Title 31, Government - Municipal
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1216 County officers to levy and collect taxes - lien
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It is the duty of the body having authority to levy taxes within such county to levy the taxes certified to it as provided in this part 12. It is the duty of all officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect and enforce such taxes at the time and in the form and …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1217 Property sold for taxes
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The taxes provided for in this part 12 shall be included as a part of general ad valorem taxes and shall be paid and collected accordingly. The sale of properties for delinquencies shall be conducted in the manner provided by the statutes of this state for selling property for no…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1218 Reserve fund
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When any indebtedness has been incurred by a district, it is lawful for the board to levy taxes and collect revenue for the purpose of creating a reserve fund in such amount as the board may determine, which may be used to meet the obligations of the district for operating charge…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1219 Special assessments
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(1) In order to defray all or any portion of the costs of the improvements provided by the district, the board may establish special improvement districts within the boundaries of the district. Such special improvement districts may be established whenever in the opinion of the b…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1220 Inclusion or exclusion - petition - notice - hearing
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(1) The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of this part 12 may be changed in the manner prescribed in this section, but the change of boundaries of the district shall not impair or affect its organization or its rights in or to property or any of its rights…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1221 Board can issue bonds - form
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To carry out the purposes of this part 12, the board, with the approval of the municipality if the board is appointed pursuant to section 31-25-1209 (1)(b) or (1)(c), is hereby authorized to issue bonds of the district. Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate such that the net e…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1222 Submission of debt question
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(1) When any board determines that the interest of said district and the public interest or necessity demand the acquisition, construction, installation, or completion of any improvements or the provision of any service within the district or the making of any contract with the U…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1223 Effect - subsequent elections
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If any such proposition is approved at such election in the manner required by part 8 of article 1 of title 32, C.R.S., the district is authorized to incur such indebtedness or obligation, enter into such contract, or issue and sell such bonds of the district, as the case may be,…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1224 Confirmation of contract proceedings
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(1) In its discretion, the board may file a petition at any time in the district court in and for any county in which the district is located, praying for a judicial examination and determination of any power conferred, or of any securities issued or merely authorized to be issue…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1225 Dissolution procedure
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Any district organized pursuant to this part 12 may be dissolved after notice is given, publication is made, and a hearing is held in the manner prescribed by sections 31-25-1206 and 31-25-1207. The dissolution of the district may be initiated by filing in the office of the clerk…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1226 Correction of faulty notices
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In any case that a notice is provided for in this part 12 in which the governing body finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the governing body shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the proceeding in question shall not thereby be void or be abated; but the governi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1228 Method not exclusive
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Nothing in this part 12 shall repeal or affect any other law or any part thereof, it being intended that this part 12 shall provide a separate method of accomplishing its objects and not an exclusive one. Source: L. 88: Entire part added, p. 1143, � 1, effective May 6.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1301 Short title
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This part 13 shall be known and may be cited as the Integrated Delivery Method for Municipal Public Improvements Act. Source: L. 2007: Entire part added, p. 1814, � 3, effective August 3.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1302 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: (a) It is the policy of the state of Colorado to encourage public contracting procedures that encourage competition, openness, and impartiality to the maximum extent possible. (b) Competition exists not only in the costs of…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1303 Definitions
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As used in this part 13, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Agency means any home rule or statutory city, town, territorial charter city, city and county, or any other political subdivision that a municipality may create pursuant to state law that is a budgetary unit exer…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-1307 Supplemental provisions
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The governing body of an agency may establish supplemental provisions that are designed to implement the provisions of this part 13. Source: L. 2007: Entire part added, p. 1818, � 3, effective August 3.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-200.3 Definitions
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As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Interests in land means all rights and interests in land less than the full fee interest, including but not limited to future interests, easements, covenants, and contractual rights. Source: L. 2025: Entire sectio…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-202 Acquisition by purchase
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No land or interest in land shall be purchased for the purposes set forth in section 31-25-201 (1) until the governing body adopts an ordinance authorizing such purchase which states the location and legal description of the lands to be purchased, the price to be paid, and the ma…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-204 Acquisition by condemnation
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(1) For the purpose of acquiring lands for parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads, the park commission is authorized, with the approval of the mayor, to select and, by a suitable proceeding in the name of the city, without the passage of any …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-205 Bequests for park purposes
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Real or personal property may be granted, bequeathed, devised, or conveyed to the city for the purpose of the improvement or ornamentation of any park, pleasure ground, boulevard, parkway, avenue, driveway, or road or for the establishment or maintenance in parks or pleasure grou…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-206 Park commissioners - vacancies
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(1) The care, custody, management, and control of the city parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads may be vested exclusively in a park commission which shall be composed of six members who shall be registered electors in said city and well-kno…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-208 Meetings - quorum
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The commission shall hold a regular meeting on the first Tuesday of each month and may by rule provide for special meetings and service of notice thereof. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. No action of the commission shall be binding unless authorized by a majo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-209 Secretary - salary - duties
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The commission may employ a secretary at a salary not exceeding twelve hundred dollars per annum, to be fixed by the commission, payable out of the park fund. The secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of the commission, have custody of and preserve all its records, and…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-210 Office of commission - supplies
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The city shall provide the commission with convenient offices, stationery, and the facilities necessary for the performance of its duties as the commission deems necessary and advisable. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1177, � 1, effective July 1. Editor's note: This section…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-211 Superintendent of parks - assistants - salaries
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The commission may appoint a superintendent of parks who shall be a practical landscape gardener who, under the direction of the commission, shall have active charge, control, and direction of all the parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads wh…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-212 Expenditures for park purposes
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The commission, with the approval of the mayor, shall have full, complete, and exclusive power and authority to expend, for and on behalf of the city, all sums of money that may be raised by general taxation for park purposes, all other sums of money appropriated by the governing…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-213 Fiscal year - annual report
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The fiscal year of the park commission shall end on December 31 of each year. During the month of January of each year the commission shall make an annual report to the mayor and the governing body of all moneys received and expended in the purchase, improvement, and maintenance …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-214 Park fund - certified vouchers
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The park fund shall consist of moneys levied, collected, and appropriated therefor and coming into the fund by donation or otherwise. All moneys collected and credited to the park fund shall be used for the maintenance and improvement of parks, parkways, boulevards, avenues, driv…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-215 Maximum tax levy - moneys credited
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(1) As a part of the annual levies authorized by law, the governing body shall annually levy, assess, and collect upon each dollar of taxable property within the city not more than one and one-half mills for the purposes of said park fund, the proceeds of which shall be collected…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-216 Cities control park grounds outside limits
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(1) In all cases in which any city, including any city or city and county organized under a special charter or created under the state constitution, has acquired lands outside its municipal limits for parks, open space and natural areas, parkways, boulevards, or roads, unless suc…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-217 Management - licenses - franchises
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(1) The commission shall have exclusive management and control of all parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads, as mentioned in section 31-25-201, and exclusive power to lay out, regulate, and improve the same, to prohibit certain or heavy traf…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-218 Conservation trust fund authorized
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Each city in this state, including home rule and special territorial charter cities, may create a conservation trust fund as provided in section 29-21-101, C.R.S. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1179, � 1, effective July 1. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-300.3 Definitions
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As used in this part 3, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Interests in land means all rights and interests in land less than the full fee interest, including but not limited to future interests, easements, covenants, and contractual rights. Source: L. 2025: Entire sectio…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-302 Questions submitted to registered electors
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(1) Lands or interests in land which may be necessary, suitable, or proper for any of the purposes named in section 31-25-301, either within or without the municipal limits of such town, may be set aside by any such town and devoted to such purposes out of any lands or parcels of…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-303 Town may improve parks
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Any town establishing parks, boulevards, parkways, avenues, or roads under the provisions of this part 3 by its duly constituted authorities shall have full power to cultivate, plant, and otherwise improve the same and shall establish and maintain necessary rules and regulations …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-304 Conservation trust fund authorized
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Each town in this state, including home rule towns, may create a conservation trust fund as provided in section 29-21-101, C.R.S. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1180, � 1, effective July 1. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 139-87-5, as it existed prior to …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-401 Short title
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This part 4 shall be known and may be cited as the Public Mall Act of 1970. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1181, � 1, effective July 1. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 31-25-401 as it existed prior to 1975.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-402 Legislative declaration - powers
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(1) The general assembly finds and declares that, in certain areas in municipalities and particularly in retail shopping areas thereof, there is need to separate pedestrian travel from vehicular travel and that such separation is necessary to protect the public safety or otherwis…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-403 Definitions
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As used in this part 4, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Improvements means improvements of any kind or nature necessary or convenient to the operation of municipal streets as a pedestrian mall, including but not limited to paving, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewers, dra…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-404 Resolution of intention
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(1) When the governing body determines that the public interest and convenience require the establishment of a pedestrian mall and that vehicular traffic will not be unduly inconvenienced thereby, it may adopt a resolution declaring its intention to establish such pedestrian mall…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-405 Notice and hearing
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(1) The resolution of intention shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation published within the county or municipality as the case may be. It shall be published three times: Once less than seventy-five days but more than sixty days prior to the date of the hearing; …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-406 Claims for damages or compensation
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(1) Any person owning, or having any legal or equitable interest in, any real property which might suffer legal damage by reason of the establishment of the proposed pedestrian mall shall file, prior to the first reading of the ordinance establishing the pedestrian mall, a writte…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-407 Establishment of the mall
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(1) Not later than one hundred eighty days following the adoption of the resolution establishing the pedestrian mall as provided in this part 4, the governing body may adopt on first reading an ordinance finally establishing the pedestrian mall. Such ordinance shall contain: (a) …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-408 Improvement of the pedestrian mall
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(1) The municipality and its governing body may provide for the construction of and payment for improvements on the pedestrian mall through an improvement district under part 6 of this article, or by creation of an improvement district which can levy special assessments under oth…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-409 Special ad valorem assessments
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(1) As used in this section, district means the district within which lie the lands deemed by the governing body to be specially benefited by the establishment of the pedestrian mall even though assessments may not be levied to pay for improvements. (2) Following the establishmen…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-501 Definitions
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As used in this part 5, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Assessment unit means an area within a district which is separately defined for determining assessments payable pursuant to this part 5. (1.5) District means the geographical division of the municipality and, in a…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-502 Powers to make local improvements
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(1) A district may be formed in accordance with the requirements of this part 5 for the purpose of constructing, installing, or acquiring any public improvement so long as the municipality that forms the district is authorized to provide such improvement under the municipality's …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-503 What improvements may be made - conditions
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(1) A district may be created within the boundaries of a municipality and may also include any property in the unincorporated area of the county within which the municipality is situated if such county consents by resolution to such district and the construction or acquisition of…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-504 Municipality may establish sewer systems
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Any municipality may establish and maintain sewer systems and sewage disposal plants for sanitary or storm drainage. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1192, � 1, effective July 1. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 31-25-525 as it existed prior to 1975.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-25-505 District sanitary sewers - contracts - contiguous towns
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When the governing body declares the same necessary for sanitary reasons, it may order the construction of district sanitary sewers in districts to be prescribed by ordinance so as to connect with any public or district sewer or with some natural drainage or disposal plant. Such …