Section 21.Elected auditor of state - powers and duties. (Repealed)
Source: Entire article added, effective August 1, 1876, see L. 1877, p. 37. L. 64: Entire section amended, p. 838. L. 74: Entire section repealed, p. 447, effective January 1, 1975.
Editor's note: The Governor's proclamation date in 1974 was December 20, 1974.
Section 22.Principal departments. All executive and administrative offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive department of state government and their respective functions, powers, and duties, except for the office of governor and lieutenant governor, shall be allocated by law among and within not more than twenty departments. Subsequently, all new powers or functions shall be assigned to departments, divisions, sections, or units in such manner as will tend to provide an orderly arrangement in the administrative organization of state government. Temporary commissions may be established by law and need not be allocated within a principal department. Nothing in this section shall supersede the provisions of section 13, article XII, of this constitution, except that the classified civil service of the state shall not extend to heads of principal departments established pursuant to this section.
Source: L. 66: Entire section added, see L. 67, p. 1 of the supplement to the 1967 Session Laws. L. 69: Entire section amended, p. 1246, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, December 7, 1970. L. 2004: Entire section amended, p. 2745, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, L. 2005, p. 2341, December 1, 2004.
Section 23.Commissioner of insurance. The governor shall nominate and, by and with the consent of the senate, appoint the commissioner of insurance to serve at his pleasure, and the state personnel system shall not extend to the commissioner of insurance.
Source: L. 84: Entire section added, p. 1153, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, L. 85, p. 1783, January 14, 1985.
ARTICLE V
Legislative Department
Law reviews: For article, "The Colorado Constitution in the New Century", see 78 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1265 (2007); for article, "How the Colorado General Assembly Works", see 45 Colo. Law. 33 (Dec. 2016).
Section 1.General assembly - initiative and referendum. (1) The legislative power of the state shall be vested in the general assembly consisting of a senate and house of representatives, both to be elected by the people, but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls independent of the general assembly and also reserve power at their own option to approve or reject at the polls any act or item, section, or part of any act of the general assembly.
(2) The first power hereby reserved by the people is the initiative, and signatures by
