CHAPTER 100. IRRIGATION CONTROL OF HEADGATES AND WEIRS. Act amended. Supervision and control of headgates and weirs. User of water may read gauge. (S. B. No. 247, by Senator Weiland) AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3252, CHAPTER 72 OF THE REVISED Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. That section 3252, Chapter 72 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Colorado be amended to read as follows: All headgates, measuring weirs, flumes, and devices used in connection with canals, flumes and ditches or reservoirs for the measuring and delivering of waters therefrom and thereto, shall be under the supervision and control at all times of the State Engineer, the division engineer of the water division, and the water commissioner of the water district wherein such headgates, measuring weirs, flumes and devices are located. Provided, however: That nothing in the act shall be construed as prohibiting any water user in the State of Colorado or his appointed agent from reading any gauge, gauge rod or measuring device or from determining the quantity of water diverted by any canal or impounded in or delivered from any reservoir, and it is here declared the intent and purpose of this act to give any water user of Colorado or his appointed agent the right of ascertaining the quantity of water being diverted by any canal, or impounded in or delivered from any reser voir without his being required to assign any reason for making such observations. act. Non-compliance with the provisions of this act shall, Non-compliduring such non-compliance, forfeit the right to divert ance with water into any canal, or to impound water in or deliver water from any reservoir. Approved: Aprl 12, 1915. CHAPTER 101. IRRIGATION DRAINAGE DISTRICTS. Lands within Petition of owners of land. City pay expense of area of streets. (S. B. No. 37, by Senators Kluge and Means.) AN ACT RELATING TO THE INCLUSION OF CITIES AND TOWNS IN Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. That the lands within the boundaries of any city or town organized and existing under the general laws of this state or under Article XX of the Constitution of the State of Colorado, requiring drainage in whole or in part and susceptible of drainage by the drainage ditch. system, or works of any drainage district or proposed drainage district organized or proposed to be organized pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado relating to the formation of drainage districts, may be included within and made a part of any such drainage district upon the presentation to the board of directors of such district, or to the proper board of county commissioners, in case such district has not been organized, of a petition for such inclusion signed by a majority of the owners of such lands whether residents or non-residents of such city or town as well as by the owners in the aggregate of the majority of the total number of acres of such land to be included, exclusive of the land occupied by public streets and alleys public parks, and any and all other lands owned by any municipality: Provided. Such city or town shall bear the expense of the drainage of all area included with the streets, alleys, public parks, or other lands owned by it; Drainage astified. sessment cer and it shall be the duty of the city council or board of Provisions of Act of 1911 Sec. 2. In the opinion of the General Assembly an Emergency. emergency exists; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved: February 19, 1915. CHAPTER 102. IRRIGATION DRAINAGE DISTRICTS. Act amended. Board may authorize surveys, construction, etc. Limitation of expenditures. When question of indebtedness submitted at election. (S. B. No. 44, by Senators Kluge and Means.) AN ACT RELATING TO DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND TO AMEND AN ACT Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. That section 23 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization and government of drainage districts," approved June 2, 1911, be, and the same is, hereby amended to read as follows: Section 23. The board of directors may cause surveys to be made for ditches and drainage works and rights of way for said district; and may cause drainage ditches, works, rights of way and other property necessary for said district to be laid out, constructed, purchased and acquired by condemnation or otherwise but the board of directors shall have no power to make any contract or authorize any expenditure involving more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), unless such contract or expenditure shall be authorized, approved and ratified in writing by owners of land in said drainage district equal in number to a majority of the votes cast at the last district election; and no contract or expenditure involving more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be made or be binding unless the question of making said contract or expenditure shall have |