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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 35 - Agriculture » Article 45 - Public Domain Range

§ 35-45-101. Determination of Grazing Rights

To prevent dissension and breach of the peace, the question as to the kind of livestock, whether cattle or sheep, that shall have the preferred or better right to graze upon any particular portion of the public domain within this state shall be determined according to the use made thereof during the last grazing season, […]

§ 35-45-102. Mixed Range Apportioned

Any range being used as a mixed cattle and sheep range may be apportioned and divided between the different classes of livestock, that is cattle or sheep, grazed thereon by the district court having jurisdiction whenever a controversy or dispute arises upon complaint of any interested party using said range. Upon final hearing, any such […]

§ 35-45-103. District Court Has Jurisdiction

Whenever a dispute arises as to which respective class of livestock has the better right to graze upon any particular portion of said public domain, the district court of the county wherein such disputed area or some part thereof lies has jurisdiction to determine the matters in an action in equity for an injunction to […]

§ 35-45-105. Reapportionment of Range

If any given area has been adjudged to be subject to use either as a cattle or sheep range, any person in interest may thereafter institute a supplemental proceeding in the same court which rendered the original decree, by filing a supplemental petition setting forth that such person has acquired livestock formerly grazed upon such […]

§ 35-45-106. Overstocking Range

It is declared the policy of this state to preserve the grasses and vegetation on the public domain and protect the wild game of this state in their natural ranges, and especially on the winter ranges, and to prevent erosion of the soil and thereby conserve the waters and water supply originating on the public […]

§ 35-45-107. How Article Construed

Nothing in sections 35-45-101 to 35-45-106 shall be construed to prohibit free transit over the public domain as provided by the acts of congress or to confer upon any individual as such an exclusive right to the use or occupancy of any part of the public domain. Source: L. 29: p. 449, § 7. CSA: […]

§ 35-45-108. Distribution of Receipts

All moneys received by the state treasurer as the state’s share of the amounts collected by the federal government under the provisions of sections 3 and 15 of the “Taylor Grazing Act”, and any act amendatory thereof, and under the provisions of Public Law 136, 82nd congress, approved August 31, 1951, shall be credited to […]

§ 35-45-109. Range Improvement Fund – Board of District Advisers

All moneys paid to the counties shall be deposited with the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the range improvement fund of district no. __. The county treasurer of any county in which a district is located shall be the ex officio district treasurer and custodian of moneys received and shall […]

§ 35-45-110. Purposes of Fund

The money deposited in the range improvement fund of any county shall be expended within such county for such purposes as may be directed by the board of district advisers of such grazing district or by the board of county commissioners in counties where there is no grazing district, including range improvements and maintenance, predatory […]