Colorado Revised Statutes Title 1. Elections § 1-4-1401. Legislative declaration

(a) District attorneys are nonjudicial elected officials subject to the limitations on terms of office imposed by section 11 of article XVIII of the state constitution;

(b) Judicial districts are political subdivisions of the state with political control by a community other than the state as a whole, and district attorneys continue to exhibit a fundamental characteristic of representing the people of the judicial district in order to protect their health, safety, and welfare; and

(c) Judicial districts do not have a clearly identified governing body with the explicit authority to call and conduct elections.