§ 38-52-103 — Colorado coordinate system defined

(1) The plane coordinate
values for a point on the earth's surface, used to express the geographic position or
location of such point in the appropriate zone of this system, shall consist of two
distances expressed in United States survey feet and decimals of a foot when using
the Colorado coordinate system of 1927. One of these distances, to be known as the
x-coordinate, shall give the position in an east-west direction; the other, to be
known as the y-coordinate, shall give the position in a north-south direction. These
coordinates shall be made to depend upon and conform to plane rectangular
coordinate values for the monumented points of the North American horizontal
geodetic control network as published by the national ocean survey/national
geodetic survey (formerly the United States coast and geodetic survey), or its
successors, and the plane coordinates of which have been computed on the
systems defined in this article. Any such station may be used for establishing a
survey connection to either Colorado coordinate system.

(2) For the purposes of converting coordinates of the Colorado coordinate
system of 1983 from meters to feet, the U.S. Survey Foot shall be used. The
conversion factor is: One meter equals 3937/1200 feet.

Legislative History

Source: L. 88: Entire article R&RE, p. 517, � 32, effective July 1. L. 92: (2) amended, p. 2102, � 1, effective March 16.