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CO Code § 31-21-301 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 3 - Payments of Matured Special Assessment|§ 31-21-301. Power to Issue Bonds - Purpose

 Subject to the provisions of this part 3, any municipality has the power to issue its negotiable coupon bonds for the purpose of paying any special assessment bonds or obligations which it may issue, together with interest thereon, when it appears that there is not or will not be sufficient money for the payment of the same at maturity in the particular fund out of which payment should be made.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1141, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-301 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-302 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 3 - Payments of Matured Special Assessment|§ 31-21-302. Ordinance - Taxes - Interest - Disposition

 The issuance of any bonds in accordance with this part 3 shall be authorized by an ordinance, subject to and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of section 31-15-302 (1)(d) . Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate and shall be exchanged or sold at a price such that the net effective interest rate of the issue of bonds does not exceed the maximum net effective interest rate authorized. Interest shall be paid semiannually at such place, in such denominations, and by such officers as may be prescribed in such ordinance. Such bonds may be exchanged for outstanding matured and overdue special assessment bonds or obligations and interest thereon, or they may be sold and the proceeds thereof used for the purpose specified in this part 3.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-303 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-303 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 3 - Payments of Matured Special Assessment|§ 31-21-303. Construction - Disposition of Delinquent Assessment

 Nothing in this part 3 shall release or discharge any special assessment which is a lien on or against any property. Any municipality issuing bonds under this part 3 shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders or owners of the outstanding special assessment bonds or obligations paid. If, after the issuance of bonds authorized by this part 3, the delinquent or defaulted special assessments, or any part thereof, are collected and the special assessment bonds or obligations payable out of the particular special assessment fund have been redeemed by means of bonds issued under this part 3, the amounts so collected shall be used to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds authorized and the tax levies therefor shall be reduced in a like manner.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-304 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-401 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 4 - Payment by Tax Levy on Petition of Electors|§ 31-21-401. Power to Levy - Manner Paid

 On the petition of a majority of the registered electors of any city or town having an outstanding bonded indebtedness amounting to one-fourth or more of its valuation for assessment, the governing body of such city or town is authorized to levy or cause to be levied at one time a tax on all the taxable property subject to taxes for payment of such bonds sufficient to discharge the entire principal of and the accrued interest on such indebtedness plus fifteen percent for delinquencies, which tax may be paid by the property owners at one time or in installments, as provided in this part 4. In determining the amount of outstanding bonded indebtedness, any sum in the sinking fund may be deducted.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1. L. 87: Entire section amended, p. 332, § 96, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-401 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-402 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 4 - Payment by Tax Levy on Petition of Electors|§ 31-21-402. Discharge of Lien by Property Owner

 Any property owner may discharge the lien of said bond tax on his property by paying the tax in full, in bonds or matured coupons of the issue for which the levy is made at their face value. Thereafter the same property shall not be liable for the payment of such tax as between the city or town and the property owner.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-402 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-403 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 4 - Payment by Tax Levy on Petition of Electors|§ 31-21-403. Payment in Installments

 Any property owner not paying the tax in full at one time has the privilege of paying the same in cash installments, the number of which installments shall be determined by the governing body and which shall equal the number of years from the time the next tax is payable to the last maturity of the bonds, with interest on the unpaid installments at the same rate which the outstanding bonds bear. After any property owner has paid one or more cash installments, he may pay the balance of said tax with bonds or matured coupons as provided in section 31-21-402 .   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-403 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-404 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 4 - Payment by Tax Levy on Petition of Electors|§ 31-21-404. Payment in Bonds - Warrant for Excess

  The tax-collecting officers are authorized to accept full payment of such taxes in said bonds or coupons and to cancel said bonds and coupons on such payment. Said tax-collecting officers are authorized to deliver to the person paying such tax a certificate, in duplicate, showing such payment and a description of the property on which the tax was paid, which certificate may be filed or recorded in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county wherein the property is situated.    In the event that any bonds or coupons presented as payment exceed the amount due, the tax-collecting officers shall deliver to the property owner a certificate to that effect, whereupon the property owner shall be entitled to receive from the city or town a warrant on its treasury, payable out of the bond and interest fund, in the amount of such excess, which warrant until paid shall bear the same rate of interest as the bonds for the payment of which the tax was levied.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-404 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-405 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 4 - Payment by Tax Levy on Petition of Electors|§ 31-21-405. Assessment and Collection

 Said taxes shall be certified, levied, assessed, and collected in the same manner and shall be subject to the same penalties as general taxes.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-405 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-406 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 4 - Payment by Tax Levy on Petition of Electors|§ 31-21-406. Suit by Bondholder - City or Town to Protect

 In the event that any action, suit, or proceeding is brought by any bondholder, creditor, or other person, wherein it is sought to compel the levy of any further bond tax on property which has been discharged from said tax by payment in full, the city or town shall take all necessary steps to protect said property on which the tax has been paid in full by purchasing property sold for the nonpayment of such tax in the event that there are no other purchasers and by making ample provisions for the payment of delinquent bond taxes or the installments thereof out of the general fund or any other available fund, the intention being that, as between the city or town and the taxpayer, any particular property may be fully discharged and relieved from the lien of such tax or the levy of any further tax for the same purpose by payment in full of its proportionate share thereof at the time of payment.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-406 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-21-407 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 21 - Bonds|Part 4 - Payment by Tax Levy on Petition of Electors|§ 31-21-407. Other Laws Unaffected

 Nothing in this part 4 shall prevent the issuance of any bonds or the levy of taxes for the payment thereof in the manner as is authorized by law nor shall anything in this part 4 prevent the issuance of bonds for the purpose of refunding any outstanding bonded indebtedness of any city or town in accordance with the provisions of law applying thereto.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-21-407 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-101. Plats of Cities and Towns Organized Prior to 1885

 In all cases in which a city or town was organized prior to March 31, 1885, in which lands embraced within the boundaries thereof have been conveyed or known by lots, blocks, streets, highways, parks, squares, or other divisions of land or in which any such lots, blocks, streets, highways, parks, squares, or other divisions of land have been known as such by reference to some previous plat or map, whether prepared or submitted in accordance with law or not, the owners of such lands, in order to determine the location and boundaries thereof, may cause a plat of the same to be filed in accordance with the provisions of this part 1.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-401 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-102. Application to Other Cities or Towns

 The provisions of this part 1 are applicable to lands within the boundaries of cities and towns organized on or after March 31, 1885, to the extent that any owners of lands therein desire to make any change in the plat of any such city or town from the plat as originally made.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-405 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-103. Plats of Whole Municipal Area

  When any such plat embraces in its description the whole municipal area of any such city or town, it shall set forth, as near as may be:   All streets and highways and the width thereof;    All parks, squares, and other grounds reserved for public uses with the boundaries and dimensions thereof;    All lots and blocks and other divisions of land, with their boundaries, designating such lots and blocks by numbers and giving the dimensions of such lots and other divisions of land.       Reference shall be made in said plat to one or more permanent monuments. The scale of said plat shall be indicated therein, and any other matters necessary or proper to clarify the descriptions of lands indicated on any such plat may be entered thereon.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-402 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-104. Acknowledgment of Plat

 Any such plat shall be acknowledged in the manner of a deed by the owners and proprietors of the lands designated upon any such plat before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds. A copy thereof so acknowledged shall be filed in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county where such lands are situated and also in the office of the clerk of any such city or town. When any such plat embraces in its description any street, highway, park, square, or other lands owned or held by the city or town for any public use or otherwise, said plat shall be acknowledged in behalf of the city or town by the mayor of the city or town when authorized by the resolution or ordinance of the governing body. Any such acknowledgment of any owner or proprietor may be made for such owner or proprietor by any attorney-in-fact duly authorized by deed.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-403 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-105. Plats of Portion of Municipal Area

 A plat of any portion of such municipal area may be filed, and any number of such plats may be filed. When any plat is filed containing a description of any less than all of the municipal area, the same matters shall be indicated upon such plat, to the extent of lands described in such plat, as are required to be indicated in a plat of the whole municipal area, as near as may be. Every plat shall be acknowledged by such owner and proprietor whose lands are embraced within the description of such plat.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-404 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-106 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-106. How Parcels Designated

 In case of filing any such plat under this part 1, the designation by which any lot, block, or other parcel of land has previously been known shall be retained in said plat. With the consent of the city or town, any such lot, block, or other parcel of land specified in said plat may be designated by other numbers or names than those by which said lots, blocks, or other parcels of land have been previously known. Such consent of any such city or town, through its governing body, shall be evidenced by the acknowledgment of the mayor. In case of tracts or parcels of land within any such city or town which have not been known or platted by lots, blocks, or other parcels of land of a designated number or name, the same may be platted as provided in section 31-23-105 upon the consent of the city or town as provided in this section.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-406 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-108 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-108. Record and Preservation - Definition

 The county clerk and recorder shall record all such plats of lands within his or her county together with the description, acknowledgment, or other writing thereon in a book to be kept for that purpose and, when necessary, may reduce the scale of any such plat. Upon each record in the book he or she shall endorse his or her certificate that the same is truly recorded from the original plat filed in his or her office. The county clerk and recorder may receive an original plat for recording in an electronic format. The county clerk and recorder shall preserve the original plat in the original format, an electronic format, or both. If the plat is received for recording in the original format, the county clerk and recorder may preserve it in an electronic format by digitizing or scanning the plat at a minimum resolution of three hundred dots per inch. The county clerk and recorder shall keep an index to such book of plats, which index shall contain the names of the parties acknowledging such plats and the name of the city or town, as the case may be. The county clerk and recorder shall likewise make entries of all the plats in the index in his or her office in which deeds are required to be entered. As used in this section, “electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2017: Entire section amended,(SB 17-129), ch. 213, p. 832, § 1, effective August 9. L. 2020: Entire section amended,(HB 20-1318), ch. 239, p. 1157, § 1, effective September 14.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-407 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-109 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-109. Plats Shall Be Evidence

 All such original plats, the record thereof, or copies therefrom, certified by the county clerk and recorder of such county, shall be evidence in all courts and places.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-408 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-110 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-110. Boundaries Settled by Plat

 Upon the filing of any such plat in the office of the county clerk and recorder, the boundaries of contiguous divisions of land, as described in section 31-23-103 , upon any such plat shall be determined and settled as indicated in the plat. All the other matters indicated upon said plat are binding upon the parties acknowledging such plat. For the purpose of description in any instrument affecting title to any land described in any such plat, the designation given upon such plat shall be sufficient.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-409 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-111 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-111. Owner Construed

 For the purposes of this part 1, any person having a legal or equitable interest in any lands shall be deemed an owner and proprietor. Nothing in this part 1 shall affect the rights of anyone other than those acknowledging any such plat.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-410 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-112 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 1 - Plats of Cities and Towns|§ 31-23-112. Fees of Recorder

 The county clerk and recorder shall receive the same fees for filing and recording the plats provided for by this part 1 as are allowed for filing and recording original maps or plats of cities or towns.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-1-411 as it existed prior to 1975.   Cross references:   For fees for filing and recording maps or plats, see § 30-1-103 .
CO Code § 31-23-201 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 2 - Planning Commission|§ 31-23-201. Definitions

 As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise requires:    “Mayor” means the chief executive of the municipality, whether the official designation of his office is mayor, city manager, or otherwise; except that with respect to municipalities operating under the statutory city manager form of government, the term means the city manager.    “Subdivision” means any parcel of land which is to be used for condominiums, apartments, or any other multiple-dwellings units, unless such land was previously subdivided and the filing accompanying such subdivision complied with municipal regulations applicable to subdivisions of substantially the same density, or the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or of building development. It includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or territory subdivided.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: (2) amended, p. 1512, § 1, effective June 4.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-23-101 (3) and (6) as it existed prior to 1975.   ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, “Cumulative Impact Assessment of Western Energy Development: Will it Happen?”, see 51 U. Colo. L. Rev. 551 (1980).   Applied in Wood Bros. Homes v. City of Colo. Springs, 42 Colo. App. 15, 592 P.2d 1336 (1978).
CO Code § 31-23-202 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 2 - Planning Commission|§ 31-23-202. Grant of Power to Municipality

 Any municipality is authorized to make, adopt, amend, extend, add to, or carry out a plan as provided in this part 2 and to create by ordinance or resolution a planning commission with the powers and duties set forth in this part 2.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1146, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-23-102 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-204 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 2 - Planning Commission|§ 31-23-204. Organization and Rules

 The commission shall elect its chairman from among the non ex officio members and shall create and fill such other of its offices as it may determine. The term of the chairman shall be one year, with eligibility for reelection. The commission shall hold at least one regular meeting in each month. It shall adopt rules for transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings, and determinations, which record shall be a public record.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1147, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-23-104 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-23-205 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 23 - Planning and Zoning|Part 2 - Planning Commission|§ 31-23-205. Staff and Finances

 The commission may appoint such employees as it deems necessary for its work; except that the appointment, promotion, demotion, and removal of such employees shall be subject to the same provisions of law as govern other corresponding civil employees of the municipality. The commission may also contract, with the approval of the governing body, with municipal planners, engineers, and architects and other consultants for such services as it requires. The expenditures of the commission, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the governing body, which shall provide the funds, equipment, and accommodations necessary for the commission's work.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1147, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-23-105 as it existed prior to 1975.