Title 35, Agriculture

The board of directors or executive committee of any agricultural, horticultural, or stock society of this state is authorized to contract with a city, town, county, or city and county in whose jurisdiction the grounds of said society are located to provide peace officers, as pro…

The board of county commissioners of any county in this state is authorized to lease or purchase a tract of land suitable for county fair purposes, which shall be used for that purpose, in order to encourage and promote agricultural, mechanical, industrial, and livestock industri…

The board of county commissioners of any county in this state in its discretion, after the purchase or lease and the improvement of the land for fairground purposes as provided for in section 35-65-111, may appoint some person to look after, operate, and conduct county fairs on s…

The board of county commissioners of each county in this state has the power each year to appropriate from the county general fund such money as may be necessary for the purpose of purchasing, leasing, and improving the fairgrounds mentioned in sections 35-65-111 and 35-65-112. S…

If the board of county commissioners of any county in this state elects to conduct, operate, and manage the annual fair in its county or if it elects to lease the fairgrounds and improvements thereon as provided in this article, it is authorized to appropriate from the county gen…

The boards of county commissioners of the various counties, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging regional or district fairs in regions or districts of which their counties are a part, may use such portions of their county fair funds as may be agreed upon by the boards of …

(1) The board is authorized to obtain a license to conduct horse race meets at the Colorado state fair and industrial exposition pursuant to article 32 of title 44. For the purposes of this section, the limitations in section 44-32-512 shall not apply, and the horse race meets sh…

(1) The board may authorize and issue revenue bonds to finance additional facilities for the board and the Colorado state fair and industrial exposition. (2) Such revenue bonds shall be authorized and issued only by resolution of the board, which resolution shall conform to the r…

(1) Any resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under the terms of this part 3 shall: (a) State the date of issuance of the bonds; (b) State a maturity date or dates during a period not to exceed thirty years from the date of issuance of the bonds; (c) State the interest rat…

(1) Any bonds issued pursuant to the terms of this part 3 may be sold at public or private sale. (2) If bonds are to be sold at a public sale, the board shall advertise the sale in such manner as the board deems appropriate. (3) Each bond issued pursuant to the terms of this sect…

Notwithstanding any provisions of the law to the contrary, all bonds issued pursuant to this part 3 are negotiable. Source: L. 75: Entire part added, p. 1354, § 1, effective July 14.

(1) The board, in connection with the issuance of bonds and in order to secure the payment of the bonds and the interest thereon, has the power, by resolution: (a) To provide that the bonds issued under this part 3 shall be payable from and may be secured by a pledge of and lien …

(1) A resolution pertaining to issuance of bonds under this part 3 may contain covenants as to: (a) The purpose to which the proceeds of sale of the bonds may be applied and to the use and disposition thereof; (b) The use and disposition of the revenues of the project for which t…

(1) Bonds issued under this part 3 and bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that, before the delivery thereof and payment therefor, any or all of the persons whose signatures appear…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in the resolution authorizing the bonds, all bonds of the same issue under this part 3 shall have a prior and paramount lien on the net revenues of the additional facilities acquired or provided pursuant to this part 3 for which the bonds have bee…

On June 30, 1997, any bonds issued pursuant to this part 3 shall become an obligation of the Colorado state fair authority to the same extent that they were an obligation of the board of commissioners of the Colorado state fair authority before said date. Source: L. 97: Entire se…

(1) (a) The Colorado state fair authority, as it existed prior to June 30, 1997, is abolished. There is created the Colorado state fair authority in the department of agriculture as a division thereof. The Colorado state fair authority is a type 1 entity, as defined in section 24…

(1) The office of manager of the Colorado state fair authority is hereby created. The commissioner of agriculture, in consultation with the board, shall appoint and employ a manager of the Colorado state fair authority. The person appointed and employed as the manager must have k…

(1) On June 30, 1997, all items of property, real and personal, including office furniture and fixtures, books, documents, and records of the Colorado state fair authority, as it existed prior to said date, are transferred to the Colorado state fair authority, created in the depa…

(1) The Colorado state fair authority and the board of commissioners of the Colorado state fair authority, created pursuant to section 35-65-401, shall constitute an enterprise for the purposes of section 20 of article X of the state constitution, so long as the board retains the…

(1) Notwithstanding section 24-1-136 (11)(a)(I), the Colorado state fair authority and its board of commissioners shall submit copies of an annual report to the governor and the members of the general assembly on or before January 31 of each year or within ten business days after…

The controller is authorized to draw and the state treasurer to pay warrants upon all the funds appropriated from the Colorado state fair authority cash fund, created pursuant to section 35-65-107 (1), on the order of the board, signed by its chair and countersigned by its secret…

(1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary: (a) Until March 1, 1998, the Colorado state fair authority shall not be subject to the provisions of part 14 of article 30 of title 24, C.R.S. On and after March 1, 1998, the Colorado state fair authority shall be subject to the provis…

As used in this article 66, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Bureau" means the United States bureau of land management in the department of the interior. (2) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's designee. (3) "Department" means the…

(1) On or before January 31, 2024, and on or before January 31 of each year thereafter, the department shall submit a written report to the governor and the appropriate committees of reference as determined in accordance with section 2-7-203 (1). The department shall also present…

(1) (a) The general assembly finds and declares that any money received under this article 66 from the federal government or from gifts, grants, or donations is custodial funds and, therefore, is not subject to appropriation. (b) The wild horse fund is created in the state treasu…

(1) The department may implement an immunocontraception program. The department may provide staff and material support for immunocontraception for wild horses in herd management areas to keep wild horse populations at the designated appropriate management levels in each herd mana…

(1) The department may primarily address federally protected wild horses but may also address nonfederally protected wild horses. (2) To implement this article 66, the department may, when reasonable and effective: (a) Expand efforts to engage nonprofit organizations and foundati…

(1) As used in this section, "advisory committee" means the wild horse advisory committee created in subsection (2) of this section. (2) The wild horse advisory committee is created in the department to advise the commissioner and the department on issues concerning wild horses i…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Colorado Soil Conservation Act". Source: L. 37: p. 1170, § 2. CSA: C. 149A, § 2. L. 41: p. 688, § 1. CRS 53: § 128-1-2. C.R.S. 1963: § 128-1-2.

The general assembly finds and declares that the state of Colorado, through wind and water erosion and depletion of subsurface water resources, has lost for agricultural and livestock uses approximately six million acres, or one-tenth of the total area of the state; that these lo…

(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: (a) Upon creation in this article, the name "soil conservation district" best reflected the activities of such districts throughout this state; (b) To better reflect the current activities of the soil conservation districts…

As used in this article 70, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Qualified voter" or "qualified elector" means any registered voter or corporation owning land within the proposed or existing district, as shown by the records in the office of the appropriate county clerk an…

(1) (a) There is created in the department of agriculture the state conservation board, which consists of nine members. The state board is a type 1 entity, as defined in section 24-1-105. One member of the state board must be a qualified elector of the state appointed by the gove…

(1) Proceedings to determine whether or not a conservation district shall be organized shall be instituted by a petition addressed to the state board and signed by not less than twenty-five percent of the owners of land within the district and who own not less than half of the ar…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article 70 to the contrary, for all elections and petitions that require ownership of real property or land, the ownership of a mobile home as defined in section 5-1-301 (29) or 38-12-201.5 (5), or a manufactured home as defined in sect…

(1) Within sixty days after it receives a petition, the state board shall cause notice by publication to be made of the pendency of the petition. Such notice shall state: (a) That a petition has been filed for the organization of a conservation district and the name of the propos…

Within sixty days after the holding of such election, if more than a majority of the votes cast are for organization of such proposed district, the state board shall certify to the division of local government in the department of local affairs a statement of such election and th…

(1) (a) (I) The governing body of the district shall consist of a board of supervisors, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the district at an election conducted as provided in section 35-70-105. Each board shall consist of not less than five and not more than eleve…

(1) A conservation district, in the exercise of its public powers, has the following powers and duties in addition to others granted in this article, which powers and duties may be exercised by the supervisors subject to the rules, regulations, and bylaws adopted by such district…

(1) Repealed. (2) If, in the judgment of the qualified voters of a district or the supervisors, a tax levy or assessment is essential to accomplish the purposes of the district as set forth in this article, the levy may be assessed as follows: (a) The supervisors shall prepare a …

(1) The owner of any lands within the district may appeal from any decision of the supervisors to the state board. To establish such an appeal, the owner must submit the owner's appeal in writing to the state board within thirty days after the date of the action of the supervisor…

If an assessment or tax has been voted as provided in section 35-70-109 (2), the supervisors shall, in accordance with the schedule prescribed by 39-5-128, C.R.S., certify to the board of county commissioners of the county in which any tract or parcel of land within the district …

(1) (a) If an owner of lands adjoining or in the immediate vicinity of the boundary of an established conservation district desires to have the owner's lands included within the district, the owner may petition the supervisors of the district, stating the legal description of the…

Any resident county extension agent whose jurisdiction lies wholly or in part in any established conservation district shall be ex officio a member of the board of supervisors of such district in an advisory capacity, but without the right to vote. Any county agent may serve in s…

The county commissioners of any county in which a conservation district lies in whole or in part shall cooperate with the supervisors of such district in carrying out the purposes of this article, and to that end may use the equipment of the county and persons employed by the cou…