§ 43-2-144 — Intergovernmental highway contracts

(1) The transportation
commission, counties, and municipalities have the following powers, in addition to
powers which they may already have, to contract with one another concerning
streets, roads, and highways.

(2) The board of county commissioners of any county is authorized to
contract with the transportation commission or with any city or town within the
county, or with both the transportation commission and a city or town, for the
construction or maintenance, or both, of county or state highways within the county
or within the county and the city or town. Adjoining counties may also contract with
each other for construction or maintenance, or both, of public highways where
roads in one county may be constructed or maintained, or both, more economically
by an adjoining county.

(3) Towns and cities are authorized to contract with the transportation
commission or with the board of county commissioners, or with both the
transportation commission and the board of county commissioners, for the
construction or maintenance, or both, of city streets or county or state highways
within the town or city.

(4) Such contracts may extend for an indefinite period of time. The
expenditures to be required each year shall be separately budgeted, and where the
contract may extend over more than one budgeting period, the entire amount
required by such contract need not be budgeted before such contract is made.

(5) Existing valid contracts between the parties enumerated in subsections
(2) and (3) of this section shall not automatically be voided by the adoption of this
part 1 but are expressly confirmed and ratified; but, upon the agreement of all
parties to a contract, such contract may be modified in accordance with this part 1.

Legislative History

Source: L. 53: p. 530, � 44. CRS 53: � 120-13-44. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-13-44. L. 91: (1) to (3) amended, p. 1107, � 150, effective July 1.