Colorado § 32-7-111 - Designation of services.

§ 32-7-111. Designation of services.

(1) Subject to local authorization as provided in section 32-7-112, local governing bodies, by resolution, or the people, by petition, or the service authority organizational commission, if such services are not designated by the resolution or petition for formation prior to formation, or the board after formation, may, by resolution, initiate one or more of the following services or combinations thereof:

(a) Domestic water collection, treatment, and distribution;

(b) Urban drainage and flood control;

(c) Sewage collection, treatment, and disposal;

(d) Public surface transportation;

(e) Collection of solid waste, but the service authority shall not collect solid waste except on a finding by the board that existing solid waste collection service is inadequate. Such finding shall be in addition to the concurrent majority requirement of section 32-7-112 (1)(a).

(f) Disposal of solid waste;

(g) Parks and recreation;

(h) Libraries;

(i) Fire protection;

(j) Hospitals, including convalescent nursing homes, ambulance services, and any other health and medical care facilities or services;

(k) Museums, zoos, art galleries, theaters, and other cultural facilities or services;

(l) Housing;

(m) Weed and pest control;

(n) Central purchasing, computer services, equipment pool, and any other management services for local governments, including procurement of supplies; acquisition, management, maintenance, and disposal of property and equipment; legal services; special communication systems; or any other similar services to local governments which are directly related to improving the efficiency or operation of local governments;

(o) Local gas or electric services or heating and cooling services from geothermal resources, solar or wind energy, hydroelectric or renewable biomass resources, including waste and cogenerated heat; except that no facilities of a municipally owned utility shall be combined with the facilities of another municipally owned utility without its consent and except that neither the initiation nor rendering of local gas and electric services under this paragraph (o) shall interfere with, impair, or otherwise affect any franchise, certificate of public convenience and necessity, or the services being rendered by any other supplier operating subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission of the state of Colorado;

(p) Jails and rehabilitation; and

(q) Land and soil preservation.

(2) Unless authorized pursuant to section 32-7-112 (2), the services provided by a service authority shall be provided on a concurrent basis with local jurisdictions. This shall not prohibit a board from contracting with local governments or state government for the provision, construction, or operation of any service by the service authority or state or local government, nor does it prohibit any local government from voluntarily vesting exclusive jurisdiction for the provision of a given service with the service authority.

Source: L. 72: p. 461, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-25-11. L. 73: p. 997, § 1. L. 75: IP(1) amended, p. 1299, § 3, effective June 20. L. 81: (1)(o) amended, p. 1457, § 6, effective May 27.