Colorado Code § 37-45-147

Election for dissolution - petition or resolution filed
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(1) An election
submitting the proposition of dissolution of the district may be initiated by the filing of a copy of
a resolution adopted by three-fourths of all the members of the board of directors of such district
requesting such an election or by the filing of a petition requesting such election. Such resolution
or petition shall be filed in the district court which formed said district.
(2) Any such petition so filed shall be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond for
five hundred dollars with not less than two sureties approved by the court, and, if a majority of
the qualified electors do not vote for dissolution in the election specified in this article, the
amount of such bond shall be forfeited to the district, otherwise the same shall be discharged.
(3) If the valuation for assessment of irrigated land together with improvements thereon
within said district when formed is in excess of twenty million dollars, such petition shall bear
signatures of any owners of irrigated land equal in number to two-thirds or more of the number
of such type of owners required by section 37-45-109, upon a petition for the formation of such a
district. Such irrigated land shall be situated within the limits of the district and shall not be
embraced within the incorporated limits of any city or town. Said petition shall also bear the
signatures of any owners of nonirrigated land or land embraced within the incorporated limits of
a city or town equal in number to two-thirds or more of the number of such type of owners
required by said section upon a petition for the formation of such a district, said land to be
situated within the limits of the district.
(4) If the valuation for assessment of irrigated land and improvements thereon within
such district when formed is less than twenty million dollars, said petition shall contain the same
number and type of signatures required by section 37-45-109 upon petitions for the formation of
such a district. In either case the petition shall set forth opposite each signature the description of
the land and the valuation for assessment thereof together with any improvements. Similar
petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition may be filed together and shall be regarded as
one petition. No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared void on account of
alleged defects, but the court may permit the petition to be amended from time to time to
conform to the facts by correcting errors in descriptions, valuation, or any other particular.

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