HOUSE BILL 25-1029
BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Boesenecker, Zokaie, Lindsay, Phillips,
Woodrow, Froelich;
also SENATOR(S) Kipp and Liston, Winter F.
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ONCERNING THE SCOPE OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY OVER LAND THAT A
MUNICIPALITY ACQUIRES THAT IS OUTSIDE ITS MUNICIPAL LIMITS
.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 31-25-216, amend (1)
as follows:
31-25-216. Cities control park grounds outside limits. (1) In all
cases where
IN WHICH any city, or INCLUDING any city or city and county
organized under a special charter or created under the state constitution, has
acquired lands outside its municipal limits for parks,
OPEN SPACE AND
NATURAL AREAS
, parkways, boulevards, or roads, said
UNLESS SUCH
ACQUIRED LAND IS WITHIN THE EXTERIOR BOUNDARIES OF AN
INDIAN
RESERVATION
, THE city or city and county has full police power and
jurisdiction and full municipal control and full power and authority in the
management, control, improvement, and maintenance of and over any such
lands so acquired It
WHETHER OR NOT THE LANDS ARE OPEN OR CLOSED TO
NOTE: This bill has been prepared for the signatures of the appropriate legislative
officers and the Governor. To determine whether the Governor has signed the bill
or taken other action on it, please consult the legislative status sheet, the legislative
history, or the Session Laws.
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Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material added to existing law; dashes
through words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law and such material is not part of
the act. THE PUBLIC. SUCH A CITY OR CITY AND COUNTY has power and authority to
provide by ordinance for the regulation and control of its lands so acquired,
to prevent the commission of any acts which are or may be declared
unlawful pursuant to the provisions of this part 2, and to prosecute and
punish the violation of any ordinances in its municipal courts. Such city or
city and county also has like power and jurisdiction to prevent pollution of
the water in all reservoirs, streams, and pipes which may be included within
any such parks, parkways, boulevards, or roads and over the stream or
source from which such water is taken as far as ten miles above the point
from which it is diverted. Such
A city or city and county has like power and
jurisdiction to regulate and prevent the erection, construction, and
maintenance, within three hundred feet of any such park,
OPEN SPACE OR
NATURAL AREA
, parkway, boulevard, or road outside its municipal limits,
of any advertisement or of any billboard or other structure for
advertisements. Such
A city or city and county also has like power and
jurisdiction over the use of any public roads, boulevards, or parkways
within such parks
OR OPEN SPACE AND NATURAL AREAS and running over or
through or between such lands and any public roads, boulevards, or
parkways between any such park,
OPEN SPACE AND NATURAL AREAS , or
pleasure ground and its municipal boundaries and not included within the
municipal limits of any incorporated city or town.
SECTION 2. Safety clause. The general assembly finds,
determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety or for appropriations for
PAGE 2-HOUSE BILL 25-1029 the support and maintenance of the departments of the state and state
institutions.
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Julie McCluskie James Rashad Coleman, Sr.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE PRESIDENT OF
OF REPRESENTATIVES THE SENATE
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Vanessa Reilly Esther van Mourik
CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE SECRETARY OF
OF REPRESENTATIVES THE SENATE
APPROVED________________________________________
(Date and Time)
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Jared S. Polis
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
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