Colorado § 32-7-141 - Sewage collection, treatment, and disposal.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 32-7-141 — Sewage collection, treatment, and disposal., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 32-7-141. Sewage collection, treatment, and disposal.
(1) For the purpose of providing sewage collection, treatment, and disposal, a service authority has, insofar as consistent with this article, any additional special powers applicable to the provision of that specific service as provided in part 5 of article 4 of this title. Any municipality as defined therein participating with the service authority shall have the additional powers provided municipalities in part 5 of article 4 of this title.
(2) If the board finds that a sewer line connection is necessary for the protection of the public health, and if the sewer line of the service authority are within four hundred feet of the nearest property line of such premises, the board may compel the owner of any business, dwelling, or other inhabited premises within the service authority to connect such premises, in accordance with the applicable plumbing code, to a sewer line. Notice to compel such connections shall be given to such owner by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to make such connection within twenty days after receipt of such notice, and if such connection has not begun within such period and completed with reasonable diligence by such owner, the board may thereupon make such connection, and the service authority shall, upon completion, have a first and prior lien on the premises for the cost of such connection. Such liens shall be enforced in accordance with the provisions of section 32-7-117.
Source: L. 72: p. 479, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-25-41.
ANNOTATION
Law reviews. For article, "Survey of Colorado Tax Liens", see 14 Colo. Law. 1765 (1985).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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