Following receipt of the consent required by section 37-90-119, a petition calling for formation of the proposed district may be filed with the commission. The petition shall be signed by not less than fifteen percent of the taxpaying electors within the proposed district.
Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1258, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 148-18-19. L. 67: p. 276, � 5.
37-90-121. Management districts - petition - contents - minor defects - amendment. (1) The petition referred to in section 37-90-120 shall set forth:
(a) The name of the proposed district and boundaries thereof;
(b) A proposed division of the district into divisions as nearly equal in size as may be practicable, and considering the population thereof, each of which is to be represented by a director, who shall be a resident taxpaying elector in such division or reside within the designated groundwater basin within which the district is located and be a resident agriculturist who owns and actively farms or ranches land located within such division;
(c) The number of directors that the district shall have if formed, not less than five nor more than fifteen in number, together with the name and address of each of the proposed directors, the division to be represented by each of them, and their terms of office, which shall be so designated that approximately one-half of them shall expire on the first Tuesday in March of the second year after the organization of the district is completed, and the remainder of them on the first Tuesday in March of the fourth year after the organization of the district is completed;
(d) Where the offices of such proposed district are to be maintained; and
(e) A prayer that the organization of the district be submitted to a vote of the taxpaying electors as provided in section 37-90-124.
(2) No petition for the organization of a district with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of minor defects, but the commission may at any time, prior to final determination of the sufficiency thereof, permit the petition to be amended in form to conform to the facts. Several similar petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition for the organization of the same district may be filed and shall together be regarded as one petition. All petitions, filed prior to the determination of the sufficiency of such petition, shall be considered as though filed with the first petition placed on file.
Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1258, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 148-18-20. L. 67: p. 276, � 6. L. 2009: (1)(b) amended, (HB 09-1159), ch. 43, p. 164, � 1, effective August 5.
37-90-122. Management district - petition - certification of signatures - hearing - notice - publication. The commission shall examine the petition, and, if it finds that it bears the requisite number of signatures and otherwise meets the stated requirements, it shall thereupon set a date for hearing upon such petition and shall cause notice of such hearing, together with a copy of such petition, to be published, the final publication being not less than ten days nor more than thirty days prior to the date set for such hearing. The cost of such publication shall be paid by the petitioners and shall be advanced by them prior to publication.
Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1259, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 148-18-21.
37-90-123. Management districts - hearing - objections - change of boundaries. At the time set for such hearing, the commission shall examine the petition and hear objections thereto and may order changes in the boundaries thereof by the inclusion or removal of land therefrom upon finding that such change would be hydrologically, geologically, and geographically sound. The action of the commission may be reviewed by the district court in appeal proceedings filed within twenty days after its decision has been announced, which decision shall be announced within ninety days after the hearing.
Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 1259, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 148-18-22.