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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,engineer has authority to pass upon the adequacy of such data
and plans for such proposed dam and to require that the work

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3 of construction be carried out ,and completed to his entire
4 satisfaction. fn-making-hi~-deierminaiion,-ihe-~iaie--engineer

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SECTION 10. 37-87-118, Colorado Revised Statutes 1973,

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is amended to read:

37-87-118. State engineer's authority over construction.
The provisions of sections 37-87-116 to 37-87-121 shall not in

any way, manner, or degree exempt the sponsor of any proposed,
or the owner of an existing, dam in this state from the

provisions of law which now require the approval by the state
engineer of plans and specifications for all dams having a
maximum height in excess of ten feet or which will create a

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reservoir with a sarface-in-excess-of-twenty-acres CAPACITY IN

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EXCESS OF FIFTY ACRE-FEET, nor from compliance with the

present or any future authority of the state engineer over the

19 construction, supervision, and administration of such dams.

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SECTION 11. Article 87 of title 37, Colorado Revised
Statutes 1973, as amended, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW
SECTION to read:

37-87-123. Annual

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dam inspection fund.

24 (1) (a) Each reservoir or dam owner shall pay an annual fee
25 on or before December 31, 1983, and on or before December 31
26 of each succeeding year, based upon the height of, the dam,

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