§ 32-11-216 — Additional powers of district

(1) The district has the following
powers:

(a) To have duties, privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities, and disabilities
pertaining to a body corporate and politic and constituting a municipal corporation
and political subdivision of the state established as an instrumentality exercising
public and essential governmental and proprietary functions to provide for the
public health, safety, and general welfare; but, the district shall not have the power
to construct, condemn, purchase, acquire, lease, add to, maintain, or conduct and
operate a water works to provide domestic, municipal, and industrial water to urban
areas;

(b) To have perpetual existence and succession;

(c) To adopt, have, and use a corporate seal and to alter the same at
pleasure;

(d) To sue and to be sued and to be a party to suits, actions, and proceedings;

(e) To commence, maintain, intervene in, defend, compromise, terminate by
settlement or otherwise, and otherwise participate in and assume the cost and
expense of any and all actions and proceedings begun and pertaining to the district,
its board, its officers, agents, or employees or any of the district's powers, duties,
privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities and disabilities, the facilities or any project
of the district, or any property of the district;

(f) To enter into contracts and agreements, including but not limited to
contracts with the federal government, the state, and any other public body;

(g) To trade, exchange, purchase, condemn, and otherwise acquire, operate,
maintain, and dispose of real property and personal property, including interests
therein, either within or without or both within and without the territorial limits of
the district.

Legislative History

Source: L. 69: p. 751, � 21. C.R.S. 1963: � 89-21-21.