C.R.S. § 24-80-204: Employees.

The board of directors of the society shall appoint its employees and fix their salaries, subject to the provisions and exemptions of section 13 of article XII of the state constitution; but for the purposes of this part 2, all officers, curators, assistant curators, and teachers of the society, so designated by the board of directors, are hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, to be officers and teachers in an educational institution and therefore not under the state personnel system.