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      SENATE BILL 07-028
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Takis;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Witwer, Curry, and Hodge.
      
      
      Concerning the board of directors of a metropolitan sewage
           disposal district.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  32-4-509 (2) (a), (2) (d), and (8), Colorado Revised
      Statutes, are amended to read:
      
           32-4-509.  Board of directors.  (2) (a)  The members of the board
      of directors from each municipality shall be appointed by the executive of
      each such municipality with the approval of the governing body of such
      municipality.  In districts having eleven or more member municipalities, the
      board of directors shall consist of one member from each municipality
      included within the district for each twenty-five seventy-five thousand of
      population, or fraction thereof, in such municipality, plus one member for
      each additional twenty-five seventy-five thousand of population, or
      fraction thereof, in any such municipality; except that no municipality shall
      be entitled to more than one-half of the total membership or representation
      upon the board; of directors; and further except that any municipality which
      that has fifty percent or more of the total population of the district shall
      have one-half of the total membership or representation on the board. of
      directors.  In districts having ten or less member municipalities, the board
      of directors shall consist of one member from each municipality included
      within the district, plus two additional members for any municipality having
      fifty percent of the total district population, plus one additional member for
      any municipality having eighty percent of the total district population.
      
           (d)  The representation on the board of directors shall be
      reapportioned every two four years after the creation of a district in the
      month in which the division of local government in the department of local
      affairs issued a certificate of organization in the year of the district's
      organization upon the basis set forth in this subsection (2).
      
           (8)  Each member of the board shall receive as compensation for his
      or her service a sum not in excess of two three thousand dollars per
      annum, payable at a rate not to exceed thirty-five seventy-five dollars for
      each regular or special meeting of the board of directors or committee of the
      board attended by the member.  No member of the board shall receive any
      compensation as an agent, employee, engineer, or attorney of the district.
      
           SECTION 2.  Applicability.  This act shall apply to the composition
      of any board of directors of a metropolitan sewage disposal district created
      prior to, on, or after the effective date of this act and to compensation paid
      to members of a board on or after the effective date of this act.
      
           SECTION 3.  Safety clause.  The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
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      Joan Fitz-Gerald                      Andrew Romanoff
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Karen Goldman                          Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
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                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO