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<br />, <br /> <br /> <br />1986 <br /> <br />~ <br />~ <br />n,',',,', <br />' ' <br />J,: . <br />,'. ",,;. <br /> <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />/-.. <br />~" <br /> <br />------'---"~ <br /> <br />HOUSE BILL NO. 1185. <br /> <br />,BY REPRESENTATIVES Swenson, Shoemaker, Herzog, Dambman, <br />Carpenter, Younglund, Entz. McInnis, Armstrong, Bledsoe, Entz, <br />Erickson, Mutzebaugh, Pankey, Paulson, and 'Underwood; <br />,also SENATORS Bishop, McCormick, Beatty, Brandon, Ourham, <br />P. Powers, R. Powers, Rizzuto, Wattenberg, and Winkler. <br /> <br />CONCERNING THE LIABILITY FoR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM -THE FLOW <br />OF ANY WATER FROM A RE5ERVOIR. <br /> <br />Be it enacted EY the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: <br /> <br />SECTION I. 37-87-104, Colorado Revised Statutes, as <br />amended, is REPEALED AND RE&NACTED,- WITH AMENDMENTS, to read: <br /> <br />37-87-104. Liabil ity of owners for damaqe. (1) Any <br />provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, no entity or <br />person who owns, control~, or operates a wate~ storage <br />reservoir shall be held liable for any personal injury or <br />property damage resulting from water escaping from that <br />reservoir by overflow or as a result of the failure or partial <br />failure of the structure or structures forming that reservoir <br />unless such failure or partial failure has been proximately <br />caused by the negligence of that entity or person. No entity <br />or person shall be required to pay punitive or exa~plary <br />damages for such negl igence in excess of that provided by law. <br />Any previous rule of law imposing absolute or strict liability <br />on such an entity or person is hereby repealed. <br /> <br />(2) No such entity or person <br />allowing the inflow to such reservoir to <br />the natural stream below such reservoir. <br /> <br />shall be liable <br />pass through it <br /> <br />for <br />into <br /> <br />(3) (a) /10 stockholder. officer, <br />directors of an owner of a reservoir <br />persona 1 injury or property damage <br /> <br />or member of a board of <br />shall be liable-for any <br />resulting from water <br /> <br />Capital letters indicate new material added to existing statutes; <br />dashes through words indicate deletions from existing statutes and <br />such ~aterial not part of act. <br />