(1) District attorneys may cooperate or contract with one another to provide any function or service lawfully authorized to each of the cooperating or contracting district attorneys, including the sharing of costs and the administration and distribution of moneys received for mandated costs.
Any such contract shall set forth fully the purposes, powers, rights, obligations, andresponsibilities, financial and otherwise, of the contracting district attorneys.
Any such contract may provide for the joint exercise of the function or service, including the establishment of a separate legal entity to do so. The district attorneys may allocate up to five percent of the moneys received for mandated costs authorized by the general assembly for administrative expenses.
(a) The statewide organization representing district attorneys or any other organization established pursuant to this article may receive, manage, and expend state funds in the manner prescribed by the general assembly on behalf of the district attorneys who are members of the organization.
(b) (I) The general assembly shall annually appropriate three hundred fifty thousand dollars to the department of law for allocation to the Colorado district attorneys' council, the statewide organization representing district attorneys, or its successor, for the public purpose of providing prosecution training, seminars, continuing education programs, and other prosecutionrelated services on behalf of the district attorneys who are members of the organization, including, but not limited to, costs and expenses for personnel, administration, materials, and travel.
(II) (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (4)(b)(I) of this section, for the 2020-21 state fiscal year, the general assembly shall appropriate two hundred thousand dollars for the purposes described in subsection (4)(b)(I) of this section.
(B) This subsection (4)(b)(II) is repealed, effective July 1, 2021.
The general assembly shall make an appropriation to the department of law for statefiscal year 2019-20 for allocation to the statewide organization representing district attorneys for the public purpose of providing prosecution training concerning determinations of competency to proceed for juveniles and adults, competency evaluation reports, services to restore competency, and certification proceedings governed by article 65 of title 27.
Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1033, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2002: (1) and (3) amended, p. 761, § 13, effective July 1. L. 2013: (4) added, (SB 13-250), ch. 333, p. 1943, § 69, effective October 1. L. 2014: (4) amended, (HB 14-1144), ch. 201, p. 732, § 1, effective May 15.
L. 2019: (4)(c) added, (SB 19-223), ch. 227, p. 2291, § 15, effective July 1. L. 2020: (4)(b) amended, (HB 20-1369), ch. 206, p. 1011, § 1 effective June 30.