C.R.S. Section 37-80-118
False reports of gauge heights


Any headgate keeper, owner, employee, or other person having charge of any automatic self-registering device installed and operated pursuant to order of the state engineer or a division engineer or compiling gauge height records pursuant to order of the state engineer or division engineer, or any gauge height observer at any river station in this state, installed, maintained, and operated for the purpose of recording the amount of water flowing in said stream, or any reservoir keeper having charge of the keeping of gauge height records on weirs on intakes or outlets of reservoirs who makes false or fictitious reports of gauge heights or who alters, changes, or falsifies any gauge height record or report or who alters or modifies the record made by any automatic self-registering device is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each violation of the provisions of this section.

Source: Section 37-80-118 — False reports of gauge heights, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-37.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

37‑80‑101
State engineer
37‑80‑101.5
Office of the state engineer
37‑80‑102
General duties of state engineer - supervision and utilization of employees - satellite and telemetry-based monitoring systems
37‑80‑103
Additional duties of state engineer
37‑80‑104
Compact requirements - state engineer’s duties
37‑80‑105
Supervision over division engineers
37‑80‑106
Appointment of deputies
37‑80‑107
Employment of engineers or geologists
37‑80‑108
Appoint deputy for special work
37‑80‑109
State engineer’s authority to contract for services
37‑80‑110
Fees collected by state engineer
37‑80‑111
Fees deposited with department of the treasury
37‑80‑111.5
Fees - rules - satellite monitoring system cash fund - well inspection cash fund - created
37‑80‑111.7
Water resources cash fund - created - uses
37‑80‑112
Report of state engineer
37‑80‑113
State engineer - qualifications - salary - conflict of interest
37‑80‑114
Deputy state engineer - powers
37‑80‑115
Performance of personnel - duties
37‑80‑116
Legal services authorized
37‑80‑117
Regulation of water for measurements
37‑80‑118
False reports of gauge heights
37‑80‑119
Interference with recording instruments
37‑80‑120
Upstream storage - substitute supply - historic natural depletion
37‑80‑122
South Platte river alluvial aquifer groundwater monitoring network
37‑80‑123
Lease, loan, or trade of agricultural water protection water right - rules - definition
37‑80‑124
State engineer - designation of fire suppression ponds - conditional requirements - inspections - expiration of designation - database - reviews by water courts
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through Fall 2024

§ 37-80-118’s source at colorado​.gov