Colorado Code § 43-5-303

Overflowing highways - penalty
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A person or corporation shall not
repeatedly, willfully, or negligently cause or allow water to flow, fall, or sprinkle from any ditch,
lateral, canal, waste ditch, reservoir, pond, drain, flume, or agricultural crop sprinkler system
upon any public road or highway so as to damage the same or to cause a hazard to vehicular
traffic. Any person or corporation so offending commits a civil infraction. Each day that water is
so allowed to flow upon any public road or highway shall be deemed a separate offense.
Agricultural crop sprinkler systems upon which generally accepted devices are installed or
preventive practices are carried out and when due diligence has been exercised to prevent the
end gun from discharging water upon the highway shall not be deemed to be in violation of this
section, nor shall acts of God, including but not limited to wind, be deemed a violation of this
section.

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