Colorado Code § 37-45-119

Power to acquire rights-of-way. Whenever, pursuant to this article, the
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electors of a water conservancy district have authorized a contract with the United States for
construction and acquisition of works and water rights, which contract has obligated the district
to acquire rights-of-way therefor to be conveyed by the district to the United States upon
reimbursement by the United States, then the district, without further election and through its
board of directors, has power to do all acts for acquiring such rights-of-way, including
borrowing of and paying interest upon such sums of money as shall be required to make deposits
fixed by the court for possession and to pay awards on condemnation of said rights-of-way as
well as amounts up to the appraised values of the particular rights-of-way as have been fixed by
the appraisers for the United States in each instance of negotiated purchases, notwithstanding the
sum borrowed shall be greater than the ordinary annual incomes and revenues of the district; and
all debts incurred, and interest payments made prior to February 5, 1943, for the aforesaid
purposes, are expressly authorized, ratified, and approved.

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