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<br />Page 1410 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Senate Journal-I 14th Day-May 3, 2007 <br /> <br />Respectfu\1y submitted, <br /> <br />House Committee: <br />(signed) <br />Representative Curry, Chair <br />Representative Buescher <br />Representative McNulty <br /> <br />I <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />II <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />51 <br />52 <br />53 <br />54 <br />55 <br />56 <br />57 <br />58 <br />59 <br />60 <br />61 <br />62 <br />63 <br />64 <br />65 <br />66 <br />67 <br />68 <br />69 <br /> <br />Senate Committee: <br />(signed) <br />Senator Isgar, Chair <br />Senator Penry <br />Senator Schwartz <br /> <br />FIRST MINORITY REPORT OF FIRST CONFERENCE <br />COMMITTEE ON HB07-1036 <br /> <br />***************************** <br />THIS REPORT AMENDS THE <br />REENGROSSED BILL <br />***************************** <br /> <br />To the President of the Senate and the <br />Speaker of the House of Representatives: <br /> <br />Your first conference committee appointed on HB07-1036, <br />concerning restrictions on the ability of governmental bodies to acquire <br />specified water rights through the exercise of the power of eminent <br />domain, has met, and a minority thereof reports that It has agreed upon <br />the fo\1owing: <br /> <br />I. That the Senate recede from its amendments made to the bill, <br />as said amendments appear in the rerevised bill. <br /> <br />2. That, under the authority granted the committee to consider <br />matters not at issue between the two houses, the following amendments <br />be recommended: <br /> <br />Amend reengrossed bill, page 7, after line 7, insert the following: <br /> <br />"SECTION 9. 37-3-103 (I) (h), Colorado Revised Statutes, is <br />amended to read: <br /> <br />37 -3-103. General powers. (I) In order to protect life and <br />property within the district, and to protect or relieve land subject to <br />overflowing or washing, or which is menaced or threatened by the normal <br />flow or flood or surplus or overflow waters of any natural watercourse, <br />stream, canyon, or wash, whether perennial, intermittent, or flood, and in <br />order to effect the protection of the land and other property in the district, <br />and in order to accomplish a\1 other purposes of the district, the board of <br />directors is authorized: <br /> <br />(h) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THIS PARAGRAPH (h), to <br />acquire by donation, purchase, or condemnation, to construct, own, lease, <br />use, and sell, and to hold, encumber, control, and maintain any easement, <br />water ri~ht, railroad right-of-way, canal, sluice, reservoir or retarding <br />basin, ml\1 dam, water power, work, franchise, park, cemetery, or other <br />public way or place, or any real or personal property, public or private, in <br />or out of said district, for rights-of-way or retarding basins, or for <br />materials of construction, or for any other use not inconsistent with the <br />purposes of articles I to 8 of this title. No DISTRICT OTHERWISE <br />POSSESSING THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN AS PROVIDED BY LA W SHALL <br />EXERCISE SUCH POWER THAT RESULTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF <br />APPROPRIATED WATER RIGHTS. <br /> <br />SECTION 10. 37-41-113 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, is <br />amended to read: <br /> <br />37-41-113. Board of directors - duties - contracts. (3) Sttch <br />EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THIS SUBSECTION (3), THE board OF <br />DIRECTORS has the power, in addition to the means to supply water to said <br />district proposed by the petition submitted for the formation of said <br />