C.R.S. § 24-82-201: Power to grant - utilities - public streets and highways.

All state institutions, departments, and other state agencies have the power to give and grant easements or rights-of-way across land owned by or under the control of the state or its institutions, departments, or agencies for construction and maintenance of public utilities, or of public streets and highways, or of public services, including but not limited to sanitary sewer lines, water lines, gas lines, telephone lines, electric power lines, or other services owned and controlled by a political subdivision or public corporation of the state of Colorado or of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of this part 2.