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CO Code § 37-90-121 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-121. Management Districts - Petition - Contents - Minor Defects - Amendment

  The petition referred to in section 37-90-120 shall set forth:   The name of the proposed district and boundaries thereof;    A proposed division of the district into divisions as nearly equal in size as may be practicable, and considering the population thereof, each of which is to be represented by a director, who shall be a resident taxpaying elector in such division or reside within the designated groundwater basin within which the district is located and be a resident agriculturist who owns and actively farms or ranches land located within such division;    The number of directors that the district shall have if formed, not less than five nor more than fifteen in number, together with the name and address of each of the proposed directors, the division to be represented by each of them, and their terms of office, which shall be so designated that approximately one-half of them shall expire on the first Tuesday in March of the second year after the organization of the district is completed, and the remainder of them on the first Tuesday in March of the fourth year after the organization of the district is completed;    Where the offices of such proposed district are to be maintained; and    A prayer that the organization of the district be submitted to a vote of the taxpaying electors as provided in section 37-90-124.       No petition for the organization of a district with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of minor defects, but the commission may at any time, prior to final determination of the sufficiency thereof, permit the petition to be amended in form to conform to the facts. Several similar petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition for the organization of the same district may be filed and shall together be regarded as one petition. All petitions, filed prior to the determination of the sufficiency of such petition, shall be considered as though filed with the first petition placed on file.     History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1258, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-20. L. 67: P. 276, § 6. L. 2009: (1)(b) amended, (HB 09-1159), ch. 43, p. 164, § 1, effective August 5. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1258, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-20. L. 67: P. 276, § 6. L. 2009: (1)(b) amended, (HB 09-1159), ch. 43, p. 164, § 1, effective August 5.
CO Code § 37-90-122 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-122. Management District - Petition - Certification of Signatures - Hearing - Notice - Publication

 The commission shall examine the petition, and, if it finds that it bears the requisite number of signatures and otherwise meets the stated requirements, it shall thereupon set a date for hearing upon such petition and shall cause notice of such hearing, together with a copy of such petition, to be published, the final publication being not less than ten days nor more than thirty days prior to the date set for such hearing. The cost of such publication shall be paid by the petitioners and shall be advanced by them prior to publication.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1259, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-21. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1259, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-21.
CO Code § 37-90-123 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-123. Management Districts - Hearing - Objections - Change of Boundaries

 At the time set for such hearing, the commission shall examine the petition and hear objections thereto and may order changes in the boundaries thereof by the inclusion or removal of land therefrom upon finding that such change would be hydrologically, geologically, and geographically sound. The action of the commission may be reviewed by the district court in appeal proceedings filed within twenty days after its decision has been announced, which decision shall be announced within ninety days after the hearing.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1259, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-22. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1259, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-22.
CO Code § 37-90-125 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-125. Filing Decree

 Within thirty days after the district has been declared a corporation by the commission, it shall transmit to the county clerk and recorder of each of the counties in which the district or a part thereof extends copies of the decree of the commission incorporating the district.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1260, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-24. L. 67: P. 281, § 12. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1260, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-24. L. 67: P. 281, § 12.
CO Code § 37-90-126 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-126. Management District - Directors - Qualifications - Oath or Affirmation - Bond - Vacancies

 The members of the board of directors shall meet the qualifications established in section 37-90-121 (1)(b) . Each member of the board shall take an oath or affirmation in accordance with section 24-12-101 , shall give bond in the sum of five thousand dollars conditioned that he or she shall faithfully perform the duties of director and of such further office to which he or she may be elected in such district, and shall account for all funds or property coming into his or her hands as such director or other officer. Such bonds shall run to the district, shall be signed by a surety approved by the ground water commission, and shall be filed and recorded in the office of the state engineer. When such bond is so filed and approved, such person so elected shall take and hold office until his or her successor is elected and qualified. When a vacancy occurs on the board, such vacancy shall be filled by the remaining members of the board.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1260, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-25. L. 67: P. 277, § 8. L. 2009: Entire section amended,(HB 09-1159), ch. 43, p. 164, § 2, effective August 5. L. 2018: Entire section amended,(HB 18-1138), ch. 88, p. 703, § 44, effective August 8. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1260, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-25. L. 67: P. 277, § 8. L. 2009: Entire section amended,(HB 09-1159), ch. 43, p. 164, § 2, effective August 5. L. 2018: Entire section amended,(HB 18-1138), ch. 88, p. 703, § 44, effective August 8.    Cross references:   For the legislative declaration in HB 18-1138, see section 1 of chapter 88, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.   ANNOTATION   An appointed director must stand for election at the district's next regular election. This article does not address the issue but § 1-12-207 of the election code does. Because the election code was intended to provide answers to election procedures not included in other statutes, the election code provision controls. Deutsch v. Kalcevic, 140 P.3d 340 (Colo. App. 2006).
CO Code § 37-90-127 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-127. Management District - Directors - Election - Term of Office

 As the terms of the members of the board of directors expire, their successors shall be nominated by petitions containing the signatures of not less than fifteen percent of the number of qualified taxpaying electors of the division who voted at the last preceding district election, to be filed with the secretary of the district not less than thirty-five days before the election; thereafter, the members shall be elected for terms of four years by the plurality vote of the taxpaying electors of the division of the district which they represent. Such elections shall be held on the first Tuesday in February preceding the expiration of such terms and shall be conducted by the district board in the general manner prescribed in section 37-90-124 .   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1261, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-26. L. 2012: Entire section amended,(SB 12-175), ch. 208, p. 883, § 154, effective July 1. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1261, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-26. L. 2012: Entire section amended,(SB 12-175), ch. 208, p. 883, § 154, effective July 1.    ANNOTATION   To have standing to challenge the appointment of a director for a division, an elector must be a resident of that division. Deutsch v. Kalcevic, 140 P.3d 340 (Colo. App. 2006).
CO Code § 37-90-128 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-128. Management District - Directors - No Compensation - Expenses

 The members of the board of directors shall receive no compensation but shall be paid their actual expenses while engaged in the business of such district.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1261, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-27. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1261, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-27.
CO Code § 37-90-129 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-129. Management District - Officers - Election

 The board of directors shall annually elect a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as may be necessary.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1261, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-28. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1261, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-28.
CO Code § 37-90-132 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-132. Management District - Board of Directors - Taxes - Levy - Limitation

 The board of directors may levy and collect annually taxes necessary to finance the activities of such district to the amount of not more than two mills on the dollar of the valuation for assessment of all taxable property within the district. It shall, in accordance with the schedule prescribed by section 39-5-128 , C.R.S., certify its mill levy to the board of county commissioners of the counties wholly or partially within the district, who shall extend the same on the county tax list, and the same shall be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as state and county taxes are collected. In addition, annually the board of directors of the district may assess and certify a special assessment on all water wells, except those wells described in section 37-90-105 , in the district not to exceed fifteen cents per acre-foot of the maximum annual volume of the appropriation of each such well. Said assessment shall be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as other special assessments. It is the duty of the board to apply for and to receive from the county treasurers all money to the credit of the district.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1263, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-31. L. 67: P. 277, § 9. L. 71: P. 1317, § 15. L. 77: Entire section amended, p. 1516, § 86, effective July 15. L. 79: Entire section amended, p. 1375, § 10, effective June 7. L. 85: Entire section amended, p. 1178, § 13, effective May 31. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1263, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-31. L. 67: P. 277, § 9. L. 71: P. 1317, § 15. L. 77: Entire section amended, p. 1516, § 86, effective July 15. L. 79: Entire section amended, p. 1375, § 10, effective June 7. L. 85: Entire section amended, p. 1178, § 13, effective May 31.
CO Code § 37-90-133 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-133. Management District - Claims - Warrants - Payment

 All claims against ground water management districts may be paid by warrants or orders, duly drawn against the district, as authorized by the board.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1263, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-32. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1263, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-32.
CO Code § 37-90-135 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-135. Management District - Dissolution - Procedure - Funds - Disposition

 If there are no debts outstanding, the board of directors may, on its own motion or on the written petition of twenty percent of the taxpaying electors of the district, request of the ground water commission that the question of dissolution of such district be submitted to the electors of the district. The commission shall fix the date of such election, notice of which shall be given and which shall be conducted in the same manner as elections for the formation of such districts. If a majority of those voting on such question vote in favor of dissolution, the commission shall so certify to the county clerk and recorders of the counties involved and the district shall thereupon be dissolved. The question of dissolution shall not be submitted more often than once every twelve months. In case a district is dissolved the funds on hand or to be collected shall be held by the treasurer, and the directors shall petition the district court of the county in which the main office is located for an order approving the distribution of funds to the taxpayers of the district on the same basis as collected.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1265, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-34. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1265, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-34.
CO Code § 37-90-138 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-138. Waste - Violations - Permits

  The state engineer in cooperation with the commission has power to regulate the drilling and construction of all wells in the state of Colorado to the extent necessary to prevent the waste of water and the injury to or destruction of other water resources and shall require well drillers and private drillers to file a log of each well drilled whether or not exempt by virtue of section 37-90-105. The state engineer shall adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section.    If the state engineer finds any well to have been drilled or maintained in a manner or condition or to be withdrawing groundwater contrary to this article or the rules issued under this article, the state engineer shall immediately notify the user in writing of the violation and give the user time as may reasonably be necessary, not to exceed sixty days, to correct deficiencies. If the user fails or refuses to correct the deficiencies within the allowed time, the state engineer is authorized to enter upon the user's land and do whatever is necessary in order that the user comply with this article or rules issued under this article. Prior to August 1, 2010, this subsection (2) does not apply to oil and gas wells. For an oil and gas well in existence on March 22, 2010, for which a well permit is required by this section, a well permit application shall be submitted to the state engineer on or before April 30, 2010. For an oil and gas well to be constructed between March 22, 2010, and August 1, 2010, for which a well permit is required by this section, a well permit application shall be submitted to the state engineer on or before June 15, 2010. All oil and gas wells to be constructed after August 1, 2010, for which a well permit is required by this section shall have a well permit prior to producing groundwater.    No well construction contractor, pump installer, private pump installer, or private driller shall construct a new well or otherwise do work on any well requiring authority from the state engineer or commission until a permit with respect thereto has been secured for such work.     History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1266, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-37. L. 67: P. 697, § 14. L. 92: (3) amended, p. 2300, § 6, effective March 19. L. 2009: (2) amended, (HB 09-1303), ch. 390, p. 2110, § 4, effective June 2. L. 2010: (2) amended, (SB 10-165), ch. 31, p. 113, § 2, effective March 22. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1266, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-37. L. 67: P. 697, § 14. L. 92: (3) amended, p. 2300, § 6, effective March 19. L. 2009: (2) amended, (HB 09-1303), ch. 390, p. 2110, § 4, effective June 2. L. 2010: (2) amended, (SB 10-165), ch. 31, p. 113, § 2, effective March 22.
CO Code § 37-90-139 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-139. Existing Beneficial Uses Not Recorded - Fee

 Existing uses of groundwater put to beneficial use prior to May 17, 1965, not of record in the office of the state engineer on April 21, 1967, may be recorded upon written application and payment of a filing fee of twenty-five dollars and shall retain the date of initiation when first put to beneficial use, but no such recording shall be accepted after December 31, 1968.   History. Source: L. 67: P. 278, § 11. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-39. History. Source: L. 67: P. 278, § 11. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-39.
CO Code § 37-90-142 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-142. State Engineer - Action Upon Permit

 Except as otherwise provided by specific statute, the state engineer shall act upon an application for a well permit within forty-five days of the receipt thereof.   History. Source: L. 87: Entire section added, p. 1303, § 7, effective July 2.
CO Code § 37-90-143 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-143. Owners of Well Permits - Update for Name and Address

  Effective July 1, 1994, any owner of an unexpired well permit issued pursuant to this article or article 92 of this title who changes a name or mailing address from that on file with the office of the state engineer shall file an update to the name or mailing address with the state engineer by January 1, 1995, on a form prescribed by the state engineer.    Effective January 1, 1995, any owner of an unexpired well permit issued pursuant to this article or article 92 of this title who changes a name or mailing address from that on file with the state engineer shall file, in person, by mail, or by fax, an update with the state engineer within sixty-three days after the date of the change, on a form prescribed by the state engineer.     History. Source: L. 94: Entire section added, p. 1748, § 5, effective July 1. L. 2012: (2) amended, (SB 12-175), ch. 208, p. 886, § 158, effective July 1.
CO Code § 37-90.5-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90.5 - Geothermal Resources|§ 37-90.5-101. Short Title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as the ”Colorado Geothermal Resources Act“.   History. Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1419, § 1, effective June 10.
CO Code § 37-90.5-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90.5 - Geothermal Resources|§ 37-90.5-102. Legislative Declaration

  The general assembly hereby declares that:   The development of geothermal resources is in the public interest because it enhances local economies and provides an alternative to conventional fuel sources;    The development of geothermal resources should be undertaken in such a manner as to safeguard life, health, property, public welfare, and the environment and to encourage the maximum economic recovery of the resource and prevent its waste;    While the doctrine of prior appropriation is, and always has been, expressly recognized with respect to geothermal resources, such doctrine should be modified to permit the full economic development of the resource.        History. Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1419, § 1, effective June 10.
CO Code § 37-90.5-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90.5 - Geothermal Resources|§ 37-90.5-103. Definitions

 As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:    ”Direct use“ means the utilization of geothermal resources for commercial, residential, agricultural, public facilities, or other energy needs other than the commercial production of electricity. (1.5) ”Geothermal by-products“ means dissolved or entrained minerals and gases that may be obtained from the material medium, excluding hydrocarbon substances and carbon dioxide.    ”Geothermal fluid“ means naturally occurring groundwater, brines, vapor, and steam associated with a geothermal resource.    ”Geothermal resource“ means the natural heat of the earth and includes:   The energy that may be extracted from that natural heat;    The material medium used to extract the energy from a geothermal resource; and    Geothermal by-products.       ”Hot dry rock“ means a geothermal resource which lacks sufficient geothermal fluid to transport commercial amounts of energy to the surface and which is not in association with an economically useful groundwater resource.    ”Material medium“ means geothermal fluid as well as any other substance used to transfer energy from a geothermal resource.     History. Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1419, § 1, effective June 10. L. 2010: (1) amended and (1.5) added, (SB 10-174), ch. 189, p. 811, § 5, effective August 11.
CO Code § 37-90.5-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90.5 - Geothermal Resources|§ 37-90.5-104. Ownership Declaration

  Where a geothermal resource is found in association with geothermal fluid which is tributary groundwater, such geothermal resource is declared to be a public resource to which usufructuary rights only may be established according to the procedures of this article. No correlative property right to such a geothermal resource in place is recognized as an incident of ownership of an estate in land.    The property right to a hot dry rock resource is an incident of the ownership of the overlying surface, unless severed, reserved, or transferred with the subsurface estate expressly.    Nothing in this section shall be deemed to derogate valid, existing property rights to geothermal resources which have vested prior to July 1, 1983. However, such property rights shall not be deemed vested absent the award of a decree for an application filed prior to June 10, 1983, pursuant to existing water law or the entering into of a geothermal lease prior to June 10, 1983, or unless utilizing facilities are actually in existence prior to July 1, 1983. A facility for utilization of geothermal resources shall be considered to be in existence if it is in actual operation or is undergoing significant construction activities prior to operation.    Nothing in this section shall be deemed to derogate the rights of a landowner to nontributary groundwater.     History. Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1420, § 1, effective June 10.