Colorado § 37-1-108 - Short forms and abbreviations.
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§ 37-1-108. Short forms and abbreviations.
(1) In any order of court the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding", shall be equivalent to a finding of the existence of each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court and necessary from the proper signing and filing of the initial petitions to the date of the order, to meet every legal requirement imposed by articles 1 to 8 of this title.
(2) No other evidence of the legal hypothecation of the proceeds of any special assessment levied under said articles, to pay the bonds or warrants issued pursuant to articles 1 to 8 of this title, shall be required than the passage of a resolution by the board of directors and the issuance of bonds or warrants in accordance therewith.
(3) In the preparation of any assessment or appraisal record the usual abbreviations employed by engineers, surveyors, and abstractors may be used.
(4) Where it would be necessary to use a long description to properly describe any parcel of land, the appraisers, after locating the land generally, may refer to the book and page of the public record of any instrument in which the land is described, which reference shall be sufficient for all the purposes of articles 1 to 8 of this title to identify the land described in the public record so referred to.
(5) It shall not be necessary in any notice required to be published by articles 1 to 8 of this title to specify the names of the owners of the lands or of the persons interested therein; but any such notice may be addressed "To all persons interested" with like effect as though such notice named every owner of any lands within the territory specified in the notice and every person interested therein and every lienor, actual or inchoate.
(6) Every district declared upon hearing to be a conservancy district shall thereupon become a political subdivision and a public corporation of the state of Colorado invested with all the powers and privileges conferred upon such districts by articles 1 to 8 of this title.
Source: L. 22: p. 72, § 74. C.L. § 9588. CSA: C. 138, § 198. CRS 53: § 30-1-8. C.R.S. 1963: § 29-1-8.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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