2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 37 - WATER AND IRRIGATION (§§ 37-1-101 — 37-99-103) › WATER CONSERVATION AND IRRIGATION DISTRICTS (§§ 37-40-101 — 37-50-142) › CONSERVATION AND IRRIGATION DISTRICTS (§§ 37-41-101 — 37-50-142) › Article 42 - IRRIGATION DISTRICT LAW OF 1921 (§§ 37-42-101 — 37-42-141) › Section 37-42-110 - Directors to organize - powers

(1)
On the same day the board of directors is elected, and immediately following the meeting at which they were elected, the board shall meet for the purpose of organization of the board. It shall select one of its own members as president of the irrigation district and shall select a secretary who may or may not be a member of the board.
(2)
(a)
The board of directors shall be the governing body of the irrigation district for which it is elected and shall have the power to make and alter bylaws, rules, and regulations for the distribution of water and for the conduct of the district business not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Colorado and to make such contracts and employ such persons as are necessary for the conduct of the affairs of the district, in general exercising the usual and ordinary functions of management of the district, including, when specifically authorized by vote of the landowners so to do, to cooperate with the United States under the federal reclamation laws or any other federal laws enacted by the congress of the United States for the purpose of the construction of irrigation works, including drainage works necessary to maintain the irrigability of the land, or for the acquisition, purchase, extension, operation, or maintenance of constructed works, or for the assumption as principal or guarantor of indebtedness to the United States on account of district lands.
(b)
It is also the duty of the board to make an annual report of the district showing the status of its affairs generally, including full lists of assets and liabilities, warrants and bonds outstanding, and such as have been paid or retired during the last fiscal year, and to present the report to the landowners at or before the annual election.
(3)
As compensation for service as directors, each person so acting is entitled to receive one hundred dollars for each day necessarily spent in the discharge of district business and such expenses as are necessarily incurred in the conduct of its affairs; except that, after the first year, the landowners may fix other compensation by vote at any annual or special election.
(4)
Repealed.
(5)
No director or any officer named in this article shall be interested directly or indirectly, in any manner, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by the board or in the profits to be derived therefrom, nor shall he receive any bonds, gratuity, or bribe.
(6)
Any officer who violates this section commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section
18-1.3-401
, C.R.S. He or she shall also forfeit his or her office upon conviction.
(7)
If it is found necessary by the board of directors to employ judges of election, each judge is entitled to receive as compensation for his or her services the sum of one hundred dollars per day to be paid by the district; except that the landowners may fix other compensation by vote at any annual or special election.
Amended by 2017 Ch. 16, § 4, eff. 8/9/2017.
L. 21: p. 525, § 10. C.L. § 2066. CSA: C. 90, § 441. CRS 53: § 149-2-10. L. 59: p. 829, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-2-10. L. 65: p. 1270, § 3. L. 77: (6) amended, p. 885, § 68, effective 7/1/1979. L. 89: (6) amended, p. 851, § 137, effective July 1. L. 91: (2)(b) amended, p. 893, § 23, effective June 5. L. 2002: (6) amended, p. 1554, § 337, effective October 1. L. 2017: (2)(b), (3), and (7) amended and (4) repealed, (HB 17-1030), ch. 16, p. 47, § 4, effective August 9.
The effective date for amendments made to this section by chapter 216, L. 77, was changed from July 1, 1978, to April 1, 1979, by chapter 1, First Extraordinary Session, L. 78, and was subsequently changed to July 1, 1979, by chapter 157, § 23, L. 79. See People v. McKenna, 199 Colo. 452 , 611 P.2d 574 (1980).
For the legislative declaration contained in the 2002 act amending subsection (6), see section 1 of chapter 318, Session Laws of Colorado 2002.