§ 30-35-201 — Powers of governing bodies

Colorado § 30-35-201

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 30: Government
• Art.: Home Rule Counties

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The governing body of a home rule
county shall exercise such duties and authority and shall have all the powers and
responsibilities as provided by law for governing bodies of counties not adopting a
home rule charter and shall also have all of the following powers that have been
included in the county's home rule charter or in any amendment thereto, pursuant
to the provisions of section 30-35-103 (1):

(Administrative Powers)

(1) Finances. To control the finances and property of the corporation;

(2) Appropriations. To appropriate moneys for corporate purposes only, and
provide for payment of debts and expenses of the corporation;

(3) Public entertainment. To appropriate moneys in an amount not
exceeding six-tenths of one mill on the valuation for assessment for the purpose of
giving public concerts and entertainments by such corporation;

(4) Advertising. To appropriate moneys for the purpose of advertising the
business, social, and educational advantages, the natural resources, and the scenic
attractions of the corporation;

(5) Taxes. To levy and collect taxes for general and special purposes on real
and personal property, as provided by statute;

(6) Indebtedness. (a) To contract an indebtedness on behalf of the county
and upon the credit thereof, by borrowing money or issuing the bonds of the county,
for any public purpose of the county, including, but not limited to, the supplying of
water and sewer facilities service, the purchase of land, and the purchase,
construction, extension, and improvement of public roads, streets, buildings,
facilities, and equipment, and for the purpose of supplying a temporary deficiency
in the revenue for defraying the current expenses of the county;

(b) The total amount of indebtedness for all purposes shall not at any time
exceed three percent of the valuation for assessment of the county as determined
by the county assessor, except such debt as may be incurred in supplying water,
and no loan for any purpose shall be made unless it is by ordinance, which shall be
irrepealable until the indebtedness therein provided for is fully paid or discharged,
specifying the purposes to which the funds to be raised shall be applied, and
providing for the levying of a tax which, together with such other revenues, assets,
or funds as may be pledged, shall be sufficient to pay the annual interest on, and
extinguish the principal of, said debt within the time limited for the debt to run,
which, excepting such debt as may be incurred in supplying water, shall not be
more than thirty years; except that said tax when collected shall only be applied for
the purposes in said ordinance specified, until the indebtedness is paid and
discharged; but no debt shall be created unless the question of incurring the same
is submitted, at a regular or special election of the county, to the registered
electors thereof and a majority of the registered electors voting upon the question
vote in favor of creating such debt.

(c) No statutory provisions of any other law limiting or fixing tax rates shall
limit the provisions of this subsection (6).

(d) Bonds issued under this subsection (6) may mature serially during a
period of not more than thirty years from the date thereof, in which event the
amounts of such annual maturities shall be fixed by the governing body; except
that bonds issued to supply water may mature over a longer period. If the governing
body so determines, said bonds may be redeemable prior to maturity with or
without payment of a premium, not exceeding three percent of the principal
thereof. In any event said bonds shall be subject to call commencing not later than
fifteen years from the date thereof. The right to redeem all or part of said bonds
prior to their maturity, and the order of any such redemption, shall be reserved in
the ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds and shall be set forth on the face
of said bonds.

(e) The ordinance or resolution submitting the question of contracting an
indebtedness shall contain a statement of the maximum net effective interest rate
at which said indebtedness may be incurred. For the purposes of this article:

(I) Net effective interest rate of a proposed issue of bonds shall be defined
as the net interest cost of said issue divided by the sum of the products derived by
multiplying the principal amount of such issue maturing on each maturity date by
the number of years from the date of said proposed bonds to their respective
maturities.

(II) Net interest cost of a proposed issue of bonds shall be defined as the
total amount of interest to accrue on said bonds from their date to their respective
maturities, plus the amount of any discount below par or less the amount of any
premium above par at which said bonds are being or have been sold. In all cases the
net effective interest rate and net interest cost shall be computed without regard
to any option of redemption prior to the designated maturity dates of the bonds.

(f) (I) The governing body, having received approval at an election to issue
bonds and having determined that the limitations of the original election question
are too restrictive to permit the advantageous sale of the bonds so authorized, may
submit, at another regular or special election, either the question of issuing the
bonds, or any portion thereof, at a higher maximum net effective interest rate than
the maximum interest rate or maximum net effective interest rate approved at the
original election or the question of issuing the bonds, or any portion thereof, to
mature over a longer period of time than the maximum period of maturity approved
at the original election, or the governing body may submit both such questions.

(II) An election held pursuant to this paragraph (f) shall be held in
substantially the same manner as an election to authorize bonds initially, except as
may be required for the submission of the limited question or questions permitted
under this paragraph (f).

(III) At an election held pursuant to this paragraph (f), if the changes
submitted are not approved, such result shall not impair the authority of the
governing body at a later time to issue the bonds originally approved within the
limitations established at the first election.

(7) Officers and employees. To provide by ordinance for the powers, duties,
appointment, term of office, removal, and compensation of all officers and
employees of the county not otherwise provided for by the state constitution or by
statute or by charter and to provide for a retirement plan for such officers and
employees;

(8) Supplies. To provide by ordinance that all the paper, printing, stationery,
fuel, and other supplies needed for the use of the county shall be furnished by
contract let to the lowest responsible bidder;

(9) Charges on land. To prescribe, by general ordinance, the mode in which
the charges on the respective owners of lots or lands, and on the lots or lands, shall
be assessed and determined for the purposes so authorized by law. Any such
charge, when assessed, shall be payable by the owners at the time of the
assessment, personally, and also be a lien upon lots or parcels of land from the time
of the assessment. Such charge may be collected and such lien enforced by a
proceeding in law or in equity, either in the name of such corporation or of any
person to whom it shall have directed payment to be made. In any such proceedings
where pleadings are required, it shall be sufficient to declare generally for work
and labor done and materials furnished on the particular street, alley, or highway,
for sewerage, or for water used. Proceedings may be instituted against all the
owners, or any of them, to enforce the lien against all the lots or parcels of land, or
each lot or parcel, or any number of them embraced in any one assessment; but the
judgment or decree shall be for each separately for the amount properly
chargeable to each. Any proceedings may be severed in the discretion of the court
for the purpose of trial, review, or appeal.

(10) Vacancies. To fill any vacancy occurring by death, removal, or
resignation of any member of the governing body or other elective county officer by
the appointment of a successor, and such appointee shall hold his office only until
the next election, when the vacancy shall be filled by election as in other cases;

(11) Grants of rights-of-way. To grant, by ordinance and upon such terms
and conditions as may be prescribed therein, rights-of-way through, over, across,
and under roads, streets, and alleys;

(Public Works and Services)

(12) Buildings. To construct and maintain public buildings;

(12.5) Energy conservation measures. To enter into installment purchase
contracts or shared-savings contracts or otherwise incur indebtedness under
section 29-12.5-103, C.R.S., to finance energy conservation and energy saving
measures and enter into contracts for an analysis and recommendations pertaining
to such measures under section 29-12.5-102, C.R.S.

(13) Streets and public grounds. (a) To plan, establish, open, alter, widen,
extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve roads, streets, alleys, avenues,
sidewalks, parks, and public grounds, and vacate the same, and to direct and
regulate the landscaping within the rights-of-way of such roads, streets, and,
avenues and on public grounds; to regulate the use of the same; to prevent and
remove encroachments or obstructions upon the same; to provide for the lighting of
the same; and to provide for the maintenance of the same;

(b) To regulate the openings therein for the laying-out of gas or water mains
and pipes and the building and repairing of sewers, tunnels, and drains or for any
other purpose;

(c) To regulate the use of sidewalks along the streets and alleys, and all
structures thereunder, and to require the owner or occupant of any premises to
keep the sidewalks free from snow and other obstructions;

(d) To regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, garbage, or
any offensive matter in, and to prevent any injury to, any road, street, avenue, alley,
or public ground;

(e) To provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs, and gutters;

(f) To regulate and prevent the use of roads, streets, sidewalks, and public
grounds for the erection of signs, signposts, awnings, awning posts, and utility
poles and for the posting of handbills and advertisements; to regulate and prohibit
the exhibition or carrying of banners, placards, advertisements, or handbills upon
the streets or public grounds or upon the sidewalks; and to regulate and prevent
the flying of flags, banners, or signs across the streets or from houses or other
structures;

(g) To regulate the numbering of houses and lots and to name and change
the name of any road, street, avenue, alley, or other public place;

(14) Bridges and tunnels. To construct and maintain bridges, viaducts, and
tunnels and to regulate the use thereof;

(15) Sewers and water mains. To construct and maintain culverts, drains,
sewers, water mains, septic tanks, and cesspools and to regulate their use and to
assess, either in whole or in part, the cost of the construction of sewers, water
mains, and drains upon the lots or lands adjacent to and opposite the improvements
in proportion to the frontage of such lots or lands abutting upon the road, street, or
alley wherein such sewer, water main, or drain is to be laid. The benefit to the public
generally, if any, shall be determined by ordinance and shall be assessed against
the county, and the balance may be assessed against the lots or lands and the
owners thereof, according to the frontage.

(16) Lease or purchase of canals. To purchase or lease any canal or ditch
already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, and all the rights,
privileges, and franchises of any person or corporation owning the same or having
any interest or right therein, and to hold and operate the same in the same manner
as the persons or corporations from whom the same may be purchased or leased
might otherwise do, if such purchase or lease is made for the purpose of supplying,
by said ditch or canal, water for the use of the people of the county and if a majority
of the registered electors of the county voting at any regular election held for the
election of county officers vote in favor of said purchase;

(17) Obligations - repair - management. In making a purchase or lease
pursuant to subsection (16) of this section, to assume all obligations and other
duties which by law devolve upon the owner of such ditch or canal from whom the
same may be purchased or leased by virtue of subsection (16) of this section and to
repair, improve or enlarge said canal or ditch or any flume, dam, or gate connected
therewith and, for such objects, to levy and collect taxes in the same manner as
other taxes are levied and collected by law. The management of such ditch or canal
shall be under the control of the governing body of a home rule county.

(18) Counties may purchase water rights. To purchase water and water
rights for the purpose of supplying counties and the inhabitants thereof with water.
When deemed necessary and proper, the governing body of a county may purchase
and hold the lands with which said water right is connected, whether the same is
within or beyond the corporate limits thereof.

(19) May divert waters - sell lands. To divert the waters acquired by
purchase, to the amount and extent theretofore lawfully appropriated, for the use
of the county and the inhabitants thereof and to sell such lands whenever the
governing body of a county may deem such course advisable;

(20) Ratification of prior rights purchased. To exercise the right to hold and
retain water rights, or such lands and water rights as may have been purchased
prior to June 8, 1981, by any county in this state for the purpose of providing water
for the use thereof or for the use of its inhabitants, such right hereby being given
and ratified and confirmed to the county; and also to exercise the right to divert the
water belonging to such rights for the use of the county and the inhabitants
thereof; and to sell and dispose of such lands so purchased separate and apart from
the water rights as provided in subsection (19) of this section;

(21) Water pollution control. (a) To cooperate with and report to the water
quality control commission and the department of public health and environment
concerning any instances of water pollution, but this paragraph (a) shall not be
construed to affect any activity conducted in compliance with any valid permit,
license, or other authority granted or issued by any agency of the state or federal
government;

(b) To apply for and to accept grants or loans or any other aid from the
federal or state government or any agent or instrumentality thereof or any private
agency;

(c) To construct, reconstruct, lease, improve, better, and extend sewerage
facilities and sewage treatment works wholly within or wholly without the county or
partially within and partially without the county;

(d) To issue its general obligation bonds or other general obligations for the
purpose set forth in, and within the limitations prescribed by, subsection (6) of this
section and to issue its revenue bonds or obligations for such purpose in
accordance with law;

(e) To provide that such bonds or obligations or any part thereof may be sold
to the state of Colorado or the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality of either at private sale and without advertisement;

(f) To cooperate with other local public bodies and with state and federal
agencies by contract for the joint construction and financing of sewerage facilities
and sewage treatment works and the maintenance and operation thereof;

(g) To enter into joint operating agreements with industrial enterprises and
accept gifts or contributions from such industrial enterprises for the construction,
reconstruction, improvement, and extension of sewerage facilities and sewage
treatment works. When determined by its governing body to be in the public
interest and necessary for the protection of the public health, the county is
authorized to enter into and perform contracts, whether long-term or short-term,
with any industrial establishment for the provision and operation by the county of
sewerage facilities to abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges
of industrial wastes by the industrial establishment and the payment periodically by
the industrial establishment to the county of amounts at least sufficient, in the
determination of such governing body, to compensate the county for the cost of
providing, including the payment of the principal and any interest charges, and of
operating and maintaining the sewerage facilities serving such industrial
establishment.

(22) Firehouses, equipment, and firefighters. To erect firehouses, and
provide fire equipment for the extinguishment of fires and to provide for the use
and management of the same; to determine the powers and duties of the members
of the fire department in taking charge of property to the extent necessary to bring
under control and extinguish any fire and to preserve and protect property not
destroyed by fire; and to restrain persons from interfering with the discharge of the
duties of the members of the fire department in connection with the fighting of any
fire;

(23) Hospitals and places of relief. (a) To erect, establish, and maintain
public hospitals, medical dispensaries, and other health facilities;

(b) The limitations on borrowing and incurring indebtedness set forth in
section 25-3-304 (2), C.R.S., shall not apply to county hospitals established in home
rule counties, as that term is defined in part 5 of article 11 of this title. The board of
public hospital trustees in such home rule counties shall have the power to borrow
money and enter into long term leases even where such indebtedness may not be
repaid for more than one year and such indebtedness shall not require the approval
of the board of county commissioners of such county unless such power to approve
such indebtedness is specifically reserved to the board of county commissioners in
the county home rule charter. The home rule county shall incur no liability as a
result of the actions to incur indebtedness by such board of public hospital
trustees.

(24) Cemeteries. To establish and regulate cemeteries within or without the
corporation and acquire lands therefor, by purchase or otherwise, and to cause
cemeteries to be removed;

(25) Franchise and charges for utilities. When the right to build and operate
such water or cable television systems is granted to private individuals or
incorporated companies by the county, to make such grant to inure for a term of not
more than twenty-five years and to authorize such individuals or company to charge
and collect from each person supplied by them with water or such water or cable
television charges as may be agreed upon between said person or corporation so
building said works and the county; and to enter into a contract with the individual
or company constructing said works to supply the county with water for fire
purposes and for such other purposes as may be necessary for the health and
safety thereof and to pay therefor such sums as may be agreed upon between said
contracting parties;

(26) Assessments for utility charges. To assess from time to time, when
constructing such water or cable television systems, in such manner as they shall
deem equitable upon each tenement or other place supplied with such service, such
charges as may be agreed upon by the governing body. At the regular time for
levying taxes in each year, said county is hereby empowered to levy and cause to be
collected, in addition to the other taxes authorized to be levied, a special tax on
taxable property in the county. Such tax, with charges hereby authorized, shall be
sufficient to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining such systems. If the
right to build, maintain, and operate such systems is granted to private individuals
or incorporated companies by the county, and the county shall contract with said
individuals or companies for the supplying of such services for any purpose, the
county shall levy each year and cause to be collected a special tax as provided for
above, sufficient to pay off such charges so agreed to be paid to said individuals or
company constructing said systems, but the said special tax shall not exceed the
sum of three mills on the dollar for any one year.

(27) Water facilities and taxes. To construct public wells, cisterns, and
reservoirs in the roads, streets, and other public and private places within the
county, or beyond the limits thereof, and to provide proper pumps and conduits or
ditches, for the purpose of supplying such county with water; and to levy an
equitable and just tax or charge upon all consumers of water for the purpose of
defraying the expense of such improvements;

(28) Supply water to outside consumers. To supply water from their water
systems to consumers outside of the county and to collect therefor such charges,
upon such conditions and upon such limitations as the county may impose by
ordinance;

(29) Parks - recreational facilities - conservation easements. (a) To
acquire, establish, and maintain such lands, or interests in land, within the county as
in the judgment of the governing body may be necessary, suitable, or proper for
boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roadways or for park or recreational
purposes for the preservation or conservation of sites, scenes, open space, and
vistas of scientific, historic, aesthetic, or other public interest.

(b) Interests in land, as used in subsections (29) to (39) of this section,
means and includes any and all rights and interests in land less than the full fee
interest, including, but not limited to, future interests, easements, covenants, and
contractual rights. Every such interest in land held pursuant to this subsection (29),
when recorded, shall be deemed to run with the land to which it pertains for the
benefit of the county holding such interest and may be protected and enforced by a
county in any court of general jurisdiction by any proceeding known at law or in
equity.

(c) Any county may unite with any other similarly authorized political
subdivision of this state in acquiring, establishing, and maintaining any property
which a county is authorized to acquire, establish, or maintain pursuant to this
subsection (29).

(30) Lands or interests in land acquired. With respect to lands, or interests
in land, for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (29) of this section, to
acquire, either by gift, devise, or purchase, but no land shall be purchased for such
purpose until the governing body shall adopt an ordinance authorizing such
acquisition and stating the location and legal description of the lands to be
acquired and, in case of purchase, the price to be paid and the manner of payment
or unless the proposal to acquire such lands shall be submitted upon petition
pursuant to subsection (33) of this section and approved by the electors of the
county. Lands or interests in land given or devised to a county for the purposes
mentioned shall be accepted or refused by ordinance passed by the governing body
of the county.

(31) Management - licenses - franchises. Exclusively, to manage and
control all parks, pleasure grounds, boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and
roads as mentioned in subsection (29) of this section and, exclusively, to lay out,
regulate, and improve the same, to prohibit certain or heavy traffic therein and
thereon, to grant or refuse licenses to vend goods on the roads, streets, or
sidewalks within three hundred feet of any park entrance and on the streets and
sidewalks adjoining parks, and to establish and maintain necessary rules and
regulations for the proper supervision and government thereof. The county shall
have such additional powers relating thereto as may be prescribed by ordinance,
and the governing body shall provide, by ordinance, for the enforcement of such
rules and orders.

(32) Bequests for park purposes. Upon such trusts or conditions as may be
approved by the county real or personal property may be granted, bequeathed,
devised, or conveyed to the county for the purpose of the improvement or
ornamentation of any park, pleasure ground, boulevard, parkway, avenue, driveway,
or road or for the establishment or maintenance in parks or pleasure grounds of
museums, zoological or other gardens, collections of natural history, observatories,
libraries, monuments, or works of art. All such property or the rents, issues, and
profits thereof shall be subject to the exclusive management and control of the
county.

(33) Acquisition and bonds submitted to electors. (a) For any of the
purposes named in subsection (29) of this section within the county limits, to
acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, or exchange, lands, or interests in land, which
may be necessary, suitable, or proper. No lands or interests in land shall be so
acquired by purchase unless the governing body has adopted an ordinance in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (30) of this section. No indebtedness
shall be created nor shall any bonds be issued for acquiring such lands or interests
in land, unless the question of incurring such debt and issuing such bonds shall
have been submitted at a regular election to a vote of those persons qualified to
vote on authorization of other bonded indebtedness and approved as required by
subsection (6) of this section.

(b) The governing body, upon petition of the registered electors of the
county, equal in number to ten percent of the total number of such electors voting
at the last regular election of the county, shall submit at the next regular election
either or both of the questions of acquisition or of incurring bonded indebtedness
by separate ordinance. In the ordinance submitting the question of the acquisition
of such lands or interests in land, the governing body shall state the location of the
land or interests in land proposed to be acquired, describing the same by legal
subdivisions, wherever practicable, and the consideration to be given for the
purchase and the manner of payment; and, in the ordinance submitting the question
of incurring indebtedness, the governing body shall state the maximum net
effective interest rate at which the bonds may be issued. If the only question to be
submitted is the acquisition of such properties, the question may be submitted at a
regular or special election. If the acquisition or incurring of indebtedness or both
have been approved as required by subsection (6) of this section, the governing
body shall acquire such lands or interests in land, incur said indebtedness, or both,
pursuant to said authorization.

(34) Park fund - certified vouchers. To provide for a park fund which shall
consist of moneys levied, collected, and appropriated therefor and coming into the
fund by donation or otherwise. All moneys collected and credited to the park fund
shall be used for the maintenance and improvement of parks, parkways,
boulevards, avenues, driveways, and roads and shall be expended by the county as
in their judgment the needs of such property shall require. The same shall be drawn
upon the proper officers of the county, upon vouchers properly authenticated.

(35) Maximum tax levy - moneys credited. (a) As a part of the annual levies
authorized by law, to annually levy, assess, and collect upon each dollar of taxable
property within the county not more than one and one-half mills for the purposes of
said park fund, the proceeds of which shall be collected in the same manner as
other county taxes and shall be appropriated to the park fund.

(b) All moneys collected or received or levied or appropriated by the county
for park purposes shall be deposited in the county treasury to the credit of the park
fund. Any portion thereof remaining unexpended at the end of any fiscal year or at
any other time shall not in any event revert into the general fund nor be subject to
appropriation for general purposes.

(36) Acquisition of park land by assessment and bond sale. In addition to
the powers conferred to acquire lands for parks and parkways by the sale of the
general bonds of the county, to acquire boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways,
and roads, in the manner provided in subsection (37) of this section, the same to be
paid for by special assessments upon all the other real estate, except avenues,
boulevards, streets, and roads, in the county or partly out of the proceeds of the
sale of the general bonds of the county and partly by such assessments as the
same may be determined by ordinance.

(37) Acquisition by condemnation. For the purpose of acquiring lands for
boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads, to select and, by a suitable
proceeding in the name of the county and without the passage of any ordinance, to
condemn real property, to purchase any real property so selected for one or more
boulevards, parkways, avenues, driveways, or roads, and to select routes and
streets for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of connecting
boulevards and pleasure ways or parkways therein. All such condemnation
proceedings shall be in accordance with the general laws of the state, so far as the
same are applicable, but the benefit to other lands shall be ascertained and
assessed.

(38) Park bonds. To pay for the parks and pleasure grounds, boulevards,
parkways, avenues, driveways, and roads established by any county, or such part
thereof, as may be determined by the county, in park bonds of the county of a date
and form prescribed by the county, bearing the name of the county, and payable to
bearer at such times and in a sufficient period of years to cover the period of
payments provided for, with interest annually at a rate or rates such that the net
effective interest rate of the issue of bonds does not exceed the maximum net
effective interest rate authorized, as may be determined by the governing body. The
bonds shall be signed by the executive officer, countersigned by the county clerk
and recorder, and bearing the seal of the county endorsed thereon, the interest to
be evidenced by suitable coupons attested by a facsimile of the signature of the
county clerk and recorder.

(39) Control of park grounds. In all cases where any home rule county has
acquired lands for parks, parkways, boulevards, or roads, to have full police power
and jurisdiction and full power and authority in the management, control,
improvement, and maintenance of and over any and all such lands so acquired; to
have power and authority to provide by ordinance for the regulation and control of
its lands so acquired and to prevent the commission of any and all acts which are or
may be declared unlawful and to prosecute and punish the violation of any
ordinances in its county courts. A county shall have like power and jurisdiction to
regulate and prevent the erection, construction, and maintenance, within three
hundred feet of any such park, parkway, boulevard, or road, of any advertisement or
of any billboard or other structure for advertisements, and the county shall also
have like power and jurisdiction over the use of any public roads, boulevards, or
parkways within such parks and running over or through or between such lands and
any public roads, boulevards, or parkways between any such parks or pleasure
ground and its county boundaries.

(Building and Zoning Regulations)

(40) Planning and zoning. To exercise the powers of planning and zoning
pursuant to the provisions of article 28 of this title;

(Condemnation Powers)

(41) Streets and sewers. To extend, by condemnation or otherwise, any
road, street, alley, or highway, over or across, or to construct any sewer under or
through any railroad track, right-of-way, or land of any railroad company, within the
county jurisdiction, but, where no compensation is made to such railroad company,
the county shall restore such railroad track, right-of-way, or land to its former
condition or in a sufficient manner not to have impaired its usefulness;

(42) Public transportation - rights-of-way. To grant the use of, or right to
lay down, any railroad track in any road or street of the county to any public
transportation company;

(43) Utilities. To condemn and appropriate so much private property as shall
be necessary for the construction and operation of sewers in such manner as may
be prescribed by law;

(Ordinance Power)

(44) Power and penalties. To pass all ordinances and rules and make all
regulations proper or necessary to carry into effect the powers granted to home
rule counties, with such fines and penalties as the governing body shall deem
proper, but no fine or penalty shall exceed three hundred dollars, and no
imprisonment shall exceed ninety days for one offense;

(45) Enforcement. To enact and provide for the enforcement of all county
ordinances necessary to protect life, health, and property; to prevent and remove
nuisances defined by statute and upon complaint to the district attorney; to
preserve the general welfare, order, and security of the county and its inhabitants;

(46) Parking - facilities. To provide, by ordinance, for the construction,
maintenance, and operation of public parking facilities, buildings, stations, or lots
by the county and to pay for the cost thereof by general tax levy or otherwise or by
the issuance of bonds of the county, which bonds may be retired by revenues
assessed and collected as rentals, fees, or charges from the operation of such
facilities or from parking meter rentals or charges.

Legislative History

Source: L. 81: Entire article added, p. 1462, � 1, effective June 8. L. 91: (12.5) added, p. 733, � 5, effective May 1. L. 94: (21)(a) amended, p. 2801, � 563, effective July 1.