Colorado § 31-25-403 - Definitions.

§ 31-25-403. Definitions.

As used in this part 4, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Improvements" means improvements of any kind or nature necessary or convenient to the operation of municipal streets as a pedestrian mall, including but not limited to paving, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewers, drainage works, street lighting facilities, fire protection facilities, flood protection facilities, water distribution facilities, ponds, lakes, vehicular parking areas, retaining walls, landscaping, tree planting, statuaries, fountains, commercial buildings and facilities, decorative structures, benches, rest rooms, child care facilities, display facilities, information booths, public assembly facilities, and other structures, works, or improvements necessary or convenient to serve members of the public using such pedestrian mall and including the reconstruction or relocation of existing municipally-owned works, improvements, or facilities on such municipal streets.

(2) "Intersecting street" means any street which meets or crosses a pedestrian mall at a mall intersection but includes only those portions thereof on either side of a mall intersection which lie between the mall intersection and the first intersection of the intersecting street with a municipal street or highway open to vehicular traffic. If any portion of a pedestrian mall terminates on a street at a place thereon other than a place of intersection with a municipal street or state highway open to vehicular traffic, "intersecting street" also includes that portion of any street which lies between such place of termination and the first intersection of such street with a municipal street or state highway open to vehicular traffic. "Intersecting street" also includes any other street or portion thereof which the governing body, in a measure duly adopted as provided in this part 4, declares to be such.

(3) "Mall intersection" means any intersection of a municipal street which constitutes a part of a pedestrian mall with any other street, which intersection is itself part of the pedestrian mall.

(4) "Municipal street" means a street which exists within the municipal boundaries of a municipality except those designated as state highways by a duly constituted authority. If a state highway is contemplated to be used as part of a pedestrian mall, the transportation commission is authorized to remove the classification of a state highway from such part to be used as a pedestrian mall and to cede complete jurisdiction to the municipality by resolution duly adopted if it is satisfied that satisfactory provisions for the routing of traffic through the municipality can be provided by an alternate route or that the part of the state highway proposed for a pedestrian mall is no longer necessary for state highway purposes.

(5) "Public mall", referred to in this part 4 as "pedestrian mall", means one or more municipal streets or portions thereof on which vehicular traffic is or is to be restricted in whole or in part and which is or is to be used exclusively or primarily for pedestrian travel, although such mall may have other improvements constructed upon it for appearance and utility.

(6) "Streets", as used in the definitions of the terms "municipal street", "mall intersection", and "intersecting street" in this section, means any public street, road, highway, alley, lane, sidewalk, right-of-way, court, way, or place of any nature open to the use of the public and held by the public for street and road purposes, whether the same was acquired in fee or by grant of dedication or easement or by adverse use.

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1182, § 1, effective July 1. L. 91: (4) amended, p. 1069, § 42, effective July 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 31-25-403 as it existed prior to 1975.