For the purposes of sections 37-43-101 to 37-43-103, a “landowner” shall be held to be any individual eighteen years of age or older, owning in fee within an irrigation district land in excess of one acre that is subject to irrigation district taxation or assessment, who is a citizen of the United States or has […]
Landowners in irrigation districts in this state who do not have the right to vote for district directors on an acreage basis shall have such right if so authorized as provided in sections 37-43-101 and 37-43-103. Source: L. 35: p. 663, § 1. CSA: C. 90, § 485. CRS 53: § 149-3-1. C.R.S. 1963: § […]
At any general or special election held in any irrigation district, the board of directors may submit to the electors of the district the question of voting for directors of the district on an acreage basis; except that no landowner has the right to vote more than eighty acres in the election of directors. If […]
The board of directors of any irrigation district in the state of Colorado may submit to the electors of any such district the question of whether or not the number of directors of such district shall be increased from three to five. Source: L. 45: p. 419, § 1. CSA: C. 90, § 487(1). CRS […]
Such election may be called by any board of directors and shall be called if a petition therefor, signed by thirty percent of the qualified electors in said district, as defined in section 37-43-108, is presented to any such board, which election shall be a special election and the question to be voted upon shall […]
The preference of voters shall be indicated by inserting a cross mark following either one or the other of the foregoing propositions, and said ballot shall have printed upon the face thereof instructions to the voters, worded as follows: “To vote for or against an increase in the number of directors of the ………….. Irrigation […]
Any qualified elector, as defined in the law under which such district is organized, owning agricultural lands of one acre or more in extent may vote at such election and is entitled to one vote and shall not vote upon an acreage basis regardless of whether or not the landowners in the particular district have […]
The vote shall be canvassed by the board of directors at its first regular meeting after such election, and, if a majority of landowners voting at such special election vote for an increase in the membership of directors of the said district from three to five, at their next regular meeting following such election, the […]
At the next general election following such special election, in the event the landowners vote in favor of an increase in the membership of the board of directors, there shall be elected two directors-at-large, one to serve for two years and one for three years, and, at each regular election thereafter held in said district […]
The law applicable to the qualification of directors shall be applicable to directors-at-large so appointed or elected. Source: L. 45: p. 420, § 7. CSA: C. 90, § 487(7). CRS 53: § 149-3-10. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-3-10.
For the purpose of furnishing water and securing water rights for agricultural college and public school lands lying within or adjacent to the boundaries of any irrigation district organized, the state board of land commissioners is authorized to petition all such lands into such irrigation districts. Source: L. 09: p. 429, § 1. C.L. § […]
All such petitions shall be in the form provided by law for the petition of other lands into such irrigation districts, and shall be signed, sealed, and acknowledged by the register of the state board of land commissioners on behalf of said board and shall in addition be countersigned by the governor of the state […]
All such lands so included in any irrigation district in this state shall be assessed for irrigation district purposes in the same manner and at the same rate as other lands in such irrigation districts. Source: L. 09: p. 429, § 3. C.L. § 2028. CSA: C. 90, § 490. CRS 53: § 149-3-13. C.R.S. […]
It is the duty of the county treasurer of each county in this state wherein any irrigation district is located and in which such lands have been so included to notify the register of the state board of land commissioners on or before February 1 of each year of the amount of district assessments due […]
Upon the receipt of such receipts from said county treasurers, it is the duty of the register of the state board of land commissioners to enter and charge the same against each tract of land so paid on, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, showing the amount paid, date of […]
In the event that any such tracts of land so included within any irrigation district are leased from the state board of land commissioners, then all such lessees, in addition to the rental paid to said state board of land commissioners, shall pay such an additional amount to said board as will equal the district […]
All contracts for the sale of any such lands included within any irrigation district, in addition to the purchase price to be paid, shall provide that such purchaser, on or before March 1 in each year, until he has secured a patent for such lands, shall pay to the register of the state board of […]
The board of directors of an irrigation district by resolution may exclude any lands from the district, if such district does not have any outstanding unpaid bonded indebtedness and if the permission of the owner of the fee title and of any equitable owner has first been had or secured for such exclusion. Source: L. […]
At any time during the refinancing of the bonded indebtedness of an irrigation district, the board of directors thereof by resolution may exclude any land from such district, provided such exclusion is known to the purchaser of the district’s refunding bonds. Source: L. 35: p. 665, § 2. CSA: C. 90, § 496. CRS 53: […]
All exclusions of lands made prior to February 16, 1935, by boards of directors of irrigation districts which would be lawful under the terms and provisions of sections 37-43-119 and 37-43-120 are declared to be lawful. Source: L. 35: p. 665, § 3. CSA: C. 90, § 497. CRS 53: § 149-3-20. C.R.S. 1963: § […]
