Pursuant to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, the governor shall appoint a state engineer. The office of the state engineer must be located within the state capitol complex. The state engineer shall be provided the resources, including an operating budget, necessary to discharge the duties of the office. Source: L. 1889: […]
The state engineer is the executive officer in charge of supervising the work of all division engineers and may direct their supervision of their employees. The state engineer has executive responsibility and authority with respect to: Discharge of the obligations of the state of Colorado imposed by compact or judicial order on the office of […]
The state engineer shall perform all duties imposed upon him by law and, when called upon by the governor, shall give his counsel and services to any state department or institution. He shall be allowed all actual traveling and other necessary expenses and the actual cost of preparing necessary maps and drawings, which actual expenses […]
The state engineer shall make and enforce such regulations with respect to deliveries of water as will enable the state of Colorado to meet its compact commitments. In those cases where the compact is deficient in establishing standards for administration within Colorado to provide for meeting its terms, the state engineer shall make such regulations […]
The state engineer shall: Supervise the work of the division engineers; Furnish division engineers with all the data and information necessary for the proper and intelligent discharge of the duties of their offices; Require division engineers to report their official actions to him or her at suitable times; and Require division engineers to submit annual […]
The state engineer may appoint one or more deputies to assist in the discharge of the duties of the state engineer’s office. The state engineer may deputize any person to perform a particular service, and the state engineer may revoke such appointments when, in his or her judgment, there is no further need for the […]
The state engineer may employ one or more consulting engineers, geologists, or other specialists to advise the state engineer or any division engineer concerning any diversion or proposed diversion of the waters of the state including the sufficiency of any reservoirs or other structures involved in the diversion. Source: L. 35: p. 1060, § 1. […]
The state engineer, on request of any party interested and on payment of his or her per diem charges and reasonable expenses, may appoint a deputy to measure, compute, and ascertain all necessary data of any canal, dam, reservoir, or other construction, as required or as may be desired to establish court decrees, or for […]
The state engineer shall secure the limited or temporary services of persons necessary to carry out the duties or functions of the division of water resources in cases where it would be infeasible or impractical for regular state employees to perform the duties or functions, especially in the following instances: In which work is of […]
The state engineer shall collect fees for work done in his or her office as follows: Repealed. Repealed. Repealed. Repealed. With respect to a proposed project for a dam, for the examination and filing of each set of plans and specifications required by law to be filed in the office of the state engineer, six […]
At the end of each month, the sum of the fees collected during the month, as provided in section 37-80-110, shall be transmitted to the department of the treasury with a complete statement showing the amounts thus received and the sources from which they are derived, and the said amounts shall be credited to the […]
and Repealed. The state engineer shall set and collect fees by rule for the use of the equipment and programs of the satellite and telemetry-based monitoring systems authorized under section 37-80-102 (10). All such fees collected by the state engineer and any other money received from whatever source for the satellite and telemetry-based monitoring systems […]
There is hereby created in the state treasury the water resources cash fund, referred to in this section as the “fund”. Revenues credited to the fund and unexpended at the end of each fiscal year remain in the fund and do not revert to the general fund. All interest derived from the deposit and investment […]
The state engineer shall report to the executive director of the department of natural resources at such times and on such matters concerning the state engineer’s office and the division of water resources as the executive director may require. Source: L. 1889: p. 374, § 11. R.S. 08: § 3331. C.L. § 1814. CSA: C. […]
The state personnel director shall require that the state engineer is a person qualified to be a registered engineer in Colorado having the background of knowledge and experience in areas essential to the proper discharge of his duties and functions. The salary of the state engineer shall be fixed, within the authority granted by section […]
The state engineer shall appoint a deputy state engineer, subject to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, whose duties are to assist the state engineer in the administration of the state engineer’s office. The deputy state engineer has the power to act for the state engineer in all of the state engineer’s […]
The state engineer shall furnish such directions and require such performance with respect to the work of those under his jurisdiction as will insure continuous, efficient, and effective discharge of the functions of the division of water resources. It is the duty of the state engineer to call to the attention of the state personnel […]
The attorney general shall assign an assistant from his or her office to act as an advisor to the state engineer and to the various employees of the state who are subject to the administrative authority of the state engineer. The state engineer shall use the services of the assistant to whatever extent the performance […]
Whenever it is necessary for any duly authorized hydrographer from the office of the state engineer, or any hydrographer duly authorized by the state engineer or division engineer or water commissioner, or for any water official to make a rating of any weir or flume or measuring section of any canal, the owners, superintendent, or […]
Any headgate keeper, owner, employee, or other person having charge of any automatic self-registering device installed and operated pursuant to order of the state engineer or a division engineer or compiling gauge height records pursuant to order of the state engineer or division engineer, or any gauge height observer at any river station in this […]
