Colorado § 31-32-101 - Franchise granted by ordinance.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 31-32-101 — Franchise granted by ordinance., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 31-32-101. Franchise granted by ordinance.
No franchise or license giving or granting to any person the right or privilege to erect, construct, operate, or maintain a street railway, electric light plant or system, gasworks, gas plant or system, geothermal system, solar system, or telegraph or telephone system within any city or town or to use the streets or alleys of a city or town for such purposes shall be granted or given by any city or town in this state in any other manner or form than by an ordinance passed and published in the manner set forth in this part 1.
Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1243, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 31-32-101 as it existed prior to 1975.
ANNOTATION
The only specific power conferred by this section is to grant a franchise in the form of an ordinance. Denver & S. Pac. Ry. v. City of Englewood, 62 Colo. 229, 161 P. 151 (1916).
A town organized under the general law is not empowered by this section to prescribe the rates which a street railway company occupying the street under a franchise of the town may exact for its service. Denver & S. Pac. Ry. v. City of Englewood, 62 Colo. 229, 161 P. 151 (1916).
Applied in Inland Util. Co. v. Schell, 87 Colo. 73, 285 P. 771 (1930).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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