Title 37, Water and Irrigation

The record of special improvement assessments, special assessments, service charges, or user fees contained in the respective records of the district shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of all matters therein contained. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1387, § 7, e…

Whenever notice is provided for in this article, if the court finds that due notice was not given, jurisdiction shall not thereby be lost or the proceedings abated or held void, but the court shall continue the hearing until such time as proper notice may be given and shall there…

(1) When the official plan so provides, it shall be lawful for any subdistrict to make contracts as follows: (a) A water users' association, public entity, nonprofit corporation, not-for-profit corporation, carrier ditch company, mutual ditch or reservoir company, unincorporated …

(1) (a) In the name of the subdistrict and not otherwise, when authorized by the plan of organization and decree of court organizing said subdistrict to do so, the district may issue general obligations or bonds which shall constitute a lien against the real property in said subd…

To maintain, operate, and preserve ditches, canals, reservoirs, or other improvements made pursuant to this article and to strengthen, repair, and restore the same, when needed, for operation of any plan of water management, and for the purpose of defraying any incidental expense…

Said district may provide for a sinking fund for the ultimate payment of any of the obligations of any subdistrict. Such sinking fund may be invested as provided in section 37-48-111. Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 1388, § 7, effective July 18.

A subdistrict existing pursuant to this article shall be an agency of the district for purposes of compliance with the provisions of the "Local Government Budget Law of Colorado", part 1 of article 1 of title 29, C.R.S.; and the board of managers thereof, if any, shall prepare an…

Except for the issuance of refunding bonds or other funding or refunding of obligations which does not increase the net indebtedness of the district or any subdistrict so proceeding, no indebtedness shall be incurred by the issuance of general obligation bonds of any subdistrict …

(1) An "elector", "elector of the district", or "elector of the subdistrict", or any term of similar import, means a person: (a) Who, at the time of the election, is qualified to vote in general elections in this state; and (b) Who either: (I) Is a resident of the district or sub…

Whenever in this article an election of the electors of the district or a subdistrict therein is permitted or required, the election may be held separately at a special election or may be held concurrently with any primary or general election held under the laws of this state; bu…

(1) The board of directors shall call any election by resolution adopted at least thirty days prior to the election. (2) Such resolution shall recite the objects and purposes of the election, the date upon which such election shall be held, and the form of the ballot. (3) In the …

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this article, an election held pursuant to this article shall be opened and conducted in the manner then provided by the laws of this state for the conduct of general elections. (2) If an election is held concurrently with a primary or general …

Notice of such election shall be given by publication by three consecutive weekly insertions in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the district or subdistrict holding the election, as determined by the board of directors. No other notice of an election held under th…

(1) All polling places designated by resolution for an election shall be within the territorial limits of the district or subdistrict holding the election; but, if an election of the district or subdistrict is held concurrently with a primary or general election, the polling plac…

(1) The secretary of the district shall provide at each polling place ballots or ballot labels, or both, ballot boxes or voting machines, or both, instructions, electors' affidavits, and other materials and supplies required for an election by any law; and the secretary may provi…

(1) In the case of any election held under this article which is not held concurrently with a primary or general election, the election officials shall make their returns directly to the secretary of the district for the board of directors. (2) In the case of any election held un…

(1) Any election declared to have carried on an authorization to issue any bonds, by approval of the bond question, or otherwise to incur an indebtedness by approval of the question thereon may be contested by any elector of the district or subdistrict holding the debt election b…

(1) Any resolution providing for the issuance of any bonds under this article payable from pledged revenues and any indenture or other instrument or proceedings pertaining thereto may at the discretion of the board of directors contain covenants or other provisions, notwithstandi…

(1) Revenues pledged for the payment of any bonds, as received by or otherwise credited to the district or subdistrict issuing bonds under this article, shall immediately be subject to the lien of each such pledge without any physical delivery thereof, any filing, or any further …

(1) Subject to any contractual limitations binding upon the holders of any issue or series of bonds of the district or subdistrict issuing bonds under this article, or the trustee therefor, including, without limitation, the restriction of the exercise of any remedy to a specifie…

(1) The board of directors of the district or subdistrict, respectively, issuing bonds under this article, subject to any contractual limitations from time to time imposed upon the district or subdistrict by any resolution authorizing the issuance of the outstanding bonds of the …

(1) (a) The district, any subdistrict, and any political subdivision of the state of Colorado contracting with the district or subdistrict and fixing and collecting annual rentals, service charges, user fees, and other charges, or any combination thereof, are, in supplementation …

(1) The district and any subdistrict thereof shall also have the following powers: (a) To pay or otherwise defray and to contract to pay or defray, for any term not exceeding seventy-five years, without an election, except as otherwise provided in this article, the principal of, …

(1) The district and any subdistrict have the power to utilize and may utilize private industry, by contract, to carry out the design, construction, operation, management, manufacturing, marketing, planning, and research and development functions of the district or any subdistric…

(1) The district or subdistrict and any other cooperating entity or entities relating to any project or facilities in which the district or the subdistrict is a party in interest may create a joint action entity, a separate body corporate, for the planning, construction, lease, o…

Any political subdivision of this state has the correlative powers to enable it to participate in cooperation with the district or any subdistrict in either's exercise of powers granted thereto by this article or otherwise granted by law. Source: L. 77: Entire section added, p. 1…

(1) Any revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this article and at any time outstanding may, at any time and from time to time, be refunded by the district by the issuance of its refunding bonds in such amount as the board of directors may deem necessary to refund the princ…

(1) To the extent that the costs of the proceedings for the issuance of revenue bonds are not paid by the proceeds of the bonds, they shall be budgeted and paid out of the subdistrict preliminary fund, or from funds derived from subdistrict revenues, or from the separate subdistr…