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CO Code § 37-89-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 89 - Offenses|§ 37-89-101. Penalty for Cutting or Breaking Gate, Bank, or Flume

 [ ] Any person who knowingly and willfully cuts, digs, breaks down, or opens any gate, bank, embankment, or side of any ditch, canal, flume, feeder, or reservoir, or who knowingly and willfully breaks, cuts, checks, or otherwise interferes with the flow of water in any drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain, or any manhole, or other opening in any box drain or tile drain, in which such person may be a joint owner, or which may be the property of another, or in the lawful possession of another and used for the purpose of drainage, irrigation, manufacturing, mining, or domestic purposes, with intent to injure any person, association, or corporation, or for personal gain, unlawfully, with intent of stealing, taking, or causing to run or pour out of or into such ditch, canal, reservoir, feeder, flume, drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain any water for personal profit, benefit, or advantage, or with intent to check or change the flow in any such ditch, canal, feeder, flume, drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain, to the injury of any other person, association, or corporation, lawfully in the use of such water or of such ditch, canal, reservoir, feeder, flume, drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain commits a class 2 misdemeanor. The court shall further order that such person make full restitution to the victim of the person's conduct for the actual damages that were sustained. The amount of such restitution shall be equal to the actual pecuniary damages sustained by the victim. The court shall fix the manner and time in which such restitution shall be made.  Editor's note: This version of this section is effective March 1, 2022.  History. Source: L. 1881: P. 163, § 1. G.S. § 1759. R.S. 08: § 3495. L. 21: P. 476, § 1. C.L. § 1929. CSA: C. 90, § 346. CRS 53: § 147-16-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-1. L. 2001: Entire section amended, p. 988, § 1, effective August 8. L. 2021: Entire section amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3291, § 678, effective March 1, 2022. History. Source: L. 1881: P. 163, § 1. G.S. § 1759. R.S. 08: § 3495. L. 21: P. 476, § 1. C.L. § 1929. CSA: C. 90, § 346. CRS 53: § 147-16-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-1. L. 2001: Entire section amended, p. 988, § 1, effective August 8. L. 2021: Entire section amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3291, § 678, effective March 1, 2022.
CO Code § 37-89-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 89 - Offenses|§ 37-89-102. Jurisdiction of County Court

 The county court has jurisdiction of all offenses under the provisions of section 37-89-101 .   History. Source: L. 1881: P. 163, § 2. G.S. § 1761. R.S. 08: § 3496. C.L. § 1930. CSA: C. 90, § 347. CRS 53: § 147-16-2. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-2. L. 64: P. 342, § 346. History. Source: L. 1881: P. 163, § 2. G.S. § 1761. R.S. 08: § 3496. C.L. § 1930. CSA: C. 90, § 347. CRS 53: § 147-16-2. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-2. L. 64: P. 342, § 346.
CO Code § 37-89-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 89 - Offenses|§ 37-89-103. Penalty for Interfering With Adjusted Headgates

  [ ] Every person who willfully and without authority opens, closes, changes, or interferes with any headgate of any ditch, or any water box or measuring device of any ditch for the receiving or delivery of water, after the headgate of the ditch has been adjusted by and is in the control of the division engineer, or after such water box or measuring device has been adopted by the ditch officer in charge, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.    Any person who is found using water taken through any such headgate, water box, or measuring device so unlawfully interfered with shall prima facie be deemed guilty of a violation of this section.    Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective until March 1, 2022.  (1) (1) [ ] Every person who willfully and without authority opens, closes, changes, or interferes with any headgate of any ditch, or any water box or measuring device of any ditch for the receiving or delivery of water, after the headgate of the ditch has been adjusted by and is in the control of the division engineer, or after such water box or measuring device has been adopted by the ditch officer in charge commits a class 2 misdemeanor.  Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective March 1, 2022.  History. Source: L. 1879: P. 108, § 44. G.S. § 1755. L. 01: P. 196, § 1. R.S. 08: § 3497. C.L. § 1931. CSA: C. 90, § 348. CRS 53: § 147-16-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-3. L. 2021: (1) amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3292, § 679, effective March 1, 2022. History. Source: L. 1879: P. 108, § 44. G.S. § 1755. L. 01: P. 196, § 1. R.S. 08: § 3497. C.L. § 1931. CSA: C. 90, § 348. CRS 53: § 147-16-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-3. L. 2021: (1) amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3292, § 679, effective March 1, 2022.    Editor's note:   Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.   Cross references:   For the appointments and functions of water division engineers, see § 37-92-202 .   ANNOTATION   The county court has general jurisdiction in cases of misdemeanor including the offense of interference with a headgate. Lambert v. People, 78 Colo. 313 , 241 P. 533 (1925).   In a prosecution for changing a headgate, the fact that some other person had previously interfered with it, gave defendant no right to interfere, unless possibly to restore it to the official setting. Lambert v. People, 78 Colo. 313 , 241 P. 533 (1925).   The decrees of water priorities cannot be attacked in a criminal prosecution for interfering with headgates. Lambert v. People, 78 Colo. 313 , 241 P. 533 (1925).
CO Code § 37-89-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 89 - Offenses|§ 37-89-104. Jurisdiction of County Court

 The county court has jurisdiction to hear, try, and determine actions brought for violations of section 37-89-103 .   History. Source: L. 01: P. 197, § 2. R.S. 08: § 3498. C.L. § 1932. CSA: C. 90, § 349. CRS 53: § 147-16-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-4. L. 64: § 342, § 347. History. Source: L. 01: P. 197, § 2. R.S. 08: § 3498. C.L. § 1932. CSA: C. 90, § 349. CRS 53: § 147-16-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-4. L. 64: § 342, § 347.    ANNOTATION   Prior to being amended, this section did not give exclusive jurisdiction to the justice of the peace. Lambert v. People, 78 Colo. 313 , 241 P. 533 (1925).
CO Code § 37-90-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-101. Short Title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as the ”Colorado Groundwater Management Act“.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1268, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-38. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1268, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-38.    ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article ”The Law of Underground Water“, see 13 Rocky Mt. L. Rev. 1 (1940). For comment, ”Water: Statewide or Local Concern? City of Thornton v. Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co.“, see 56 Den. L.J. 625 (1979). For article, ”Cumulative Impact Assessment of Western Energy Development: Will it Happen?“, see 51 U. Colo. L. Rev. 551 (1980). For article, ”The Effect of Water Law on the Development of Oil Shale“, see 58 Den. L.J. 751 (1981). For article, ”Ground Water Mining Law and Policy“, see 53 U. Colo. L. Rev. 505 (1982). For article, ”The Emerging Relationship Between Environmental Regulations and Colorado Water Law“, see 53 U. Colo. L. Rev, 597 (1982). For article, ”Water Rights -- How to Avoid Getting in Over Your Head“, see 11 Colo. Law. 2143 (1982). For article, ”Management of Groundwater Through Mandatory Conservation“, see 61 Den. L.J. 1 (1983). For article, ”Nontributary Groundwater: The Continuing Saga“, see 13 Colo. Law. 68 (1984).   This article and article 92 deal with separate waters. The Ground Water Management Act and the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969, article 92 of this title, deal with separate and mutually exclusive waters. Broyles v. Fort Lyon Canal Co., 638 P.2d 244 (Colo. 1981).   Differences explained between determination and administration of water rights under this article and under article 92. E. Cherry Creek Water & Sanitation Dist. v. Rangeview Metro. Dist., 109 P.3d 154 (Colo. 2005).   Applied in District 10 Water Users Ass'n v. Barnett, 198 Colo. 291 , 599 P.2d 894 (1979).
CO Code § 37-90-107.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-107.5. Replacement Plans

 Any person desiring to obtain an approval of a replacement plan within the boundaries of a designated groundwater basin pursuant to the provisions of this article shall make an application to the commission in a form prescribed by the commission. The applicant shall also submit a summary of the application to the commission for publication. If the commission determines the application to be complete, it shall be published pursuant to section 37-90-112 within sixty days after the filing of such an application. If an objection is filed, a hearing shall be held pursuant to section 37-90-113 . The commission shall approve the replacement plan if the commission determines that the replacement plan meets the requirements of this article and rules adopted by the commission. A replacement plan shall not be used as a vehicle for avoiding limitations on existing wells, including but not limited to restrictions on change of well location. Therefore, before approving any replacement plan that includes existing wells, the commission shall require independent compliance with all rules governing those existing wells in addition to compliance with any guidelines or rules governing replacement plans.   History. Source: L. 98: Entire section added, p. 1218, § 6, effective August 5.
CO Code § 37-90-107.6 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-107.6. Aquifer Storage-and-Recovery Plans - Publication - Objection - Hearing - Rules

 If a person seeks to obtain an approval of an aquifer storage-and-recovery plan within the boundaries of a designated groundwater basin, the person must apply to the commission in a form and manner determined by the commission by rule. When submitting the application to the commission, the applicant must also submit a summary of the application to the commission for publication. If the commission determines that the application is complete, the application shall be published pursuant to section 37-90-112 within sixty days after the filing of the completed application. If an objection to the application is filed, the commission shall hold a hearing on the application pursuant to section 37-90-113 . The commission shall approve an aquifer storage-and-recovery plan if the commission determines that the aquifer storage-and-recovery plan meets the requirements of this article 90 and rules adopted by the commission. An aquifer storage-and-recovery plan shall not be used as a vehicle for avoiding limitations on existing wells, including but not limited to restrictions on change of well location. Therefore, before approving any aquifer storage-and-recovery plan that includes existing wells, the commission shall require independent compliance with all rules governing those existing wells in addition to compliance with any guideline or rules governing aquifer storage-and-recovery plans.   History. Source: L. 2018: Entire section added, (HB 18-1199), ch. 106, p. 794, § 1, effective August 8.
CO Code § 37-90-112 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-112. Notice - Publication

  When any notice is required to be published under any section of this article, including notice of elections, it shall be deemed to mean a publication in a newspaper of general circulation in each of the counties concerned. Publication of all notices shall be once each week for two successive weeks. The notice shall state the hour and date of the commencement of hearings on the subject matter of the notice; the place at which the hearings will be held; the place where written objections may be filed; and the final date by which written objections will be received; or, if for an election, the date, hours, and polling places.    All objections, either to the published notice or any matter contained therein, shall be in writing and shall briefly state the nature of the objection and shall be filed within the time and at the place designated in the notice.    The time for filing any written objections to notices described in this article shall extend to thirty days following the last publication of the notice.     History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1255, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-11. L. 71: P. 1315, § 9. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1255, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-11. L. 71: P. 1315, § 9.    Cross references:   For publication of legal notices, see part 1 of article 70 of title 24.
CO Code § 37-90-113 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-113. Hearings

  Hearings on all matters to be heard by the commission shall be held within the boundaries of the designated groundwater basin and within the ground water management district, if one exists, in which the water rights directly involved are situated or at such other place as may be designated by the commission for the convenience of, and as agreed to by, the parties involved. The hearings shall be conducted before the commission under reasonable rules and regulations of procedure prescribed by it. All parties to the hearing, including the commission, have the right to subpoena witnesses, who shall be sworn by the chairman or acting chairman of the commission to testify under oath at the hearing. All parties to the hearing shall be entitled to be heard either in person or by attorney.    In any hearings required to be conducted by the commission, it may, in its discretion, have such hearings conducted before such agent as it may designate, either alone or in conjunction with the appearance of the commission if the agent is technically qualified to conduct or assist in such hearings. Unless agreed otherwise by all parties to a hearing or unless ordered otherwise by the commission due to extenuating circumstances, a hearing pursuant to this section shall be held within one hundred eighty days after the filing of a request for such a hearing. Appeals of rulings of the agent designated by the commission shall be reviewed at any regular or special commission meeting at the location chosen by the commission for that meeting.    At any hearing or proceedings conducted or authorized by the commission affecting any water rights, either existing or potential, within any ground water management district, the commission shall receive and fully consider the testimony and recommendations of the board of directors or authorized agents of said district, if such testimony and recommendations are offered on behalf of the affected district.    In addition to any authority established by rule by the commission for commission matters to be referred to alternative dispute resolution, the commission or an agent designated by the commission pursuant to subsection (2) of this section may refer a matter before the commission to alternative dispute resolution pursuant to section 13-22-313.     History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1255, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-12. L. 71: P. 1315, § 10. L. 79: (1) amended and (3) added, p. 1374, § 6, effective June 7. L. 98: (2) amended, p. 1221, § 10, effective August 5. L. 2017: (4) added, (SB 17-036), ch. 140, p. 468, § 1, effective August 9. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1255, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-12. L. 71: P. 1315, § 10. L. 79: (1) amended and (3) added, p. 1374, § 6, effective June 7. L. 98: (2) amended, p. 1221, § 10, effective August 5. L. 2017: (4) added, (SB 17-036), ch. 140, p. 468, § 1, effective August 9.
CO Code § 37-90-114 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-114. Other Administrative Hearings

 Any person claiming to be injured within the boundaries of a designated groundwater basin by any act of the state engineer or commission under the provisions of this article, or the failure of the state engineer or commission to take any action under the provisions of this article, except as provided for the small capacity wells in section 37-90-105 , shall file a written petition with the commission stating the basis of the alleged injury. Thereafter, only upon request by a petitioner and upon thirty-five days' written notice to any adverse party, the commission shall conduct a hearing upon the petition in the manner provided in section 37-90-113 . If notice of any such act has been published pursuant to section 37-90-112 and no hearing has been requested pursuant to such notice, this section shall not be construed to create a subsequent or additional right to request a hearing concerning such act.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1256, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-13. L. 71: P. 1316, § 11. L. 85: Entire section amended, p. 1176, § 6, effective May 31. L. 98: Entire section amended, p. 1221, § 11, effective August 5. L. 2012: Entire section amended,(SB 12-175), ch. 208, p. 883, § 152, effective July 1. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1256, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-13. L. 71: P. 1316, § 11. L. 85: Entire section amended, p. 1176, § 6, effective May 31. L. 98: Entire section amended, p. 1221, § 11, effective August 5. L. 2012: Entire section amended,(SB 12-175), ch. 208, p. 883, § 152, effective July 1.    ANNOTATION   Applied in State Dept. of Natural Res. v. Southwestern Colo. Water Conservation Dist., 671 P.2d 1294 (Colo. 1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 944, 104 S. Ct. 1929, 80 L. Ed. 2d 474 (1984).
CO Code § 37-90-117 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-117. Water Conservation Board - Duties

 The Colorado water conservation board has the power, and it is its duty, to investigate and determine the nature and extent of the groundwater resources of the state of Colorado. It is also the duty of said board to study and determine the effect, if any, of the withdrawal of groundwater upon aquifer supply and upon the surface flow of streams, and the information obtained thereby shall be made available to the state engineer and the ground water commission and any designated ground water management district. Nothing in this section shall be construed as impairing the authority of the state engineer, the ground water commission, or any ground water management district to make such investigation as it may find necessary or desirable to enable it to perform its duties under this article.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1257, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-16. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1257, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-16.    Cross references:   For other duties of the Colorado water conservation board, see § 37-60-106 .
CO Code § 37-90-118 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-118. Ground Water Management Districts - Formation

 Within areas determined as designated groundwater basins by action of the commission in accordance with section 37-90-106 , ground water management districts may be formed in the manner, and having the power, provided in sections 37-90-118 to 37-90-135 ; but no district shall be organized unless all groundwater aquifers containing designated groundwater within the geographic boundaries of the district have been included as a part of the district by the commission.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1257, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-17. L. 85: Entire section amended, p. 1177, § 9, effective May 31. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1257, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-17. L. 85: Entire section amended, p. 1177, § 9, effective May 31.    ANNOTATION   Once a basin is so designated, the act gives tax-paying electors in the designated area the right to create ground water management districts within the basin, so any district thus formed, if approved by the commission, is a governmental subdivision of the state of Colorado, and a corporate body with the powers of a public or quasi-municipal corporation. North Kiowa-Bijou Mgt. Dist. v. Ground Water Comm'n, 180 Colo. 314 , 505 P.2d 377 (1973); Upper Black Squirrel Creek v. Goss, 993 P.2d 1177 (Colo. 2000).   Formation of ground water management districts is optional. Cherokee Water Dist. v. State, Ground Water Comm'n, 196 Colo. 192 , 585 P.2d 586 (1978).
CO Code § 37-90-119 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-119. Creation of Districts - Proposal - Submission - Changes - Proposed Boundaries

 A proposal for the formation of a designated ground water management district must be first submitted to the ground water commission, which shall make a hydrologic, geographic, and geologic evaluation of the proposed boundaries and recommend any changes in such boundaries as are indicated by such evaluation. No further steps for the formation of such district shall be taken until the commission, in writing, gives its consent to the boundaries thereof. The commission shall give either its consent or disapproval of the proposed boundaries within ninety days after the proposal has been submitted to it.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1257, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-18. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1257, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-18.    ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, ”Principles and Law of Colorado's Nontributary Ground Water“, see 62 Den. U. L. Rev. 809 (1985).
CO Code § 37-90-120 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 90 - Underground Water|§ 37-90-120. Management Districts - Petition - Signatures Required - Filing

 Following receipt of the consent required by section 37-90-119 , a petition calling for formation of the proposed district may be filed with the commission. The petition shall be signed by not less than fifteen percent of the taxpaying electors within the proposed district.   History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1258, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-19. L. 67: P. 276, § 5. History. Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1258, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-18-19. L. 67: P. 276, § 5.