Title 32, Special Districts
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-638 Assessment hearing
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(1) At the time and the place so designated, the board shall hear and shall determine any written complaint, protest, or objection filed as provided in section 32-11-637, any verbal views expressed in respect to the proposed assessments, the assessment roll, or the assessment pro…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-639 Levy of assessments
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(1) After the assessment roll is in final form and is so confirmed by resolution, the urban district by the same or by a supplemental resolution shall by reference to such assessment roll as so modified, if modified, and as confirmed by such resolution, levy the assessments in th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-640 Appeal of adverse determination
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(1) Within the fifteen days immediately succeeding the publication of the assessment resolution, any person who has filed a complaint, protest, or objection on specific grounds in writing, as provided in this article, has the right to commence an action or a suit in any court of …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-641 Transfer of roll to county treasurer
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(1) Upon the expiration of such fifteen-day period for any such appeal, the secretary shall forthwith note on the assessment roll or by separate instrument each assessment, if any, the regularity, validity, or correctness of which is challenged in such an action or suit. (2) Ther…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-642 Thirty-day payment period - deferred payments
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(1) All assessments made in pursuance of the assessment resolution shall be due and payable without demand not earlier than thirty-one days after its publication upon its final passage and within sixty days after such publication. (2) Each such assessment or any part thereof may …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-643 Acceleration upon delinquency
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(1) Failure to pay any installment, whether principal or interest, when due shall ipso facto cause the whole amount of the unpaid principal to become due and payable immediately at the option of the urban district, security holder, or trustee therefor initiating foreclosure proce…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-644 Limitations upon deferred payments
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(1) In case of such election to pay in installments, the assessment shall be payable in not less than two nor more than twenty substantially equal annual installments or not less than four nor more than forty substantially equal semiannual installments of principal. (2) Interest …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-645 Assessment liens
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(1) The payment of the amount so assessed, including each installment thereof, the interest thereon, and any penalties and collection costs shall be secured by an assessment lien upon the tract assessed from the date of publication of the assessment resolution. (2) Each such lien…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-646 Division of tract
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(1) If any tract is divided after an assessment thereon has been levied and divided into installments and before the collection of all the installments, the board may require the county assessor to apportion the uncollected amounts upon the several parts of land so divided accord…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-647 Surpluses and deficiencies
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(1) If any assessment proves insufficient to pay for the project or the work for which it is levied and the expense incident thereto, the amount of such deficiency shall be paid from the capital improvements fund of the urban district or from such other account in which moneys ar…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-648 Notice of assessment or installment due
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(1) Each county treasurer to whom an assessment roll is transmitted pursuant to section 32-11-641 shall give notice by mail and by publication of the levy of the assessments against the assessable property in the county, of the fact they are payable, and of the last day for their…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-649 When collections paid district
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All collections made by the county treasurer upon each assessment roll in any calendar month shall be accounted for and paid over to the district treasurer on or before the tenth day of the next succeeding calendar month, with separate statements for all such collections for each…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-650 Collections by county treasurer
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The county treasurer shall receive payment of all assessments against assessable property located in the county appearing upon the assessment roll, with interest. Source: L. 69: p. 804, � 163. C.R.S. 1963: � 89-21-163.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-651 Collection of delinquent assessments
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(1) As soon as any assessment or any installment thereof pertaining to any improvement district becomes in default, the county treasurer shall mark the same delinquent on the assessment roll, together with the amount of unpaid principal shown on the assessment roll and accrued in…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-652 Optional filing of claim of lien
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(1) The board may, but is not required, in any assessment resolution or in any resolution supplemental thereto, provide that the secretary, within thirty days after the expiration of the thirty-day payment period specified in section 32-11-642, shall make out, sign, attest with t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-653 Duties imposed when assessments are levied
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(1) Whenever the board has provided for any project under this article, has levied assessments therefor, and has issued assessment bonds or assessment debentures or both such types of securities for the financing of the same, then and in such event there shall be imposed upon the…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-654 Procedure to place omitted tracts on roll
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(1) Whenever by mistake or inadvertence or for any cause any tract otherwise subject to assessment within any improvement district has been omitted from the assessment roll for any project, the board may, upon its own motion or upon the application of any owner of any tract withi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-655 Irregularities in contracts and assessments
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(1) Whenever the board makes any contract pertaining to any project provided in this article or makes any assessment against any tract within any improvement district for any project authorized in this article and, in making such contract or assessment, acts in good faith and wit…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-656 Owner of interest may pay share
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The owner of any divided or undivided interest in any tract assessed under this article may pay his share of any assessment, upon producing evidence of the extent of his interest satisfactory to the county treasurer having the roll in charge. Source: L. 69: p. 806, � 169. C.R.S. …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-657 Payment of assessments by joint owner
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(1) Whenever any assessment or installment thereof is paid or any delinquency therefor is redeemed or any judgment therefor is paid by any joint owner of any tract assessed for any project, such joint owner may, after demand and refusal, by an action brought in the district court…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-658 Assessment paid in error
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When, through error or inadvertence, any person pays any assessment or installment thereof upon the tract of another, such payer may, after demand and refusal, by an action in the district court recover from the owner of such tract the amount so paid and costs of the action. Sour…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-659 Description of property - notice to transferees
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(1) It is sufficient in any case to describe the tract as the same is platted or recorded or described in any official record, although the same belongs to several persons. (2) Any purchaser, lienholder, assignee, or transferee of any tract subject to assessment as provided in th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-660 Assessment of public property
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(1) When the urban district, any public body, or the federal government (except the federal government in the absence of its consent by congress to assessment) owns any tract or holds the title to any tract not used as a street or other public right-of-way of the urban district o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-661 Collecting assessments against public properties
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(1) If any assessment against any tract of a private person operating a public utility or any tract of the urban district, any public body, or the federal government is not paid as provided by law, suit may be brought in the proper district court to enforce the collection of the …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-662 Sewer districts and subdistricts
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The urban district may establish and maintain separate or combined sewer systems, which systems shall be divided into improvement district and subdistrict sewers for storm drainage, upon initiation by the board. Source: L. 69: p. 807, � 175. C.R.S. 1963: � 89-21-175.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-663 Sewer acquisitions
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Sewers and other drainage facilities shall be established and constructed at such time and in such locations, to such extent, with such dimensions and materials, and in accordance with such full details and specifications as may be prescribed by the board. Whenever necessary, lan…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-664 Classification of sewer districts
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(1) The board may order by resolution: (a) The acquisition of improvement district sewers, other drainage facilities, and appurtenances for storm drainage, to be known as sewer districts; and (b) The acquisition of relief sewers or other drainage facilities or intercepting sewers…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-665 Acquisition of subdistrict laterals
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The board may at the time of ordering the acquisition of district sewers or at any time thereafter order the acquisition of subdistrict laterals in any such subdistrict so as to connect the same with the submains or with the district main sewer, the same to be approved by resolut…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-666 Assessment of district sewers
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(1) The cost of district sewers may be assessed upon all the assessable property in the improvement district, in proportion to the special benefits derived to each of the several tracts comprising the assessable property and on a front-foot, area, zone, or other equitable basis. …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-667 Issuance of refunding bonds
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(1) Any assessment bonds issued under this article may be refunded pursuant to resolution to be adopted by the board in the manner provided in this article for the issuance of other assessment bonds. Refunding bonds so issued may be secured in such manner and may be made payable …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-668 Reassessments
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Whenever any assessment for any project under this article, in the opinion of the board, is invalid by reason of any irregularity or informality in the proceedings, or if any court of competent jurisdiction adjudges such assessments to be illegal, the board, whether the project h…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-669 Procedure for relevy
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(1) When an assessment is so determined to be invalid or illegal, the board shall by resolution order and shall make a new assessment or reassessment upon the tracts which have been or will be benefited by the project to which the invalid assessment pertains, to the extent of the…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-670 Resolution for reassessment
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The board of the urban district shall by resolution order and make a new assessment or reassessment, as provided in section 32-11-669, upon the tracts which have been or will be benefited by such project to the extent of their proportionate part of the cost of the project. Source…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-671 Assessment roll - certification
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Upon the passage of a resolution, as provided in this article, the engineer shall make out an assessment roll according to the provisions of the resolution and shall certify the same to the board, as provided in section 32-11-636. Source: L. 69: p. 809, � 184. C.R.S. 1963: � 89-2…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-672 Notice of filing
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Upon receiving the assessment roll, the secretary shall give notice of an assessment hearing, as provided in section 32-11-637. Source: L. 69: p. 809, � 185. C.R.S. 1963: � 89-21-185.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-673 Hearing
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At the time and place appointed for hearing, the board shall hold an assessment hearing and shall otherwise proceed, as provided in section 32-11-638. Source: L. 69: p. 809, � 186. C.R.S. 1963: � 89-21-186.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-674 Levy of reassessment - cost and value
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(1) The fact that the contract has been let or that such project has been acquired or improved, or acquired and improved, and otherwise completed in whole or in part shall not prevent such assessment from being made, nor shall the omission, failure, or neglect of any officer to c…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-675 Credits for prior assessment
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Whenever any sum or any part thereof levied upon any tract in the assessment so set aside has been paid and not refunded, the payment so made shall be applied upon the reassessment of the tract on account of which the same was paid. Source: L. 69: p. 810, � 188. C.R.S. 1963: � 89…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-676 Collection of assessments - new warrant or order
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(1) In all cases where the county treasurer or other district and county authorities are unable to enforce the collection of any assessment by reason of irregularity or omission in any proceedings subsequent to the confirmation of the assessment, the board is authorized to cause …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-677 Appeal to district court
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Any person who has filed objections to such new assessment or reassessment, as provided in this article, has the right to appeal to the district court of this state in and for the county and district in which the tract assessed is situated, as provided and subject to the limitati…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-678 Procedure exclusive
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The rights and remedies given in this article to the taxpayer and the property owner for objecting to, contesting, or appealing from the amount, correctness, regularity, or validity of such new assessment or reassessment are declared to be exclusive of all other rights, remedies,…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-679 Application of reassessment funds
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Whenever the urban district issues assessment debentures or assessment bonds to obtain funds to pay for any project which has been actually acquired or improved, or both acquired and improved, and the assessments levied therefor fail to be valid or sufficient in whole or in part …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-701 Annexation of lands to district
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(1) The territorial limits of the urban district may be enlarged by the annexation of additional real property thereto in the following ways: (a) By petition and consent of the fee owner pursuant to sections 32-11-702 and 32-11-706; (b) By petition of the taxpaying electors, and …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-702 Petition of fee owners
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(1) The fee owner of any real property contiguous to the territorial limits of the district and capable of being served with facilities of the district may file with the board a petition in writing praying that such property be included in the district. (2) The petition shall set…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-703 Petition of taxpaying electors
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(1) Not less than ten percent or one hundred, whichever number is smaller, of the taxpaying electors of any real property which is contiguous to the district and contains twenty-five thousand or more square feet of land may file a petition with the board in writing praying that s…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-704 Annexation election
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(1) If the petition filed under section 32-11-703 (1) is provisionally granted, the board by resolution shall: (a) Make an order to that effect; (b) Direct that the question of inclusion of the area within the district be submitted to the registered electors at an election held w…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-705 Annexation initiated by board
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(1) At any time as a condition to an annexation initiated by the board, it may determine by resolution that real property proposed for annexation: (a) Is contiguous to the territorial limits of the district; (b) Contains six hundred forty or more acres of land; (c) Has become urb…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-706 General provisions about annexations
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(1) The failure of any person in the urban district or in the area to be annexed to file a written objection to any proposed annexation in a hearing of the board thereon shall be taken as an assent on such person's part to the inclusion in the district of the area described in th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-801 Budgets, accounts, and audits
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The district shall adopt a budget for each fiscal year, shall maintain accounts, and shall cause an annual audit to be made pertaining to the financial affairs of the district as respectively provided in the local government budget law of Colorado, the Colorado local government u…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-11-802 Effect of extraterritorial functions
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All of the powers, privileges, immunities, rights, exemptions from laws, ordinances, and rules, all pension, relief, disability, workers' compensation, and other benefits which apply to the activity of officers, agents, or employees of the district or any such public body when pe…