2022 Colorado Code
Title 31 - Government - Municipal
Article 15 - Exercise of Municipal Powers
Part 1 - Vesting of Corporate Powers
§ 31-15-101. Municipalities Bodies Politic - Powers

1. Municipalities:
   1. Shall be bodies politic and corporate, under such name as they are organized;
   2. May sue or be sued;
   3. May enter into contracts;
   4. May acquire, hold, lease, and dispose of property, both real and personal;
   5. May have a common seal which they may alter at their pleasure; and
   6. May accept the transfer of federal land for public purposes, including but not limited to municipal expansion and residential purposes.

2. All such municipalities shall have the powers, authority, and privileges granted by this title and by any other law of this state together with such implied and incidental powers, authority, and privileges as may be reasonably necessary, proper, convenient, or useful to the exercise thereof. All such powers, authority, and privileges are subject to the restrictions and limitations provided for in this title and in any other law of this state.
3. Each municipality may coordinate, pursuant to 43 U.S.C. sec. 1712, the "National Environmental Policy Act of 1969", 42 U.S.C. sec. 4321 et seq., 40 U.S.C. sec. 3312, 16 U.S.C. sec. 530, 16 U.S.C. sec. 1604, and 40 CFR parts 1500 to 1508, with the United States secretary of the interior and the United States secretary of agriculture to develop management plans that address hazardous fuel removal and other forest management practices, water development and conservation measures, watershed protection, public utilities protection, private property protection, and the protection of air quality on federal lands within such municipality's jurisdiction.

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1104, § 1, effective July 1. L. 76: (1)(f) added, p. 697, § 1, effective April 6. L. 2003: (3) added, p. 1037, § 11, effective April 17.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former §§ 31-12-201 and 31-12-202 as they existed prior to 1975.

Cross references: For the legislative declaration contained in the 2003 act enacting subsection (3), see section 1 of chapter 145, Session Laws of Colorado 2003.