The general assembly declares that this article is necessary to create a structure of state government which will be responsive to the needs of the people of this state and sufficiently flexible to meet changing conditions; to strengthen the powers of the governor and provide a reasonable span of administrative and budgetary controls within an orderly organizational structure of state government; to strengthen the role of the general assembly in state government; to encourage greater participation of the public in state government; to effect the grouping of state agencies into a limited number of principal departments primarily according to function; and to eliminate overlapping and duplication of effort. It is the intent of the general assembly to provide for an orderly transfer of powers, duties, and functions of the various state agencies to such principal departments with a minimum of disruption of governmental services and functions and with a minimum of expense. To the ends stated in this section, this article shall be liberally construed.
Source: L. 68: p. 73, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 3-28-1.