2014 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 35 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 3 - SANITARY AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS
35-3-124. Preparation of plans and specifications for improvement; estimate of cost; notice required before adoption; information to be shown in notice.

35-3-124. Preparation of plans and specifications for improvement; estimate of cost; notice required before adoption; information to be shown in notice.

(a) The board of trustees of such district shall first cause plans and specifications for said improvements and an estimate of the cost thereof to be made by a special engineer employed for that purpose. Such plans, specifications and estimate of cost, after being approved and adopted by the board of trustees, shall be filed with the county clerk and be open to public inspection.

(b) The board of trustees shall then, by resolution entered in the minutes of their proceedings, direct that public notice be given in regard thereto. This notice shall state:

(i) The general nature of the improvements proposed to be made;

(ii) That the plans, specifications and estimate thereof are on file in the office of the county clerk and are open to public inspection;

(iii) The estimated cost thereof;

(iv) That it has proposed to pay for the same by:

(A) Direct obligation bonds payable from unlimited ad valorem taxes on all the property located in the district in which the bonds are issued;

(B) Revenue bonds payable from service charges from present and future residents of the district; or

(C) A combination of the two (2) methods.

(v) The principal amount of said bonds which it proposes to issue;

(vi) The maximum rate of interest which the bonds will bear and that they shall mature in not to exceed forty (40) years from the date of issuance thereof;

(vii) That in the event revenue bonds are issued, the payment of said bonds will be a lien upon and will be secured by a pledge of the revenues and earnings from the improvements;

(viii) The kind of improvements whose revenues and earnings are to be so pledged;

(ix) That any qualified elector of the district may file written objections to the issuance of said bonds with the clerk of the board of trustees of the district within twenty (20) days after the first publication of said notice;

(x) That if such objections are filed within said time by qualified electors of the district, equal in number to forty percent (40%) of the electors of the district who voted at the last general state election, the bonds will not be issued unless the issuance of such bonds is otherwise authorized in accordance with law; and

(xi) That if such objections are not so filed by such percentage of such electors, the board of trustees of the district proposes to pass a resolution authorizing the sale of said bonds and making such contracts with reference thereto as may be necessary or proper.

(c) Such notice shall be signed by the clerk of the board of trustees and be published three (3) consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper published or of general circulation in the district.