§ 31-35-302 — Petition - plans - contract

Colorado § 31-35-302

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 31: Government
• Art.: Water and Sewage

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(1) For the purpose of carrying the
provisions of this section and section 31-35-301 into effect, the owners of four
blocks or more situated in any city or town in this state owning its own municipal
water plant which has not been supplied with water mains shall present a petition
to the governing body, offering therein to construct such water mains and pipes in
the streets and alleys of said city or town in such manner and at such places and of
such sizes as the said governing body may require and at a cost to said city or town
as low as the same could be constructed by said city or town.

(2) Upon receipt of such petition, the governing body shall prepare plans and
specifications for the supplying of said territory with water mains and pipes, and
the petitioners, upon the inspection of said plans and specifications, shall state
their willingness to construct the same at a certain price to be paid for out of the
revenues derived from water running through said pipes in said district, the same to
be charged at no higher rate than the remainder of said city or town is paying. If
such proposition is satisfactory to the governing body, it has the right to enter into a
contract with said petitioners upon behalf of said city or town for the construction
of such water mains and pipes according to said plans and specifications and for
the price agreed upon, not more than that specified, and within a time to be set by
said governing body.

(3) Upon the completion of said works by said petitioners, the city or town
shall inspect and, if satisfactory, accept the same and issue certificates of
indebtedness therefor stating therein how the same is to be paid out of the
proceeds from such water rentals collected from the territory in which said
extensions are made, unless otherwise sooner arranged for by said city or town, and
proceed to operate and maintain the same and collect the revenues therefrom and
to apply the same to the payment of the indebtedness created for the construction
of said pipes without interest until the same is paid for or until said city or town
makes payment therefor in some other manner. Said rentals shall be paid upon said
certificates from time to time when the amount of one hundred dollars is received
from said rentals for that purpose, and said rentals shall be set apart and kept as a
separate fund and used for the purposes provided in this subsection (3) only until
the entire indebtedness is paid.

Legislative History

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1249, � 1, effective July 1.