2018 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 25 - Public Health and Environment
Environmental Control
Article 8.5 - Cherry Creek Basin Water Quality Authority
§ 25-8.5-102. Definitions
- As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Agricultural lands" means all lands except land rezoned by a county or municipality for business, commercial, residential, or similar uses or subdivided lands. Those include property consisting of a lot one acre or more in size which contains a dwelling unit.
(2) "Authority" means the Cherry Creek basin water quality authority created pursuantto section 25-8.5-103.
(3) "Board" means the governing body of the authority provided for in section 25-8.5-106.
(3.5) "Conservation district" means any conservation district created pursuant to article 70 of title 35, C.R.S.
(4) "County" means any county enumerated in article 5 of title 30, C.R.S.
(5) "Municipality" means a municipality as defined in section 31-1-101 (6), C.R.S.
(6) "Publication" means three consecutive weekly advertisements in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation within the boundaries of the authority. It shall not be necessary that an advertisement be made on the same day of the week in each of the three weeks, but not less than twelve days, excluding the day of first publication, shall intervene between the first publication and the last publication. Publication shall be complete on the date of the last publication.
(7) "Resolution" means an ordinance as passed by a member municipality or a resolution as passed by a member county or special district.
(8) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2002, p. 517, § 12, effective July 1, 2002.)
(9) "Special district" means any district created pursuant to article 1 of title 32, C.R.S., which has the power to provide sanitation services or water and sanitation services and has wastewater treatment facilities within the boundaries of the authority.
(10) "Wastewater treatment facility" means a facility providing wastewater treatment services which has a designed capacity to receive sewage for treating, neutralizing, stabilizing, and reducing pollutants contained therein prior to the disposal or discharge of the treated sewage. "Wastewater treatment facility" does not include any pretreatment facilities, lift stations, interceptor lines, or other transmission facilities to transmit sewage effluent outside the boundaries of the authority.
