PUB00026

• Year: 1968
• Title: Water Conservation Agencies of The State of Colorado
• CWCB Section: Water Conservation & Drought Planning
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Applicable State statutes and summary information about each water conservation district in the State of Colorado
• Publications - Doc Type: Historical

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a majority of the owners of the land in said proposed sub-
district protesting the organization or creation of said
subdistrict. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court
forthwith, upon filing of said protest, to make as many certi-
fied copies thereof, including the signatures thereto, as
there are counties into any part of which said proposed sub-
district extends, and forthwith to place in the hands of the
county treasurer of each of such counties one of said certi-
fied copies.

(2) It shall be the duty of each of such county treasur-
ers to determine from the last tax rolls of his county, and
to certify to said district court under his official seal,
prior to the day fixed for the hearing, the total number of
owners of land situate in such proposed subdistrict within
his county and the total number of owners of land situate in
such proposed subdistrict within his county who have signed
such protest. Such certificate shall constitute prima facie
evidence of the facts so stated therein and shall be so re-
ceived and considered by the court.

(3) Upon the day set for the hearing upon the original
petition, if it shall appear to the court from such certifi-
cate and from such other evidence as may be adduced by any
party in interest that the said protest is not signed by a
majority of the owners of land within the proposed subdis-
trict, the court shall thereupon dismiss said protest and
shall proceed with the hearing on the petition. If it
appears to the court at said hearing that the protest is
signed by any person or corporation who signed the original
petition for the organization of said subdistrict, either to
the court or to the district, then the signature of any such
landowner upon the protest shall be disregarded and not
counted. The board of county commissioners of.any.county in
Which any part of said proposed subdistrict is situate, or
any owner of real property in said proposed subdistrict who
has not signed the petition for the organization of said sUb-
district, on or before the date set for the cause to be heard,
may file objections to the organization and incorporation of
the district. Such objections shall be limited to a denial
of the statements in the petition, and shall be heard by the
court as an advanced case without unnecessary delay.

(4) Upon said hearing, if it appears that said petition
has been signed and presented in accordance with the require-
ments of this article, and that the allegations of the
petition are true, the court shall enter a decree and therein