotator's note. Since § 23-30-118 is similar to § 23-31-111 as it existed prior to the 2007 amendment to articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 55 of title 23, which resulted in the relocation of provisions, a relevant case construing that provision has been included in the annotations to this section.

Professors in the various departments of the college are mere employees. State Bd. of Agric. v. Meyers, 20 Colo. App. 139, 77 P. 372 (1904).

Board has power to employ them for definite time. The state board of agriculture has the power to employ professors for a definite time, not unreasonably long. The section has left the determination of the length of time for which the employment of professors should be made largely to the judgment of the state board of agriculture. State Bd. of Agric. v. Meyers, 20 Colo. App. 139, 77 P. 372 (1904).

Effect of continuing over without objection after expiration of express contract. Where a professor was employed by an express contract to teach in the Colorado agricultural college for the term of one year, and continued in the same service, without objection, after the expiration of the term, there was an implied contract of employment for the term of one year at the same salary for each year that he so continued. State Bd. of Agric. v. Meyers, 20 Colo. App. 139, 77 P. 372 (1904).

Board must respond in damages for wrongful discharge. While this section gives the state board of agriculture the power to remove a professor it does not absolve it from responsibility in damages if the discharge is wrongful. State Bd. of Agric. v. Meyers, 20 Colo. App. 139, 77 P. 372 (1904).

Where the state board of agriculture employed a professor to teach in the state agricultural college for the term of one year, and discharged him before the end of the term, without good cause, the professor was entitled to recover his salary for the balance of the term, as damages for violation of the contract. State Bd. of Agric. v. Meyers, 20 Colo. App. 139, 77 P. 372 (1904).