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<br />o <br />(::J <br />..... <br /> <br />!t-is ~ quesi-municipality, ~ to Colorado law. <br /> <br />The nature of Northern Colorado Water Conservancy Oi8- <br /> <br />00 <br />fv trict i. that of a quasi-municipality. It is a .~at~ 5gency, <br /> <br />because of the large area of the atate which bene tits from its <br /> <br />water for lrri~at1on and for domestic use, and declared 60 by <br /> <br />the Supreme Court. In this it 1s to be distinguished from an <br /> <br />irrigatlon cU.lJtriet, whir.:b ia a private co:rporaticn to benefit: <br /> <br /> <br />by irri~atlon, specific lands of le88 area and f~r perBons.~ <br /> <br />'I'he Golden raate :eriClge Dietrim deciaiQM of ~liforn1a were <br /> <br />its prec:edeQt.. <br /> <br />Qth~r ~..s, in later loqialaturea, desired amen~ent8 <br /> <br />further ftliabU.ftl;1' tM W~t..,r o..u'Il'l:V&ncy ;l..<:t. for their proposelS <br /> <br />cUSl:.J"i<:i:Ol t.o cSeY~lop and uonaerv'lt water suppl!.", lor thttir ecm- <br /> <br />IIl\.\Td.t;.t.os. "h.ey oIJ.tained, in 194J, and later y..rs, aJl\endment.e <br /> <br />to the 19:)7..!iet.. The.. _ndmento _re to revise the limitat:ioft <br /> <br />of. tillO~ act so t.hilt. it. could :be l:iv"ile~ of by their res~ctiv. <br /> <br />areas of lllJS. as. eased valuation. Some provide !!or t.axpayers' <br /> <br />elections of directors rather t:han their aj;>p<>lntJioI.nt by the <br /> <br />O:>urt . <br /> <br />~ eleot.!on matboa for directors, init.ially on ~~eount. <br /> <br />of its larqe cost in t.he 3even-00unt:y Borth.rn COlorado District, <br /> <br />2. opinion of the, Supr_ Court upholdinq t.he Consorvancy <br />Dist.rict Act. of 1937, whereby this dist.rict was Gnabled. <br /> <br />People ax rel Rogeru VII!. Let ford , et aI, (District first <br />board of directors), 108 COlo. 284, 19 P 2d 674. <br /> <br />_.A_ <br />