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CO Code § 31-25-110 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 1 - Urban Renewal|§ 31-25-110. Property of an Authority Exempt From Taxes and From Levy and Sale by Virtue of an Execution

  All property of an authority, including but not limited to all funds owned or held by it for any of the purposes of this part 1, shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no such execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same nor shall a judgment against the authority be a charge or lien upon such property; except that the foregoing provisions of this subsection (1) shall not apply to or limit the right of obligees to foreclose or otherwise enforce any mortgage, deed of trust, trust agreement, indenture, or other encumbrance of the authority or the right of obligees to pursue any remedies for the enforcement of any pledge or lien given by the authority pursuant to this part 1 on its rents, income, proceeds, revenues, loans, grants, contributions, and other funds and assets derived or arising from any project of the authority or from any of its operations or activities under this part 1.    All property of an authority acquired or held by it for any of the purposes of this part 1, including but not limited to all funds of an authority acquired or held by it for any of said purposes, are declared to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes, and such property and the authority shall be exempt from all taxes of the state of Colorado or any other public body thereof; except that such tax exemption shall terminate when the authority sells, leases, or otherwise disposes of the particular property to a purchaser, lessee, or other alienee which is not a public body entitled to tax exemption with respect to such property.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1171, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-110 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-111 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 1 - Urban Renewal|§ 31-25-111. Title of Purchaser, Lessee, or Transferee

 Any instrument executed by an authority and purporting to convey any right, title, or interest of the authority in any property under this part 1 shall be conclusively presumed to have been made and executed in compliance with the provisions of this part 1 insofar as title or other interest of any bona fide purchasers, lessees, or transferees of such property is concerned.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1172, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-111 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-113 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 1 - Urban Renewal|§ 31-25-113. Authorities to Have No Power of Taxation

 No authority created by this part 1 has any power to levy or assess any ad valorem taxes, personal property taxes, or any other forms of taxes, including special assessments against any property.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1174, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-113 as it existed prior to 1975.   ANNOTATION   Applied in Denver Urban Renewal Auth. v. Byrne, 618 P.2d 1374 (Colo. 1980).
CO Code § 31-25-114 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 1 - Urban Renewal|§ 31-25-114. Cumulative Clause

 The powers conferred by this part 1 shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1174, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-114 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-115 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 1 - Urban Renewal|§ 31-25-115. Transfer - Abolishment

  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part 1, the governing body of a municipality may designate itself as the authority when originally establishing said authority. A transfer of an existing authority to the governing body may be accomplished only by majority vote at a regular election. (1.5) When the governing body of a municipality designates itself as the authority or transfers an existing authority to the governing body pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, one such commissioner on the authority must be appointed by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the territorial boundaries of the urban renewal authority area are located, one such commissioner must also be a board member of a special district selected by agreement of the special districts levying a mill levy within the boundaries of the urban renewal authority area, and one commissioner must also be an elected member of a board of education of a school district levying a mill levy within the boundaries of the urban renewal authority area. Appointments made pursuant to this subsection (1.5) must be made in accordance with the procedures specified in section 31-25-104 (2) .    The governing body of a municipality may by ordinance provide for the abolishment of an urban renewal authority, provided adequate arrangements have been made for payment of any outstanding indebtedness and other obligations of the authority. Any such abolishment shall be effective upon a date set forth in the ordinance, which date shall not be less than six months from the effective date of the ordinance.     History. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1468, § 1, effective May 26. L. 2007: (1) amended, p. 1984, § 41, effective August 3. L. 2015: (1.5) added, (HB 15-1348), ch. 261, p. 989, § 3, effective August 5.
CO Code § 31-25-116 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 1 - Urban Renewal|§ 31-25-116. Regional Tourism Projects

  An urban renewal authority that is designated as a financing entity pursuant to part 3 of article 46 of title 24, C.R.S., shall have all of the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of part 3 of article 46 of title 24, C.R.S., including but not limited to the powers to receive state sales tax increment revenue generated within an approved regional tourism zone, as defined in section (11), C.R.S., and disburse and otherwise utilize such revenue for all lawful purposes, including but not limited to financing of eligible costs and the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of eligible improvements, as such terms are defined in section 24-46-303, C.R.S., or otherwise incorporated into the commission's conditions of approval.    Notwithstanding the provision of section 31-25-107 (7), authorization to receive state sales tax increment revenue pursuant to part 3 of article 46 of title 24, C.R.S., shall not be considered a material modification to the plan and corresponding changes to the plan may be made by the governing body of the authority to incorporate the use of state sales tax increment revenue without the requirement of submission to or approval by the governing body of a municipality that has established the authority pursuant to section 31-25-104 (1).    Any urban renewal authority that receives state sales tax increment revenue, whether pursuant to designation as a financing entity pursuant to part 3 of article 46 of title 24, C.R.S., or pursuant to a contract entered into with any such financing entity, shall not use the state sales tax increment revenue to acquire property through the exercise of eminent domain.    Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to eliminate the requirements for the authorization of a new urban renewal authority under this part 1.     History. Source: L. 2009: Entire section added, (SB 09-173), ch. 434, p. 2418, § 3, effective June 4.
CO Code § 31-25-202 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-202. Acquisition by Purchase

 No land or interest in land shall be purchased for the purposes set forth in section 31-25-201 (1) until the governing body adopts an ordinance authorizing such purchase which states the location and legal description of the lands to be purchased, the price to be paid, and the manner of payment or unless the proposed purchase of such lands is submitted upon petition pursuant to section 31-25-203 and approved by the registered electors of such city.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1174, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former §§ 31-25-202 and 31-25-213 as they existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-204 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-204. Acquisition by Condemnation

  For the purpose of acquiring lands for parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads, the park commission is authorized, with the approval of the mayor, to select and, by a suitable proceeding in the name of the city, without the passage of any ordinance, condemn real estate or, with the approval of the mayor, to purchase any real estate so selected for one or more parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, or roads and to select routes and streets for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of connecting boulevards and pleasure ways or parkways therein. All such condemnation proceedings shall be in accordance with the general laws of the state insofar as the same are applicable, but the benefit to other lands shall be ascertained and assessed.    Payment for any acquisition provided in subsection (1) of this section may be paid for by special assessments upon all the other real estate, except parks, pleasure grounds, avenues, boulevards, streets, and roads in such city or partly out of the proceeds of the sale of the general bonds of the city, in accordance with the powers conferred by this part 2, and partly by such assessments, as the same may be determined by the mayor and park commission.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1176, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former §§ 31-25-216 and 31-25-217 as they existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-205 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-205. Bequests for Park Purposes

 Real or personal property may be granted, bequeathed, devised, or conveyed to the city for the purpose of the improvement or ornamentation of any park, pleasure ground, boulevard, parkway, avenue, driveway, or road or for the establishment or maintenance in parks or pleasure grounds of museums, zoological or other gardens, collections of natural history, observatories, libraries, monuments, or works of art upon such trusts or conditions as may be approved by the commission. All such property or the rents, issues, and profits thereof shall be subject to the exclusive management and control of the commission. Lands or interests in land given or devised to such city for the purposes mentioned in this section shall be accepted or refused by ordinance passed by the governing body.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1176, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former §§ 31-25-202 and 31-25-212 as they existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-206 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-206. Park Commissioners - Vacancies

  The care, custody, management, and control of the city parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads may be vested exclusively in a park commission which shall be composed of six members who shall be registered electors in said city and well-known for their ability, probity, and public spirit, one of whom shall be president of the commission. The mayor of the city shall appoint, with the consent of the governing body, for and on behalf of such city, such park commissioners who shall hold office one-half for one year and one-half for two years from the July 1 following their appointment. At their first regular meeting they shall cast lots for the respective terms. Annually thereafter and before July 1 of each year, the mayor, with the consent of the governing body, shall appoint three commissioners for the ensuing two years to take the place of the retiring commissioners. All vacancies in such park commission arising from any cause shall be filled by the mayor with the consent of the governing body.    The governing body may, by ordinance, provide for abolishment of the park commission and consolidation of the functions and activities specified in this part 2 under the general control and administration of the city as provided by ordinance. The powers conferred upon the park commission as specified in this part 2 may be exercised by the city in the manner provided by ordinance. Any provision of this part 2 to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing body of a city may appoint one or more advisory commissions or boards with respect to parks, recreation, and other municipal functions.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1176, § 1, effective July 1. L. 87: (1) amended, p. 332, § 97, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-203 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-207 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-207. Members Serve Without Compensation - No Interest in Contracts

 The commissioners shall serve without compensation except for their actual expenses which shall be approved by the mayor. No member of the commission shall have any interest, directly or indirectly, in any contract relating to the establishment or maintenance of any of the properties mentioned in section 31-25-201 or in any contract providing for the expenditure of any money in relation thereto. Any commissioner shall vacate his office upon the acceptance of any other public office.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1177, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-204 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-208 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-208. Meetings - Quorum

 The commission shall hold a regular meeting on the first Tuesday of each month and may by rule provide for special meetings and service of notice thereof. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. No action of the commission shall be binding unless authorized by a majority of the members at a regular or duly called special meeting.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1177, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-208 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-209 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-209. Secretary - Salary - Duties

 The commission may employ a secretary at a salary not exceeding twelve hundred dollars per annum, to be fixed by the commission, payable out of the park fund. The secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of the commission, have custody of and preserve all its records, and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the commission.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1177, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-205 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-210 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-210. Office of Commission - Supplies

 The city shall provide the commission with convenient offices, stationery, and the facilities necessary for the performance of its duties as the commission deems necessary and advisable.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1177, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-206 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-211 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-211. Superintendent of Parks - Assistants - Salaries

 The commission may appoint a superintendent of parks who shall be a practical landscape gardener who, under the direction of the commission, shall have active charge, control, and direction of all the parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads which are under the control of the commission and who shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the commission, with such other assistants and at such salaries payable out of the park fund as may be authorized by the commission, with the approval of the mayor.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1177, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-207 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-212 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-212. Expenditures for Park Purposes

 The commission, with the approval of the mayor, shall have full, complete, and exclusive power and authority to expend, for and on behalf of the city, all sums of money that may be raised by general taxation for park purposes, all other sums of money appropriated by the governing body from the general revenues for the same purposes, and all moneys that may be realized by the commission from the sale of privileges in or near the parks of the city or realized from the sale of the general bonds of the city and set apart for park purposes or from the sale of the park bonds provided for in section 31-25-203 (2) .   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1177, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-209 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-213 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-213. Fiscal Year - Annual Report

 The fiscal year of the park commission shall end on December 31 of each year. During the month of January of each year the commission shall make an annual report to the mayor and the governing body of all moneys received and expended in the purchase, improvement, and maintenance of parks. The report shall show when, where, how, and in what manner the same were received and expended and what improvements have been made during the year preceding the report.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1177, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-210 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-214 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-214. Park Fund - Certified Vouchers

 The park fund shall consist of moneys levied, collected, and appropriated therefor and coming into the fund by donation or otherwise. All moneys collected and credited to the park fund shall be used for the maintenance and improvement of parks, parkways, boulevards, avenues, driveways, and roads and shall be expended by the commission as in its judgment the needs of such property require. The same shall be drawn upon the proper officers of such city upon vouchers properly authenticated by the president and secretary of the park commission.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1178, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-214 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-215 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-215. Maximum Tax Levy - Moneys Credited

  As a part of the annual levies authorized by law, the governing body shall annually levy, assess, and collect upon each dollar of taxable property within the city not more than one and one-half mills for the purposes of said park fund, the proceeds of which shall be collected in the same manner as other city taxes and shall be appropriated by the governing body for the park fund.    All moneys collected, received, levied, or appropriated by the governing body for park purposes shall be deposited in the treasury of such city to the credit of the park fund and shall be kept separate and apart from other moneys of such city. Any portion thereof remaining unexpended at the end of any fiscal year or at any other time shall not in any event be converted into the general fund nor be subject to appropriation for general purposes.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1178, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-215 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-217 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-217. Management - Licenses - Franchises

  The commission shall have exclusive management and control of all parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads, as mentioned in section 31-25-201, and exclusive power to lay out, regulate, and improve the same, to prohibit certain or heavy traffic therein and thereon, and to grant or refuse licenses to sell goods on the streets or sidewalks within three hundred feet of any park entrance and on the streets and sidewalks adjoining parks. The commission shall establish and maintain necessary rules and regulations for the proper supervision and government thereof and shall have such additional powers as may be prescribed by ordinance. The governing body shall provide, by ordinance, for the enforcement of the rules and orders of the commission.    No franchise, license, or permit for the construction or maintenance of any railway shall ever be granted within the limits of any park or pleasure ground or lengthwise upon any boulevard, parkway, avenue, driveway, or road, nor shall any franchise for the maintenance of any other special privilege within any park or pleasure ground be granted.     History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1179, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 31-25-211 as it existed prior to 1975.
CO Code § 31-25-218 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 31 - Government - Municipal|Article 25 - Public Improvements|Part 2 - Parks - Cities|§ 31-25-218. Conservation Trust Fund Authorized

 Each city in this state, including home rule and special territorial charter cities, may create a conservation trust fund as provided in section 29-21-101 , C.R.S.   History. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1179, § 1, effective July 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 139-88-20 as it existed prior to 1975. (See L. 74, p. 434 , § 5.) This section was renumbered on revision as § 31-25-220 , but was never printed as such in C.R.S. 1973.