C.R.S. Section 37-47-137
Conduct of election

(1)

Except as otherwise provided in this article, an election held pursuant to this article shall be opened and conducted in the manner then provided by the laws of this state for the conduct of general elections.

(2)

If an election is held concurrently with a primary or general election, the county clerk and recorder of each county in which the district or subdistrict holding the debt election is located shall perform for the district or subdistrict election the acts provided by law to be performed by such officials. If an election is not held concurrently with a primary or general election, such acts shall be performed by the secretary of the district with the assistance of such county clerk and recorders. The board of directors and such county clerk and recorders are authorized to agree among themselves upon the division of such acts and the determination of persons to perform them.

(3)

An elector of the district may vote in any election by absentee voter’s ballot under such terms and conditions, and in substantially the same manner insofar as is practicable, as prescribed in article 13.5 of title 1, C.R.S., of the “Uniform Election Code of 1992”, except as specifically modified in this article.

(4)

All acts required or permitted therein to be performed by a county clerk and recorder shall be performed by each one respectively in the event of a primary or general election and by the secretary or assistant secretary of the board of directors in the event of any other election, unless the services of the county clerk and recorder in each such county are contracted for, but no oath shall be administered by the secretary or assistant secretary unless he is also an officer authorized to administer oaths.

(5)

Application may be made for an absentee voter’s ballot not more than twenty days and not less than four days before the election.

(6)

No consideration shall be given nor distinction made with reference to any person’s political party affiliation or the lack thereof.

(7)

The return envelope for the absentee voter’s ballot shall have printed on its face an affidavit substantially in the following form:
"State of Colorado, County of ........., I, .........., being first duly sworn according to law, depose and say that my residence and post-office address is ....................; that I am a person qualified to vote in general elections in the State of Colorado and am a resident of the Southwestern Water Conservation District or Water Users’ Association No. ...... or Special Improvement District No. ...... in the Southwestern Water Conservation District, as may be appropriate, at the time of this election.
...................................................
Signature of voter
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ... day of............, 20....
...................................................
(Signature of notary public,
county clerk and recorder,
or other officer authorized
to administer oaths)

(SEAL)

...................................................
Title of office"

(8)

In any such election at which voting machines are used, the board of directors shall provide paper ballots for absentee voters containing the same question as is to be submitted to the electors by the voting machines, subject to the provisions of subsection (9) of this section.

(9)

The district or subdistrict may provide for mail voters to cast their mail voters’ ballots on voting machines expressly provided for that purpose, if each mail voter indicates by affidavit that he or she is qualified to vote at the election and will be a mail voter, pursuant to article 13.5 of title 1, C.R.S., and all laws supplemental thereto.

Source: Section 37-47-137 — Conduct of election, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-37.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

37‑47‑101
Legislative declaration - rivers named 37‑47‑102
Definitions 37‑47‑103
Creation and name of district 37‑47‑104
Board of directors 37‑47‑105
Allowance for directors 37‑47‑106
Vacancy in office of director 37‑47‑107
Powers of district 37‑47‑108
Principal office - meetings 37‑47‑109
Assessment and levy by board 37‑47‑110
Creation of subdistricts 37‑47‑111
Rules and regulations 37‑47‑112
Procedure for establishment of subdistricts 37‑47‑113
Time and place of hearing on petition 37‑47‑114
Recording of protest - procedure - decree - fee 37‑47‑115
Plan for subdistrict 37‑47‑116
Appointment of appraisers 37‑47‑117
Compensation of appraisers 37‑47‑118
Directors bound by financing plan 37‑47‑119
Assessments - procedure in making 37‑47‑120
Improvement district bonds 37‑47‑121
Assessments constitute perpetual lien 37‑47‑122
Directors to remedy defects in assessments 37‑47‑123
Record of assessments as evidence 37‑47‑124
Defects in notice perfected 37‑47‑125
Contracts of subdistricts 37‑47‑126
Issuance of general obligation bonds and revenue bonds 37‑47‑127
Board to certify assessments 37‑47‑128
Limitations on power to levy and contract 37‑47‑129
Investment of surplus funds 37‑47‑130
Sinking fund 37‑47‑131
Court confirmation 37‑47‑132
Subdistrict furnishing water to nonirrigated land 37‑47‑133
Election to authorize debt 37‑47‑134
Definition of elector 37‑47‑135
Elections 37‑47‑136
Election resolution 37‑47‑137
Conduct of election 37‑47‑138
Notice of election 37‑47‑139
Polling places 37‑47‑140
Election supplies 37‑47‑141
Election returns 37‑47‑142
Debt election contests 37‑47‑143
Covenants and other provisions in bonds 37‑47‑144
Liens on pledged revenues 37‑47‑145
Rights - powers of holders of bonds - trustees 37‑47‑146
Investments and securities 37‑47‑147
Rents and charges 37‑47‑148
Miscellaneous powers 37‑47‑149
Cooperative powers 37‑47‑150
Joint action entity 37‑47‑151
Correlative powers of political subdivisions
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through Fall 2024

§ 37-47-137’s source at colorado​.gov