§ 31-15-710 — Water pollution control

(1) The governing body of each
municipality has the power:

(a) To provide for the cleansing and purification of water, watercourses, and
canals and the draining or filling of ponds on private property when necessary to
prevent or abate nuisances; and for the purpose of aiding in the prevention and
abatement of water pollution all municipalities are authorized:

(I) To apply for and to accept grants or loans or any other aid from the United
States or any agency or instrumentality thereof under any federal law in force;

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

(III) To issue its general obligation bonds or other general obligations for said
purpose pursuant to and within the limitations prescribed by section 31-15-302
(1)(d) and to issue its revenue bonds or obligations for such purpose pursuant to law;

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

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

(VI) To enter into joint operating agreements with industrial enterprises and
to accept gifts or contributions from such industrial enterprises for the
construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, 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 public health, a
municipality is authorized to enter into and perform contracts, whether long-term or
short-term, with an industrial establishment for the provision and operation by the
municipality 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 municipality of amounts
at least sufficient, in the determination of such governing body, to compensate the
municipality for the cost of providing, including payment of principal and interest
charges, if any, and of operating and maintaining the sewerage facilities serving
such industrial establishment.

Legislative History

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1118, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2019: (1)(a)(VI) amended, (HB 19-1071), ch. 17, p. 62, � 2, effective August 2.