Senate Transportation - Energy
A safety-driven bill letting land surveyors avoid setting monuments in live traffic cleared committee unanimously and went to the consent calendar, while a broader fight over whether to spend Clean Fleet Enterprise money on cleaner diesel and renewable-gas trucks — or reserve it for zero-emission vehicles — dominated testimony on Senate Bill 21.
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“This is very personal to me as I have the unfortunate experience of losing an employee, a young man, recently married, whose life was cut short in 1990 while setting monumentation in State Highway 65. It haunts me still.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood afternoon. We'll now call. I'll now call the Senate Transportation and Energy committee to order. Ms. Forbes, can you please take the role? Senators Basley, President Catlin. Here. Exum. Oh, he's online. Senate. Good afternoon. Lynn Stepp. Present. Malika Pelton. Present. Sullivan. Excused. All excused. And Madam Chair. Present. So today we switched up the order a bit. Sorry if anyone was surprised, but Senators Rich and Snyder are here to present a bill that shouldn't take too long. It's Senate Bill 2625, monument records placement Subm. Maintenance. So sponsors, if you are ready. Senator Rich, please proceed. Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a bill that was brought to us by the Colorado association of Surveyors, specifically the surveyor in Mesa county. And it is to allow reference monuments to be used if a designated survey monument position is located on a traveled road within a federal state or other public right of way. We believe this is a good bill that will protect the safety of Colorado land surveyors. Much like when land boundaries bleed into hazardous terrain or construction zones, the use of reference monuments for properties that conflict with transit right of ways will help…
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