US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  43
                             IRRIGATION DISTRICTS
                                  CHAPTER 3
                             POWERS AND DUTIES OF
                              BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    43-308.  AUTHORITY TO EXERCISE FUNCTIONS OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS -- PETITION
AND RESOLUTION. After receiving a petition signed by the holders of title or
evidence of title to one-fifth (1/5) of the lands within the district praying
it shall do so, any irrigation district desiring to accept the provisions of
this act shall so declare by resolution adopted by majority vote of its
directors and spread upon its minutes, and thereupon said district shall cause
to be filed with the clerk of the district court of the county in which a
greater portion of the lands of said irrigation district are located, its
petition praying that the court shall set a day for hearing said petition and
on and after said hearing make and enter its order and decree authorizing such
irrigation district to perform all of the functions of a drainage district
under the laws of the state of Idaho, and that there are lands within said
district which need drainage: that there shall be attached to said petition so
filed with the clerk of said court a true and correct copy of the petition of
the said land owners in this section provided, together with a copy of said
resolution of the board of directors of said district.