Colorado Revised Statutes Title 37. Water and Irrigation § 37-44-124. County treasurer ex officio district treasurer

(1) The county treasurer of the county in which is located the office of any internal improvement district shall be and is hereby constituted ex officio district treasurer of said district, and said county treasurer shall be liable upon his official bond and to indictment and criminal prosecution for malfeasance, misfeasance, or failure to perform any duty prescribed in this article as county treasurer or district treasurer, as is provided by law in other cases as county treasurer. Said county treasurer shall collect, receive, and receipt for all moneys belonging to said district. It is the duty of the county treasurer of each county in which any internal improvement district is located, in whole or in part, to collect and receipt for all assessments levied in the same manner and at the same time and on the same receipt as is required in the collection of taxes upon real estate for county purposes. The county treasurer of each county comprising a portion only of such internal improvement district, excepting the county treasurer of the county in which the office of said district is located, on the first Monday of every month shall remit to the district treasurer all moneys theretofore collected or received by him on account of said district. Every county treasurer shall keep a bond fund account and a general fund account. The bond fund account shall consist of all moneys received on account of interest and principal of bonds issued by said district, and said accounts for interest and principal shall be kept separate. The general fund shall consist of all other moneys received by the collection of assessments or otherwise.

(2) The district treasurer shall pay out of said bond fund when due the interest and principal of the bonds of said district at the time and place specified in said bonds and shall pay out of the said general funds only upon the order of the board of directors, signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary of the district. The district treasurer on the fifteenth day of each month shall report to the secretary of the district the amount of money in his hands to the credit of the respective funds showing the amount of warrants and bonds paid during the previous month and the amount of warrants registered, if any. All such district assessments collected and paid to the county treasurers shall be receipted for by said treasurers in their official capacity, and they shall be responsible for the safekeeping and disbursement and payment thereof the same as for other moneys collected by them as treasurers. Each county shall receive for the collection of such taxes such amount as the board of directors may allow, to be not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per year, but the board of directors may allow such an additional amount to the county in which the office of the district is located, such additional compensation, as it may determine in any event, not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars per year.