Title 32, Special Districts
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1001 Common powers - definitions
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(1) For and on behalf of the special district the board has the following powers: (a) To have perpetual existence; (b) To have and use a corporate seal; (c) To sue and be sued and to be a party to suits, actions, and proceedings; (d) (I) To enter into contracts and agreements aff…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1003 Health service districts - additional powers
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in section 32-1-1001, the board of any health service district has any or all of the following powers for and on behalf of such district: (a) To establish, maintain, or operate, directly or indirectly through lease to or from other parties …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1004 Metropolitan districts - additional powers and duties
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in section 32-1-1001, the board of any metropolitan district has the following powers for and on behalf of such district: (a) To enter into contracts with public utilities, cooperative electric associations, and municipalities for the purpo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1005 Park and recreation districts - additional powers - limitations
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in section 32-1-1001, the board of any park and recreation district has the following powers for and on behalf of such district: (a) To operate a system of television relay and translator facilities and to use, acquire, equip, and maintain …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1008 Tunnel districts - additional powers - special provisions
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in section 32-1-1001, the board of any tunnel district has the following powers for and on behalf of such district: (a) To acquire, construct, improve, equip, operate, maintain, and finance one or more tunnel projects; (b) To enter into con…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1009 Regional tourism projects
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in this part 10, and notwithstanding any limitation on the powers of a metropolitan district otherwise specified in this part 10 or in the metropolitan district's service plan, any metropolitan district designated as an approved financing e…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-101 Short title
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This article shall be known and may be cited as the Special District Act. Source: L. 81: Entire article R&RE, p. 1542, � 1, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-102 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby declares that the organization of special districts providing the services and having the purposes, powers, and authority provided in this article will serve a public use and will promote the health, safety, prosperity, security, and general welfar…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-103 Definitions
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As used in this article 1, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Ambulance district means a special district which provides emergency medical services and the transportation of sick, disabled, or injured persons by motor vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation to …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-104 Establishment of a special districts file
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(1) The division shall promptly establish and maintain on a current basis, as a public record, a file listing by name all special districts, listing the names and addresses of all the members of the boards of the special districts, and recording all changes in the names or bounda…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-104.8 Information statement regarding taxes and debt
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(1) Every special district shall record a special district public disclosure document and a map of the boundaries of the district with the county clerk and recorder of each county in which the district is located that provides the following information: (a) The name of the distri…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-106 Repetitioning of elections - time limits
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(1) If, after any election for the organization or dissolution of any special district or for the inclusion of territory into a special district pursuant to section 32-1-401 (2) or for the exclusion of property within a municipality from a special district pursuant to section 32-…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-107 Service area of special districts
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(1) A special district may be entirely within or entirely without, or partly within and partly without, one or more municipalities or counties, and a special district may consist of noncontiguous tracts or parcels of property. (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this sect…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-108 Correction of faulty notices
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In any case where a notice is provided for in this article, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the proceeding in question shall not thereby be void or be abated; but the court, in that case, shall or…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-109 Early hearings
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All cases in which there arises a question of the validity of the organization of a special district or a question of the validity of any proceeding under this article shall be advanced as a matter of immediate public interest and concern and heard at the earliest practicable mom…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-110 Construction with other laws
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If any provisions of this article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this article 1 control; except that the water conservation policy set forth in section 37-60-126 (11) applies to all land within a special district that is not used as a pla…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1101 Common financial powers - definition
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(1) For and on behalf of the special district, the board has the following powers: (a) To levy and collect ad valorem taxes on and against all taxable property within the special district, which shall not be limited except as provided in section 39-10-111 (11) and in part 3 of ar…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1102 Special financial provisions - fire protection districts. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 81: Entire article R&RE, p. 1604, � 1, effective July 1. L. 86: Entire section repealed, p. 1027, � 8, effective January 1, 1987.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1103 Special financial provisions - health service districts
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in section 32-1-1101, the board of any health service district has the following powers for and on behalf of such district: (a) (I) Repealed. (II) To levy, in health service districts with a valuation for assessment on real and personal pro…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1105 Special financial provisions - tunnel districts
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in section 32-1-1101, the board of any tunnel district has the following powers for and on behalf of such district: (a) To fix and from time to time increase or decrease tolls or other charges for the use of any tunnel and to pledge the sam…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1107 Special financial provisions - fire protection districts
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in section 32-1-1101, the board of a fire protection district, referred to in this section as a district, has the power, for and on behalf of the district, to levy a uniform sales tax, at a rate determined by the board, upon every transacti…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1108 Special financial provisions - ambulance districts
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(1) In addition to the powers specified in section 32-1-1101, the board of an ambulance district, referred to in this section as a district, has the power for and on behalf of the district to levy a uniform sales tax at a rate determined by the board upon every transaction or oth…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-111 Validation of special districts - bonds
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The organization pursuant to law of any special district, by decree of a court of competent jurisdiction entered prior to July 1, 1981, and the obligations incurred by and the bonds of such districts issued prior to July 1, 1981, and the proceedings related thereto, are hereby va…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-112 Validation of boundaries of metropolitan districts
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All changes or purported changes to the corporate boundaries of existing metropolitan districts, which changes were initiated prior to March 1, 1981, and are completed prior to July 1, 1981, are hereby validated notwithstanding any lack of power or authority, other than constitut…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-113 Liberal construction
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This article, being necessary to secure the public health, safety, convenience, and welfare, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. Source: L. 81: Entire article R&RE, p. 1547, � 1, effective July 1. Editor's note: This section is similar to former �� 32-1-111 and 3…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1201 Procedure
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the board shall determine in each year the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, taking into consideration other sources of revenue of the special district, and shall fix a rate of levy which, when levied upo…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1202 County officers to levy and collect - lien
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It is the duty of the body having authority to levy taxes within each county to levy the taxes provided by section 32-1-1201 (1) and (2). It is the duty of all officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect such taxes at the time and in the form and manner and wit…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1203 Sale for delinquencies
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If the taxes levied are not paid, delinquent real property shall be sold at the regular tax sale for the payment of said taxes, interest, and penalties in the manner provided by the statutes of this state for selling real property for the nonpayment of general taxes. If there are…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1204 Liability of property included or excluded from district
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All real property included within, or excluded from, a special district shall thereafter be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of its proportionate share of any indebtedness of the district outstanding at the time of inclusion or exclusion as provided in parts 4 and 5 o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1301 Legislative declaration - applicability
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It is hereby declared that the orderly refunding of any general obligation bonds and any other lawful general obligation indebtedness incurred by any special district, when advantageous to the special district or persons within the special district, will serve a public use and wi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1302 Refunding bonds
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(1) Any general obligation bonds issued and any other lawful general obligation indebtedness incurred by any special district may be refunded without an election of the special district issuing or incurring the same, or any successor thereof, in the name of the special district w…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1303 Limitations upon issuance
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(1) No general obligation bond or other general obligation indebtedness may be refunded unless the holder thereof voluntarily surrenders the same for exchange or payment or the said indebtedness either matures or is callable for prior redemption under its terms within ten years f…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1304 Use of proceeds of refunding bonds
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The proceeds of general obligation refunding bonds shall either be immediately applied to the retirement of the indebtedness being refunded or be placed in escrow in any state or national bank within this state which is a member of the federal deposit insurance corporation and wh…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1305 Combination of refunding and other bonds
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General obligation bonds for refunding and general obligation bonds for any other purpose authorized in this article may be issued separately or issued in combination in one or more series by any special district. Source: L. 81: Entire article R&RE, p. 1610, � 1, effective July 1…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1306 Board's determination final
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The determination of the board that the limitations under this part 13 imposed upon the issuance of refunding bonds have been met shall be conclusive in the absence of fraud or arbitrary and gross abuse of discretion. Source: L. 81: Entire article R&RE, p. 1610, � 1, effective Ju…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1307 Construction of part 13
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(1) The powers conferred by this part 13 are in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by this part 13 shall not affect the powers conferred by any other law. Bonds may be issued under this part 13 without regard to the provisions o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1401 Legislative declaration
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The general assembly hereby declares this part 14 to be necessary in order to provide for the orderly and equitable payment of the obligations of local taxing districts organized under the provisions of this article, which payment may be effected by a plan of adjustment of the de…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1402 Definitions
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As used in this part 14, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Federal bankruptcy law means chapter 9 of title 11, U.S.C., as the same may be from time to time amended, or any act of congress relating to the adjustment or composition of indebtedness of municipalities enacted…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1403 Petition
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Any insolvent taxing district is hereby authorized to file a petition authorized by federal bankruptcy law and to take any and all action necessary or proper to carry out the plan filed with said petition, or any modification of such plan thereafter accepted in writing by said di…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1403.5 Notice and hearing by board
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The board shall file a petition under section 32-1-1403 only at a regular or special meeting after publication of notice and postcard or letter notification to property owners within the district and to the division of local government in the department of local affairs of the pl…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1404 Powers
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The plan may include provisions for the modification of the existing contracts of the taxing district as evidenced by its bonds or otherwise. Such plan may adapt or alter the procedures provided by the statutes of Colorado for the levy, certification, and collection of general ta…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1405 Powers not limited by this part 14
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The enumeration of powers in this part 14 shall not exclude powers not mentioned and elsewhere conferred which may be necessary for or incidental to the accomplishment of the purposes of this part 14 and the consummation of a plan approved as provided in this part 14. Source: L. …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1406 Validation of bankruptcy filings and approvals
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The filing of a petition or a plan under the federal bankruptcy law by an insolvent taxing district prior to May 24, 1990, the approval of the plan of an insolvent taxing district prior to May 24, 1990, and any proceedings related to any such filing or approval are hereby validat…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1407 Repeal of part. (Repealed)
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Source: L. 90: Entire part added, p. 1510, � 1, effective May 24. L. 93: Entire section repealed, p. 225, � 1, effective March 31.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1601 Legislative declaration
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The general assembly hereby finds and declares that special districts are political subdivisions and instrumentalities of the state of Colorado and local governments thereof. The general assembly further finds that defaults in payment of general obligation debts and the possibili…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1602 Definitions
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As used in this part 16, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) General obligation debt means an obligation of a special district created by a resolution of the special district authorizing the issuance of bonds or a contract, the obligations of which are backed by a pledge o…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1603 Separate mill levies - certification to county commissioners
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After July 1, 1992, special districts which levy taxes for payment of general obligation debt shall certify separate mill levies to the board of county commissioners, one each for funding requirements of each such debt in accordance with the relevant contracts or bond resolutions…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1604 Recording
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Whenever a special district authorizes or incurs a general obligation debt, a notice of such action and a description of such debt in a form prescribed by the director of the division of local government in the department of local affairs shall be recorded by the special district…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1605 Limitations on actions - prior law
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Any claim for relief under section 32-1-1504, as it existed prior to July 1, 1992, shall be commenced on or before January 1, 1993, and not thereafter. Source: L. 92: Entire part added, p. 994, � 2, effective July 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-1701 Legislative declaration
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The general assembly hereby finds and declares that the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state are dependent upon the attraction of new private enterprise as well as the retention and expansion of existing private enterprise; that incentives are often necessary i…