Title 23, Postsecondary Education
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-701 Short title
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This part 7 shall be known and may be cited as the Colorado Cooperative Extension Service Act. Source: L. 2007: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 543, � 2, effective August 3. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 23-34-101 as it existed prior to 2007.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-701.5 Definitions
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As used in this part 7, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Service means the Colorado state university cooperative extension service. Source: L. 2025: Entire section added, (SB 25-275), ch. 377, p. 2051, � 99, effective August 6.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-702 Acknowledgment of related federal laws
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(1) Section 23-31-511, accepting and assenting to the provisions, terms, and conditions of the act of congress known as the Smith-Lever Act (38 Stat. 372) providing for cooperative extension programs, is acknowledged. (2) Subsequent congressional enactments, including the Nationa…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-703 Responsibility and objectives
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(1) Primary responsibility, according to section 23-31-702, for statewide programs of educational noncredit, informal extension conducted through cooperative federal, state, and county relationships and as more particularly authorized in this part 7 shall continue to lie with the…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-704 Organization - cooperative relationships
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(1) The service is an organizational unit of the Colorado state university, under the supervision and control of the university's administration and the board of governors of the Colorado state university system. (2) Programs of the service shall reflect and respond to problems, …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-705 Authority to accomplish purposes of part
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(1) The service is authorized, pursuant to applicable university, state, and federal policies and procedures, to spend appropriated funds, to collect and expend reasonable and proper service fees, to employ personnel, purchase materials and supplies, and to take other necessary a…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-706 Reporting and accountability
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(1) In addition to such reports as may be required under federal laws and agreements, the service shall: (a) Provide annual reports to the governor reviewing activities and goal accomplishments, assessing the value and significance of extension program activities, and indicating …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-707 Colorado AgrAbility project - extension program - creation - appropriation - legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly finds that Colorado should expand the Colorado AgrAbility project by providing funding for the project’s rural rehabilitation specialists with the goal of informing, educating, and assisting farmers, ranchers, and farm workers with disabilities and their …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-800.3 Definitions
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As used in this part 8, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Fund means the water research fund established in section 23-31-803. (2) Institute means the Colorado water institute created in section 23-31-801 (1). Source: L. 2025: Entire section added, (SB 25-275), ch. 377, …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-801 Colorado water institute - creation
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(1) There is created the Colorado water institute for the following purposes: (a) Developing, implementing, and coordinating water and water-related research programs in collaboration with other state institutions of higher education and transferring the results of research and n…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-802 Advisory committee on water research policy
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(1) There is created the advisory committee on water research policy, which consists of at least eleven members. Eight of the members are appointed by the director of the institute. The remaining members are the executive director of the department of public health and environmen…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-803 Water research fund
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There is established in the state treasury the water research fund. The fund consists of money remaining in the water research fund as it existed prior to the repeal of section 23-31-803 in 2017, fees received by the institute pursuant to section 23-31-801 (7), and gifts, grants,…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-804 Republican river groundwater economic study - reporting - legislative declaration - definitions - repeal
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(1) The general assembly finds and declares that: (a) In 1942, the general assembly ratified the Republican river compact, an interstate compact between Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas regarding the allocation of water among the three states from the Republican river; (b) Various …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-901 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: (a) The national western stock show has been held annually in Denver for one hundred nine years, and it provides many important benefits to the state because it: (I) Is a showcase event for the western agricultural industry…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-902 Annual project report - national western center trust fund - creation - use
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(1) No later than August 1, 2016, and no later than August 1 of each year thereafter, the national western center partnership shall submit an annual national western center project report to the offices of the governor, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representati…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-903 Authorization for financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements
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(1) (a) Subject to the requirements specified in subsection (1)(c) of this section, the state of Colorado, acting by and through the state treasurer, may execute one or more financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements for up to twenty years of princip…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-904 Cooperative agreements for regional economic development not limited
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Nothing in this part 9 limits the ability of Colorado state university and the city and county of Denver to enter into cooperative agreements, including intergovernmental agreements with adjoining entities, for the purpose of facilitating regional economic development and project…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 23-31-905 National western center partnership - open meetings and open records laws apply - audit
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(1) To the extent that such laws are not already applicable, upon the final approval of state funding for any national western center project pursuant to section 23-31-903: (a) The national western center partnership is subject to the open meetings provisions of the “Colorado Sun…