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Denver has a strong mayor and a weak city council government. The mayor can approve or veto any ordinances or resolutions approved by the council, [1] make sure all contracts with the city are kept and performed, sign all bonds and contracts, is responsible for the city budget, and can appoint people to various city departments, organizations, and commissions.
A municipal code is usually a type of statutory instrument or delegated legislation. A municipal legal code is similar in concept, though different in nature, to " codes " enacted by sovereign government authorities, such as a national government or a federal state or province within a federation .
At the 2020 United States census, the City and County of Denver had an area of 99,025 acres (400.739 km 2), including 1,057 acres (4.276 km 2) of water. [12] The City and County of Denver is surrounded by three other counties: Adams County to the north and east, Arapahoe County to the south and east, and Jefferson County to the west.
Denver Revised Municipal Code from Municode; Local ordinance codes from Public.Resource.Org; Case law: "Colorado", Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School, OCLC 1078785565, Court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library
From 2003 to 2021, Colorado had state preemption of local firearm laws, except for certain ordinances enacted by the City and County of Denver. [20] The statewide firearm preemption law was repealed in 2021, allowing cities and counties to enact firearms ordinances that are more restrictive than state law.
[1] [2] The City and County of Denver, the state capital, [3] is the oldest municipality in Colorado. On December 3, 1859, the extralegal Territory of Jefferson granted a charter to the consolidated City of Denver, Auraria, and Highland. [4] The Town of Keystone, incorporated on February 8, 2024, is the newest Colorado municipality.
City and County of Denver: 716,492 100% 2 El Paso County: 713,856 12.53% 1 City of Colorado Springs: 472,688 66.22% 2 City of Fountain: 30,454 4.27% 3 Town of Monument:
The City and County of Denver, capital of the U.S. state of Colorado, has 78 official neighborhoods used for planning and administration. [1] The system of neighborhood boundaries and names dates to 1970 when city planners divided the city into 73 groups of one to four census tracts, called "statistical neighborhoods," most of which are ...