Title 37, Water and Irrigation
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-101 State engineer
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Pursuant to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, the governor shall appoint a state engineer. The office of the state engineer must be located within the state capitol complex. The state engineer shall be provided the resources, including an operating budget, nece…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-101.5 Office of the state engineer
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The office of the state engineer is created in the division of water resources in the department of natural resources and is a type 1 entity, as defined in section 24-1-105. Source: L. 2022: Entire section added, (SB 22-162), ch. 469, p. 3410, � 168, effective August 10. Cross re…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-103 Additional duties of state engineer
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The state engineer shall perform all duties imposed upon him by law and, when called upon by the governor, shall give his counsel and services to any state department or institution. He shall be allowed all actual traveling and other necessary expenses and the actual cost of prep…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-104 Compact requirements - state engineer's duties
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The state engineer shall make and enforce such regulations with respect to deliveries of water as will enable the state of Colorado to meet its compact commitments. In those cases where the compact is deficient in establishing standards for administration within Colorado to provi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-105 Supervision over division engineers
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(1) The state engineer shall: (a) Supervise the work of the division engineers; (b) Furnish division engineers with all the data and information necessary for the proper and intelligent discharge of the duties of their offices; (c) Require division engineers to report their offic…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-106 Appointment of deputies
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(1) The state engineer may appoint one or more deputies to assist in the discharge of the duties of the state engineer's office. The state engineer may deputize any person to perform a particular service, and the state engineer may revoke such appointments when, in his or her jud…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-107 Employment of engineers or geologists
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The state engineer may employ one or more consulting engineers, geologists, or other specialists to advise the state engineer or any division engineer concerning any diversion or proposed diversion of the waters of the state including the sufficiency of any reservoirs or other st…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-108 Appoint deputy for special work
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The state engineer, on request of any party interested and on payment of his or her per diem charges and reasonable expenses, may appoint a deputy to measure, compute, and ascertain all necessary data of any canal, dam, reservoir, or other construction, as required or as may be d…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-109 State engineer's authority to contract for services
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(1) The state engineer shall secure the limited or temporary services of persons necessary to carry out the duties or functions of the division of water resources in cases where it would be infeasible or impractical for regular state employees to perform the duties or functions, …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-110 Fees collected by state engineer
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(1) The state engineer shall collect fees for work done in his or her office as follows: (a) to (d) Repealed. (e) With respect to a proposed project for a dam, for the examination and filing of each set of plans and specifications required by law to be filed in the office of the …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-111 Fees deposited with department of the treasury
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At the end of each month, the sum of the fees collected during the month, as provided in section 37-80-110, shall be transmitted to the department of the treasury with a complete statement showing the amounts thus received and the sources from which they are derived, and the said…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-111.7 Water resources cash fund - created - uses
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(1) There is hereby created in the state treasury the water resources cash fund, referred to in this section as the fund. Revenues credited to the fund and unexpended at the end of each fiscal year remain in the fund and do not revert to the general fund. All interest derived fro…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-112 Report of state engineer
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The state engineer shall report to the executive director of the department of natural resources at such times and on such matters concerning the state engineer's office and the division of water resources as the executive director may require. Source: L. 1889: p. 374, � 11. R.S.…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-113 State engineer - qualifications - salary - conflict of interest
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(1) The state personnel director shall require that the state engineer is a person qualified to be a registered engineer in Colorado having the background of knowledge and experience in areas essential to the proper discharge of his duties and functions. (2) The salary of the sta…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-114 Deputy state engineer - powers
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(1) The state engineer shall appoint a deputy state engineer, subject to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, whose duties are to assist the state engineer in the administration of the state engineer's office. The deputy state engineer has the power to act for the…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-115 Performance of personnel - duties
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(1) The state engineer shall furnish such directions and require such performance with respect to the work of those under his jurisdiction as will ensure continuous, efficient, and effective discharge of the functions of the division of water resources. (2) It is the duty of the …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-116 Legal services authorized
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(1) (a) The attorney general shall assign an assistant from his or her office to act as an advisor to the state engineer and to the various employees of the state who are subject to the administrative authority of the state engineer. The state engineer shall use the services of t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-117 Regulation of water for measurements
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Whenever it is necessary for any duly authorized hydrographer from the office of the state engineer, or any hydrographer duly authorized by the state engineer or division engineer or water commissioner, or for any water official to make a rating of any weir or flume or measuring …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-118 False reports of gauge heights
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Any headgate keeper, owner, employee, or other person having charge of any automatic self-registering device installed and operated pursuant to order of the state engineer or a division engineer or compiling gauge height records pursuant to order of the state engineer or division…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 37-80-119 Interference with recording instruments
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It is unlawful for any person who does not have charge of any weir, headgate, automatic self-registering device, or other measuring recording device or any canal or reservoir intake or outlet, who does not have authority to install, repair, maintain, or operate any such device or…