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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 39 - Taxation » Article 4 - Valuation of Public Utilities

§ 39-4-101. Definitions

As used in this article 4, unless the context otherwise requires: “Aircraft” means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation or flight through the air and designed to carry at least one person. “Airline company” means any operator who engages in the carriage by aircraft of persons or property as […]

§ 39-4-102. Valuation of Public Utilities – Legislative Declaration – Definition

The administrator shall determine the actual value of the operating property and plant of each public utility as a unit, giving consideration to the following factors and assigning such weight to each of such factors as in the administrator’s judgment will secure a just value of such public utility as a unit: The tangible property […]

§ 39-4-104. Inspection of Records of Utility

The division of property taxation, through the administrator, and its employees, shall have the right at any time, upon demand, to inspect the books, accounts, and records of any public utility doing business in this state for the purpose of verifying the information contained in its filed statement and to examine under oath any officer, […]

§ 39-4-105. Production of Records

By order or subpoena, the administrator may require the production of any books, accounts, or records of any public utility doing business in this state, or verified copies of the same, for examination, and any public utility failing or refusing to comply with any such order or subpoena shall forfeit and pay to the state […]

§ 39-4-106. Valuation of Utilities – Apportionment

Repealed. In the specific case of a telegraph company, the administrator shall: Determine, as of the last day of December of each year, the actual value of such company as a unit, or of its property and plant within this state, in the manner provided in section 39-4-102; Allocate to this state, if the actual […]

§ 39-4-107. Statement of Valuation to Counties

No later than July 1 in each year, the administrator shall advise both the assessor of each county wherein property of a public utility is located and the public utility itself of the valuation of such public utility in such county, and such amount shall be entered on the tax roll of such county by […]

§ 39-4-108. Complaint – Hearing – Decision

Any public utility, being of the opinion that the actual value of its property and plant as determined by the administrator is illegal, erroneous, or not uniform with the actual value of like property similarly situated, as determined by the administrator, may, no later than July 15, file a petition or complaint with the administrator, […]

§ 39-4-109. Judicial Review

Any petitioner or any other public utility, assessor, or board of county commissioners adversely affected or the administrator may appeal any decision of the board of assessment appeals or the district court denying a petition in whole or in part to the court of appeals. No new or additional evidence may be introduced in the […]