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CO Code § 37-47-113 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-113. Time and Place of Hearing on Petition

  Immediately after the filing of such petition the court wherein such petition, is filed, by order, shall fix a place and time, not less than sixty days nor more than ninety days after the petition is filed, for hearing thereon, and, thereupon, the clerk of said court shall cause notice by publication, which may be substantially the same as provided in section 37-8-101, to be made of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of the hearing thereon. The clerk of said court shall also forthwith cause a copy of said notice to be mailed by United States registered mail to the board of county commissioners of each of the several counties having territory within the proposed subdistrict and to the board of directors of said district in the event that said petition is filed by the landowners.    The district court in and for the county in which the petition for the organization of a subdistrict has been filed shall thereafter, for all purposes of this article, except as otherwise provided in this article, maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction coextensive with the boundaries of said subdistrict, of lands and other property proposed to be included in said subdistrict or effected by said subdistrict, without regard to the usual limits of its jurisdiction.    No judge of such court wherein such petition is filed shall be disqualified to perform any duty imposed by this article by reason of ownership of property within any subdistrict or proposed subdistrict or by reason of ownership of any property that may be benefited, taxed, or assessed therein.     History. Source: L. 41: P. 876, § 10. CSA: C. 173B, § 65. CRS 53: § 149-9-10. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-10. History. Source: L. 41: P. 876, § 10. CSA: C. 173B, § 65. CRS 53: § 149-9-10. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-10.
CO Code § 37-47-115 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-115. Plan for Subdistrict

 Upon organization of such subdistrict, the board of directors of said district, acting as the board of directors of said subdistrict, are authorized and required to prepare and adopt as the official plans for said subdistrict a comprehensive detailed plan showing the nature of the improvements or works, including all canals, reservoirs, and ditches, whether within or without the district, and the estimated cost of each principal part of said system or works.   History. Source: L. 41: P. 878, § 12. CSA: C. 173B, § 67. CRS 53: § 149-9-12. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-12. History. Source: L. 41: P. 878, § 12. CSA: C. 173B, § 67. CRS 53: § 149-9-12. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-12.
CO Code § 37-47-116 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-116. Appointment of Appraisers

 As soon as such official plan has been prepared and adopted and is on file in the office of said district, the court, upon petition of the district, shall appoint a board of appraisers consisting of three members. The qualifications of said appraisers and all proceedings before them shall be in accordance with the provisions of the law pertaining to the duties and qualifications of appraisers under the conservancy law of Colorado as set forth in article 4 of this title; except that, where reference is made to districts, it shall apply to subdistricts organized under this article.   History. Source: L. 41: P. 879, § 13. CSA: C. 173B, § 68. CRS 53: § 149-9-13. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-13. History. Source: L. 41: P. 879, § 13. CSA: C. 173B, § 68. CRS 53: § 149-9-13. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-13.
CO Code § 37-47-117 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-117. Compensation of Appraisers

 Appraisers when appointed under the provisions of this article shall receive a compensation of ten dollars per day during the time that they are engaged in the performance of their duties.   History. Source: L. 41: P. 880, § 15. CSA: C. 173B, § 70. CRS 53: § 149-9-15. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-15. History. Source: L. 41: P. 880, § 15. CSA: C. 173B, § 70. CRS 53: § 149-9-15. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-15.
CO Code § 37-47-120 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-120. Improvement District Bonds

  The board of directors of said district may issue as obligations of the subdistrict, not as an obligation of the southwestern water conservation district, improvement district bonds to be paid out of special assessments made by said board of directors against all lands in the subdistrict, not exceeding in the aggregate amount of ninety percent of the amount of benefits assessed against said lands 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 district bonds and are payable out of special assessments to be levied against the property in said subdistrict and not otherwise.    Said improvement district bonds shall be signed, ”Water Users' Association No. .... or Special Improvement District No. ...., of the Southwestern 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 six percent per annum, and contain such other provisions as may be fixed by the board of directors, if said provisions are not inconsistent with the terms of this article. Except as otherwise expressly modified in this article, the law relating to the form and issuance of 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, and particularly section 37-5-110, shall likewise be applicable to the bonds of a subdistrict organized under this article.     History. Source: L. 41: P. 881, § 17. CSA: C. 173B, § 72. CRS 53: § 149-9-17. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-17. History. Source: L. 41: P. 881, § 17. CSA: C. 173B, § 72. CRS 53: § 149-9-17. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-17.
CO Code § 37-47-121 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-121. Assessments Constitute Perpetual Lien

 All assessments on account of special improvements 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 assessment“ record and the ”maintenance fund 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 assessments have been levied and such benefits appraised, to which only the lien of the general, state, county, city, town, or school taxes shall be paramount, but no sale of said property, to enforce any general, state, county, city, town, school tax, or other lien, shall extinguish the perpetual lien of said assessment. At any time any landowner may pay the full amount of said assessment, and thereafter the property of any such landowner shall be clear and free from said lien and shall not be subject to assessment for and on account of benefits appraised against any other land or default in the payment of assessments made against any other land.   History. Source: L. 41: P. 882, § 18. CSA: C. 173B, § 73. CRS 53: § 149-9-18. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-18. History. Source: L. 41: P. 882, § 18. CSA: C. 173B, § 73. CRS 53: § 149-9-18. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-18.
CO Code § 37-47-122 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-122. Directors to Remedy Defects in Assessments

 If any assessment 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 assessments, or otherwise.   History. Source: L. 41: P. 883, § 19. CSA: C. 173B, § 74. CRS 53: § 149-9-19. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-19. History. Source: L. 41: P. 883, § 19. CSA: C. 173B, § 74. CRS 53: § 149-9-19. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-19.
CO Code § 37-47-123 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-123. Record of Assessments as Evidence

 The record of assessments contained in the respective assessment records of the district shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of all matters therein contained.   History. Source: L. 41: P. 883, § 20. CSA: C. 173B, § 75. CRS 53: § 149-9-20. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-20. History. Source: L. 41: P. 883, § 20. CSA: C. 173B, § 75. CRS 53: § 149-9-20. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-20.
CO Code § 37-47-124 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-124. 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 appraisement, assessment, levy, 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. 41: P. 883, § 21. CSA: C. 173B, § 76. CRS 53: § 149-9-21. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-21. History. Source: L. 41: P. 883, § 21. CSA: C. 173B, § 76. CRS 53: § 149-9-21. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-21.
CO Code § 37-47-125 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-125. Contracts of Subdistricts

  When the petition for the organization of a subdistrict and the decree for such organization so provide, it shall be lawful for any subdistrict to make contracts as follows:   A water users' association may bind itself to levy an annual assessment for the use of water and to secure same by liens on land and water rights or in such 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 company.        History. Source: L. 41: P. 884, § 23. CSA: C. 173B, § 78. CRS 53: § 149-9-23. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-23. History. Source: L. 41: P. 884, § 23. CSA: C. 173B, § 78. CRS 53: § 149-9-23. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-23.    Cross references:   For forfeiture of stock in a ditch company, see § 7-42-104 (4) .
CO Code § 37-47-127 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-127. Board to Certify 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, and for the purpose of defraying any incidental expenses of the subdistrict, the board of directors may, upon completion of a works provided for in the plan for any such subdistrict, on or before the first Monday in November of each year thereafter, certify to the board of county commissioners of the county in which said subdistrict or any part thereof is located an assessment on each tract of land and upon public corporations subject to assessment under this article, for the purpose of raising funds to be used for the maintenance of said improvements. If an appraisal of benefits has been made against the lands in said district, assessments shall be apportioned by the county treasurer and by the board of directors of said district against the property therein upon the basis of the appraisal of benefits originally made. If no such appraisal has been made and the form of organization and financing is such that revenue warrants or general obligations of the subdistrict have been issued, then said assessment shall be made on the basis of the valuation for assessment of the property subject to assessment in said subdistrict.    Said assessment shall not exceed five mills on each dollar of the valuation for assessment of the property in said subdistrict in any one year, unless the court shall by order authorize an assessment of a larger percentage. Said assessment shall be levied by resolution of the board of directors and shall be enrolled in a well-bound record to be known as the maintenance fund assessment record and shall be substantially the form provided for similar records of conservancy districts under the laws of the state of Colorado, particularly as provided by section 37-5-107. Assessments so certified shall be levied by the board of county commissioners of the counties in which said subdistrict is situate, on the property of said district in their respective counties, to be collected by the 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 maintenance assessments shall be in addition to any assessments which have been levied against benefits appraised for and on account of construction.     History. Source: L. 41: P. 884, § 24. CSA: C. 173B, § 79. CRS 53: § 149-9-24. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-24. History. Source: L. 41: P. 884, § 24. CSA: C. 173B, § 79. CRS 53: § 149-9-24. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-24.
CO Code § 37-47-128 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-128. Limitations on Power to Levy and Contract

  The district has no power of taxation or right to levy or assess taxes, except an annual levy, not exceeding six-tenths of a mill on each dollar of the valuation for assessment of property in said district, as provided in section 37-47-109. The district has no power to contract or incur any obligation or indebtedness except as expressly provided in this article, and then any obligation or indebtedness so contracted or incurred is to be payable out of the funds derived through said limited tax and not otherwise; except that said district for and in behalf of any subdistrict or improvement district created under this article has the right to issue obligations as expressly authorized in this article and not otherwise.    All assessments under this article shall be collected by the county treasurer of the respective counties in which said real estate is situated at the same time and in the same manner as is provided by law for the collection of taxes for county and state purposes, and, if said assessments are not paid, then the real estate shall be sold at the regular tax sale for the payment of said assessments, interest, and penalties in the manner provided by the statutes of the state of Colorado for selling property for the payment of general taxes. If there are no bids at said tax sale for the property so offered, said property shall be struck off to the district, and the tax certificates shall be issued in the name of the district, and the board of directors has the same power with reference to the sale of said tax certificates as is now vested in county commissioners and county treasurers when property is struck off to the counties.    Tax deeds may be issued, based upon said certificates of sale, in the same manner that deeds are executed on tax sales on general state and county taxes.     History. Source: L. 41: P. 887, § 27. CSA: C. 173B, § 82. CRS 53: § 149-9-27. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-27. L. 73: P. 1533, § 2. History. Source: L. 41: P. 887, § 27. CSA: C. 173B, § 82. CRS 53: § 149-9-27. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-27. L. 73: P. 1533, § 2.
CO Code § 37-47-129 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-129. Investment of Surplus Funds

 The board of directors of said district may invest any surplus funds of the district including any funds in the construction fund assessment not needed for immediate use to pay the cost of construction of any project in any one of the subdistricts, or to pay bonds or coupons or to meet current expenses, in securities meeting the investment requirements established in part 6 of article 75 of title 24, C.R.S. The board of directors of said district may require any funds of the district, or of any subdistrict, to be deposited with such depository or bank as may be designated by the board and likewise shall have authority to require the treasurer of the district to take from such depository a bond with corporate surety to insure payment of any such deposit or to require such depository to pledge securities of the same kind as those in which the district is authorized to invest its funds to insure payment of any such deposit.   History. Source: L. 41: P. 887, § 28. CSA: C. 173B, § 83. CRS 53: § 149-9-28. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-28. L. 89: Entire section amended, p. 1124, § 52, effective July 1. History. Source: L. 41: P. 887, § 28. CSA: C. 173B, § 83. CRS 53: § 149-9-28. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-28. L. 89: Entire section amended, p. 1124, § 52, effective July 1.
CO Code § 37-47-130 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-130. 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 37-47-129 .   History. Source: L. 41: P. 888, § 29. CSA: C. 173B, § 84. CRS 53: § 149-9-29. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-29. History. Source: L. 41: P. 888, § 29. CSA: C. 173B, § 84. CRS 53: § 149-9-29. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-29.
CO Code § 37-47-132 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-132. Subdistrict Furnishing Water to Nonirrigated Land

 In order to enable a subdistrict organized under the provisions of this article to furnish water to lands which have not been irrigated and had, up to the time of the construction of the works to be constructed by said subdistrict, no water supply and, at the same time, to enable other areas within the same subdistrict to obtain a supplemental supply of water or to enable said subdistrict to furnish a complete service to certain lands, certain areas, certain persons or municipalities within the district and to supplement an existing supply or service to other persons, localities, and municipalities, prior to the time that an appraisement of benefits is made in any such subdistrict, the board of directors may make a resolution setting forth the amount of water or the kind of service to be allocated to specified classes or areas, and such limitation shall be taken into consideration by the appraisers in the appraisal of benefits with respect to lands affected by any such limitation. Like conditions and restrictions may be provided for payment by certain lands or persons of revenue warrants which pledge the income from the works of said subdistricts, but no such limitation shall be contained or govern the payment of any general obligations of any such subdistrict.   History. Source: L. 41: P. 889, § 32. CSA: C. 173B, § 87. CRS 53: § 149-9-32. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-32. History. Source: L. 41: P. 889, § 32. CSA: C. 173B, § 87. CRS 53: § 149-9-32. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-8-32.
CO Code § 37-47-133 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-133. 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. 1658, § 10, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-47-134 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-134. 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 is a resident of the district or subdistrict proposing to incur an indebtedness at the time of the election.       Registration pursuant to the laws concerning general elections or any other laws shall not be required.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1659, § 10, effective June 9.
CO Code § 37-47-135 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 47 - Southwestern Water Conservation District|§ 37-47-135. 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.   History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1659, § 10, effective June 9.