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      history, or the Session Laws.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 10-053
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Foster;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Acree, Schafer S.
      
      
      Concerning the exception of weighted votes from voting
           requirements governing 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 (7) (c), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      amended to read:
      
           32-4-509.  Board of directors.  (7)  The board of directors has the
      following powers:
      
           (c)  No Business of the board shall be transacted except at a regular
      or special meeting at which a quorum consisting of one-half of the total
      membership of the board of directors is present.  Any action of the board
      shall require the affirmative vote of the majority of the directors present and
      voting, but except when a weighted vote is conducted in accordance
      with the bylaws of the district, applicable resolutions of the
      board, or other laws or rules governing the procedures of the
      board.  Questions involving inclusion or exclusion of territories or
      authorizing any expenditures in excess of fifty thousand dollars shall require
      the approval of a majority of the entire membership of the board.  A
      majority of the entire membership of the board may authorize by resolution
      any project authorized in this part 5 and also thereby authorize expenditures
      from time to time appertaining to such project in excess of fifty thousand
      dollars approved by an affirmative vote of the majority of the directors
      present and voting at any subsequent meeting.  A smaller number of
      directors than a quorum may adjourn from time to time and may compel the
      attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as
      the board may provide.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
      shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      11, 2010, if adjournment sine die is on May 12, 2010); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2010
      and shall take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote
      thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Brandon C. Shaffer                Terrance D. Carroll
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Karen Goldman                          Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO