Colorado § 24-51-601 - Retirement benefit reserve.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 24-51-601 — Retirement benefit reserve., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 24-51-601. Retirement benefit reserve.
A retirement benefit reserve is hereby created to provide retirement benefits to retirees and cobeneficiaries.
Source: L. 87: Entire article R&RE, p. 1060, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 24-51-106 as it existed prior to 1987.
Cross references: For retirement of supreme court justices, other than under this article, see § 13-2-115; for retirement age of justices or judges, see § 23 of art. VI, Colo. Const.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. Since § 24-51-601 is similar to § 24-51-110 as it existed prior to the 1987 repeal and reenactment of this article, a relevant case construing that provision has been included in the annotations to this section.
Retirement benefits payable to a state employee are "vested rights" of which one cannot be deprived. Taylor v. Pub. Employees' Retirement Ass'n, 189 Colo. 486, 542 P.2d 383 (1975).
No preclusion of post-retirement increases. The fact that a state employee has certain pension rights at the time of his retirement as a state employee in no way precludes his post-retirement pension changes which increase rather than decrease benefits received thereunder. Taylor v. Pub. Employees' Retirement Ass'n, 189 Colo. 486, 542 P.2d 383 (1975).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 24-51-601 ("Retirement benefit reserve.") is part of the Colorado Revised Statutes, the codified statutory law of Colorado. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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