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CO Code § 37-48-132 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-132. Removal of Structures

  For the accomplishment of the official plan, the board of directors has full power to improve in alignment, section, grade, or location, or in any other manner, any watercourse; and it may remove, widen, lengthen, lower, raise, or otherwise change any public or private road bridge or railroad bridge, any flume, aqueduct, or telephone, telegraph, gas, oil, sewer, water, or other pipeline, or any other construction over, across, in, into, under, or through any such watercourse, or it may require the same to be done. Such provisions shall apply to all such changes specified by the official plan or reasonably necessary for the accomplishment of the same; but if any such change is made necessary in any construction because of the failure of the same to permit the free flow of water in such stream in time of flood or to permit the necessary enlargement or protection of the channel, the owner of such construction shall make such change and all adjustments of grade, roadway, track, approach, or other construction incidental thereto without cost to the subdistrict and without any claim for damages against the subdistrict or district; but the subdistrict shall pay the cost of excavating the earth for the enlargement of any channel or for placing earth for the filling of any channel where such excavation or filling is required as a part of the official plan in making the changes outlined in this section. The subdistrict shall not be required to make such fill or excavation unless the same would be necessary to the official plan if the construction or work so changed did not exist.    Before the removal, change, or modification of any work or construction outlined in this section, the board of directors shall give notice to the owner thereof, requiring that the same be adapted to the official plan. In case such removals, changes, or adjustments are not commenced and completed by the owner within the respective times specified therefor in such notice, which time shall be reasonable under all circumstances, such removals, changes, or adjustments may be made by the district at the expense of the owner.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1378, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-133 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-133. Passing Equipment Through Bridge or Grade

 In case it is necessary to pass any dredge boat or other equipment through a bridge or grade of any railroad company or other corporation, county, city, town, or other municipality, the board of directors shall give notice to the owner of said bridge or grade that the same shall be removed temporarily to allow the passage of such equipment or that an agreement be immediately entered into with regard thereto. The owner of said bridge or grade shall keep an itemized account of the cost of the removal and, if necessary, of the replacing of said bridge or grade; and the necessary and actual cost shall be paid by the subdistrict. In case the owner of said bridge or grade fails to commence or complete provision for the passage of said equipment within the time specified in the notice, the board of directors may remove such bridge or grade at the subdistrict's expense, interrupting traffic in the least degree consistent with good work and without unnecessary damage or delay. In case said board is hindered or prevented from so doing, the owner of said bridge or grade shall be liable for all damage resulting to the subdistrict therefrom.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1379, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-134 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-134. Functions and Duties of Board of Managers

 If the subdistrict has a board of managers, any of the functions and duties enumerated in sections 37-48-127 to 37-48-133 may be performed by the board of managers to the extent provided in the petition or in the rules and regulations of the subdistrict; except that all contracts shall be subject to approval by the board of directors and, further, except that title to all property acquired, developed, or constructed in the formulation, execution, and operation of the official plan of the subdistrict shall be taken and held in the name of the district, and the district shall hold and own the same for the purposes and objects of the subdistrict.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1379, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-135 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-135. Retention of Personnel

 If the subdistrict has a board of managers and if it is so provided in the petition or in the rules and regulations of the subdistrict, the board of managers may retain engineers, attorneys, and management and other personnel separate and apart from those employed by the district.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1379, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-136 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-136. Appointment of Appraisers

 If the plan of financing set forth in the petition and order creating the subdistrict utilizes special improvement bonds, paid by special assessments upon the property benefited within the subdistrict, as a means of financing the execution of the official plan, then, at the time of making its order organizing the district or at any time thereafter, the court shall appoint a board of three appraisers, referred to in this article as the ”board of appraisers“ or the ”appraisers“, whose duty it shall be to appraise the lands or other property within and without the district to be acquired for rights-of-way, reservoirs, and other works of the district and to appraise all benefits and damages accruing to all land within or without the district by reason of the execution of the official plan. Each of the appraisers, before taking up his duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath that he will faithfully and impartially discharge his duties as such appraiser and that he will make a true report of such work done by him. The appraisers at their first meeting shall elect one of their own number chairman, and minutes of their meetings shall be maintained. A majority of the appraisers shall constitute a quorum, and a concurrence of the majority in any matter within their duties shall be sufficient for its determination. The court, by order, may remove any appraiser at any time and shall fill all vacancies in the board of appraisers or may appoint a new board, as occasion may require, which new board, if appointed, shall perform all the duties and exercise all the powers of the board of appraisers of the district.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1380, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-137 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-137. Appraisals

  During the preparation of an official plan that utilizes special improvement bonds for financing, the board of appraisers shall examine and become acquainted with the nature of the plans for the improvement of the lands and other property affected thereby in order that they may be better prepared to make appraisals for the special improvement bonds.    When the official plan utilizing special improvement bonds is adopted by the district, the secretary of the district shall at once notify the appraisers, and they shall thereupon proceed to appraise the benefits of every kind to all land and property within the subdistrict that will result from the special improvements to be financed by the special improvement bonds in the official plan. The appraisers shall also appraise the damages sustained and the value of the land and other property necessary to be acquired by the district in carrying out the official plan. In the progress of their work, the appraisers shall have the assistance of the attorney, engineers, secretary, and other agents and employees of the district or subdistrict.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1380, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1276, § 9, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-138 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-138. Report of Appraisers - Special Improvement Bonds

  The board of appraisers shall prepare a tabulated report of its findings, which shall be bound in book form and which shall be known as the conservation district appraisal record for special improvement bonds. Such record shall contain the names of the owners of property appraised as they appear on the tax rolls or from the records of the office of the county clerk and recorder, a description of the property appraised, and the amount of benefits appraised. No error in the names of the owners of property or in the descriptions thereof shall invalidate said appraisal or the levy of assessments or taxes based thereon if sufficient description is given to identify such property.    When the report is completed, it shall be signed by at least a majority of the appraisers and deposited with the clerk of the court, who shall file it in the original case. At the same time certified copies of that part of the report giving the appraisal of benefits in any county other than that in which the original case is pending shall be made and filed with the county clerk and recorder of such county.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1380, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: (1) amended, p. 1276, § 10, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-139 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-139. Notice of Hearing on Appraisals

  Upon the filing of the report of the appraisers, the clerk of the court in which the original cause is pending shall, upon order of the court, give notice thereof by publication in each county in the subdistrict. It shall not be necessary for said clerk to name the parties interested, but the notice shall specify:   The whole cost of the improvement, work, or acquisition;    The share apportioned to each lot or tract of land;    That complaints or objections may be made thereto, in writing, by the owners of the lands affected and filed in the office of the clerk of the court within ten days after the publication of such notice and that the same shall be heard and determined by the court.       Where lands in different counties are mentioned in said report, it shall not be necessary to publish in each county a description of all the lands in the district, but only of that part of the said lands situate in the county in which publication is made.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1381, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-140 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-140. Hearing on Appraisals

 Any property owner may accept the appraisals of benefits as made by the appraisers and shall be construed to have done so unless, within ten days after the last publication provided for in section 37-48-139 , he has filed exceptions to said report or to any appraisal of benefits. All exceptions shall be heard by the court, beginning not less than twenty days nor more than thirty days after the last publication provided for in section 37-48-139 , and determined in advance of other business so as to carry out, liberally, the purposes and needs of the subdistrict. The court may, if it deems necessary, return the report to the board of appraisers for its further consideration and amendment and may enter its order to that effect. If, however, the appraisal roll as a whole is referred back to the appraisers, the court shall not resume the hearing thereon without new notice, as for an original hearing thereon; but the court may, without new notice, order the appraisers to revise and amend the roll when the order of the court specifies the changes to be made.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1381, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-141 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-141. Decree on Appraisals

 If it appears to the satisfaction of the court, after having heard and determined all said exceptions, that the estimated cost of constructing the improvements contemplated in the official plan is less than the benefits appraised, the court shall approve and confirm said appraisers' report as so modified and amended, and such findings and appraisals shall be final and incontestable, except as provided in this article. In case the court finds that the benefits appraised are less than the estimated total cost of the execution of the official plan, exclusive of interest on deferred payments, it may at its discretion return said official plan to the directors of the district with an order directing them to prepare new or amended plans, or it may dissolve the subdistrict after having provided for the payment of all expenses theretofore incurred.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1381, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-142 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-142. Filing Decree

 Upon the entry of the order of the court approving the report of the appraisers, the clerk of the said court in which the same is entered shall transmit to the secretary of the district a certified copy of the said decree and of the appraisals as confirmed by the court.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1381, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-143 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-143. Validation of Irregular Proceedings

  Minor insubstantial irregularities in any notice or proceeding shall not make any proceeding invalid.    In case it is found upon a hearing that, by reason of some irregularity or defect in the proceedings, the appraisal has not been properly made, the court may, nevertheless, on having proof that expense has been incurred which is a proper charge against the property of the complainant, render a finding as to the amount of benefits to said property and appraise the proper benefits accordingly, and thereupon said land shall be assessed as other land equally benefited.    In the event that at any time, either before or after the issuance of bonds, the appraisal of benefits, either as a whole or in part, is declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid by reason of any defect or irregularity in the proceedings therefor, whether jurisdictional or otherwise, the said district court where the original case is pending is authorized, on the application of the board of directors of the said district or on the application of any holder of any bonds which may have been issued pursuant to this article, promptly and without delay to remedy all defects or irregularities, as the case may require, by causing to be made a new appraisal of the amount of benefits against the whole or any part of the lands in the said district, as the case may require.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1382, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-144 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-144. Compensation of Appraisers

 Appraisers, when appointed under the provisions of this article, shall receive such reasonable compensation as shall be fixed by the court in its order of appointment.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1382, § 7, effective July 18.
CO Code § 37-48-145 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-145. Preliminary Fund

  As soon as any subdistrict has been organized, the board of directors may fix the amount of assessment upon the property within the subdistrict at a level rate to be used for the purpose of paying the expenses of organization, for surveys and plans, and for other incidental expenses that may have been incurred prior to the time when money is received from the sale of bonds or otherwise. Such assessment shall not exceed five mills for every dollar of valuation for assessment of such property unless the petition for creation of the subdistrict and the order for the district court thereon provides for a higher rate. In accordance with the schedule prescribed by section 39-5-128, C.R.S., the amount of assessment for each dollar of valuation for assessment shall be certified to the boards of county commissioners of the various counties in which the district, or any portion thereof, is located and by them included in their next annual levy for state and county purposes. Said amount shall be collected for the use of such subdistrict in the same manner as are taxes for county purposes, and the revenue laws of the state for the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes on real estate for county purposes, except as modified in this article, shall be applicable for the levy and collection of the amount certified by the directors of such district as aforesaid, including the enforcement of penalties and forfeiture for delinquent taxes.    All collections made by the county treasurer pursuant to such levy shall be paid to the treasurer of the district on or before the tenth day of the next succeeding calendar month. If such items of expense have already been paid in whole or in part from moneys advanced by the district for subdistrict use or from other sources, they may be repaid from the receipts of such levy, and such levy may be made even though the work proposed may have been found impracticable or for other reasons may have been abandoned. The information collected by the necessary surveys, the appraisal of benefits and damages, and other information and data are declared to constitute benefits for which an assessment may be levied. In case a district is dissolved or abandoned for any cause whatsoever before the work is constructed, the data, plans, and estimates which have been secured shall be filed with the clerk of the court in which the district was organized and shall be matters of public record available to any person interested.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1382, § 7, effective July 18. L. 87: (1) amended, p. 1410, § 12, effective April 22. L. 2007: (1) amended, p. 1277, § 11, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-146 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-146. Power to Borrow Money for the Preliminary Fund

 In order to facilitate the preliminary work, the board of directors may borrow money at a net effective interest rate as determined by the board and, as evidence of the debt so contracted, may issue and sell or may issue to contractors or others negotiable evidences of debt, in this article called ”warrants“, and may pledge, after it has been levied, the preliminary assessment of not exceeding five mills for the repayment thereof, or may pledge the revenue from any service charge or user fee to be levied by the subdistrict. If any warrant so issued by the board of directors is presented for payment and is not paid for want of funds in the treasury, that fact, with the date of presentation, shall be endorsed on the back of such warrant, which shall thereafter draw interest at the rate specified in the endorsement, not exceeding the net effective interest rate as when issued, until such time as there is money on hand sufficient to pay the amount of said warrant with interest.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1383, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1277, § 12, effective May 25.
CO Code § 37-48-147 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 37 - Water and Irrigation|Article 48 - Rio Grande Water Conservation District|§ 37-48-147. Directors Bound by Financing Plan

  The board of directors of the district shall be bound by the plan of financing set forth in the petition for the organization of the subdistrict and approved by the decree of the district court. The appointment of appraisers shall not be necessary if the official plan adopted does not utilize special improvement bonds as a means of financing the subdistrict official plan, but the district or the subdistrict board of managers, as the case may be, may nevertheless retain appraisers as needed to appraise the value of property to be acquired.    If the plan of financing provides for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the subdistrict, such bonds shall be signed ”Water Users' Association No. ..... in the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, by .........., President, Attest .........., Secretary“, or ”Special Improvement District No. ..... in the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, by .........., President, Attest .........., Secretary“. They shall be countersigned by the treasurer. General obligation bonds shall recite that they are obligations of the subdistrict, are issued pursuant to the provisions of this article, and are to be payable at the time, in the manner, and with the rate of interest therein specified and that the same were issued under and pursuant to a court decree and a resolution of the board of directors authorizing the issue of said obligations and referring to the date of said resolution. Said bonds shall further recite that they are payable from funds to be derived by special assessments and tax levies against the property in said subdistrict and other revenues derived from the operation of the subdistrict's official plan, as provided by the plan of financing in the petition for organization of the subdistrict, and not otherwise, that the same are not to be deemed to be an obligation of the Rio Grande water conservation district but only an obligation of said subdistrict, and that the district itself is not to be obligated in any manner for the payment of said bonds. If there is a board of managers for the subdistrict, the resolution of the board of directors authorizing said obligations shall be approved by the board of managers before being adopted by the board of directors.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1383, § 7, effective July 18. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1277, § 13, effective May 25.