Colorado § 41-5-101 Powers

Colorado Statutes

§ 41-5-101 — Powers

Colorado § 41-5-101

Title 41Aeronautics:

Art.Airport Revenue Bonds - County

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 41-5-101 (2026).

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(1)In addition to the powers which it may now have, any county without any election of the taxpaying or qualified electors thereof has the power under this article:

(a)To acquire by gift, purchase, lease, or exercise of the right of eminent domain, to construct, to reconstruct, to improve, to better, and to extend airport facilities, including any of them within the boundaries of any said county, and to acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right of eminent domain lands, easements, and rights in land in connection therewith;

(b)To accept loans or grants or both from the United States under any federal law in force to aid in financing the cost of engineering, architectural, or economic investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specificat

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(1) In addition to the powers which it may now have, any
county without any election of the taxpaying or qualified electors thereof has the
power under this article:

(a) To acquire by gift, purchase, lease, or exercise of the right of eminent
domain, to construct, to reconstruct, to improve, to better, and to extend airport
facilities, including any of them within the boundaries of any said county, and to
acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right of eminent domain lands,
easements, and rights in land in connection therewith;

(b) To accept loans or grants or both from the United States under any
federal law in force to aid in financing the cost of engineering, architectural, or
economic investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,
specifications, procedures, or other action preliminary to the construction of an
airport;

(c) To accept loans or grants or both from the United States under any
federal law in force for the construction or improvement of such airport or airport
facilities or both;

(d) To prescribe, revise, and collect in advance or otherwise from any user of
such facility or occupant of any real property connected therewith rentals, rates,
fees, tolls, and charges, or any combination thereof, for the use of such airport
facilities, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, landing fees,
office rentals, franchise fees, and land and airport rentals; and, in anticipation of the
collection of the revenues of such airport facilities, to issue revenue bonds to
finance in whole or in part the cost of acquisition, construction, reconstruction,
improvement, betterment, or extension of an airport;

(e) To pledge to the punctual payment of said bonds and interest thereon all
or any part of the gross revenues arising from such airport facilities;

(f) To enter into and perform contracts or agreements concerning the
planning, construction, lease, or other acquisition and the financing of airport
facilities, and the maintenance and operation thereof;

(g) To make all contracts, execute all instruments, and do all things
necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers granted in this section or in
the performance of its duties or in order to secure the payment of its bonds; but no
encumbrance, mortgage, or other pledge of property, excluding any pledged
revenues, of the county is created thereby no property, other than money, of the
county is liable to be forfeited or taken in payment of said bonds, and no debt on
the credit of the county is thereby incurred in any manner for any purpose.