LEG00236

• Bill Number: SB83-15
• Year: 1983
• Title: Concerning Reservoirs and Relating to the Inspection and Regulation Thereof and the Provision of Liability Insurance Therefor and Making an Appropriation Therefor
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Killed

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37-87-114. Penalty - disposition of fines. Any

reser~oir--eom~any OWNER failing or refusing, after ten days'

3 notice in writing has been given, to obey the directions AND

4 ORDERS of the state engineer as to the construction or fi11ing

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OPERATION of any reservoir shall be subject to a fine of not

less than two h~ndred THOUSAND dollars for each offense, and

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each day's continuance after time of notice has expired shall

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be considered a separate offense.

Such fines shall be

recovered by civil action in the name of the people, by the

district attorney, upon the complaint of the state engineer,

in the county where the injury complained of occurred. The

proceeds of all fines, after payment of costs and charges of

the proceedings, shall be paid into the county treasury for

the use of the general fund of the county.

SECTION 9. 37-87-117, Colorado Revised Statutes 1973, as

amended, is amended to read:

18 has a maximum hei ght of ten feet or 1 ess, or wi 11 create a

37-87-117. Landowner to submit plans. If any such dam

19 reservoir having a s~rfaee-area-of-twenty-aeres--or--1ess.--or

20 has--a capacity of sixty-fi~e FIFTY acre-feet or,less, the

21 landowner desiring to take advantage of sections 37-87-116 to

22 37-87-121 shall first submit to the state engineer sufficient

23 engineering data, in the way of maps and plans, to show the

24 location, type, and dimensions of the proposed dam, reservoir,
25 and spillway and character of the foundation and of the

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materials available for construction purposes.

The state

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