C.R.S.
Section 28-5-802
Qualifications
- term of office
(1)
The county veterans service officer or assistant at the time of appointment must be a resident of the state, have served in the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard, or any auxiliary branch thereof and have been honorably discharged therefrom or be a discharged LGBT veteran, or be an officer released from active duty with the armed forces and placed on inactive duty therein. Before such appointments are made, the board of county commissioners making the appointments must seek the advice and counsel of the chief officer of each post of the regularly established and existing veterans organizations of the county wherein the officer or assistant is to serve as to the qualifications and experience of the applicant for the position. The appointee must be well-qualified based on the appointee’s education and experience to perform the duties of county veterans service officer. The division shall recommend education and experience qualifications for the position of county veterans service officer.(2)
Such appointments shall be for the term of two years. At the expiration of such term or in case of a vacancy, the board of county commissioners making the appointments may either reappoint the present incumbents to the positions of county veterans service officer or assistant, or may consider new applicants and make appointments of other applicants as such county veterans service officer or assistant in the manner specified in this article.
Source:
Section 28-5-802 — Qualifications - term of office, https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-28.pdf (accessed Dec. 24, 2024).
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