§ 30-11-603 — Definitions

As used in this part 6, unless the context otherwise
requires:

(1) Expressways or major arterials means those rights-of-way used
primarily for fast or heavy traffic; and collector streets means those rights-of-way
which have four lanes or more of moving traffic which carry traffic from local
streets to the system of major arterials and highways and move traffic to parks,
schools, and shopping centers serving residential neighborhoods.

(2) Governing body means a city council, a board of trustees of a town, or a
board of county commissioners.

(3) Planning commission means the regional planning commission, county
planning commission, district planning commission, or zoning commission, as the
case may be, which has the responsibility of preparing plans for zoning or the
making or adopting of plans for the physical development of the unincorporated
and incorporated territory located within a distance of two miles from the perimeter
of any telecommunications research facility of the United States.

(4) Telecommunications research facility of the United States means a site
presently owned by the United States in this state consisting of not less than
fifteen hundred contiguous acres in area and having located thereon technical
electronic facilities of a value of more than five million dollars operated by an
agency of the United States, and which technical electronic facilities are principally
utilized in a program of scientific research in telecommunications and related
atmospheric science, involving highly sensitive reception, observation,
measurement, and recording of radio waves from distant emanation of
experimental signals, radio astronomical sources, or electromagnetic phenomena
of the atmosphere or ionosphere.

Legislative History

Source: L. 69: p. 236, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 36-26-3.