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• Board Meeting Date: 11/15/1984
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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SENATE BILL NO. 28.

3Y SENATORS Allard, Bishop, Hefley,
Callihan, and Glass;
also REPRESENTATIVES Younglund, Bryan,
Entz, Lucero, Shoemaker, UndenlOod,
Wattenberg.

Sandoval, Soash, Baca,

Dambman, Oavoren, Oyer,
Brown, Mutzebaugh, and

CONCERNING THE RESTRICTION OF FACILITIES WITHIN RESERVOIRS.

Be it enacted gy the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

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SECTION 1. Article
Statutes, as amended,
SECTION to read:

87 of title 37, Colorado Revised
is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW

37-87-124. Restriction of facilities within reservoirs.
(1) The general assembly hereby declares that the prevention
of seasonal flooding which causes destruction of property and
crops, loss of livestock, and risk or 10s5 of human life is
manifestly of greater concern and benefit to this state than
the availability of recreational facilities and other
facilities, not functionally related to the operation of the
reservoir, constructed below the high water level of a
reservoi r.

(2) In order to achieve the purposes of subsection (l)
of this section, no person, including any state or federal
agency, quasi-municipal corporation, or political subdivision,
sha 11 construct any permanent recreat i ona 1 structure wi thi n a
reservoir below the elevation at the crest of the spillway of
the reservoir unless such facility is constructed in such a
manner as to >lithstand partial or complete inundation and
sustain minimal or no damage thereby or unless such facility
is necessary to the operation of the reservoir. Said facility
should be capable of being restored to full recreational use
with D minimum amount of cleaning or expense. This subsection

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Capit~etters indicate new material added to existing statutes;
dashes thr~ugh words indic~te deletions f,om existing statutes and
such material not part of Jct.