First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0023.01 Thomas Morris        HOUSE BILL 11-1246
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Todd, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Spence, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Local Government
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a local government's authority to assess a fee
            to be used for roads used to haul solid wastes to the
            local government's solid wastes disposal facility.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill authorizes counties and municipalities to assess a fee
       charged for each load of solid wastes disposed of at the local
       government's solid wastes landfill and requires the fee to be used for the
       maintenance, repair, and improvement of roads used to haul solid wastes
       to the landfill.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  30-20-115, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
       BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION to read:
            30-20-115.  Solid wastes disposal site and facility fund - tax -
       fees.  (3)  Any governing body having jurisdiction is authorized
       to establish an account in its solid wastes disposal site and
       facility fund for road maintenance.  The governing body having
       jurisdiction may establish by ordinance or resolution and
       collect a road maintenance fee, in addition to any other tax or
       fee authorized by law, on each load disposed of at the governing
       body's solid wastes disposal site and facility, the proceeds of
       which shall be deposited in the account and appropriated to pay
       the costs of maintenance, repair, and improvement of roads used
       to haul solid wastes to the governing body's solid wastes
       disposal site and facility.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
       applicability.  (1)  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 10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on
       May 11, 2011); 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 2011 and shall take effect on the
       date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.
            (2)  The provisions of this act shall apply to conduct occurring on
       or after the applicable effective date of this act.