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      HOUSE BILL 10-1118
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Kerr J., Schafer S., Summers, Labuda;
      also SENATOR(S) Hudak.
      
      
      Concerning the regulation of distressed real property by a board
           of county commissioners.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  30-15-401 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
      BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
      
           30-15-401.  General regulations.  (1)  In addition to those powers
      granted by sections 30-11-101 and 30-11-107 and by parts 1, 2, and 3 of this
      article, the board of county commissioners has the power to adopt
      ordinances for control or licensing of those matters of purely local concern
      which are described in the following enumerated powers:
      
           (r) (I)  To regulate distressed real property by requiring
      that such real property be secured, maintained, and insured by the
      owner of such real property or, if applicable, by a holder of a lien
      that has taken possession of such real property pursuant to part
      6 of article 38 of title 38, C.R.S., or any receiver appointed to take
      possession of or to preserve the real property.  The county may
      require that real property owners, a holder in possession
      pursuant to part 6 of article 38 of title 38, C.R.S., or any receiver
      appointed to preserve or take possession of real property provide
      to the county planning and zoning department contact
      information for the person or entity responsible for the
      preservation of the real property.
      
           (II)  For purposes of this paragraph (r), "distressed real
      property" means any real property in foreclosure or any vacant
      or abandoned real property.
      
           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.
      
      
      
      
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      Terrance D. Carroll                Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                          Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO