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CO Code § 32-4-539 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 4 - Water and Sanitation Districts|Part 5 - Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Districts|§ 32-4-539. Publication of Resolution or Proceedings - Effect - Right to Contest Legality - Time Limitation

  In its discretion the board may provide for the publication once in full of any resolution or other proceedings adopted by the board ordering the issuance of any securities or, in the alternative, publication of notice, which resolution, other proceedings, or notice so published shall state the fact and date of such adoption and the place where such resolution or other proceedings has been filed for public inspection and also the date of the first publication of such resolution, other proceedings, or notice, and also state that any action or proceeding of any kind in any court questioning the validity of the creation and establishment of the district, or the validity or proper authorization of securities provided for by the resolution or other proceedings, or the validity of any covenants, agreements, or contracts provided for by the resolution or other proceedings, shall be commenced within twenty days after the first publication of such resolution, other proceedings, or notice.    If no such action or proceedings is commenced within twenty days after the first publication of such resolution, other proceedings, or notice, then all residents and taxpayers and owners of property in the district and users of the sewage disposal system and all public bodies and all other persons whomsoever shall be forever barred and foreclosed from commencing any action or proceeding in any court, or from pleading any defense to any action or proceedings, questioning the validity of the establishment of the district, the validity or proper authorization of such securities, or the validity of any such covenants, agreements, or contracts, and said securities, covenants, agreements, and contracts shall be conclusively deemed to be valid and binding obligations in accordance with their terms and tenor.     History. Source: L. 62: P. 220, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-39. History. Source: L. 62: P. 220, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-39.
CO Code § 32-4-541 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 4 - Water and Sanitation Districts|Part 5 - Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Districts|§ 32-4-541. Preliminary Expenses

  The district may provide for the payment of all necessary preliminary expenses actually incurred in the making of surveys, estimates of costs and revenues, the employment of engineers, architects, fiscal agents, attorneys at law, clerical help, other agents or employees, the making of notices, taking of options, and all other expenses necessary or desirable to be made and paid prior to the authorization for or the issuance of such securities, and any other cost of any project.    No such expenditures shall be made or paid unless an appropriation has been budgeted and made therefor in the same manner as is required by law, or unless the proceeds of securities or other moneys are available to defray such expenses.    Any funds so expended by the district for preliminary expenses incurred in connection with the same purpose as that for which securities are issued may be fully reimbursed and repaid to the district out of the proceeds derived from the sale of such securities.    The amount so advanced by the district to pay such preliminary expenses may, by a resolution authorizing the issuance of such securities, be made a first charge against such security proceeds until the same has been repaid as provided in this part 5, and in such event said amount shall be paid therewith before any other disbursements are made therefrom.     History. Source: L. 62: P. 222, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-41. History. Source: L. 62: P. 222, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-41.
CO Code § 32-4-542 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 4 - Water and Sanitation Districts|Part 5 - Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Districts|§ 32-4-542. Tax Exemption

  The effectuation of the powers authorized in this part 5 shall be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, including, but not necessarily limited to, those residing in any district exercising any power under this part 5, for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and for the increase of their commerce and prosperity.    No district exercising any power granted in this part 5 shall be required to pay any general ad valorem taxes upon any property appertaining to any project authorized in this part 5 and acquired within the state, nor the district's interest therein.    Securities issued under this part 5 and the income therefrom shall forever remain free and exempt from taxation by the state, the district, and any other public body, except transfer, inheritance, and estate taxes.     History. Source: L. 62: P. 223, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-42. History. Source: L. 62: P. 223, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-42.
CO Code § 32-4-543 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 4 - Water and Sanitation Districts|Part 5 - Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Districts|§ 32-4-543. Freedom From Judicial Process

  Execution or other judicial process shall not issue against any property in this part 5 authorized of the district nor shall any judgment against the district be a charge or lien upon its property.    This section does not apply to or limit the right of the holder of any security, his trustee, or any assignee of all or part of his interest, the federal government when it is a party to any contract with the district, or any other obligee under this part 5 to foreclose, otherwise to enforce, and to pursue any remedies for the enforcement of any pledge or lien given by the district on the proceeds of taxes, service charges, or other revenues.     History. Source: L. 62: P. 223, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-43. History. Source: L. 62: P. 223, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-43.
CO Code § 32-4-544 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 4 - Water and Sanitation Districts|Part 5 - Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Districts|§ 32-4-544. Legal Investments in Securities

 It shall be legal for any bank, trust company, banker, savings bank, or banking institution; any building and loan association, savings and loan association, or investment company; any other person carrying on a banking or investment business; any insurance company, insurance association, or other person carrying on an insurance business; and any executor, administrator, curator, trustee, or other fiduciary to invest funds or moneys in their custody in any of the securities authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions of this part 5. Public entities, as defined in section 24-75-601 (1) , C.R.S., may invest public funds in such bonds only if said bonds satisfy the investment requirements established in part 6 of article 75 of title 24, C.R.S. Such securities shall be authorized security for all public deposits. Nothing in this section with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any public body or other person of any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.   History. Source: L. 62: P. 223, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-44. L. 89: Entire section amended, p. 1131, § 71, effective July 1. History. Source: L. 62: P. 223, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-44. L. 89: Entire section amended, p. 1131, § 71, effective July 1.
CO Code § 32-4-545 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 4 - Water and Sanitation Districts|Part 5 - Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Districts|§ 32-4-545. Misdemeanors and Civil Rights

  [ ] Any person who wrongfully or purposely fills up, cuts, damages, injures, or destroys, or in any manner impairs, the usefulness of any reservoir, canal, ditch, lateral, drain, dam, intercepting sewer, outfall sewer, force main, other sewer, sewage treatment works, sewage treatment plant, sewer system, sewage disposal system, or any part thereof, or other work, structure, improvement, equipment, or other property acquired under the provisions of this part 5, or wrongfully and maliciously interferes with any officer, agent, or employee of the district in the proper discharge of his duties, 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 ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.    The district damaged by any such act may also bring a civil action for damages sustained by any such act, and in such proceeding the prevailing party shall also be entitled to reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of court.    Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective until March 1, 2022.  (1) [ ] Any person who wrongfully or purposely fills up, cuts, damages, injures, or destroys, or in any manner impairs, the usefulness of any reservoir, canal, ditch, lateral, drain, dam, intercepting sewer, outfall sewer, force main, other sewer, sewage treatment works, sewage treatment plant, sewer system, sewage disposal system, or any part thereof, or other work, structure, improvement, equipment, or other property acquired under the provisions of this part 5, or wrongfully and maliciously interferes with any officer, agent, or employee of the district in the proper discharge of the officer's, agent's, or employee's duties, commits a class 2 misdemeanor.  Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective March 1, 2022.  History. Source: L. 62: P. 224, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-45. L. 2021: (1) amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3257, § 546, effective March 1, 2022. History. Source: L. 62: P. 224, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-45. L. 2021: (1) amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3257, § 546, 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.
CO Code § 32-4-546 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 4 - Water and Sanitation Districts|Part 5 - Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Districts|§ 32-4-546. Validation

 All securities issued or purportedly issued and other contracts executed or purportedly executed of districts prior to February 21, 1962, all district bond elections held and carried, or purportedly held and carried prior to that date, and all acts and proceedings had or taken, or purportedly had or taken, by or on behalf of districts under law or under color of law prior to that date, preliminary to and in the creation and any reorganization of each such district, or the modification of its corporate boundaries, the designation and qualification of directors, officers, employees, and other agents of each such district, the authorization, execution, sale, and issuance of all securities, the authorization and execution of all other contracts, and the exercise of other powers in the metropolitan sewage disposal district law, are validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed, except as provided in section 32-4-547 , notwithstanding any lack of power, authority, or otherwise, other than constitutional, and notwithstanding any defects and irregularities, other than constitutional, in such securities, acts, and proceedings, in such authorization, execution, sale, and issuance, and in such exercise of powers; and such securities and other contracts are and shall be binding, legal, valid and enforceable obligations of the district to which they appertain in accordance with their terms and their authorization proceedings.   History. Source: L. 62: P. 224, § 15. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-46. History. Source: L. 62: P. 224, § 15. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-46.
CO Code § 32-4-547 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 4 - Water and Sanitation Districts|Part 5 - Metropolitan Sewage Disposal Districts|§ 32-4-547. Effect of and Limitations Upon Validation

 This part 5 shall operate to supply such legislative authority as may be necessary to validate any securities issued, other contracts executed by districts, and any acts and proceedings taken prior to February 12, 1962, appertaining to the issuance of securities or execution of other contracts by districts or otherwise, which the legislature could have supplied or provided for in the law under which such securities were issued, or such other contracts were executed and such acts or proceedings were taken; but this part 5 shall be limited to the validation of securities, other contracts, acts, and proceedings to the extent to which the same can be effectuated under the state and federal constitutions. This part 5, shall not operate to validate, ratify, approve, confirm, or legalize any bond or other security, other contract, act, proceedings, or other matter the legality of which is being contested or inquired into in any legal proceedings pending and undetermined on February 12, 1962, and shall not operate to confirm, validate, or legalize any bond or other security, other contract, act, proceedings, or other matter which has been determined in any legal proceedings to be illegal, void, or ineffective prior to February 12, 1962.   History. Source: L. 62: P. 224, § 16. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-47. History. Source: L. 62: P. 224, § 16. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-47.
CO Code § 32-11-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 32-11-101. Short Title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act”.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 732, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-1. History. Source: L. 69: P. 732, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-1.
CO Code § 32-11-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 32-11-103. Public Purpose

 The exercise of any power authorized in this article by the board on behalf of the district has been determined, and is declared to effect a public purpose; and any project authorized in this article shall effect a public purpose.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 818, § 215. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-215. History. Source: L. 69: P. 818, § 215. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-215.
CO Code § 32-11-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 32-11-105. Construction

  This article, except where the context by clear implication otherwise requires, shall be construed as follows:   Sections, subsections, paragraphs, and subparagraphs mentioned by number, letter, or otherwise correspond to the respective articles, sections, subsections, paragraphs, and subparagraphs of this article so numbered or otherwise so designated.    The titles or headnotes applied to sections, subsections, paragraphs, and subparagraphs in this article are inserted only as a matter of convenience and ease in reference and in no way define, limit, or describe the scope or intent of any provision of this article.    Figures may be used instead of words, and words may be used instead of figures, in all notices, proceedings, and other documents required by this article or otherwise pertaining hereto.    No tract in an improvement district need be separately described except in the assessment roll.    Any cost or estimated cost may be stated as a designated amount per front foot, or per square foot, or per other unit pertaining to the method of prorating costs and of computing assessments, or per lot of a given size and proportionate amounts for other lots, except in the case of assessments.        History. Source: L. 69: P. 742, § 4. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-4. History. Source: L. 69: P. 742, § 4. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-4.
CO Code § 32-11-106 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 32-11-106. Liberal Construction

 This article being necessary to secure and preserve the public health, safety, and general welfare, the rule of strict construction shall have no application to this article, but this article shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes and objects for which it is intended.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 818, § 214. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-214. History. Source: L. 69: P. 818, § 214. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-214.
CO Code § 32-11-107 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 32-11-107. Sufficiency of Article

  This article, without reference to other statutes of the state, except as otherwise expressly provided in this article, shall constitute full authority for the exercise of powers granted in this article, including without limitation the financing of any project authorized in this article wholly or in part and the issuance of district securities to evidence such loans.    No other act or law with regard to the authorization or issuance of securities or the exercise of any other power granted in this article that provides for an election, requires an approval, or in any way impedes or restricts the carrying out of the acts authorized in this article to be done shall be construed as applying to any proceedings taken under this article or acts done pursuant to this article, except as otherwise provided in this article.    The provisions of no other law, either general, special, or local, except as provided in this article, shall apply to the doing of the things authorized to be done in this article; and no public body shall have authority or jurisdiction over the doing of any of the acts authorized in this article to be done, except as otherwise provided in this article.    No notice, consent, or approval by any public body or officer thereof shall be required as a prerequisite to the sale or issuance of any district securities or the making of any contract or the exercise of any other power under this article, except as provided in this article.    The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by this article shall not affect the powers conferred by, any other law.    No part of this article shall repeal or affect any other law or part thereof, the intent of this article being that it shall provide a separate method of accomplishing its objectives and not an exclusive one; and this article shall not be construed as repealing, amending, or changing any such other law.     History. Source: L. 69: P. 818, § 216. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-216. History. Source: L. 69: P. 818, § 216. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-216.
CO Code § 32-11-201 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 2 - Administration|§ 32-11-201. Creation of District

 There is hereby created a district to be known and designated as the “Urban Drainage and Flood Control District”.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 743, § 5. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-5. History. Source: L. 69: P. 743, § 5. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-5.
CO Code § 32-11-203 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 2 - Administration|§ 32-11-203. Board of Directors

  All powers, rights, privileges, and duties vested in or imposed upon the urban district shall be exercised and performed by and through a local legislative body designated as the board of directors.    The board of directors of the district may create an executive committee of the board and may delegate and redelegate to such committee such power to act on behalf of the district as the board may determine by resolution.    The exercise of all executive, administrative, and ministerial powers may be delegated and redelegated by the board to officials and employees of the district.    Repealed.      Except for the initial appointments of directors, or for any director chosen to fill any unexpired term, and except as otherwise provided in section 32-11-204 (1) and (5.5), the term of each director shall commence on February 1 of a designated year as provided in this article and shall be for two years.    Each director shall be chosen to serve such a two-year term ending on the last day of January of such a year; and each director whose term so ends and otherwise remains qualified to serve as a director shall serve until his successor has been duly chosen and qualified.    Each director, before entering upon the director's official duties, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before an officer authorized to administer oaths that he or she will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution and laws of the state, and that he or she will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his or her office to the best of his or her ability, which oath or affirmation shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.       The board of directors shall institute and maintain a systematic and uniform program of preventive maintenance in the district, which program shall be administered by said board of directors and not by local governments.      History. Source: L. 69: P. 745, § 7. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-7. L. 79: (6) added, p. 1210, § 2, effective July 1. L. 89: (5)(a) amended, p. 1325, § 2, effective April 12. L. 2001: (4) amended, p. 266, § 7, effective November 15. L. 2019: (4) repealed and (5)(c) added, (HB 19-1284), ch. 332, p. 3073, § 1, effective August 2. History. Source: L. 69: P. 745, § 7. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-7. L. 79: (6) added, p. 1210, § 2, effective July 1. L. 89: (5)(a) amended, p. 1325, § 2, effective April 12. L. 2001: (4) amended, p. 266, § 7, effective November 15. L. 2019: (4) repealed and (5)(c) added, (HB 19-1284), ch. 332, p. 3073, § 1, effective August 2.
CO Code § 32-11-205 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 2 - Administration|§ 32-11-205. Filling Vacancies

 Upon a vacancy occurring in the board by reason of a director's death, resignation, termination of office as a city council member, county commissioner, or executive officer, or failure to remain a professional engineer licensed by the state who is an elector of the district, and is not an officer or in the regular employment of any public body, as the case may be, in contravention of any provision in section 32-11-204 (3) to (6), or for any other reason, the vacancy for the unexpired term of office of such director, upon the creation of such vacancy, shall be filled by the authority appointing him or her by the appointment forthwith of a successor director to serve for such unexpired term in the manner provided for such appointing authority in section 32-11-204 for regular appointments, except as otherwise provided in this section.   History. Source: L. 69: P. 748, § 10. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-10. L. 70: P. 298, § 117. L. 2004: Entire section amended, p. 1314, § 66, effective May 28. History. Source: L. 69: P. 748, § 10. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-10. L. 70: P. 298, § 117. L. 2004: Entire section amended, p. 1314, § 66, effective May 28.
CO Code § 32-11-206 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 32 - Special Districts|Article 11 - Urban Drainage and Flood Control Act|Part 2 - Administration|§ 32-11-206. Organizational meetings.(repealed)

 History. Source: L. 69: P. 748, § 11. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-11. L. 2019: Entire section repealed, (HB 19-1284), ch. 332, p. 3073, § 2, effective August 2. History. Source: L. 69: P. 748, § 11. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-11. L. 2019: Entire section repealed, (HB 19-1284), ch. 332, p. 3073, § 2, effective August 2.