§ 43-2-207 — Expense of construction and maintenance

(1) The board of
county commissioners of any county in the state of Colorado and the transportation
commission of the state of Colorado are authorized to make such expenditures of
moneys of the county and the state of Colorado appropriated to the construction
and maintenance of highways upon lands leased or condemned for highway
purposes under the provisions of section 43-2-205 as are necessary for the
construction and the maintenance of public highways thereon.

(2) (a) Expenditures authorized under this title for the construction and
maintenance of highways on land which has been purchased, condemned, leased,
or otherwise acquired by the department of transportation or the board of county
commissioners of any county of the state may include the spraying of such lands
bordering highways which are infested with grasshoppers or other insects, as the
latter are defined in paragraph (c) of this subsection (2), and may also include the
destruction and eradication of noxious, injurious, and poisonous weeds growing
along said highways.

(b) Expenditures made by the transportation commission pursuant to this
subsection (2) shall be paid from the state highway fund.

(c) As used in this subsection (2), insects means any of the small
invertebrate animals in the phylum arthropoda comprising the class insecta,
arachnida, and chilopoda, that is six-legged winged and unwinged forms, eight-legged segmented forms and those with two or more pairs of legs per body
segment.

Legislative History

Source: L. 21: p. 383, � 3. C.L. � 1313. CSA: C. 143, � 66. CRS 53: � 120-1-7. L. 58, 1st Ex. Sess.: p. 30, �� 1, 2. C.R.S. 1963: � 120-1-7. L. 91: Entire section amended, p. 1110, � 155, effective July 1. L. 94: (2) amended, p. 1648, � 87, effective May 31.