2005 Idaho Code - 31-4502 — DECLARATION OF NECESSITY AND PURPOSE -- LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION

                                  TITLE  31
                           COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
                                  CHAPTER 45
                         POLLUTION CONTROL FINANCING
    31-4502.  DECLARATION OF NECESSITY AND PURPOSE -- LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION.
(a) The legislature of the state of Idaho hereby finds:
    (i)  that environmental damage seriously endangers the public health and
    welfare;
    (ii)  that such environmental damage results from air, water, and other
    resource pollution and from public water supply, solid waste disposal,
    noise and other environmental problems;
    (iii)  that to reduce, control and prevent such pollution and problems,
    quality standards have been established necessitating the employment of
    antipollution devices, equipment and facilities, and stringent time
    schedules have been and will be imposed for compliance with such
    standards;
    (iv)  that it is desirable to provide methods of financing the costs of
    acquiring, constructing, installing and equipping facilities designed for
    environmental pollution control, including the acquisition of all
    technological facilities and equipment necessary or convenient for
    pollution control; and
    (v)  that the method of financing provided in this act is therefore in the
    public interest and serves a public purpose in protecting and promoting
    the health and welfare of the citizens of this state by reducing,
    controlling and preventing environmental damage.
    (b)  It is the purpose of this act, as more specifically described in
later sections, to authorize counties to acquire, construct, install, equip,
own, finance and lease environmental pollution control facilities, including
the acquisition of all technological facilities and equipment necessary or
convenient for pollution control, to be financed for, or to be sold, leased or
otherwise disposed of to persons, associations or corporations other than
municipal corporations or other political subdivisions, to the end that the
counties may be able to promote the health and welfare of the people of this
state; it is not intended by this act that any county shall itself be
authorized to operate any industrial or commercial enterprise or any such
environmental pollution control facilities.
    (c)  This act shall be liberally construed to accomplish the intentions
expressed herein.