Title 43, Transportation
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1402 Definitions
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As used in this part 14, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Adjusted score design-build contract process means a process to award contracts based on the lowest adjusted score of proposals submitted to the department. (2) Best value means the overall maximum value of a pro…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1403 Authority to use a design-build contract process
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department may select a design-build firm and award a design-build contract for a transportation project as provided in this part 14. The department may include a warranty provision in any design-build contract that …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1404 Criteria
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(1) The department may use a design-build contract for a transportation project if the design work for such project must be performed before a potential bidder can develop a price or cost proposal for such project and if the chief engineer of the engineering, design, and construc…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1405 Public notice procedures
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At least forty-five days prior to the anticipated date of selecting a design-build firm for a transportation project, the department shall publish a public notice at least twice in one or more daily newspapers of general circulation in the state. The public notice shall set forth…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1406 General procedures
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(1) The department shall describe in the specifications for the transportation project the particular design-build contract and selection procedures to be used in awarding such contract, including but are not limited to the following: (a) A scope of work statement that defines th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1407 Stipulated fee
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At its discretion, the department may award a stipulated fee to the design-build firms that submit responsive proposals but that are not awarded the design-build contract for a transportation project. The department shall not be required to award such stipulated fee, but if it el…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1408 Commission approval required
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The department shall obtain approval from the transportation commission prior to using an adjusted score design-build contract process for any transportation project. Source: L. 99: Entire part added, p. 260, � 1, effective April 9.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1409 Rule-making authority
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(1) The department may adopt rules in accordance with sections 43-1-110 and 24-4-103, C.R.S., to: (a) Establish requirements for the procurement of design-build contracts that it determines necessary or appropriate, including but not limited to rules implementing the design-build…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1410 Utility relocation - legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: (a) The department is authorized by law to use a design-build process for transportation projects that allows for the improved coordination, scheduling, and timely performance of transportation projects, resulting in time a…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1411 Project specific utility relocation agreements
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(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a utility company enters into a project specific utility relocation agreement with the department, the department may: (a) Pay for the performance of the design work to relocate a utility company's facilities that are affected by…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1412 Utility relocation delays
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(1) When a utility company delegates the responsibility for the performance of any utility relocation work necessitated by a design-build transportation project to the department's contractor for the project pursuant to a project specific utility relocation agreement, the utility…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1501 Definitions
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As used in this part 15, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Public entity includes, but is not limited to, a public body, as that term is defined in section 32-9-103 (11), C.R.S., and any other governmental entity, agency, or official. (2) Retail goods and services means …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1504 Possessory interests in transfer facilities - taxation
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Any person obtaining a possessory interest in any portion of a transfer facility located on property that is owned by the department for the provision of retail or commercial goods or services pursuant to this section shall be deemed in control of that portion of the facility and…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1601 Safe routes to school program
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(1) The commission shall establish and the department shall administer a safe routes to school program to distribute federal moneys received by the state or state moneys to political subdivisions of the state for projects to improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists in school…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1602 Federal funds
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(1) The department may allocate funds received from the federal government under the hazard elimination program, 23 U.S.C. sec. 152, as amended, or its successor program, to projects funded under the safe routes to school program. (2) It is the intent of the general assembly that…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1603 Use of funds
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A political subdivision of the state that receives moneys under this part 16 may not use such moneys as a substitute for funds currently being used to support similar activities. Source: L. 2004: Entire part added, p. 1986, � 1, effective June 5.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-1604 Rules
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The executive director shall promulgate rules in accordance with article 4 of title 24, C.R.S., to implement this part 16. Source: L. 2004: Entire part added, p. 1986, � 1, effective June 5. HIGHWAYS AND HIGHWAY SYSTEMS
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-201 Short title
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This part 2 shall be known and may be cited as the Highway Law, and references to this part 2 shall be understood to mean the highway law, including all its provisions. Source: L. 21: p. 362, � 1. C.L. � 1385. CSA: C. 143, � 92. CRS 53: � 120-3-1. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-3-1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-202 Public highways or roads
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All roads and highways which are, on May 4, 1921, by law open to public traffic shall be public highways within the meaning of this part 2. Source: L. 21: p. 362, � 2. C.L. � 1386. CSA: C. 143, � 93. L. 45: Ex. Sess., p. 41, � 1. CRS 53: � 120-3-2. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-3-2.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-202.5 Public rights in roads - transfer of right-of-way
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(1) If any road has been established by law, the transfer of all or any part of the property upon which such road is constructed to any party, including, but not limited to, any government agency, shall not act to vacate such road. No such transfer shall act to diminish the right…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-202.7 Recording of documents vacating or abandoning a roadway
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If any roadway is vacated or abandoned by the state, by a county, or by a municipality, the documents vacating or abandoning such roadway, including but not necessarily limited to any resolution, ordinance, deed, conveyance document, plat, or survey, shall be recorded in the offi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-203 Definitions
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As used in this part 2, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Highway includes bridges on the roadway and culverts, sluices, drains, ditches, waterways, embankments, retaining walls, trees, shrubs, and fences along or upon the same and within the right-of-way, and any subsur…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-204 State highway
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A state highway within the meaning of this part 2 is a right-of-way or location, whether actually used as a highway or not, designated for the construction of a state highway upon it. Source: L. 21: p. 363, � 4. C.L. � 1388. CSA: C. 143, � 95. CRS 53: � 120-3-4. C.R.S. 1963: � 12…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-205 Offices
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The office of state planning and budgeting shall provide for the department of transportation suitable offices in the capitol or other state building at Denver at such rent and telephone or other expenses as are just and reasonable. Moneys for the payment of such rent and telepho…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-206 Attorney general legal advisor. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 21: p. 369, � 16. C.L. � 1400. CSA: C. 143, � 107. CRS 53: � 120-3-6. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-3-6. L. 79: Entire section repealed, p. 1590, � 2, effective February 22.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-207 Petition for acceptance of road as state highway
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If a board of county commissioners desires to have the transportation commission accept as a state highway any section of road in the county, the board of county commissioners by resolution may so request the commission, and the chief engineer shall then examine the section of ro…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-208 State highway - damages - eminent domain
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(1) If the chief engineer deems it desirable to establish, open, relocate, widen, add mass transit to, or otherwise alter a portion of a state highway, negotiations to acquire the land have failed, and the chief engineer determines that filing a petition in condemnation pursuant …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-209 Subsurface support deemed acquired
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Whenever real property is acquired for road, highway, or mass transit purposes, whether such acquisition is by purchase, lease, or other means or by eminent domain, the right to subsurface support of such real property is deemed to be acquired therewith; except that no right to o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-210.5 Rights-of-way use by adjacent landowners
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that the department of transportation controls the use of thousands of acres of rights-of-way in Colorado for highway purposes. The general assembly further finds that, although the primary use of such rights-of-way is for highwa…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-211 Department to acquire land - buildings
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For the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and supervising the public highways of this state, the department of transportation is authorized to purchase land and cause to be erected thereon by a nonprofit corporation or authority buildings suitable for offices or for housing m…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-212 Department - rental agreements
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The department of transportation is authorized to enter into rental or leasehold agreements under which the department shall acquire title to such buildings within a period not exceeding thirty years upon payment of the stipulated aggregate annual rentals. The plans, specificatio…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-213 Fees and taxes - not reduced
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The excise fees and taxes payable into the state highway fund shall never be reduced to the extent that amounts payable into such fund are insufficient to comply with the terms of any rental or leasehold agreement entered into pursuant to this part 2. Source: L. 51: p. 734, � 3. …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-214 Property exempt from taxation
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Property acquired or occupied pursuant to this part 2 shall be exempt from taxation so long as it is used for state highway or other public purposes. Source: L. 51: p. 734, � 4. CSA: C. 143, � 178. CRS 53: � 120-3-14. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-3-14.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-215 Agreements enforceable
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Purchase or leasehold agreements entered into by the department of transportation pursuant to this part 2 shall be enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction. Source: L. 51: p. 734, � 5. CSA: C. 143, � 179. CRS 53: � 120-3-15. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-3-15. L. 91: Entire sectio…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-216 Notices and tenders by mail
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All notices to landowners referred to in this part 2 may be given by mailing the same to such landowners. All tenders of payment of damages to landowners referred to in this part 2 may be made by mailing to each landowner to whom such tender is to be made a written or printed sta…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-217 Inclusion of streets in highways
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(1) For all of the purposes of this part 2 and, with respect to state highways, for all the purposes of part 1 of article 3 of this title, state highways or county highways may be designated, established, and constructed in, into, or through cities and counties, cities, or towns …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-218 State and school lands
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The provisions of this part 2 shall apply to state lands and school lands as well as other lands. Source: L. 21: p. 373, � 24. C.L. � 1408. CSA: C. 143, � 115. CRS 53: � 120-3-18. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-3-18. 43-1-219. State highway fund - created - state supplementary fund - created…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-220 Sources of funds - assumption of obligations
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(1) All receipts from the following sources shall be paid into and credited to the state highway fund as soon as received from: (a) Such appropriation as may, from time to time, be made by law to the state highway fund from excise tax revenues; (b) All revenue accruing to the sta…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-221 Proceeds from sale of bonds
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The proceeds from the sale of any bonds that may be authorized for state highways shall be expended only for such purposes as are specified in the law authorizing the issue of the bonds and not more than ten percent of any bond issue for administrative and engineering purposes. S…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-222 Cash available for small payments
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In order that the chief engineer may make immediate cash payment to laborers and in other instances where, in his or her judgment, it is advantageous or necessary for the conducting of the work supervised by the chief engineer to make such payments, the state treasurer shall depo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-223 Supervision of construction
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If, as the result of any agreement made by the department of transportation on behalf of the state and any branch of the federal government, there is undertaken actual construction or improvement of highways in the state, the letting of contracts and preparation and approval of s…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-224 Cooperation with federal departments
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The department of transportation is further authorized to cooperate in such manner as it may consider for the public benefit with any department of the federal government in undertaking any experiments or collecting any data that has to do with public highways. Source: L. 21: p. …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-226 Legislative declaration
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It is declared to be the purpose of the general assembly in the passage of section 43-1-225 that the state of Colorado may more fully avail itself of the benefits of funds apportioned for expenditure on federal-aid primary or secondary systems and on the interstate system, includ…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-227 Ten-year plan reporting requirements
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(1) The department and the commission shall annually report on the status of the ten-year plan for each mode of transportation described in section 43-1-106 (15)(d)(I) as follows: (a) (I) During each legislative interim, the department shall present a report on its progress in de…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-401 Short title
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This part 4 shall be known and may be cited as the Outdoor Advertising Act. Source: L. 81: Entire part R&RE, p. 2006, � 1, effective July 1. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 43-1-401 as it existed prior to 1981.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-402 Legislative declaration
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(1) (a) It is declared to be the purpose of the general assembly in the passage of this part 4 to control the existing and future use of advertising devices in areas adjacent to the state highway system in order to protect and promote the health, safety, and welfare of the travel…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-403 Definitions
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As used in this part 4, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Advertising device means any outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or any other contrivance designed, intended, or used to advertise or inform, for which co…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-404 Advertising devices allowed - exception - legislative declaration
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(1) The following advertising devices as defined in section 43-1-403 may be erected and maintained when in compliance with all provisions of this part 4 and the rules adopted by the department: (a) to (c) Repealed. (d) Advertising devices located in areas which were zoned for ind…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-405 Informational sites authorized
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(1) (a) The department may erect, administer, and maintain informational sites for the display of advertising and information of interest to the traveling public, provided the lease fees are sufficient to pay the costs of erecting, administering, and maintaining the sites. (b) Th…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 43-1-406 Bonus areas
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(1) No person shall erect or maintain or allow to be erected or maintained any advertising device within bonus areas. (2) As used in this section: (a) Acquired for right-of-way means acquired for right-of-way for any public road by the state, a county, a city, or any other politi…