Colorado Code § 31-35-401

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As used in this part 4, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Consumer" means any public or private user of water facilities or sewerage facilities
or both.
(2) "Governing body" means the body which is in charge of the municipality's water or
sanitation facilities, whether or not the same is a "governing body" as defined in part 1 of article
1 of this title.
(3) "Joint system" or "joint water and sewer system" means water facilities and sewerage
facilities combined, operated, and maintained as a single public utility and income-producing
project.
(4) "Municipality" means a municipality as defined in part 1 of article 1 of this title and
includes any quasi-municipal corporation formed principally to acquire, operate, and maintain
water facilities or sewerage facilities or both.
(5) "Net effective interest rate" of a proposed issue of bonds means the net interest cost
of said issue divided by the sum of the products derived by multiplying the principal amount of
such issue maturing on each maturity date by the number of years from the date of said proposed
bonds to their respective maturities. "Net interest cost" of a proposed issue of bonds means the
total amount of interest to accrue on said bonds from their date of issuance to their respective
maturities plus the amount of any discount below par or less the amount of any premium above
par at which said bonds are being or have been sold. In all cases the net effective interest rate
and net interest cost shall be computed without regard to any option of redemption prior to the
designated maturity dates of the bonds.
(6) "Sewerage facilities" means any one or more of the various devices used in the
collection, treatment, or disposition of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature or storm,
flood, or surface drainage waters, including all inlets; collection, drainage, or disposal lines;
intercepting sewers; joint storm and sanitary sewers; sewage disposal plants; outfall sewers; all
pumping, power, and other equipment and appurtenances; all extensions, improvements,
remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; and any and all rights or interests in such
sewerage facilities.
(7) "Water facilities" means any one or more works and improvements used in and as a
part of the collection, treatment, or distribution of water for the beneficial uses and purposes for
which the water has been or may be appropriated, including, but not limited to, uses for
domestic, municipal, irrigation, power, and industrial purposes and including construction,
operation, and maintenance of a system of raw and clear water and distribution storage
reservoirs, deep and shallow wells, pumping, ventilating, and gauging stations, inlets, tunnels,
flumes, conduits, canals, collection, transmission, and distribution lines, infiltration galleries,
hydrants, meters, filtration and treatment plants and works, power plants, all pumping, power,
and other equipment and appurtenances, all extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions,
and alterations thereof, and any and all rights or interests in such works and improvements; but,
no municipality shall construct or acquire facilities for the sale of electric energy or power,
except hydroelectric energy or power for sale at wholesale only, without complying with the
provisions of section 31-15-707.

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