§ 37-42-107 — Organization - meeting - voting

Colorado § 37-42-107

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 37: Water and
• Art.: Irrigation District Law of 1921

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(1) The board of county
commissioners shall attend at the time and place of the meeting specified in
section 37-42-106 and shall certify to the meeting a list of the landowners of the
proposed district, taking no account of those who have prosecuted appeals from
the order of the board of county commissioners fixing and determining boundaries,
together with the number of acres within the proposed district, owned or
represented by each, the total of which acreage, for the purposes of this meeting,
shall be considered the total acres of the district. The board of county
commissioners shall also act as a credentials committee of the meeting and shall
decide and create a written certification regarding who are eligible voters at the
meeting. The chair of the board shall preside at the meeting until temporary
officers are elected from among those present.

(2) The landowners shall organize such meeting by the selection from their
own number of a chairman who shall preside at said meeting and a clerk who shall
keep the minutes of the proceedings of such meeting and perform the duties
generally performed by such officer.

(3) The meeting having been so organized, a vote shall be taken by ballot to
determine organization. The ballots cast shall contain the words Irrigation District -
Yes .... and Irrigation District - No ...., and shall have a cross marked opposite the
words expressing the desire of the voter, together with the name and, if the vote is
by proxy, both the name of the landowner and the person voting, and the number of
votes cast, being the number of acres of the landowner within said proposed
district.

(4) The vote shall be publicly counted by tellers selected by the chairman,
entered at length upon a tally sheet and checked with the list certified by the board
of county commissioners, and shall be entered in detail in the minutes of the
proceedings. If a majority of the total vote of the proposed district, as shown by the
list certified by the board of county commissioners, is not found to have been cast
in favor of organization, the meeting shall thereby stand adjourned and no further
proceedings had upon the petition for organization or order of determination; but, if
the majority of the total vote of the district as shown by said certified list is cast in
favor of organization, the organization of the district shall be declared
accomplished and record thereof entered in the minutes of the meeting, and the
meeting shall proceed to the election of the directors of the district who shall hold
office until the first annual election.

Legislative History

Source: L. 21: p. 522, � 7. C.L. � 2063. CSA: C. 90, � 438. CRS 53: � 149-2-7. C.R.S. 1963: � 150-2-7. L. 2017: (1) amended, (HB 17-1030), ch. 16, p. 46, � 2, effective August 9.