2017 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 13 - Courts and Court Procedure
Municipal Courts
Article 10 - Municipal Courts
§ 13-10-102. Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Municipal court" includes police courts and police magistrate courts created or existing under previous laws or under a municipal charter and ordinances.
(2) "Municipal judges" includes police magistrates as defined and used in previous laws.
(3) "Qualified municipal court of record" means a municipal court established by, and operating in conformity with, either local charter or ordinances containing provisions requiring the keeping of a verbatim record of the proceedings and evidence at trials by either electric devices or stenographic means, and requiring as a qualification for the office of judge of such court that he has been admitted to, and is currently licensed in, the practice of law in Colorado.