(1) The board of county commissioners of any county in the state of Colorado and the transportation commission of the state of Colorado are authorized to make such expenditures of moneys of the county and the state of Colorado appropriated to the construction and maintenance of highways upon lands leased or condemned for highway purposes under the provisions of section 43-2-205 as are necessary for the construction and the maintenance of public highways thereon.
(2) (a) Expenditures authorized under this title for the construction and maintenance of highways on land which has been purchased, condemned, leased, or otherwise acquired by the department of transportation or the board of county commissioners of any county of the state may include the spraying of such lands bordering highways which are infested with grasshoppers or other insects, as the latter are defined in paragraph (c) of this subsection (2), and may also include the destruction and eradication of noxious, injurious, and poisonous weeds growing along said highways.
(b) Expenditures made by the transportation commission pursuant to this subsection (2) shall be paid from the state highway fund.
(c) As used in this subsection (2), insects means any of the small invertebrate animals in the phylum arthropoda comprising the class insecta, arachnida, and chilopoda, that is six-legged winged and unwinged forms, eight-legged segmented forms and those with two or more pairs of legs per body segment.
Source: L. 21: p. 383, � 3. C.L. � 1313. CSA: C. 143, � 66. CRS 53: � 120-1-7. L. 58, 1st Ex. Sess.: p. 30, �� 1, 2. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-1-7. L. 91: Entire section amended, p. 1110, � 155, effective July 1. L. 94: (2) amended, p. 1648, � 87, effective May 31.
Cross references: For creation of state highway fund, see � 43-1-219; for provisions for reimbursement to state or county for spraying lands, see � 35-4-107.
43-2-208. County commissioners authorized to construct highways and let contracts. (1) Whenever any county highway or bridge is to be constructed or any grading or repairing is to be done upon any county highway, the board of county commissioners is authorized to undertake such construction, grading, or repairing in its own behalf or to let contracts for the same. Boards of county commissioners are also authorized to make bids and to enter into contracts, where the contract price involved does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, with the department of transportation or any agency of the federal or state government for the construction, maintenance, and repair of state or federal highways or bridges within their respective counties and to undertake and perform whatever work is necessary in connection therewith. All labor employed in such contracts shall be bona fide residents of the state of Colorado, and in all cases preference shall be granted to residents of the county wherein the contract is being performed.
(2) Repealed.
Source: L. 33, Ex. Sess.: p. 68, � 1. CSA: C. 143, � 67. CRS 53: � 120-1-8. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-1-8. L. 86: (2) repealed, p. 502, � 125, effective July 1. L. 91: (1) amended, p. 1110, � 156, effective July 1.