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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 38 - Property - Real and Personal » Article 3 - Condemnation of Public Lands

§ 38-3-101. Condemning Public Land – Petition

Whenever any corporation authorized to appropriate for a public use by the exercise of the right of eminent domain lands, rights-of-way, or other rights or easements in lands requires, needs, or desires to appropriate lands, rights-of-way, or other rights or easements in lands which belong to the United States, the state of Colorado, or any […]

§ 38-3-102. Notice – Service – Publication

The court shall fix a time for the first hearing upon said petition. Notice directed to such owner of the filing of the petition and its object and containing a description of the property and of the time and place of the first hearing shall be published by such corporation in one or more newspapers […]

§ 38-3-103. Hearing – Findings Filed – Published

Upon proof being filed of the publication of such notice and of such personal service where required, the court, at the time and place therein fixed or to which the hearing may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the allegations and proofs of all persons interested which touch the matters committed to it, and it […]

§ 38-3-104. Order – Copy Recorded

In case no appeal is taken within thirty days after the last publication of notice that the findings of the court have been filed, the court, upon the payment by the petitioner to the clerk of such court of the compensation fixed by the court and upon motion of the petitioner, shall enter an order […]

§ 38-3-105. Judgment – Appellate Review

Upon the payment into court of the compensation assessed, the court shall give judgment appropriating the lands, rights-of-way, or other rights or easements in lands, as the case may be, to the petitioner, and thereafter the same shall be the property of the petitioner. Either party to the action may appeal from the judgment in […]