Any company, association of persons, or corporation, engaged in the operation, control or management of any irrigation project or canal system for the purpose of furnishing water to its shareholders, not for profit or hire, shall have the right, when its articles of incorporation shall so provide, to include as a part of the service of maintenance and operation of the project or canal system the treatment and eradication of noxious weeds growing on the lands within the boundaries of said project or system, and adjacent thereto.
Idaho Code § 42-2301