Chapter 61-16.1 - OPERATION OF WATER RESOURCE DISTRICTS
- Section 61-16.1-01 - [Repealed]
- Section 61-16.1-02 - Definitions
- Section 61-16.1-03 - [Repealed]
- Section 61-16.1-04 - Minutes, books, and records
- Section 61-16.1-05 - Bonds of treasurer and appointive officers
- Section 61-16.1-06 - District budget - Financial report - Tax levy - Financing by special assessment
- Section 61-16.1-07 - District may issue warrants in anticipation of taxes levied to pay current expenses
- Section 61-16.1-08 - County treasurer to collect and remit taxes to district treasurer - Investment of district funds - Expenditure of district funds
- Section 61-16.1-09 - Powers of water resource board
- Section 61-16.1-09.1 - Watercourses, bridges, and low-water crossings
- Section 61-16.1-09.2 - Release of easements - Procedure
- Section 61-16.1-10 - Responsibilities and duties of water resource board
- Section 61-16.1-11 - [Retroactive application - See note] Joint exercise of powers
- Section 61-16.1-12 - Scope of water resource board's extraterritorial contractual authority - Board may acquire property in adjoining states and provinces
- Section 61-16.1-12.1 - Water resource boards - Agreements with state or federal agencies for certain improvements
- Section 61-16.1-13 - [Repealed]
- Section 61-16.1-14 - Contracts for construction or maintenance of project
- Section 61-16.1-15 - Initiating project financed through revenue bonds, general taxes, or special assessments - Bond required
- Section 61-16.1-15.1 - Projects or benefits in more than one county
- Section 61-16.1-16 - Revenue bonds
- Section 61-16.1-16.1 - Right of way - How acquired - Assessment of damages - Issuance of warrants
- Section 61-16.1-17 - Assessment projects - Procedure - Engineer report
- Section 61-16.1-18 - Hearing on assessment project - Notice
- Section 61-16.1-19 - Voting on proposed projects - Notice of result
- Section 61-16.1-20 - Voting right or powers of landowners
- Section 61-16.1-21 - Calculating benefits and assessments - Certification
- Section 61-16.1-22 - Assessment list to be published - Notice of hearing - Alteration of assessments - Confirmation of assessment list - Filing
- Section 61-16.1-23 - Appeal to department of water resources
- Section 61-16.1-23.1 - Notice of letting of contracts
- Section 61-16.1-23.2 - Extension of time to contractors - Reletting unfinished part of contract
- Section 61-16.1-24 - When assessments may be made - Prohibition on certain contracts
- Section 61-16.1-25 - Financial reports - Liability for deficiencies
- Section 61-16.1-26 - Reassessment of benefits
- Section 61-16.1-26.1 - Reconveyance of land no longer required for drainage
- Section 61-16.1-27 - Correction of errors and mistakes in special assessments
- Section 61-16.1-28 - Certification of assessments to county auditor
- Section 61-16.1-29 - Extension of special assessments on tax lists - Collection - Payment to district
- Section 61-16.1-30 - Lien of special assessment
- Section 61-16.1-31 - Foreclosure of tax lien on property when general and special assessment taxes are delinquent
- Section 61-16.1-32 - Collection of tax or assessment levied not to be enjoined or declared void - Exceptions
- Section 61-16.1-33 - Water resource board may apportion assessments for benefits of a project against a county or city or any tract of land benefited
- Section 61-16.1-34 - Warrants - When payable - Amounts - Interest - Interest coupons
- Section 61-16.1-34.1 - Drain warrants - Terms and amounts
- Section 61-16.1-34.2 - Settlement of unpaid warrants
- Section 61-16.1-35 - Warrants may be used in making payments on contract - Warrants payable out of fund on which drawn - May be used to pay special assessments
- Section 61-16.1-36 - Refunding special assessment warrants - Purposes for which such warrants may be issued - Payment of warrants
- Section 61-16.1-37 - Commission, department of water resources, and water resource board shall encourage both structural and nonstructural alternatives
- Section 61-16.1-38 - Permit to construct or modify dam, dike, or other device required - Penalty - Emergency
- Section 61-16.1-39 - Dams or other devices constructed within a district shall come under control of a water resource board
- Section 61-16.1-39.1 - Petition for maintenance - Bond required
- Section 61-16.1-39.2 - Maintenance of project - Exception
- Section 61-16.1-40 - When dams constructed by federal agency under control of district
- Section 61-16.1-40.1 - Maintenance of federally constructed projects - Assessment district established
- Section 61-16.1-41 - [Repealed]
- Section 61-16.1-41.1 - Removal or placement of fill
- Section 61-16.1-42 - Drains along and across public roads and railroads
- Section 61-16.1-43 - Construction of bridges and culverts - Costs
- Section 61-16.1-43.1 - Assessment drain culverts
- Section 61-16.1-44 - Culvert and pipe arch bids and acceptance
- Section 61-16.1-45 - Maintenance of drainage projects
- Section 61-16.1-46 - Establishing new drains in location of invalid or abandoned drain
- Section 61-16.1-47 - Drain kept open and in repair by water resource board
- Section 61-16.1-48 - Assessment of costs of cleaning and repairing drains
- Section 61-16.1-49 - Petition for a lateral drain - Bond of petitioners
- Section 61-16.1-49.1 - Designation of lateral drain
- Section 61-16.1-50 - Drains having a common outlet may be consolidated
- Section 61-16.1-50.1 - Procedure to construct or extend an assessment drain through or into two or more counties
- Section 61-16.1-51 - Removal of obstructions to drain - Notice and hearing - Appeal - Injunction - Definition
- Section 61-16.1-52 - [Repealed]
- Section 61-16.1-52.1 - Closing of noncomplying drain - Notice and hearing - Appeal - Injunction
- Section 61-16.1-53 - Removal of a noncomplying dike, dam, or other device - Notice and hearing - Appeal - Injunction
- Section 61-16.1-53.1 - Appeal of board decisions - Department of water resources review - Closing of noncomplying dams, dikes, or other devices for water conservation, flood control, regulation, and watershed improvement
- Section 61-16.1-54 - Appeal from decision of water resource board - Undertaking - Jurisdiction
- Section 61-16.1-55 - [Repealed]
- Section 61-16.1-56 - [Repealed]
- Section 61-16.1-57 - [Repealed]
- Section 61-16.1-58 - Attorney general to assist boards - Employment of counsel
- Section 61-16.1-59 - Proceedings to confirm contracts, special assessments, and other acts
- Section 61-16.1-59.1 - Sinking funds and bonds
- Section 61-16.1-59.2 - Existing obligations and regulations
- Section 61-16.1-60 - Authorization to organize association of water resource districts
- Section 61-16.1-61 - Water resource districts - Assumption of assets and liabilities of drain boards
- Section 61-16.1-62 - Validating organization and acts of water resource districts and county drain boards
- Section 61-16.1-63 - Penalty for violation of chapter