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Public Roads – March 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
AN ACT CONCERNING ROADS AND HIGHWAYS
Approved March 9, 1883
2953. SECTION 1. All roads and highways, except private roads heretofore established in pursuance of any law of this State or the Territory of Colorado, and roads dedicated to public use, that have not been vacated or abandoned, and such other roads as are now recognized and maintained by the corporate authorities of any county in this State, are hereby declared to be public highways.
SEC. 2. All public highways, except as such as are owned and operated by private corporations, and highways within the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town, shall be maintained and kept in repair by the respective counties in which they are located.
SEC. 27. Every able-bodied man, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, shall annually pay to the overseer of roads of the district wherein he resides a road tax of three dollars, or in lieu of such sum shall labor two days upon the public roads whenever notified by the overseer, as hereinafter provided, but the provisions of this act shall not apply to persons residing within the corporate limits of cities and towns.
SEC. 28. The road overseers shall keep the county roads and highways of their respective districts in repairs and in good condition for travel. The road overseer shall notify all persons in his district subject to road tax, between the first day of April and the first day of September in each year, to appear at such time and place, and with such tools as he may designate to perform the work required in lieu of road tax; Provided, nothing in this section shall prevent the overseer from calling out any such persons to perform such work at any time when he shall consider the same needed.
SEC. 40. The acts of the general assembly of the State of Colorado, entitled “an act concerning roads and public highways,” approved March 22, 1877, and “an act to amend chapter eighty-eight of the general laws,” approved February 18, 1879, be and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, that the repeal of said acts shall not be construed to affect any right or to abate any suit or action or proceeding existing or pending under the acts hereby repealed.