(1) Each board of county commissioners shall meet at the county seat of its county at least one business day of each month and at such other times and locations within the county as in the opinion of the board the public interest may require. Such meetings shall be held on a regular and published schedule, as determined by resolution of the board.
(2) The board may hold such special or emergency meetings and adopt such publication procedure therefor as the public interest may, in the opinion of the board, require.
Source: G.L. § 439. G.S. § 531. R.S. 08: § 1190. C.L. § 8668. CSA: C. 45, § 11. CRS 53: § 35-3-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 35-3-3. L. 79: Entire section amended, p. 1141, § 1, effective June 15.
ANNOTATION
The powers of the board of county commissioners are statutory. People ex rel. Jones v. Carver, 5 Colo. App. 156, 38 P. 332 (1894).
No authority is conferred upon it except at meetings held at the times prescribed by statute, or at such other times as in the opinion of the board the public interests may require. People ex rel. Jones v. Carver, 5 Colo. App. 156, 38 P. 332 (1894).
No one member has authority to call such a meeting, and their judgment can be expressed only after they come together. People ex rel. Jones v. Carver, 5 Colo. App. 156, 38 P. 332 (1894).
And to make the meeting one at which such expression can be given, all the members must be present. People ex rel. Jones v. Carver, 5 Colo. App. 156, 38 P. 332 (1894).
Under former section boards of county commissioners were bound to hold their first regular meeting for the year on the first Monday in January. Liggett v. Bd. of Comm'rs, 6 Colo. App. 269, 40 P. 475 (1895).
This section is silent as to the manner of calling special meetings, and there are strong reasons for requiring an order entered of record at a regular meeting, by which the public at large, as well as the members of the board, may have notice of the time and the nature of the business to be transacted; if, however, it should be conceded that the board may meet upon the call of the chairman or otherwise, a sound rule of public policy requires that all members of the board shall have notice of the meeting. Packard v. Bd. of County Comm'rs, 2 Colo. 338 (1874).
And it was not a violation of this statute when county commissioners met and transacted business without notice of a meeting held on a day other than those provided for by the statute, where it was well known throughout the county that the commissioners regularly held their meetings on the first Monday of every month. Allen v. Bd. of County Comm'rs, 178 Colo. 354, 497 P.2d 1026 (1972).