VOSS v. LUNDVALL BROS., INC.

No. 91SC169.

830 P.2d 1061 (1992)

Gayle VOSS, City Clerk of the City of Greeley, a municipal corporation, Vitus Einsphar, Fire Chief, City of Greeley Fire Department, the Election Board of the City of Greeley, a municipal corporation, the City Council of the City of Greeley, a body politic, and the City of Greeley, a municipal corporation, Petitioners, v. LUNDVALL BROTHERS, INC., a Colorado corporation, d/b/a Lundvall Oil and Gas, Inc., Bellwether Exploration Company, Hertzke Brothers, a partnership, Conquest Oil Company, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and Langford Resources, a Colorado general partnership, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

June 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Brady, George N. Monsson, Greeley, for petitioners.

James J. Peyton, Lind, Lawrence & Ottenhoff, George H. Ottenhoff, Kenneth F. Lind, Greeley, for respondents Lundvall Bros., Inc., a Colorado corp., d/b/a Lundvall Oil and Gas, Inc.; Bellwether Exploration Co., Hertzke Bros., and Conquest Oil Co.

Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Raymond T. Slaughter, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., Patricia S. Bangert, Deputy Atty. Gen., Jerry W. Goad, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Timothy J. Monahan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for respondent Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Com'n.

Randolph W. Starr, P.C., Randolph W. Starr, Loveland, for respondent Langford Resources.

Charles H. Richardson, Robert M. Rogers, Aurora, for amicus curiae City of Aurora, Colo.

Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker and Grover, William A. Keefe, Hugh V. Schaefer, Kenneth A. Wonstolen, Denver, for amicus curiae Colorado Petroleum Ass'n.

Geoffrey T. Wilson, Denver, for amicus curiae Colorado Mun. League.

Lohf, Shalman & Ross, P.C., J. Michael Morgan, David G. Ebner, Denver, for amici curiae Colorado Oil and Gas Ass'n and Independent Petroleum Ass'n of the Mountain States.


Justice QUINN delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The questions in this case are whether the Oil and Gas Conservation Act, §§ 34-60-101 to -126, 14 C.R.S. (1984 & 1991 Supp.), preempts a home-rule city from enacting a land-use ordinance that imposes a total ban on the drilling of any oil, gas, or hydrocarbon wells within the city and whether any such preemption would violate article V, section 35 of the Colorado Constitution, which prohibits the delegation...

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