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CO Code § 31-32-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 32 - Utilities|Part 1 - Public Utilities - Franchises|§ 31-32-102. Notice of Application - Publication

 Any person desiring to secure a franchise or license for any of the purposes named in section 31-32-101 shall cause a notice of its intention to apply to the governing body of the city or town for the passage of an ordinance granting such franchise or license. Notice shall be published, in a newspaper of general circulation published in such city or town, once a week for three successive weeks immediately prior to the next regular meeting of the governing body at which it is intended to apply for the passage of the ordinance granting or giving such franchise or license. Such notice shall specify the regular meeting of the governing body at which it is intended to apply for such franchise or license, the name of the applicant therefor, a general description of the rights and privileges to be applied for, and the time for and terms upon which such franchise or license is desired. If there is no newspaper of general circulation published within the city or town, such notice may be published by posting copies thereof in six public places for the same length of time.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1243, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-32-102 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-32-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 32 - Utilities|Part 1 - Public Utilities - Franchises|§ 31-32-103. Ordinance Read Twice - Publication Before Passage

 Every such ordinance shall be read at least twice in full, once at the time of its introduction and again before the question of its passage is voted upon. No governing body of any city or town shall permit any such ordinance to be introduced or read for the first time at any meeting other than the regular meeting specified in such notice nor unless proof of compliance by the applicant with section 31-32-102 is first presented to such governing body in the form of a publisher's affidavit of publication or a certificate of the clerk of the posting of such notice. When such ordinance has been introduced and read for the first time, the governing body, if it desires to further consider the granting of the rights or privileges sought for thereby, shall order the same to be published daily in a paper of general circulation published in such city or town for a period of not less than two weeks prior to the time such ordinance is again read and put upon its passage. If there is no paper of general circulation published daily in such city or town, such publication shall be made in a paper of general circulation published weekly in such city or town. If there is no such paper published daily or weekly, such publication shall be made by posting copies of such proposed ordinance in at least six public places in such municipality for the same period of time. No such ordinance shall be adopted or passed by the governing body of any city or town unless the same has been previously introduced and read and publication first made as provided for in this section. Such previous introduction and reading of such ordinance and the fact of its publication in a newspaper or by posting shall appear in the certificate and the attestation of the clerk on such ordinance after its adoption.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1243, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-32-103 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-32-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 32 - Utilities|Part 1 - Public Utilities - Franchises|§ 31-32-104. Majority Vote Required for Passage

 Every such ordinance shall require for its passage or adoption the concurrence of a majority of all the members of the governing body of the city or town.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1244, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: Entire section amended, p. 1496, § 11, effective May 28.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-32-104 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-32-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 32 - Utilities|Part 1 - Public Utilities - Franchises|§ 31-32-105. Cities or Towns May Erect Utilities

 Nothing in this part 1 shall be construed as in any way modifying or restricting the right of cities or towns to purchase or erect electric light works, heating and cooling works and distribution systems for the distribution of heat and cooling obtained from geothermal resources, solar or wind energy, hydroelectric or renewable biomass resources, including waste and cogenerated heat, or gasworks in the manner provided for by law.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1244, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: Entire section amended, p. 1457, § 5, effective May 27.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-32-105 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-101. Powers - Canals - Water Rights - Diversion - Ratification of Prior Rights

  Any municipality in this state, for the purpose of supplying said municipality and the inhabitants thereof with water, has the power under this part 1:   To purchase or lease any canal or ditch constructed, with all the rights, privileges, and franchises of any person owning or having any interest in or right to the same, and to hold and operate the said canals and ditches in the same manner as the persons from which the same is purchased or leased if a majority of the registered electors of such municipality voting at any regular election vote in favor of said purchase;    To repair, improve, or enlarge any canal or ditch which is leased or purchased or any flume, dam, or gate connected therewith and for such purposes to levy and collect taxes as other taxes are levied and collected by law;    To purchase water and water rights in all cases where condemnation would lie to obtain the same under section 31-15-708 (1)(b);    To divert the waters acquired by purchase to the amount and extent lawfully appropriated prior to said purchase;    To purchase and hold the lands with which said water right is connected when deemed necessary and proper by the governing body, whether the same are within or beyond the municipal limits, or to lease or sell such lands when deemed advisable by said governing body.       Any municipality making a purchase or lease of any canal or ditch shall thereby assume all obligations and other duties which by law devolve upon the owner of such ditch or canal and from whom the same may be acquired by the powers of this section.    The right to hold and retain water rights, or such lands and water rights as have been purchased by any municipality in this state prior to April 2, 1891, for the purpose of providing water for the use thereof or that of its inhabitants, the right to divert the water belonging to such rights to the use of such municipality and the inhabitants thereof, and the right to sell and dispose of such lands so purchased separate and apart from the water rights, as provided in paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of this section, are hereby given, ratified, and confirmed to such municipality.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1245, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2010: (1)(e) amended,(SB 10-181), ch. 373, p. 1745, § 1, effective August 11.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former §§ 31-35-101 to 31-35-105 as they existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-102. Ditch and Canal Management

 The management of any ditch or canal acquired pursuant to section 31-35-101 shall be under the control of the governing body of such acquiring municipality.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1245, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-102 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-103. Trustees of Waterworks - Duties

 The registered electors of any city or town may elect at a special election held for that purpose three trustees to constitute a board to have the care, operation, management, and control of waterworks owned or acquired by the city or town, subject to the conditions of sections 31-35-104 to 31-35-111 .   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1245, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-106 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-104. First Election of Trustees

 If, at the election provided in section 31-35-111 , the majority of votes cast are for the board of trustees, the mayor shall issue a call for a special election of such board of trustees, to be conducted by the clerk in accordance with the provisions of section 31-35-106 and the “Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965” insofar as practicable. If the entire city or town is included within the jurisdiction of such board of trustees, the election may be held in conjunction with the regular election.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1245, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-107 as it existed prior to 1975.   Cross references:   For the “Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965”, see article 10 of this title.
CO Code § 31-35-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-105. Trustees - Qualifications

 No person not a resident and owner of realty within the city or town for the period of at least one year next preceding his election and residing in that part or district of the city or town for which the board of trustees is to be elected shall be eligible for election as a trustee of said board.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1246, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-108 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-106 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-106. Regular Election of Trustees

 The regular election for electing trustees under the provisions of this part 1, after the first election to be called by the mayor, shall be held biennially on the first Tuesday in June; but if the entire city or town is included within the jurisdiction of such board of trustees, the election may be held in conjunction with the regular election. The election shall be conducted by the clerk in accordance with the provisions of the “Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965” insofar as practicable. Only registered electors who reside in that part of the city or town within the jurisdiction of such board of trustees shall be permitted to vote in such election. Likewise only registered electors residing in such part of the city or town shall be permitted to vote on any proposition to create or contract a debt or loan for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, or extending waterworks.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1246, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-109 as it existed prior to 1975.   Cross references:   For the “Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965”, see article 10 of this title.
CO Code § 31-35-108 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-108. Acts of Board - Meetings - Vacancies - Compensation and Bond

 No members of the board of trustees shall have any authority to act on behalf of the board except in pursuance of an order regularly made at a meeting of the board. No action of the board shall be binding unless authorized by a majority of the trustees at a regular meeting or a duly called special meeting. Meetings of the board of trustees shall be held at the office of the waterworks and shall be open to the public. A record of the meetings shall be kept by the secretary in a book provided for that purpose, which book, together with all contracts, maps, plans, and documents relating to the management and operation of the waterworks, shall be open to public inspection at reasonable hours. No member of said board shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract relating to the waterworks or in any contract providing for the expenditure of any moneys in relation thereto. Any such trustee shall be considered as vacating his office in the event of his violating this section or accepting the nomination or becoming a candidate for any other public office. In the event of a vacancy by death, resignation, or otherwise, the board shall fill said vacancy by electing some qualified person to fill the vacancy until the next election at which time the vacancy shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term. Trustees under this part 1 shall receive five hundred dollars per year for their services, and each of said trustees shall enter into a bond of two thousand dollars to the people of the district for the faithful performance of their duties and the proper accounting of all moneys that may come into their hands as trustees.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1247, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-111 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-109 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-109. Semiannual Statement of Condition

 The board of trustees shall make, twice a year, on June 1 and December 1, a full and complete statement in detail of all moneys collected and expended by it during the preceding six months and of the condition of the waterworks under its control. The statement shall be published at least one time in a daily newspaper published in the county in which said waterworks are located.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1247, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-112 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-110 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-110. Annual Statement of Estimate

 The board of trustees shall render each year, before the making by the governing body of its annual appropriations, a statement to the governing body of the estimated amount, to be raised by taxation, required by such board for the proper maintenance and care of said waterworks during the next succeeding fiscal year, which amount shall be included in the levy fixed by the governing body upon the property in that part or district of the city or town supplied by said waterworks.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1247, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-113 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-111 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 1 - Water Rights and Works - General|§ 31-35-111. Election

 Before the people of any city or town or part or district of any city or town can avail themselves of the provisions of this section and of sections 31-35-104 to 31-35-110 , the question to determine their wishes shall first be submitted to the registered electors of said city or town or part or district of the city or town at a special election to be called by the mayor of said city or town upon petition presented to him signed by at least one hundred taxpaying electors who reside in the city or town or that part or district of the city or town for which the board of trustees may be asked. If the entire city or town is proposed to be included within the jurisdiction of such board of trustees, such election may be held in conjunction with the regular election. At said election the ballot or voting machine tabs shall be “For the Board of Trustees” and “Against the Board of Trustees”. The election shall be conducted by the clerk in accordance with the provisions of the “Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965” insofar as practicable. If the majority of votes cast is against the creation of the board of trustees, no further action may be taken under this section and sections 31-35-104 to 31-35-110 for a period of one year from such election and then only on petition as provided in said sections.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1248, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-114 as it existed prior to 1975.   Cross references:   For the “Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965”, see article 10 of this title.
CO Code § 31-35-201 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 2 - Leasing Water Rights - Cities of Over 200,000|§ 31-35-201. Leasing of Water - No Rights Vested

 In the event any municipal appropriator of water, having a population in excess of two hundred thousand, leases, after May 12, 1931, water not needed by it for immediate use, no rights shall become vested to a continued leasing or to a continuance of the conditions concerning any return water arising therefrom so as to defeat or impair the right to terminate the leases or change the place of use. Any leasing shall not injuriously affect rights vested in other appropriators prior to said date. Nothing in this section shall authorize an appropriator to recapture water for a second use after it has once been used by it.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1248, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-201 as it existed prior to 1975.   ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, “Legal Problems in City Water Supply”, see 22 Rocky Mt. L. Rev. 356 (1950). For article, “Foreign Water in Colorado -- The City's Right to Recapture and Re-Use Its Transmountain Diversion”, see 42 Den. L. Ctr. J. 116 (1965). For comment, “Municipal Utilities in Colorado -- Can They Charge Their Nonresident Customers More Than They Charge Their Resident Customers Just Because the Nonresident Lives on the Wrong Side of the Boundary?”, see 60 U. Colo. L. Rev. 357 (1989).   Municipality may divert water from its natural stream. It is the general rule that when an appropriator of water has no present need for it for irrigating his lands he must not divert it from the natural stream. This rule, however, does not apply to decreed water needed for municipal purposes, and the distinction has received legislative recognition in the enactment of this section. City & County of Denver v. Sheriff, 105 Colo. 193 , 96 P.2d 836 (1939).   Even if there is no immediate need. The city of Denver having perfected a valid appropriation, any water to which it is entitled thereunder for which there may at any given time in the future be no immediate need, may be temporarily leased by the city in accordance with this section. City & County of Denver v. Sheriff, 105 Colo. 193 , 96 P.2d 836 (1939).
CO Code § 31-35-301 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 3 - Water Mains and Other Improvements - Cities and Towns|§ 31-35-301. Construction of Water Mains

 When any city or town is the owner of a municipal water plant with water mains in operation throughout the greater portion of said city or town and is unable to extend the same so as to cover the entire area contained within the municipal limits of said city or town, the citizens and resident taxpayers of any area containing four blocks or more situated in said city or town not having water mains therein may agree among themselves or a majority of the owners of the lots therein for the construction of the same. Upon application to the governing body by a majority of such owners, the governing body shall have authority to enter into a contract with said owners of said four blocks or more or with the majority thereof to allow them to construct such water mains in such territory and to connect the same with the supply of water of said city or town. The governing body has authority to enter into a contract with such citizens to allow all the proceeds derived from water rentals going to such addition through such water mains and collected as rental therefor to be applied to the payment of such water pipes, the cost thereof to be limited by the city or town to not more than the actual cost thereof upon any basis by which the city or town itself could secure the construction of the same. Said payments shall be made without interest and upon such terms not exceeding ten years as may be agreed upon by contract between the parties thereto.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1248, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-301 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-302 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 3 - Water Mains and Other Improvements - Cities and Towns|§ 31-35-302. Petition - Plans - Contract

  For the purpose of carrying the provisions of this section and section 31-35-301 into effect, the owners of four blocks or more situated in any city or town in this state owning its own municipal water plant which has not been supplied with water mains shall present a petition to the governing body, offering therein to construct such water mains and pipes in the streets and alleys of said city or town in such manner and at such places and of such sizes as the said governing body may require and at a cost to said city or town as low as the same could be constructed by said city or town.    Upon receipt of such petition, the governing body shall prepare plans and specifications for the supplying of said territory with water mains and pipes, and the petitioners, upon the inspection of said plans and specifications, shall state their willingness to construct the same at a certain price to be paid for out of the revenues derived from water running through said pipes in said district, the same to be charged at no higher rate than the remainder of said city or town is paying. If such proposition is satisfactory to the governing body, it has the right to enter into a contract with said petitioners upon behalf of said city or town for the construction of such water mains and pipes according to said plans and specifications and for the price agreed upon, not more than that specified, and within a time to be set by said governing body.    Upon the completion of said works by said petitioners, the city or town shall inspect and, if satisfactory, accept the same and issue certificates of indebtedness therefor stating therein how the same is to be paid out of the proceeds from such water rentals collected from the territory in which said extensions are made, unless otherwise sooner arranged for by said city or town, and proceed to operate and maintain the same and collect the revenues therefrom and to apply the same to the payment of the indebtedness created for the construction of said pipes without interest until the same is paid for or until said city or town makes payment therefor in some other manner. Said rentals shall be paid upon said certificates from time to time when the amount of one hundred dollars is received from said rentals for that purpose, and said rentals shall be set apart and kept as a separate fund and used for the purposes provided in this subsection (3) only until the entire indebtedness is paid.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1249, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-302 as it existed prior to 1975.