MATTER OF TITLE, BALLOT TITLE ET AL.

No. 92SA73.

831 P.2d 1301 (1992)

In the Matter of the TITLE, BALLOT TITLE AND SUBMISSION CLAUSE, AND SUMMARY ADOPTED FEBRUARY 10, 1992 BY the TITLE SETTING REVIEW BOARD AND PERTAINING TO A PROPOSED INITIATIVE FOR AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XVI, SECTION 5, COLORADO CONSTITUTION, ENTITLED "W.A.T.E.R." Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr., Principal Counsel, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and Municipal Subdistrict, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, Petitioner, and Honorable Robert L. Pastore and Richard G. Hamilton, and Title Setting Review Board, Honorable Natalie Meyer, Raymond Slaughter, and Douglas Brown, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

May 18, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr., Denver, for petitioner.

Karl S. Tameler, Pueblo, for respondents Robert L. Pastore and Richard Hamilton.

Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Raymond T. Slaughter, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., Maurice G. Knaizer, Deputy Atty. Gen., Denver, for Title Setting Review Bd.

Fairfield and Woods, P.C., Howard Holme, Stephen H. Leonhardt, Miriam S. Mazel, Denver, for amicus curiae Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy Dist.

Gregory L. Johnson, Colorado Springs, for amicus curiae City of Colorado Springs.

Peterson & Fonda, William F. Mattoon, Pueblo, for amicus curiae Board of Water Works of Pueblo, Colorado.

Ken Baker, Salida, for amicus curiae Arkansas Water Conservancy Dist.


Justice QUINN delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is a statutory proceeding in which the petitioner, Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr., a registered elector of the State of Colorado and principal counsel for the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and the Municipal Subdistrict of the Conservancy District, challenges the title, the ballot title and submission clause, and the summary prepared by the Initiative Title Setting Review Board (Board) for a proposed amendment...

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