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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 37 - Water and Irrigation » Article 23 - Assessment for Benefits

§ 37-23-101. Assessments According to Benefits

As soon as the plans for a drainage system have been determined and before the actual work of drainage is begun or bonds voted, the board of directors shall proceed to make special assessments for benefits by classifying the lands in the district in tracts of forty acres, more or less, according to the legal […]

§ 37-23-101.5. Determination of Special Benefits – Factors Considered

The term “benefit”, for the purposes of assessing a particular property within a drainage system improvement district, includes, but is not limited to, the following: Any increase in the market value of the property; The provision for accepting the burden from specific dominant property for discharging surface water onto servient property in a manner or […]

§ 37-23-102. Objections to Classification – Hearing

The board of directors shall cause to be personally served upon all parties residing in the district and owning land to be affected by the proposed drainage system, or other property liable to be taxed, a written or printed notice of the time when, and place where, it will meet to hear any objections that […]

§ 37-23-103. Corrections – Appeal – Bond

At the time of meeting for review, the board of directors shall hear whatsoever objections may be urged by any person interested, and, if satisfied that any injustice has been done in the classification of the several tracts of land or any of them, it shall correct the same in accordance with what is right, […]

§ 37-23-104. Hearing on Appeal – Special Jury

Appeals taken to the district court may be heard at the discretion of the court; except that ten days shall intervene from the time of taking the appeal and the date set for hearing. The costs of such appeal, at the discretion of the court, may be divided between the drainage district and the owner […]

§ 37-23-105. Effect of Appeal

The taking of any appeal by any persons shall not operate to delay the collection of any tax from which no appeal has been taken or delay the progress of the work or the issuing of any bonds. Source: L. 13: p. 257, § 2. C.L. § 2165. CSA: C. 57, § 59. CRS 53: […]

§ 37-23-106. Modified Classification Filed

The board of directors shall modify said classification so that it conforms to the changes made therein in the hearings before said board, and the secretary of the district shall certify and file said classification of property of the district so modified, properly tabulated or shown by a map, or both, with the county clerk […]

§ 37-23-107. Special Assessments – Apportionment

The board of directors, on or before July 1 in each year, shall determine the amount of money required to meet the current expenses of the coming year, including cost of construction, maintenance, operating and ordinary expenses, deficiency in the payment of expenses already incurred, bond interest unpaid, the amount of bonded indebtedness, and the […]

§ 37-23-108. Assessment List

The assessment list shall be completed on or before July 15, and, on the first Tuesday of August in each year and from day to day thereafter, Sundays excepted, the board of directors shall sit to hear complaints and to correct errors in said assessment until all complaints filed with the secretary or presented to […]

§ 37-23-109. Alternative Method of Assessment

As an alternative method for the assessment of the lands in the district and in lieu of the method of assessment provided by sections 37-23-101 to 37-23-108, the board of directors may adopt the following method for the assessment of the benefits derived from the system of drainage adopted: As soon as the plans for […]

§ 37-23-110. Owner May Except – Hearing

Any owner of land in said drainage district may file exceptions to said report or to any assessment for benefits within ten days after the last day of publication of the notice provided for in this article. All exceptions shall be heard by the board of directors and determined in a summary manner so as […]

§ 37-23-111. Tax Levies – How Made

The tax shall be apportioned to and levied on each tract of land in said district in proportion to the benefits assessed and not in excess thereof, and, in case bonds are issued, the amount of the interest, as estimated by said board of directors, which will accrue on such bonds shall be included and […]

§ 37-23-112. Levy for Alternative Plan

In case the board of directors adopts the alternative method of assessment of benefits provided by sections 37-23-109 to 37-23-111, and after a tax has been levied upon the benefits so assessed for the purpose of paying the costs of completion of the proposed plan for the drainage system and carrying out the objects of […]

§ 37-23-113. Assessments – How Made

On or before September 1 in each year, the secretary shall transmit to the county assessor of each county a certified copy of so much of said assessment book as relates to land within the county of said county assessors, together with the certified copy of the order of the board of directors. Thereupon it […]

§ 37-23-114. State Tax Laws to Apply

The laws of this state for the collection of general taxes including the laws for the sale of property for taxes and the redemption of the same, except as modified in this section, shall apply and have full force and effect for the purposes of articles 20 to 30 of this title, and the provisions […]

§ 37-23-115. Sale of Property Taxed

The board of directors of any drainage district may sell, dispose of, and convey, on behalf of such district, any real property to which such drainage district may take title by tax deed under the provisions of section 37-23-114, as said board may by resolution direct, either at public or private sale, at such price […]

§ 37-23-116. President to Execute Deed

The president of the board of directors of such drainage district, when authorized by resolution of the board of directors, is empowered to execute, acknowledge, and deliver any deeds of conveyance necessary to convey such real property to the purchaser thereof. The deed of conveyance shall be attested by the secretary of such drainage district […]

§ 37-23-117. Proceeds of Sale

The proceeds of such sales shall be paid into such fund of the drainage district as its board of directors by resolution may direct. Source: L. 29: p. 536, § 3. CSA: C. 57, § 69. CRS 53: § 47-4-17. C.R.S. 1963: § 47-4-17.

§ 37-23-118. Directors to Perfect Title

The board of directors of any such drainage district is authorized to take such steps in the name of and on behalf of the district as it deems necessary in order to perfect the title of such drainage district to any lands to which it has taken title by tax deed and for that purpose […]