LEG00062

• Bill Number: SB04-118
• Year: 2004
• Title: Concerning the exclude designed groundwater basin
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Killed

1 THE DISTRICT: AND EXCEPT THAT. IF THE LANDS WITHIN THE DESIGNATED

2 GROUND W ATERBASINWEREALREADYINCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT BEFORE

3 THE DESIGNATED GROUND WATER BASIN WAS DETERMINED BY THE

4 GROUND WATER COMMISSION. SUCH LANDS MAY NOT BE EXCLUDED FROM

5 THE DISTRICT WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE

6 DISTRICT,

7 (II) THIS PARAGRAPH (b) IS REPEALED. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1.

8 2005,

9 SECTION 9. 37-90-111 (4), Colorado Revised Statutes, IS

10 amended to read:

11 37-90-111. Powers of the ground water commission -

12 limitatious - reDeal. (4) (a) SUBJECT TO PARAGRAPH (b) OF THIS

13 SUBSECTION (4). in any area within a designated ground water basin

14 whieh THAT has not been included within the boundaries of a ground

15 water management district, the commission has the authority to exercise

16 any power given by this article to the board of directors of a ground water

17 management district, but, before instituting control measures pursuant to

18 section 37 -90-13,Q,. t)1~ commission shall follow th~Rrocedures set out in

19 section 37-90-131.

20 (b) THE COMMISSION'S POWERS INCLUDE THE AUTHORITY TO

21 CONSENT OR OBJECT TO INCLUSION IN A WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT

22 OF LANDS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF A DESIGNATED GROUND WATER

23 BASIN PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 37-45-109 AND 37-45-136, AND TO PASS A

24 RESOLUTION TO EXCLUDE FROM A WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT LANDS

25 WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF A DESIGNATED GROUND WATER BASIN

26 PURSUANT TO SECTION 37-45-137, THIS PARAGRAPH (b) IS REPEALED.

27 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1. 2005,

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