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2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 3 - PAYMENTS OF MATURED SPECIAL ASSESSMENT (§§ 31-21-301 — 31-21-303) › Section 31-21-301 - Power to issue bonds - purpose

Subject to the provisions of this part 3, any municipality has the power to issue its negotiable coupon bonds for the purpose of paying any special assessment bonds or obligations which it may issue, together with interest thereon, when it appears that there is not or will not be sufficient money for the payment of the same at maturity in the particular fund out of which payment should be made.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1141, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-301 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 3 - PAYMENTS OF MATURED SPECIAL ASSESSMENT (§§ 31-21-301 — 31-21-303) › Section 31-21-302 - Ordinance - taxes - interest - disposition

The issuance of any bonds in accordance with this part 3 shall be authorized by an ordinance, subject to and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of section
31-15-302(1)(d)
. Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate and shall be exchanged or sold at a price such that the net effective interest rate of the issue of bonds does not exceed the maximum net effective interest rate authorized. Interest shall be paid semiannually at such place, in such denominations, and by such officers as may be prescribed in such ordinance. Such bonds may be exchanged for outstanding matured and overdue special assessment bonds or obligations and interest thereon, or they may be sold and the proceeds thereof used for the purpose specified in this part 3.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-303 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 3 - PAYMENTS OF MATURED SPECIAL ASSESSMENT (§§ 31-21-301 — 31-21-303) › Section 31-21-303 - Construction - disposition of delinquent assessment

Nothing in this part 3 shall release or discharge any special assessment which is a lien on or against any property. Any municipality issuing bonds under this part 3 shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders or owners of the outstanding special assessment bonds or obligations paid. If, after the issuance of bonds authorized by this part 3, the delinquent or defaulted special assessments, or any part thereof, are collected and the special assessment bonds or obligations payable out of the particular special assessment fund have been redeemed by means of bonds issued under this part 3, the amounts so collected shall be used to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds authorized and the tax levies therefor shall be reduced in a like manner.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-304 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 4 - PAYMENT BY TAX LEVY ON PETITION OF ELECTORS (§§ 31-21-401 — 31-21-407) › Section 31-21-401 - Power to levy - manner paid

On the petition of a majority of the registered electors of any city or town having an outstanding bonded indebtedness amounting to one-fourth or more of its valuation for assessment, the governing body of such city or town is authorized to levy or cause to be levied at one time a tax on all the taxable property subject to taxes for payment of such bonds sufficient to discharge the entire principal of and the accrued interest on such indebtedness plus fifteen percent for delinquencies, which tax may be paid by the property owners at one time or in installments, as provided in this part 4. In determining the amount of outstanding bonded indebtedness, any sum in the sinking fund may be deducted.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1. L. 87: Entire section amended, p. 332, § 96, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-401 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 4 - PAYMENT BY TAX LEVY ON PETITION OF ELECTORS (§§ 31-21-401 — 31-21-407) › Section 31-21-402 - Discharge of lien by property owner

Any property owner may discharge the lien of said bond tax on his property by paying the tax in full, in bonds or matured coupons of the issue for which the levy is made at their face value. Thereafter the same property shall not be liable for the payment of such tax as between the city or town and the property owner.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-402 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 4 - PAYMENT BY TAX LEVY ON PETITION OF ELECTORS (§§ 31-21-401 — 31-21-407) › Section 31-21-403 - Payment in installments

Any property owner not paying the tax in full at one time has the privilege of paying the same in cash installments, the number of which installments shall be determined by the governing body and which shall equal the number of years from the time the next tax is payable to the last maturity of the bonds, with interest on the unpaid installments at the same rate which the outstanding bonds bear. After any property owner has paid one or more cash installments, he may pay the balance of said tax with bonds or matured coupons as provided in section
31-21-402
.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1142, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-403 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 4 - PAYMENT BY TAX LEVY ON PETITION OF ELECTORS (§§ 31-21-401 — 31-21-407) › Section 31-21-404 - Payment in bonds - warrant for excess

(1)
The tax-collecting officers are authorized to accept full payment of such taxes in said bonds or coupons and to cancel said bonds and coupons on such payment. Said tax-collecting officers are authorized to deliver to the person paying such tax a certificate, in duplicate, showing such payment and a description of the property on which the tax was paid, which certificate may be filed or recorded in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county wherein the property is situated.
(2)
In the event that any bonds or coupons presented as payment exceed the amount due, the tax-collecting officers shall deliver to the property owner a certificate to that effect, whereupon the property owner shall be entitled to receive from the city or town a warrant on its treasury, payable out of the bond and interest fund, in the amount of such excess, which warrant until paid shall bear the same rate of interest as the bonds for the payment of which the tax was levied.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-404 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 4 - PAYMENT BY TAX LEVY ON PETITION OF ELECTORS (§§ 31-21-401 — 31-21-407) › Section 31-21-405 - Assessment and collection

Said taxes shall be certified, levied, assessed, and collected in the same manner and shall be subject to the same penalties as general taxes.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-405 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 4 - PAYMENT BY TAX LEVY ON PETITION OF ELECTORS (§§ 31-21-401 — 31-21-407) › Section 31-21-406 - Suit by bondholder - city or town to protect

In the event that any action, suit, or proceeding is brought by any bondholder, creditor, or other person, wherein it is sought to compel the levy of any further bond tax on property which has been discharged from said tax by payment in full, the city or town shall take all necessary steps to protect said property on which the tax has been paid in full by purchasing property sold for the nonpayment of such tax in the event that there are no other purchasers and by making ample provisions for the payment of delinquent bond taxes or the installments thereof out of the general fund or any other available fund, the intention being that, as between the city or town and the taxpayer, any particular property may be fully discharged and relieved from the lien of such tax or the levy of any further tax for the same purpose by payment in full of its proportionate share thereof at the time of payment.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-406 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 21 - BONDS (§§ 31-21-101 — 31-21-407) › Part 4 - PAYMENT BY TAX LEVY ON PETITION OF ELECTORS (§§ 31-21-401 — 31-21-407) › Section 31-21-407 - Other laws unaffected

Nothing in this part 4 shall prevent the issuance of any bonds or the levy of taxes for the payment thereof in the manner as is authorized by law nor shall anything in this part 4 prevent the issuance of bonds for the purpose of refunding any outstanding bonded indebtedness of any city or town in accordance with the provisions of law applying thereto.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-21-407 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-101 - Plats of cities and towns organized prior to 1885

In all cases in which a city or town was organized prior to March 31, 1885, in which lands embraced within the boundaries thereof have been conveyed or known by lots, blocks, streets, highways, parks, squares, or other divisions of land or in which any such lots, blocks, streets, highways, parks, squares, or other divisions of land have been known as such by reference to some previous plat or map, whether prepared or submitted in accordance with law or not, the owners of such lands, in order to determine the location and boundaries thereof, may cause a plat of the same to be filed in accordance with the provisions of this part 1.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1143, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-401 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-102 - Application to other cities or towns

The provisions of this part 1 are applicable to lands within the boundaries of cities and towns organized on or after March 31, 1885, to the extent that any owners of lands therein desire to make any change in the plat of any such city or town from the plat as originally made.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-405 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-103 - Plats of whole municipal area

(1)
When any such plat embraces in its description the whole municipal area of any such city or town, it shall set forth, as near as may be:
(a)
All streets and highways and the width thereof;
(b)
All parks, squares, and other grounds reserved for public uses with the boundaries and dimensions thereof;
(c)
All lots and blocks and other divisions of land, with their boundaries, designating such lots and blocks by numbers and giving the dimensions of such lots and other divisions of land.
(2)
Reference shall be made in said plat to one or more permanent monuments. The scale of said plat shall be indicated therein, and any other matters necessary or proper to clarify the descriptions of lands indicated on any such plat may be entered thereon.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-402 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-104 - Acknowledgment of plat

Any such plat shall be acknowledged in the manner of a deed by the owners and proprietors of the lands designated upon any such plat before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds. A copy thereof so acknowledged shall be filed in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county where such lands are situated and also in the office of the clerk of any such city or town. When any such plat embraces in its description any street, highway, park, square, or other lands owned or held by the city or town for any public use or otherwise, said plat shall be acknowledged in behalf of the city or town by the mayor of the city or town when authorized by the resolution or ordinance of the governing body. Any such acknowledgment of any owner or proprietor may be made for such owner or proprietor by any attorney-in-fact duly authorized by deed.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-403 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-105 - Plats of portion of municipal area

A plat of any portion of such municipal area may be filed, and any number of such plats may be filed. When any plat is filed containing a description of any less than all of the municipal area, the same matters shall be indicated upon such plat, to the extent of lands described in such plat, as are required to be indicated in a plat of the whole municipal area, as near as may be. Every plat shall be acknowledged by such owner and proprietor whose lands are embraced within the description of such plat.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-404 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-106 - How parcels designated

In case of filing any such plat under this part 1, the designation by which any lot, block, or other parcel of land has previously been known shall be retained in said plat. With the consent of the city or town, any such lot, block, or other parcel of land specified in said plat may be designated by other numbers or names than those by which said lots, blocks, or other parcels of land have been previously known. Such consent of any such city or town, through its governing body, shall be evidenced by the acknowledgment of the mayor. In case of tracts or parcels of land within any such city or town which have not been known or platted by lots, blocks, or other parcels of land of a designated number or name, the same may be platted as provided in section
31-23-105
upon the consent of the city or town as provided in this section.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1144, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-406 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-107 - Public property dedicated

All streets, parks, and other places designated or described as for public use on the map or plat of any city or town or of any addition made to such city or town are public property and the fee title thereto vested in such city or town.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-108 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-108 - Record and preservation - definition

The county clerk and recorder shall record all such plats of lands within his or her county together with the description, acknowledgment, or other writing thereon in a book to be kept for that purpose and, when necessary, may reduce the scale of any such plat. Upon each record in the book he or she shall endorse his or her certificate that the same is truly recorded from the original plat filed in his or her office. The county clerk and recorder may receive an original plat for recording in an electronic format. The county clerk and recorder shall preserve the original plat in the original format, an electronic format, or both. If the plat is received for recording in the original format, the county clerk and recorder may preserve it in an electronic format by digitizing or scanning the plat at a minimum resolution of three hundred dots per inch. The county clerk and recorder shall keep an index to such book of plats, which index shall contain the names of the parties acknowledging such plats and the name of the city or town, as the case may be. The county clerk and recorder shall likewise make entries of all the plats in the index in his or her office in which deeds are required to be entered. As used in this section, "electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
Amended by 2020 Ch. 239,§ 1, eff. 9/14/2020.
Amended by 2017 Ch. 213,§ 1, eff. 8/9/2017.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2017: Entire section amended, (SB 17-129), ch. 832, p. 832, § 1, effective August 9. L. 2020: Entire section amended, (HB 20-1318), ch. 1157, p. 1157, § 1, effective September 14.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-407 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-109 - Plats shall be evidence

All such original plats, the record thereof, or copies therefrom, certified by the county clerk and recorder of such county, shall be evidence in all courts and places.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-408 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-110 - Boundaries settled by plat

Upon the filing of any such plat in the office of the county clerk and recorder, the boundaries of contiguous divisions of land, as described in section
31-23-103
, upon any such plat shall be determined and settled as indicated in the plat. All the other matters indicated upon said plat are binding upon the parties acknowledging such plat. For the purpose of description in any instrument affecting title to any land described in any such plat, the designation given upon such plat shall be sufficient.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-409 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-111 - Owner construed

For the purposes of this part 1, any person having a legal or equitable interest in any lands shall be deemed an owner and proprietor. Nothing in this part 1 shall affect the rights of anyone other than those acknowledging any such plat.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-410 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 1 - PLATS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-112) › Section 31-23-112 - Fees of recorder

The county clerk and recorder shall receive the same fees for filing and recording the plats provided for by this part 1 as are allowed for filing and recording original maps or plats of cities or towns.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-1-411 as it existed prior to 1975.
For fees for filing and recording maps or plats, see § 30-1-103.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-201 - Definitions

As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"Mayor" means the chief executive of the municipality, whether the official designation of his office is mayor, city manager, or otherwise; except that with respect to municipalities operating under the statutory city manager form of government, the term means the city manager.
(2)
"Subdivision" means any parcel of land which is to be used for condominiums, apartments, or any other multiple-dwellings units, unless such land was previously subdivided and the filing accompanying such subdivision complied with municipal regulations applicable to subdivisions of substantially the same density, or the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or of building development. It includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or territory subdivided.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1145, § 1, effective July 1. L. 81: (2) amended, p. 1512, § 1, effective June 4.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-101 (3) and (6) as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-202 - Grant of power to municipality

Any municipality is authorized to make, adopt, amend, extend, add to, or carry out a plan as provided in this part 2 and to create by ordinance or resolution a planning commission with the powers and duties set forth in this part 2.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1146, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-102 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-204 - Organization and rules

The commission shall elect its chairman from among the non ex officio members and shall create and fill such other of its offices as it may determine. The term of the chairman shall be one year, with eligibility for reelection. The commission shall hold at least one regular meeting in each month. It shall adopt rules for transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings, and determinations, which record shall be a public record.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1147, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-104 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-205 - Staff and finances

The commission may appoint such employees as it deems necessary for its work; except that the appointment, promotion, demotion, and removal of such employees shall be subject to the same provisions of law as govern other corresponding civil employees of the municipality. The commission may also contract, with the approval of the governing body, with municipal planners, engineers, and architects and other consultants for such services as it requires. The expenditures of the commission, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the governing body, which shall provide the funds, equipment, and accommodations necessary for the commission's work.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1147, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-105 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-207 - Purposes in view

In the preparation of such plan, the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of present conditions and future growth of the municipality, with due regard to its relation to neighboring territory. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the municipality and its environs which will, in accordance with present and future needs, best promote health, safety, order, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development, including, among other things, adequate provision for traffic, the promotion of safety from fire, flood waters, and other dangers, adequate provision for light and air, distribution of population, affordable housing, the promotion of good civic design and arrangement, efficient expenditure of public funds, the promotion of energy conservation, and the adequate provision of public utilities and other public requirements.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1147, § 1, effective July 1. L. 79: Entire section amended, p. 1163, § 11, effective 1/1/1980. L. 97: Entire section amended, p. 414, § 3, effective April 24.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-107 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-208 - Procedure of commission

The commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution or may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts of the plan (said parts corresponding with major geographical sections or divisions of the municipality or with functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan) and may adopt any amendment or extension thereof or addition thereto. Before the adoption of the plan or any such part, amendment, extension, or addition, the commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality and in the official newspaper of the county affected. The adoption of the plan, any part, amendment, extension, or addition shall be by resolution of the commission carried by the affirmative votes of not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the map and plan and descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the chairman or secretary of the commission. An attested copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to each governmental body of the territory affected and, after the approval by each body, shall be filed with the county clerk and recorder of each county wherein the territory is located.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1148, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-108 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-209 - Legal status of official plan

When the commission has adopted the master plan of the municipality or of one or more major sections or districts thereof, no street, square, park or other public way, ground or open space, public building or structure, or publicly or privately owned public utility shall be constructed or authorized in the municipality or in such planned section and district until the location, character, and extent thereof has been submitted for approval by the commission. In case of disapproval, the commission shall communicate its reasons to the municipality's governing body, which has the power to overrule such disapproval by a recorded vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership. If the public way, ground space, building, structure, or utility is one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing the same, fall within the province of the municipal governing body, the submission to the commission shall be by the governmental body having jurisdiction, and the planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by said governmental body by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its membership. The failure of the commission to act within sixty days from and after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1148, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-109 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-210 - Publicity - travel - information - entry

The commission has power to promote public interest in and understanding of the plan and to that end may publish and distribute copies of the plan or any report and may employ such other means of publicity and education as it may determine. Members of the commission may attend city planning conferences, meetings of city planning institutes, or hearings upon pending municipal planning legislation, and the commission may pay, by resolution, the reasonable traveling expenses incident to such attendance. The commission shall recommend, from time to time, to the appropriate public officials programs for public structures and improvements and for the financing thereof. It shall be part of its duties to consult and advise with public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional, and other organizations, and with citizens in relation to protecting and carrying out the plan. The commission has the right to accept and use gifts for the exercise of its functions. All public officials shall furnish to the commission, upon request, within a reasonable length of time, such available information as the commission may require for its work. The commission and its members, officers, and employees, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary marks and monuments thereon. In general, the commission has such powers as are necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, to promote municipal planning, or to carry out the purposes of this part 2.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1148, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-110 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-211 - Zoning

Where a commission is established in accordance with the provisions of this part 2, it has and shall exercise all of the powers and rights granted to the zoning commission by part 3 of this article. When there is a zoning commission in existence at the time that a commission is created, the zoning commission shall deliver to the commission all of its records and shall thereafter cease to exercise the powers and prerogatives previously exercised by it; except that, if the existing zoning commission is nearing completion of a zoning plan, the governing body of the municipality may postpone, by resolution, the transfer of the zoning commission's powers until completion of the zoning plan; but in no event shall the period of such postponement exceed six months from the date of the creation of the commission. Nothing in this section shall invalidate or otherwise affect any zoning law or regulation or any action of the zoning commission adopted or taken prior to the creation of a commission.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1149, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-111 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-212 - Jurisdiction

The territorial jurisdiction of any commission over the subdivision of land includes all land located within the legal boundaries of the municipality and, limited only to control with reference to a major street plan and not otherwise, also includes all land lying within three miles of the boundaries of the municipality not located in any other municipality; except that in the case of any such land lying within five miles of more than one municipality, the jurisdiction of each commission shall terminate at a boundary line equidistant from the respective municipal limits of such municipalities. The jurisdiction over the subdivision of lands outside the boundary of a municipality shall apply equally to any municipality.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1149, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-112 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-213 - Scope of control

When a commission has adopted a major street plan for the territory within its subdivision control, or any part thereof, as provided in section
31-23-208
, and has filed a certified copy of such plan in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county in which such territory or such part is located, no plat of a subdivision of land within such territory or such part shall be filed or recorded until it has been approved by such commission and such approval entered in writing on the plat by the chairman or secretary of the commission.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1149, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-113 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-214.1 - Subdivision plan or plat - access to public highways

No person may submit an application for subdivision approval to a local authority unless the subdivision plan or plat provides, pursuant to section
43-2-147
, C.R.S., that all lots and parcels created by the subdivision will have access to the state highway system in conformance with the state highway access code.
L. 80: Entire section added, p. 796, § 59, effective June 5. L. 82: Entire section amended, p. 627, § 35, effective April 2.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-215 - Procedure - legal effect

(1)
The commission shall approve or disapprove a plat within thirty days after said plat has been submitted to it; otherwise such plat shall be deemed approved and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the commission on demand unless the applicant for the commission's approval waives this requirement and consents to an extension of such period. The ground of disapproval of any plat shall be stated upon the records of the commission. No plat shall be acted on by the commission without affording a hearing thereon. Notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be sent to mineral estate owners in accordance with article
65.5
of title
24
, C.R.S.
(2)
Every plat approved by the commission, by virtue of such approval, shall be deemed to be an amendment or an addition to or a detail of the municipal plan and a part thereof. Approval of a plat shall not constitute or effect an acceptance by the public of any street or other open space shown upon the plat. From time to time, the commission may recommend to the governing body amendments of the zoning ordinance or map or additions thereto to conform to the commission's recommendations for the zoning regulations of the territory comprised within approved subdivisions. The commission has the power to impose use, height, area, or bulk requirements or restrictions governing buildings and premises within the subdivision if such requirements or restrictions do not authorize the violation of the then effective zoning ordinance of the municipality. Such requirements or restrictions shall be stated upon the plat prior to the approval and recording thereof, shall have the force of law, and shall be enforceable in the same manner and with the same sanctions and penalties and subject to the same powers of amendment or repeal as though set out as a part of the zoning ordinance or map of the municipality. No action taken under this section shall be binding for any purpose until such action has been approved by the governmental body of the territory affected or any part thereof.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1150, § 1, effective July 1. L. 79: (1) amended, p. 1167, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2001: (1) amended, p. 490, § 5, effective July 1. L. 2007: (1) amended, p. 2122, § 8, effective August 3.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-115 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-216 - Penalties for sales in unapproved subdivisions

Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells, agrees to sell, or negotiates to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by use of a plat of a subdivision before such plat has been approved by the commission and recorded or filed in the office of the appropriate county clerk and recorder shall pay a penalty of one hundred dollars to the municipality for each lot or parcel so transferred, or sold, or agreed or negotiated to be sold. The description of such lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from such penalties or from the remedies provided in this section. The municipality may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction brought in any court of competent jurisdiction and may recover the penalty by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1151, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-116 as it existed prior to 1975.
For the requirements of monumentation of external boundaries of all subdivisions prior to recording of a plat, see § 38-51-105.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-216.5 - Additional enforcement - fine or imprisonment - abatement or removal

(1)
In addition to any other remedies, the governing body of any municipality may provide by ordinance that it is unlawful to erect, construct, reconstruct, use, or alter any building or structure or to use any land in violation of any municipal subdivision regulation, and the governing body may enforce obedience to such ordinance by fine or imprisonment as provided in section
31-16-101
.
(2)
In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, or used or any land is or is proposed to be used in violation of any municipal subdivision regulation, the municipality, in addition to other remedies provided by law, may institute an appropriate action to prevent, enjoin, abate, or remove the violation to prevent the occupancy of the building, structure, or land or to prevent any illegal act or use in or on such premises.
L. 81: Entire section added, p. 1513, § 3, effective June 4.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-217 - Acceptance and improvement of streets

(1)
The municipality shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, curb, or light any street or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or connections to be laid in any street within any portion of a territory for which the commission has adopted a major street plan unless such street:
(a)
Has been accepted or opened as or otherwise has received the legal status of a public street prior to the adoption of such plan; or
(b)
Corresponds with a street shown on the official master plan or with a street on a subdivision plat approved by the planning commission or with a street on a street plat made by and adopted by the commission. However, the governing body may accept any street not shown on or not corresponding with a street on the official master plan or on any approved subdivision plat or an approved street plat if the ordinance or other measure accepting such street is first submitted to the commission for its approval and, if approved by the commission, is enacted or passed by not less than a majority of the entire membership of the governing body or, if disapproved by the commission, is enacted or passed by not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the governing body.
(2)
A street approved by the commission upon submission by the governing body or a street accepted by a two-thirds vote after disapproval by the commission shall have the status of an approved street as though it had been originally shown on the official master plan or on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or had been originally platted by the commission.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1151, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-117 as it existed prior to 1975.
2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 31 - GOVERNMENT - MUNICIPAL (§§ 31-1-101 — 31-35-712) › POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS (§§ 31-15-101 — 31-35-712) › Article 23 - PLANNING AND ZONING (§§ 31-23-101 — 31-23-316) › Part 2 - PLANNING COMMISSION (§§ 31-23-201 — 31-23-227) › Section 31-23-218 - Erection of buildings

(1)
After the time when a commission has adopted a major street plan of the territory within the municipal limits of said municipality, no building shall be erected on any lot within such territory or part nor shall a building permit be issued therefor unless the street giving access to the lot upon which such building is proposed to be placed:
(a)
Has been accepted or opened as or otherwise has received the legal status of a public street prior to that time; or
(b)
Corresponds with a street shown on the official master plan, with a street or subdivision plat approved by the planning commission, with a street on a street plat made by and adopted by the commission, or with a street accepted by the governing body in accordance with the provisions of section
31-23-217
. Any building erected in violation of this section is an unlawful structure, and the building inspector or other appropriate official may cause it to be vacated or have it removed.
L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1151, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 31-23-118 as it existed prior to 1975.