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1975, June, Pg. 1080.

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CBA ReportsSummary of Board of Governors and Executive Council Action April 18-19, 1975

While there was considerable doubt that bar association action affecting legislation that late in the session would have any results, the board of governors at its meeting in Boulder on April 19 did let stand the executive council's action in approving a modified version of a residential landlord-tenant bill (HB 1379) then before the General Assembly. Revisions to the uniform residential landlord-tenant law had been made by a special ad hoc committee authorized by the January board, and the sponsor of HB 1379, Representative Gerald Kopel of Denver, had met with the council and advised them that he would accept the suggested changes and attempt to have them incorporated in the measure in the Senate. With these changes and the additional reincorporation into the bill of the same time provisions required of landlords for notice to quit as now provided in the FED statute, the board by majority vote approved the bill.

Additional legislative matters considered by the board on April 19:1. Took a position in favor of increasing fees to jurors and witnesses, but opposed any significant increase in the cost to litigants requesting a jury trial as then provided in HB 1155.

2. Approved the concept and recognized the need of having a small claims court, but did not approve SB 218 as then drafted because it did not accomplish the goal of establishing a small claims court in a workable manner. A special committee of the judiciary section was delegated to work on suitable amendments, and it was further suggested that the law education committee include in any curiculum it develops for use by elementary and high school students instruction on how to process a claim before a small claims court if and when established by the General Assembly.

Other action, eventually but not immediately affecting legislation, was approval of a motion directing the president to meet with appropriate section chairmen and evolve a plan for bar association review and input into the report of the Colorado Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, subject to approval of any position statement or proposed amendment to that report by the executive council. On the...