Senate Judiciary
Senate Judiciary advanced a bill giving Coloradans a court-and-mediation backstop to reach onto a neighbor's property for repairs — over property-rights objections from two Republicans — and unanimously moved a slimmed-down measure letting state agencies serve legal documents by email when parties consent.
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“With access to the neighbor's roof in May of 2023, we could have resolved this matter with three days of work and about $1,500 in cost to us. Instead, we continued to endure a stressful and senseless three year quagmire. More delayed repairs to our house, and our attorney ran up a bill of just under $30,000.”
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Sign in to subscribeReady. Good afternoon, everybody. Senate Judiciary Committee will please come to order. Ms. Jensen, please call the roll. Senators Carson Dougherty. Here. Henriksen. Here. Wallace. Present. Zamora Wilson. Present. Roberts. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, everyone's present and ready to go. We have just two bills on our agenda this afternoon. We just had Senator Ball. All right, the first bill on Our agenda is 177 by Senator Ball, apparently being joined by Senator Benavidez. Sponsors, when you're ready, feel free to make any opening comments about SB177. Senator Baugh, thank you, Mr. Chair and members of committee, I am thrilled to be here in front of you today to talk about Senate Bill 177, which I have been referring to as Marty's bill because this bill came from a constituent of mine who you're going to hear from today, Marty Jones, who's had an issue that he's been dealing with with a neighbor of his that has unfortunately not been able to resolve. I'll let him tell you a little bit more about the details. But this type of thing happens from time to time where one individual needs to make repairs or fix their house, but to…
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