US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  42
                       IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER
                            RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION
                                  CHAPTER 32
                          WATER AND SEWER DISTRICTS
    42-3206.  NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION -- JURISDICTION. Immediately after
the filing of such petition, the court wherein such petition is filed or a
judge thereof in vacation, shall by order fix a place and time, not less than
twenty (20) days nor more than forty (40) days after the petition is filed,
for hearing thereon and thereupon the clerk of said court shall cause notice
by publication to be made of the pendency of the petition and of the time and
place of hearing thereon; the clerk of said court shall also forthwith cause a
copy of said notice to be mailed by U.S. registered mail to the board of
county commissioners of each of the several counties and to the governing body
of each municipality having territory within the proposed district.
    The district court in and for the county in which the petition for the
organization of a district has been filed, shall thereafter for all purposes
of this act, except as hereinafter otherwise provided, maintain and have
original and exclusive jurisdiction, coextensive with the boundaries of the
district, and of the real property proposed to be included in said district or
affected by said district without regard to the usual limits of its
jurisdiction.
    No judge of such court wherein such petition is filed shall be
disqualified to perform any duty imposed by this act by reason of ownership of
property within any proposed district.