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CO Code § 31-35-504 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-504. Board's Administrative Powers

  The board, on behalf and in the name of the municipality, has the following powers:   To fix the time and place at which its regular meetings shall be held within the municipality and to provide for the calling and holding of special meetings;    To adopt and amend or otherwise modify bylaws and rules for procedure;    To prescribe by resolution a system of business administration, to create any and all necessary offices, and to establish and reestablish the powers, duties, and compensation of all officers, agents, and employees and other persons contracting with the board, subject to the provisions of any ordinance adopted pursuant to section 31-35-502; but, except as may be otherwise therein provided, such compensation shall be established at prevailing rates of pay for equivalent services.        History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1261, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-421 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-505 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-505. Meetings of Board

  All meetings of the board shall be held within the municipality and shall be open to the public.    No business of the board shall be transacted except at a regular or special meeting at which a quorum consisting of at least a majority of the total membership of the board is present.    Any action of the board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present and voting thereon.    A smaller number of directors than a quorum may adjourn from time to time and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the board may provide by resolution or by law.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1262, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-422 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-506 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-506. Additional Administrative Powers

  The board, on behalf and in the name of the municipality, also has the following powers:   To require and fix the amount of all official fidelity and completion bonds necessary or desirable and convenient in the opinion of the board for the protection of the funds and property of the municipality under the jurisdiction of the board, subject to the provisions of any ordinance adopted pursuant to section 31-35-502 regarding fidelity bonds for commissioners;    To prescribe a method of auditing and allowing or rejecting claims and demands subject to the provisions of section 31-35-507;    To provide a method for the letting of contracts on a fair and competitive basis for the construction of works, the facilities, or any project or any interest therein or the performance or furnishing of labor, materials, or supplies as required in part 4 of this article and this part 5 and to require a contractor's bond in the manner required of a governing body and a municipality in sections 38-26-105 to 38-26-107, C.R.S.;    To designate an official newspaper published in the municipality or, if none, of general circulation therein and to publish any notice or other instrument in any additional newspaper where the board deems that it is necessary or advisable to do so; and    To make and pass resolutions and orders on behalf of the municipality not repugnant to the provisions of part 4 of this article and this part 5 which are necessary or proper for the government and management of the affairs of the municipality, for the execution of the powers vested in the municipality, and for carrying into effect the provisions of part 4 of this article and this part 5 in connection with the facilities or joint system designated in the ordinance creating the board.        History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1262, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-423 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-507 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-507. Budgets, Accounts, and Audits

 The board, in connection with the facilities or joint system under the board's jurisdiction, shall adopt a budget for each fiscal year of the municipality, shall maintain accounts, and shall cause an annual audit to be made pertaining to the financial affairs of the board as provided in parts 1, 5, and 6 of article 1 of title 29, C.R.S., except as otherwise provided in part 4 of this article and this part 5.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1262, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-424 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-508 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-508. Records of Board

  On all resolutions and orders, the roll shall be called, and the ayes and noes shall be recorded. All resolutions and orders, as soon as may be after their passage, shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose and shall be authenticated by the signature of the presiding officer of the board and the secretary or secretary pro tem.    Every legislative act of the board of a general or permanent nature shall be by resolution.    The book of resolutions and orders shall be a public record. A record shall also be made of all other proceedings of the board, minutes of the meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by officers, employees, and any other agents of the municipality under the board's jurisdiction, and all corporate acts, which record shall also be a public record.    The treasurer shall keep strict and accurate accounts of all moneys received by and disbursed for and on behalf of the board in a permanent record, which also shall be a public record.    Any permanent record of the municipality under the board's jurisdiction shall be open for inspection by any elector thereof, by any other interested person, or by any representative of the federal government, the state, or any other public body.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1263, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-425 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-509 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-509. Conflicts in Interest Prohibited

 No commissioner nor officer, employee, or agent of the municipality under the board's jurisdiction shall be interested in any contract or transaction with the municipality except in his official representative capacity or as is provided in his contract of employment with the municipality, subject to the provisions of any ordinance adopted pursuant to section 31-35-502 .   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1263, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-426 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-510 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-510. Authorization of Facilities

 The municipality, acting by and through the board, may acquire, improve, equip, relocate, maintain, and operate the facilities or joint system under the board's jurisdiction, any project, or any part thereof for the benefit of the municipality and the inhabitants thereof after the board has made such preliminary studies and otherwise taken such action as it determines to be necessary or desirable as preliminaries thereto.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1263, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-427 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-511 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-511. Implementing Powers

 The board, in connection with the facilities or joint system of the municipality under the board's jurisdiction and any project pertaining thereto, may from time to time condemn, otherwise acquire, improve, equip, operate, maintain, and dispose of property within or without or both within and without the municipality.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1263, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-428 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-512 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-512. Additional Powers of Municipality

  The municipality, acting by and through the board, has the following powers:   To have the duties, privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities, and disabilities pertaining to a body corporate and politic and constituting a municipal corporation and political subdivision of the state established as an instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental and proprietary functions to provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare;    To have perpetual existence and succession;    To adopt, have, and use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;    To sue and to be sued and to be a party to suits, actions, and proceedings;    To commence, maintain, intervene in, defend, comprise, terminate by settlement or otherwise, otherwise participate in, and assume the cost and expense of any and all actions and proceedings pertaining to the municipality, its board, its officers, agents, or employees, or any of the municipality's powers, duties, privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities, and disabilities, the facilities or joint system, or any project pertaining thereto or any property of the municipality;    To enter into contracts and agreements, including but not limited to contracts with the federal government, the state, and any other public body; and    To trade, exchange, purchase, condemn, or otherwise acquire, operate, maintain, and dispose of real property and personal property, including interest therein, either within or without or both within and without the territorial limits of the municipality.        History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1263, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-429 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-513 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-513. Financial Powers of Municipality

  The municipality, acting by and through the board, also has the following powers:   To borrow money and to issue municipal securities evidencing any loan to or amount due by the municipality, to provide for and secure the payment of any municipal securities and the rights of the holders thereof, and to purchase, hold, and dispose of municipal securities; and    To fund or refund any loan or obligation of the municipality and to issue funding or refunding securities to evidence such loan or obligation without any election.        History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1264, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-430 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-514 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 5 - Municipal Water and Sewer Boards|§ 31-35-514. Other Powers of Board

 The delineation of powers in this part 5 which may be exercised by the board does not by implication deny any other powers which are otherwise granted to the municipality by law.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1264, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-431 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-601 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-601. Owner to Be Notified

 In addition to the powers already had by municipalities, they have the following powers: When the governing body of a municipality having a public sewerage system deems it necessary for the protection of public health that owners of one or more premises connect their premises with the public sewer, thirty days' notice in writing shall be given to said owners, by registered mail, notifying them to connect their premises with the sewer, the date of the notice to begin as of the date of registering the same for mailing. If the work of making the connection is not begun within thirty days, the mayor shall notify the municipal engineer to prepare plans and specifications for making the connection with the public sewer, including water and service pipe for flushing purposes, if the owner has given notice and proof to the governing body or mayor of his financial inability to make the connection himself and if it is only for the necessary connection of a water closet or a privy in an outhouse or both.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1264, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-501 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-602 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-602. Resolution Adopted

 The plans or specifications shall be filed in the clerk's or engineer's office, and a resolution shall be adopted by the governing body ordering or prescribing in general terms the contemplated sewerage connections, giving location of the premises and the name of the owner, and authorizing the clerk to advertise for bids. The advertisement for bids shall be the same as is now provided for in other cases in which municipalities receive bids. The governing body shall let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who furnishes satisfactory security, but it has the right to reject all bids.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1264, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-502 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-603 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-603. Cost of Connection Ascertained

 The entire costs of all sewerage and water connections, closets, equipment pipe, sewer pipe, labor, and necessary engineering, legal, and publication expenses shall be ascertained by the governing body, including an additional amount of six percent for costs of inspection, collections, and other incidentals. The cost to each owner shall be determined according to the material used and work done under the contract in connecting such property to the public sewer and water main. The engineering, legal, and publication expenses shall be charged in such proportion as each connection bears to the whole.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1265, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-503 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-604 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-604. Work Accepted - Assessment - Certified Copy Filed - Lien

 Upon the final completion of the work, the governing body shall accept the same by ordinance and provide for an assessment against the properties connected according to the rules of apportionment as provided in section 31-35-603 . Each assessment shall be separately numbered. Thirty days after the last publication of said ordinance, a certified copy of it shall be filed with the county treasurer of the county in which the property is situated and when so filed shall operate as a perpetual tax lien in favor of the municipality and shall be superior to all other liens except general tax liens.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1265, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-504 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-605 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-605. Appropriation From General Fund

 The governing body may make adequate appropriations from the general fund to defray such costs until such time as the taxes are received, and when received, the general fund shall be reimbursed to the amount of any such appropriation.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1265, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-505 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-606 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-606. Assessments Payable - Proviso

 The assessment shall be due and payable within thirty days after final publication of the assessing ordinance without demand; except that all assessments, at the election of the owner, may be paid in installments, as provided in section 31-35-608 .   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1265, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-506 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-607 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-607. Payment in Installments Optional

 Failure to pay the whole assessment within said thirty days shall be conclusively considered and held to be an election on the part of the persons interested, whether under disability or not, to pay in such installments. All persons so electing to pay in installments shall be conclusively held and considered as consenting to said improvements, and such election shall be conclusively held and considered as a waiver of any right to question the power or jurisdiction of the municipality to construct the improvement, the quality of the work, the regularity or sufficiency of the proceedings, or the validity or the correctness of the assessments or the validity of the lien thereof.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1265, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-507 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-608 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-608. Installment Payments - Due Date - Interest

 In case of such election to pay in such installments, the assessment shall be payable in two or more equal annual installments of principal, the first of which installments shall be payable as prescribed by the governing body in not more than one year, with interest in all cases on the unpaid principal, payable semiannually, at a rate not exceeding six percent per annum. The number of installments, the period of payment, and the rate of interest shall be determined by the governing body and set forth in the assessing ordinance.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1265, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-508 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-609 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-609. Default in Payment - Penalty

 Failure to pay any installment, whether of principal or interest, when due shall cause the whole of the unpaid principal to become due and collectible immediately, and the whole amount of the unpaid principal and accrued interest shall thereafter draw interest at the rate of one percent per month or fraction of a month until the date of sale, as provided in section 31-35-611 . At any time prior to the date of sale, the owner may pay the amount of all unpaid installments, with interest at one percent per month or fraction of a month, and all penalties accrued and shall thereupon be restored to the right thereafter to pay in installments in the same manner as if default had not been suffered. The owner of any property not in default as to any installment or payment may at any time pay the whole of the unpaid principal with the interest accruing to the maturity of the next installment of interest or principal.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1266, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-509 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-610 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-610. Discount for Cash Payment

 Payments may be made to the municipal treasurer at any time within thirty days of the final publication of the assessing ordinance, and an allowance of five percent shall be allowed on all payments made during such period, but not thereafter. At the expiration of the thirty-day period, the municipal treasurer shall return the local assessment roll to the clerk, therein showing all payments made thereon with the date of each payment.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1266, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-510 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-611 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-611. Payment of Assessments - Default - Sale

 The county treasurer shall receive payment of all assessments on the assessment roll, with interest, and, in the case of default in the payment of any installment of principal or interest when due, shall advertise and sell any and all property concerning which such default is suffered for the payment of the whole of the unpaid assessments thereon. The advertisements and sales shall be at the same times, in the same manner, under all the same conditions and penalties, and with the same effect as is provided by general law for sales of real property in default of payment of general and special taxes.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1266, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-511 as it existed prior to 1975.   ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, “Survey of Colorado Tax Liens”, see 14 Colo. Law. 1765 (1985).
CO Code § 31-35-612 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-612. Owner of Interest May Pay His Share

 The owner of any divided or undivided interest in the property assessed may pay his share of any assessment upon producing evidence of the extent of his interest which is satisfactory to the treasurer having the roll in charge.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1266, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-512 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-35-613 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 35 - Water and Sewage|Part 6 - Sewer Connections - Compulsory|§ 31-35-613. When Collections Paid to Municipality

 All collections made by the county treasurer upon such assessment roll in any calendar month shall be accounted for and paid over to the municipal treasurer on or before the tenth day of the next month, with separate statements for all such collections for each improvement.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1266, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-35-513 as it existed prior to 1975.