2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 37 - Water And Irrigation
Article 45. Water Conservancy Districts
Section 37-45-111. Notice of hearing on petition.
(1) Immediately after the filing of such petition, the court wherein such petition is filed, by order, shall fix a place and time, not less than sixty days nor more than ninety days after the petition is filed, for hearing thereon, and thereupon the clerk of said court shall cause notice by publication to be made of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of hearing thereon; the clerk of said court shall also forthwith cause a copy of said notice to be mailed by United States registered mail to the board of county commissioners of each of the several counties having territory within the proposed district.
The district court in and for the county in which the petition for the organization of awater conservancy district has been filed shall thereafter for all purposes of this article, except as otherwise provided in this article, maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction coextensive with the boundaries of said water conservancy district and of land and other property proposed to be included in said district or affected by said district, without regard to the usual limits of its jurisdiction.
No judge of such court wherein such petition is filed shall be disqualified to performany duty imposed by this article by reason of ownership of property within any water conservancy district or proposed water conservancy district or by reason of ownership of any property that may be benefited, taxed, or assessed therein.
Source: L. 37: p. 1316, § 6. CSA: C. 173B, § 20. CRS 53: § 149-6-6. C.R.S. 1963: § 150-5-6.
