Colo. Rev. Stat. § 31-15-702 (2026)

(1) The governing body of each municipality has the power: (a) (I) To lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve streets, parks, and public grounds and vacate the same and to direct and regulate the planting of ornamental and shade trees in such streets, parks, and public grounds; to plant trees upon the same; to regulate the use of the same; to prevent and remove encroachments or obstructions upon the same; to provide for the lighting of the same; and to provide for the cleansing of the same; (II) To regulate the openings therein for the laying-out of gas or water mains and pipes, the building and repairing of sewers, tunnels, and drains, and the erecting of utility poles. Any company organized under the general laws of this state or any association of persons organized for the purpose of manufacturing energy to supply municipalities or the inhabitants thereof with the same has the right by consent of the governing body, but not without such consent, subject to existing rights, to erect factories and lay down pipes in the streets or alleys of any municipality in the state, subject to such regulations as any such municipality by ordinance may impose. (III) To regulate the use of sidewalks along the streets and alleys and all structures thereunder and to require the owner or occupant of any premises to keep the sidewalks, or along the same, free from snow and other obstructions; (IV) To regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, garbage, or any offensive matter in and to prevent any injury to any street, park, or public ground; (V) To provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs, and gutters; (VI) To regulate and prevent the use of streets, parks, and public grounds for signs, signposts, awnings, awning posts, and power and communications poles, and for posting handbills and advertisements; to regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying of banners, placards, advertisements, or handbills in the streets or public grounds or upon the sidewalks; and to regulate and prevent the flying of flags, banners, or signs across the streets or from houses; (VII) To regulate traffic and sales upon the streets, sidewalks, and public places and to regulate the speed of vehicles, cars, and locomotives within the limits of the municipality; (VIII) To regulate the numbering of houses and lots and to name and change the name of any street or other public place; (b) (I) To provide for the construction and maintenance of sidewalks, curbs, and gutters of such material and in such manner as shall be designated and to provide for paying the expenses thereof by special assessments upon the adjacent or abutting property, which assessments shall constitute a lien as provided in section 31-15-401 (1)(d)(I); (II) To grade, grade or gravel, or otherwise surface or improve streets and alleys and to assess the costs of such improvements upon the lots or lands adjacent to or abutting upon any street or alley or portion thereof so improved, which assessments shall constitute a lien as provided in section 31-15-401 (1)(d); (c) To grant, by ordinance and upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed therein, to other municipalities the right-of-way through, over, across, and under streets and alleys for the purpose of laying, constructing, operating, maintaining, and repairing waterworks and all pipelines connected therewith; (d) To authorize the construction of mills and mill races, irrigating or mining ditches, and feeders on, through, or across the streets of the municipality at such places and under such restrictions as deemed proper.

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1113, § 1, effective July 1.

Editor's note: The provisions of this section are similar to provisions of several former sections as they existed prior to 1975. For a detailed comparison, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.