CHAPTER 141. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS OFFENSES. (S. B. No. 18, by Senator Kluge.) AN ACT TO PREVENT PERSONS FROM FLOWING WATER OR ALLOW- Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: road to be overflowed. Penalty. Section 1. That no person, persons or corporation Unlawful shall wilfully or negligently cause or allow water to flow to allow from any ditch, lateral, canal, waste ditch, reservoir, pond, drain, flume or artificial watercourse, in or upon any pub. lic road or highway so as to damage the same or to cause the same to be inconvenient for travel. Any person, persóns or corporation so offending shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) or be committed to the county jail for a period of not to exceed three months. Each day that water is so allowed to flow upon any public Each day road or highway shall be deemed to be a separate offense. Sec. 2. Justices of the peace of the county wherein Jurisdiction any of the offenses herein described may be committed shall of justice of have jurisdiction of complaints coming within the provisions of this act. separate offense. the peace. Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith Repeal. are hereby repealed. Approved: March 6, 1915. CHAPTER 142. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS ROAD SIGNS. (S. B. No. 394, by Senator W. C. Robinson.) AN ACT TO REGULATE ROAD SIGNS. Uniform system of road signs. Unlawful to use other signs. Removal of signs not complying with regulations. County commissioners may remove signs. Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. The State Highway Commissioner and Advisory Board shall have full power and authority to prescribe rules and regulations for a uniform system of road signs on state highways, and when such rules are adopted it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place or maintain road signs of any kind on the state highways, not conforming to such rules and regulations. Sec. 2. Said Commissioner and Advisory Board shall have power to require all persons placing or maintaining road signs of any kind on any state highway which do not conform to such rules and regulations, to remove the same, and if such persons do not comply with such require ment the State Highway Commissioner shall have power to remove such road signs. Sec. 3. The board of county commissioners of the various counties of the state shall, upon request of the State Highway Commissioner and Advisory Board, forthwith remove all road signs from the state highways within their respective counties not complying with such rules and regulations. Sec. 4. Any person or persons or corporation who places or maintains any road sign on any state highway in violation of this act, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifteen dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days in the discretion of the court. Sec. 5. Any person, persons or corporations who injure or deface or destroy any road sign placed on any state highway under the provisions of this act, shall on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifteen dollars, nor more than fifty dollars in the discretion of the court. Placing of violation of punishable. signs in act, how Unlawful to deface or destroy signs. of justice. Sec. 6. Justices of the peace and all courts of record Jurisdiction having jurisdiction of misdemeanors shall have jurisdiction to try any case arising from the violation of this act or any provision thereof. Approved: April 9, 1915. CHAPTER 143. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS TAX LEVY FOR STATE ROAD FUND. State road fund. Tax levy. Act supplemental to act of 1913. AN ACT TO SECURE BETTER HIGHWAYS BY INCREASING THE STATE Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Colorado: Section 1. There is hereby recognized and perpetu ated the fund heretofore established for the purpose of state aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of public highways, and known as the State Road Fund; and for the purpose of securing better highways by increasing the said fund, there shall be assessed and levied annually upon all taxable property in this state one-half of one mill on each dollar of assessed valuation thereof, to be assessed and collected at the same time and in the same manner now provided for the assessment and collection of state taxes from other fractional mill levies now established by law. Sec. 2. It is hereby expressly declared that this act is supplemental to and amendatory of the State Highway Commission Act, approved March 17, 1913. Initiated measure adopted November 3, 1914. CHAPTER 144. SCHOOLS SCHOOL DISTRICTS-DISTRICT BONDS. (S. B. No. 19, by Senator Kluge.) AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 11 OF CHAPTER 205 OF THE SESSION Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. That section 11, of chapter 205 of the Session Laws of 1909 of the State of Colorado, the same being 'An Act to Enable School Districts of this State to Contract a Bonded Indebtedness for the Purpose of Erecting and Furnishing School Buildings, Purchasing Grounds and Funding Debts, and to Repeal All Acts and Parts of Acts in Conflict Herewith," approved April 8, 1909, be amended to read as follows: Section 11. Whenever the board of directors of any school district shall issue bonds under the provisions of this act, they shall enter in and upon the records of such board an order requesting the county clerk and recorder of the county, wherein such school district is situate, to register the bonds in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and when so registered, the legality thereof Act amended. Directors County Clerk bonds. shall request to register |