2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 32 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS (§§ 32-1-101 — 32-22-117) › WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICTS (§§ 32-4-101 — 32-4-547) › Article 4 - WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICTS (§§ 32-4-101 — 32-4-547) › Part 5 - METROPOLITAN SEWAGE DISPOSAL DISTRICTS (§§ 32-4-501 — 32-4-547) › Section 32-4-507 - Powers of public bodies

(1)
The governing body of any municipality or other public body, upon its behalf and in its name, for the purpose of aiding and cooperating in any project authorized in this part 5, upon the terms and with or without consideration and with or without an election, as the governing body determines, has power under this part 5:
(a)
To sell, lease, loan, donate, grant, convey, assign, transfer, and otherwise dispose to the district of sewers, sewage facilities, and sewer improvements, or any combination thereof;
(b)
To make available for temporary use or otherwise dispose of to the district any machinery, equipment, facilities, and other property, and any agents, employees, persons with professional training, and any other persons, to effect the purposes of this part 5. Any such property owned and persons in the employ of any public body while engaged in performing for the district any service, activity, or undertaking authorized in this part 5, pursuant to contract or otherwise, shall have all the powers, privileges, immunities, rights, and duties of, and shall be deemed to be engaged in the service and employment of, such public body, notwithstanding such service, activity, or undertaking is being performed in or for a district.
(c)
To enter into any agreement or joint agreement between or among the federal government, the district, and any other public body, or any combination thereof, which is mutually agreed thereby, notwithstanding any law to the contrary, respecting action or proceedings appertaining to any power granted in this part 5, and the use or joint use of any facilities, project, or other property authorized in this part 5;
(d)
To sell, lease, loan, donate, grant, convey, assign, transfer, or pay over to a district any facilities or any project authorized in this part 5, or any part thereof, or any interest in real or personal property, or any funds available for acquisition, improvement, or equipment purposes, including the proceeds of any securities issued for acquisition, improvement, or equipment purposes which may be used by the district in the acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance, or operation of any facilities or project authorized in this part 5;
(e)
To transfer, grant, convey, or assign and set over to a district any contracts which have been awarded by the public body for the acquisition, improvement, or equipment of any project not begun, or if begun, not completed;
(f)
To budget and appropriate, and each municipality or other public body is required and directed to budget and appropriate, from time to time, general ad valorem tax proceeds, service charges, and other revenues legally available therefor to pay all obligations arising from the exercise of any powers granted in this part 5 as such obligations accrue and become due, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, service charges fixed by the district;
(g)
To prescribe and enforce reasonable rules and regulations, not in conflict with any such rule or regulation of the district, for the availability of service from, the connection with, the use of, and the disconnection from the sewer system of the public body or other sanitation or sewer facilities thereof;
(h)
To provide for an agency, by any agreement authorized in this part 5, to administer or execute that or any collateral agreement, which agency may be one of the parties to the agreement, or a commission or board constituted pursuant to the agreement;
(i)
To provide that any such agency shall possess the common power specified in the agreement, and may exercise it in the manner or according to the method provided in the agreement. Such power is subject to the restrictions upon the manner of exercising the power of any one of the contracting parties, which party shall be designated by the agreement.
(j)
To continue any agreement authorized in this part 5 until rescinded or terminated, which agreement may provide for the method by which it may be rescinded or terminated by any party.
(2)
All of the powers, privileges, immunities, and rights, exemptions from laws, ordinances, and rules and all pension, relief, disability, workers' compensation, and other benefits which apply to the activity of officers, agents, or employees of any such district or public body when performing their respective functions within the territorial limits of their respective public agencies shall apply to them to the same degree and extent while engaged in the performance of any of their functions and duties extraterritorially under this part 5.
L. 62: p. 200, § 14. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-15-20. L. 90: (2) amended, p. 572, § 65, effective July 1. L. 93: (1)(c) and (1)(j) amended, p. 21, § 1, effective March 4.