Colorado § 31-25-504 - Municipality may establish sewer systems.
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§ 31-25-504. Municipality may establish sewer systems.
Any municipality may establish and maintain sewer systems and sewage disposal plants for sanitary or storm drainage.
Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1192, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 31-25-525 as it existed prior to 1975.
ANNOTATION
The city council in establishing the sewer district was exercising a legislative power for police purposes, such power being conferred upon it by § 7 of art. X, Colo. Const., and by this section. Denver v. Capelli, 4 Colo. 25 (1877); City of Pueblo v. Robinson, 12 Colo. 593, 21 P. 899 (1889); City of Denver v. Knowles, 17 Colo. 204, 30 P. 1041 (1892); Lewis v. Denver City Waterworks Co., 19 Colo. 236, 34 P. 993 (1893); Tebbetts v. People, 31 Colo. 461, 73 P. 869 (1903); Wolff v. City of Denver, 20 Colo. App. 135, 77 P. 364 (1904).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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