Colorado § 31-15-710 - Water pollution control.

§ 31-15-710. Water pollution control.

(1) The governing body of each municipality has the power:

(a) To provide for the cleansing and purification of water, watercourses, and canals and the draining or filling of ponds on private property when necessary to prevent or abate nuisances; and for the purpose of aiding in the prevention and abatement of water pollution all municipalities are authorized:

(I) To apply for and to accept grants or loans or any other aid from the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof under any federal law in force;

(II) To construct, reconstruct, lease, improve, better, and extend sewerage facilities and sewage treatment works wholly within or wholly without the municipality or partially within and partially without the municipality;

(III) To issue its general obligation bonds or other general obligations for said purpose pursuant to and within the limitations prescribed by section 31-15-302 (1)(d) and to issue its revenue bonds or obligations for such purpose pursuant to law;

(IV) To provide that such bonds or obligations or any part thereof may be sold to the state of Colorado, the United States, or any agency or instrumentality of either at private sale and without advertisement;

(V) To cooperate with other local public bodies and with state agencies and institutions by contract for the joint construction and financing of sewerage facilities and sewage treatment works and the maintenance and operation thereof;

(VI) To enter into joint operating agreements with industrial enterprises and to accept gifts or contributions from such industrial enterprises for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, and extension of sewerage facilities and sewage treatment works. When determined by its governing body to be in the public interest and necessary for the protection of public health, a municipality is authorized to enter into and perform contracts, whether long-term or short-term, with an industrial establishment for the provision and operation by the municipality of sewerage facilities to abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges of industrial wastes by the industrial establishment and the payment periodically by the industrial establishment to the municipality of amounts at least sufficient, in the determination of such governing body, to compensate the municipality for the cost of providing, including payment of principal and interest charges, if any, and of operating and maintaining the sewerage facilities serving such industrial establishment.

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1118, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2019: (1)(a)(VI) amended, (HB 19-1071), ch. 17, p. 62, § 2, effective August 2.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 31-12-101 (24) as it existed prior to 1975.

Cross references: For the legislative declaration in HB 19-1071, see section 1 of chapter 17, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.