Colorado § 31-25-512 - Cost assessed in proportion to area.
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§ 31-25-512. Cost assessed in proportion to area.
The costs of any district sanitary sewer, including inlets, manholes, connecting mains, and appurtenances, with interest, and of district storm sewers may be assessed by ordinance upon all the real estate in the district, in proportion as the area of each piece of real estate in the district bears to the area of all the real estate in the district, exclusive of public highways.
Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1193, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former §§ 31-25-506 and 31-25-512 as they existed prior to 1975.
(2) This section was originally numbered as § 31-25-511 in House Bill 75-1089 but was renumbered on revision in 1977 for ease of location.
ANNOTATION
This section is not unconstitutional because a general method has been prescribed by which to apportion upon the property of a district the expense of constructing a sanitary sewer. Parties whose property is thus assessed may still question the benefits accruing as the result of its construction. Hildreth v. City of Longmont, 47 Colo. 79, 105 P. 107 (1909).
For if an injustice results, relief may be granted. Building lots abutting a sanitary sewer system are prima facie presumed to be benefited as the result of its construction. The rule of apportionment according to area is, therefore, prima facie valid, but where any general method employed, though, prima facie, legal, would work an injustice, relief in proper circumstances may be granted. City of Denver v. Dumars, 33 Colo. 94, 80 P. 114 (1905); Hildreth v. City of Longmont, 47 Colo. 79, 105 P. 107 (1909).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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