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CO Code § 37-48-149 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-149. Special Improvement Bonds

  The board of directors of the district may issue as obligations of the subdistrict, not as obligations of the Rio Grande water conservation district, special improvement bonds to be paid out of special improvement assessments made by the board of directors against all lands in the subdistrict benefited by the improvements financed by the bond proceeds, which special improvement assessments shall not exceed in the aggregate an amount equal to ninety percent of the amount of benefits determined to have accrued to said lands by reason of such improvements and unpaid at the time of issue of said bonds. Such bonds shall contain a recital to the effect that they are issued under and in accordance with the provisions of this article as special improvement bonds and are payable out of special improvement assessments to be levied against the property in said subdistrict and not otherwise.    The special improvement bonds issued pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be signed ”Water Users' Association No. ....., or Special Improvement District No. ....., of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, by .........., President“, and countersigned ”.........., Treasurer“. Otherwise said bonds shall be in such denominations and become due at such dates, with interest at such rate, payable either annually or semiannually, but not exceeding the rate of ten percent per annum, and contain such other provisions as may be fixed by the board of directors, not inconsistent with the provisions of this article. Except as otherwise expressly modified in this article, the law relating to the form and issuance of special improvement bonds of conservancy districts under the laws of this state, particularly section 37-5-106, shall apply and govern officers of the district in the issuance and sale of said bonds; and other provisions of said law with respect to the levy of assessments for the payment of said bonds with interest, particularly section 37-5-110, shall likewise be applicable to the bonds of a subdistrict organized under this article. If the subdistrict has a board of managers, the board of managers shall annually determine and certify to the board of directors of the district the total amount of the special improvement assessments to be collected; and the board of directors of the district, if it deems the amount so certified to be correct, shall order and levy the total special improvement assessments and otherwise conform to the procedure set forth in section 37-5-110.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1384, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1279, § 15, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-151 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-151. Collection by Civil Action

 In addition to all other remedies for collection of assessments, including special improvement assessments, special assessments, service charges, or user fees, provided by this article, and cumulative therewith, the district may, at any time after three years after the issuance of any certificate of purchase held by the district, bring civil action to foreclose the lien for special improvement assessments, special assessments, service charges, or user fees, represented by all certificates of purchase held by the district with respect to the same land and for other relief with respect to such land as provided by the Colorado rules of civil procedure then in effect for the foreclosure of liens on real property; but no statute of limitations shall be applicable to the rights of the district arising from any special improvement assessments, special assessments, service charges, or user fees, and no decree, or sale of lands thereunder, shall be made except one subject to the lien of future unpaid installments of special improvement assessments, special assessments, service charges, or user fees. The county treasurer shall be made a party to any action of the district authorized by this section.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1386, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1281, § 17, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-152 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-152. Special Improvement Assessments Constitute Perpetual Lien

 All special improvement assessments against appraised benefits and interest thereon and penalties for default of payment thereof, together with the cost of collecting the same, from the date of the filing of the construction fund special assessment record in the office of the treasurer of the county wherein the lands and property are situate shall constitute a perpetual lien in an amount not in excess of the benefits severally appraised upon the land and other property against which said special improvement assessments have been levied and such benefits appraised; and no sale of said property to enforce any general state, county, city, town, or school tax or other lien shall extinguish the perpetual lien of said special improvement assessment. At any time, any landowner may pay the full amount of said special improvement assessment, and thereafter the property of any such landowner shall be clear and free from said lien and shall not be subject to special improvement assessment for and on account of benefits appraised against any other land or default in the payment of special improvement assessments made against any other land.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1386, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1281, § 18, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-153 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-153. Directors to Remedy Defects - Special Improvement Assessments - Special Assessments

 If any special improvement assessment, special assessment, service charge, or user fee made under the provisions of this article proves invalid, the board of directors shall, by subsequent or amended acts or proceedings, promptly and without delay remedy all defects or irregularities, as the case may require, by making and providing for the collection of new special improvement assessments, special assessments, service charges, or user fees, or otherwise.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1387, § 7, effective July 18. L. 207: Entire section amended, p. 1282, § 19, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-154 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-154. Records of Assessments, Service Charges, or User Fees as Evidence

 The record of special improvement assessments, special assessments, service charges, or user fees contained in the respective records of the district shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of all matters therein contained.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1387, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1282, § 20, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-155 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-155. Defects in Notice Perfected

 Whenever notice is provided for in this article, if the court finds that due notice was not given, jurisdiction shall not thereby be lost or the proceedings abated or held void, but the court shall continue the hearing until such time as proper notice may be given and shall thereupon proceed as though proper notice had been given in the first instance. If any appraisal, special improvement assessment, special assessment, levy, service charge, or user fee or other proceeding relating to said district is held defective, then the board of directors may file a motion in the cause in which said district was organized to perfect any such defect, and the court shall set a time for hearing thereon. If the original notice as a whole is held to be sufficient but faulty only with reference to publication as to certain particular lands or as to service as to certain persons, publication of the defective notice may be ordered as to the particular lands, or service may be made on the persons not properly served, and said notice is thereby corrected without invalidating the original notice as to other lands or persons.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1387, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1282, § 21, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-156 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-156. Contracts of Subdistricts

  When the official plan so provides, it shall be lawful for any subdistrict to make contracts as follows:   A water users' association, public entity, nonprofit corporation, not-for-profit corporation, carrier ditch company, mutual ditch or reservoir company, unincorporated ditch or reservoir company, or cooperative association may bind itself to levy an annual assessment for the use of water and to secure the assessment by liens on land and water rights or in such other manner as may be provided by law.    Any person or corporation landowner may create a mortgage lien upon lands or give other security satisfactory to the board or any other contracting agency, and all such contracts shall provide for forfeiture of the use of water for nonpayment of assessments or installments in the same manner and procedure as provided by statute for forfeiture of stock in a mutual ditch or reservoir company.        History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1387, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1282, § 22, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-158 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-158. Board to Certify Tax Assessments

 To maintain, operate, and preserve ditches, canals, reservoirs, or other improvements made pursuant to this article and to strengthen, repair, and restore the same, when needed, for operation of any plan of water management, and for the purpose of defraying any incidental expenses of the subdistrict, the board of directors may, at the time of certification of the general district mill levy to the boards of county commissioners of the counties in which the district is located, certify also, to the boards of county commissioners of the counties in which said subdistrict or any part thereof is located, an additional assessment upon the taxable property within the subdistrict, not to exceed five mills for every dollar of valuation for assessment within said subdistrict, for the purpose of raising funds to be used for the maintenance and operation of the subdistrict's official plan. If there is a board of managers for the subdistrict, the amount of money needed to be raised by such assessment shall be certified by the board of managers to the district board of directors in time for inclusion of the amount in the district budget for the succeeding calendar year. Assessments so certified shall be levied by the boards of county commissioners of the counties in which said subdistrict is situate on the property of said subdistrict in their respective counties, to be collected by the county treasurers of the several counties and delivered to the treasurer of the district in like manner and with like effect as is provided for the collection and return of other assessments under this article. The whole assessment shall be due and payable as and when taxes for county purposes levied in the same year are due and payable. The said assessments shall be in addition to any special improvement assessment or special assessment that has been levied against benefits appraised for and on account of construction.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1388, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1284, § 24, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-159 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-159. Sinking Fund

 Said district may provide for a sinking fund for the ultimate payment of any of the obligations of any subdistrict. Such sinking fund may be invested as provided in section 37-48-111 .   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1388, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-160 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-160. Subdistrict Budget

 A subdistrict existing pursuant to this article shall be an agency of the district for purposes of compliance with the provisions of the ”Local Government Budget Law of Colorado“, part 1 of article 1 of title 29, C.R.S.; and the board of managers thereof, if any, shall prepare and submit to the district the budget estimates of its expenditure requirements and its estimated revenues for the ensuing budget year, as provided in section 29-1-105 , C.R.S.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1388, § 7, effective July 18. L. 90: Entire section amended, p. 1436, § 7, effective January 1, 1991.
CO Code § 37-48-175 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-175. Election to Authorize Debt

 Except for the issuance of refunding bonds or other funding or refunding of obligations which does not increase the net indebtedness of the district or any subdistrict so proceeding, no indebtedness shall be incurred by the issuance of general obligation bonds of any subdistrict or by any contract by which the district or a subdistrict agrees to repay as general obligations or other obligations constituting a ”general obligation debt by loan in any form“, as such term is used in section 6 of article XI of the state constitution, of the district or subdistrict, respectively, to the federal government, any political subdivision, or any person over a term not limited to the then current fiscal year any project costs advanced thereby under any contract for the acquisition or improvement of the facilities or any interest therein, or for any project, advanced by the issuance of securities of such a political subdivision or person to defray any cost of the project or of the facilities or an interest therein thereby acquired and becoming a part of the facilities of the district or subdistrict, or otherwise advanced, unless a proposal of issuing the subdistrict's general obligation bonds or of incurring an indebtedness by the district or subdistrict by making such a contract is submitted to the electors of the district or subdistrict, as the case may be, and is approved by a majority of such electors voting on the proposal at an election held for that purpose in accordance with this article and with all laws amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1676, § 16, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-48-176 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-176. Definition of Elector

  An ”elector“, ”elector of the district“, or ”elector of the subdistrict“, or any term of similar import, means a person:   Who, at the time of the election, is qualified to vote in general elections in this state; and    Who either:       Registration pursuant to the laws concerning general elections or any other laws shall not be required.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1676, § 16, effective June 9. L. 2007: (1) amended, p. 1284, § 25, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-177 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-177. Elections

 Whenever in this article an election of the electors of the district or a subdistrict therein is permitted or required, the election may be held separately at a special election or may be held concurrently with any primary or general election held under the laws of this state; but no election shall be held at the same time as any regular election of any city, town, or school district if any part of the area thereof is located within the boundaries of the district or subdistrict, as the case may be.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1677, § 16, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-48-178 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-178. Election Resolution

  The board of directors shall call any election by resolution adopted at least thirty days prior to the election.    Such resolution shall recite the objects and purposes of the election, the date upon which such election shall be held, and the form of the ballot.    In the case of any election not to be held concurrently with a primary or general election, the board of directors shall provide in the election resolution or by supplemental resolution for the appointment of sufficient judges and clerks of the election, who shall be electors of the district or the subdistrict holding the debt election, and in such event shall set their compensation. The election resolution or a supplemental resolution shall also then designate the precincts and polling places, but a supplemental resolution may modify such a description of precincts and polling places without repeating such description in full. The description of precincts may be made by reference to any order of the governing body of any county, municipality, or other political subdivision in which the district or subdistrict or any part thereof is situated, or by reference to any previous order or other instrument of such a governing body, or by detailed description of such precincts, or by other sufficient description.    Precincts established by any such governing body may be consolidated in the election resolution by the board of directors in a sufficient number which it deems expedient for the convenience of the electors for any election not to be held concurrently with a primary or general election.    If the election shall be held concurrently with a primary or general election held under the laws of this state, the judges of election for such primary or general election shall be designated as the judges of the election for the election held pursuant to this article, and they shall receive such additional compensation, if any, as the board of directors shall set by the election resolution.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1677, § 16, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-48-180 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-180. Notice of Election

 Notice of such election shall be given by publication by three consecutive weekly insertions in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the district or subdistrict holding the election, as determined by the board of directors. No other notice of an election held under this article need be given, unless otherwise provided by the board. A supplemental notice may be given by publication at such times and places as the board may determine to be necessary or convenient for correcting or otherwise modifying the original notice of election or for any other purpose.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1679, § 16, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-48-181 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-181. Polling Places

  All polling places designated by resolution for an election shall be within the territorial limits of the district or subdistrict holding the election; but, if an election of the district or subdistrict is held concurrently with a primary or general election, the polling place for each precinct located wholly or partially within the district or subdistrict shall be the polling place for such precinct for the district or subdistrict election, regardless of whether or not such polling place is within the district or subdistrict.    If the election of the district or subdistrict is not held concurrently with a primary or general election held under the laws of this state, there shall be one polling place in each of the election precincts which are used in the primary and general elections or in each of the consolidated precincts fixed by the board of directors.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1679, § 16, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-48-182 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-182. Election Supplies

  The secretary of the district shall provide at each polling place ballots or ballot labels, or both, ballot boxes or voting machines, or both, instructions, electors' affidavits, and other materials and supplies required for an election by any law; and the secretary may provide ballots and marking devices suitable for voting and for the votes on the ballots to be counted on electronic vote-tabulating devices.    Election officials may require the execution of an affidavit by any person desiring to vote at any election of the district or subdistrict to evidence his qualifications to vote, which affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1679, § 16, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-48-183 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-183. Election Returns

  In the case of any election held under this article which is not held concurrently with a primary or general election, the election officials shall make their returns directly to the secretary of the district for the board of directors.    In the case of any election held under this article which is consolidated with any primary or general election, the returns thereof shall be made and canvassed at the time and in the manner provided by law for the canvass of the returns of such primary or general election. Such canvassing body shall certify promptly and shall transmit to the secretary of the district for the board of directors a statement of the result of the vote upon any proposition submitted under this article.    Upon receipt by the board of directors of election returns from election officials or upon receipt of such certificate from each such canvassing body, the board shall tabulate and declare the results of the election at any regular or special meeting held not earlier than five days following the date of the election.    The board of directors shall cause the results of the election to be published at least one time in at least one newspaper having general circulation in the district.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1679, § 16, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-48-186 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-186. Liens on Pledged Revenues

  Revenues pledged for the payment of any bonds, as received by or otherwise credited to the district or subdistrict issuing bonds under this article, shall immediately be subject to the lien of each such pledge without any physical delivery thereof, any filing, or any further act.    The lien of each such pledge and the obligation to perform the contractual provisions made in the authorizing resolution or other instrument pertaining thereto shall have priority over any or all other obligations or liabilities of the district or subdistrict, except as may be otherwise provided in this article or in the resolution or other instrument, subject to any prior pledges and liens theretofore created.    The lien of each such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all persons having claims of any kind in tort, in contract, or otherwise against the district or subdistrict, irrespective of whether or not such persons have notice thereof.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1682, § 16, effective June 9.