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Title 46A - WATER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 14 - Watershed Districts
- § 46A-14-1 Purpose of chapter--Construction and administration.
- § 46A-14-2 Definition of terms.
- § 46A-14-3 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-4 Conservation purposes supporting establishment.
- § 46A-14-4.1 Functions and duties of commission.
- § 46A-14-5 Initiating petition for establishment--Filing--Signatures required.
- § 46A-14-6 Boundaries of district--Contiguous land ownerships.
- § 46A-14-7 Inclusion of municipality.
- § 46A-14-8 Initiating petition--Contents.
- § 46A-14-9 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-10 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-11 Duties of supervisors on receipt of initiating petition.
- § 46A-14-12 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-13 Time and place for hearing on initiating petition--Publication of notice--Contents.
- § 46A-14-14 Hearing by conservation district on petition--Right of interested persons to be heard.
- § 46A-14-15 Determination that public interest would be served by creation of district--Election on question.
- § 46A-14-15.1 Eligible voter defined.
- § 46A-14-16 Referendum unnecessary where petition signed by sixty percent of eligible voters.
- § 46A-14-17 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-18 to 46A-14-25. Repealed.
- § 46A-14-26 Organization to proceed on sixty percent favorable vote--New proposal permitted on defeat.
- § 46A-14-27 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-28 Name of district--Perpetual existence--Findings and order--Political subdivision.
- § 46A-14-29 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-30 Boundaries--Minor adjustments by managers without referendum--Exception.
- § 46A-14-31 Annexation of additional areas to watershed district--Procedure.
- § 46A-14-32 Combining of two or more watershed districts into one district--Procedure.
- § 46A-14-33 Abolishment of original watershed district upon combining districts or annexing additional territory--Certification to secretary of state.
- § 46A-14-34 Powers of district.
- § 46A-14-35 Oath of office of managers--Filing with conservation district.
- § 46A-14-36 Officers--Records--Transaction of district's business.
- § 46A-14-37 Annual election of managers--Terms of office.
- § 46A-14-38 Candidates for board of managers--Filing of application--Qualifications.
- § 46A-14-39 Vacancies on board--Filling by appointment--Term of office.
- § 46A-14-40 Advisory committee--Appointment by board of managers--Number of members--Duties.
- § 46A-14-41 Appointment of personnel--Performance bond.
- § 46A-14-42 Compensation of board members--Limitation.
- § 46A-14-43 Duties of board of managers--Adoption of seal--Record of business transacted--Bylaws and regulations, adoption--Meetings, notice.
- § 46A-14-43.1 District bylaws may be proposed by petition--Approval by board and special election.
- § 46A-14-44 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-45 Vested water rights--Exclusion from operation of chapter.
- § 46A-14-46 Vested drainage rights--Exclusion from operation of chapter.
- § 46A-14-47 General improvement plan--Consultation with advisory committee and supervisors of conservation districts--Contents--Steering committee preparation of preliminary plan.
- § 46A-14-48 Determination of priority of specific projects--Surveys of work--Estimates--Reports of engineer, filing, public inspection.
- § 46A-14-49 , 46A-14-50. Repealed.
- § 46A-14-51 Examination of and hearings on plans--Resolution as to payment of costs by general tax levy, special assessment, or improvement bonds--List of benefited lands and owners.
- § 46A-14-52 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-53 Contract with conservation districts for funding.
- § 46A-14-54 Publication of resolution and notice of hearing--Apportionment of benefits.
- § 46A-14-55 Hearing and referendum on financing arrangements.
- § 46A-14-56 Referendum on financing arrangements--Eligibility to vote--Counting of votes.
- § 46A-14-57 Annual payments by municipality to district in lieu of tax or special assessment levies--Favorable vote by voters of municipality required.
- § 46A-14-58 Resolution approving tax or assessment levy--Detailed reports.
- § 46A-14-59 Assessed valuation for district tax purposes--Limitation on land taxed.
- § 46A-14-60 Annual general tax levy against land and buildings--Maximum amount.
- § 46A-14-61 Taxes collected by county officials--Delivery to district secretary-treasurer.
- § 46A-14-62 Interested party aggrieved by apportionment of benefits or levy of taxes and assessments--Appeal, procedure.
- § 46A-14-63 No-fund warrants to pay district obligations--Limitation on amounts.
- § 46A-14-64 Long-term financing arrangement authorized by voters--Notice to landowners--Suit to set aside--Collection.
- § 46A-14-65 Amended or supplemental general plan of improvements--Special election on additional taxes or special assessments.
- § 46A-14-66 Annual maintenance of watershed project--Project schedule--Budgets.
- § 46A-14-67 Annual operation and maintenance budget, provisions--Reserve fund.
- § 46A-14-68 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-69 Budgeted operation and maintenance expense--Inclusion in tax assessment list.
- § 46A-14-70 Budget--Operations and budget report--Publication--Hearing--Certification and collection of taxes and assessments.
- § 46A-14-71 Contributions by board of county commissioners to watershed district supplies, labor, and equipment.
- § 46A-14-72 Acquisition of real estate or easement therein by watershed district--Purchase--Condemnation, appraisal of premises involved.
- § 46A-14-73 Contracts between district and others--Purposes--Referendum by voters where contract will require increased taxes or assessments.
- § 46A-14-74 Funds of district--Deposit by secretary-treasurer in approved depository--Warrants.
- § 46A-14-75 Claims against district--Payment by warrant or order--Registration.
- § 46A-14-76 Services performed by county officials and Board of Water and Natural Resources free of charge.
- § 46A-14-77 Annual reports of district engineer, secretary, and managers.
- § 46A-14-78 to 46A-14-79.1. Repealed.
- § 46A-14-80 Operation of watershed district, investigation by board--Hearings, order to correct detrimental operation--Enforcement of order by injunction.
- § 46A-14-81 Dissolution of district where federal watershed project not certified infeasible--Special election--Notice--Ballots.
- § 46A-14-82 Dissolution of district--Federal project not certified infeasible--Special election--Percent required to dissolve--Notice to creditors--Auction--Proration of funds remaining.
- § 46A-14-83 Dissolution of district--Federal project not certified infeasible--Proposal defeated, three years before another vote on question.
- § 46A-14-84 Request that federal project be certified infeasible.
- § 46A-14-85 Dissolution of district where federal watershed project certified infeasible.
- § 46A-14-86 Public hearing--Publication of notice.
- § 46A-14-87 State Conservation Commission determination on proposed dissolution.
- § 46A-14-88 Effective date of dissolution.
- § 46A-14-89 Division and apportionment of funds and assets of dissolved district.
- § 46A-14-90 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-91 Vested rights protected.
- § 46A-14-92 Repealed.
- § 46A-14-93 , 46A-14-94. Repealed.
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