§ 32-4-506 — Purpose, boundaries, and powers

Colorado § 32-4-506

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 32: Special
• Art.: Water and Sanitation Districts

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(1) Metropolitan sewage
disposal districts may be organized under this part 5 for the purpose of acquiring,
by construction or otherwise, owning, holding, and operating a sewage disposal
system to intercept, receive, transport, treat, and dispose of the outfalls of sewer
systems of municipalities. A district may be composed of territory included within
the corporate boundaries of any two or more municipalities, which need not be
contiguous and which need not be located in the same county. When so organized
each such district shall be a governmental subdivision of the state of Colorado with
such powers as are expressly granted in this part 5 together with such powers as
are reasonably implied therefrom and necessary or proper to carry out the objects
and purposes of such district.

(2) It is the purpose of this part 5 that the municipalities within a district shall
retain full power to provide sewer service to its inhabitants and to authorize a
district to intercept, receive, transport, treat, and dispose of the outfalls from the
sewer systems of the municipalities within the district.

Legislative History

Source: L. 60: p. 164, � 3. CRS 53: � 89-15-3. C.R.S. 1963: � 89-15-3.