Title 48 — Special Taxing Districts

A. The board of directors of a health service district shall sell bonds issued pursuant to section 48-2215, subsections A through C at not less than par value, and the proceeds shall be placed in the county treasury of the organizing county to the credit of the district. The coun…

No health service district shall incur a bonded indebtedness exceeding five per cent of the assessed value of all taxable property in the district as shown by the last assessment roll of the county.

Bonds issued pursuant to this article are not taxable by the state or by any county, city, town or other political subdivision of the state.

Any bonds issued under this article may contain a provision requiring the establishment of a reserve or reserves in an amount equal to the requirements of principal and interest payments for the two years during the life of the bonds requiring the largest amount of principal and …

A. The principal of and interest on bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be paid from the following, either singly or in combination: 1. Revenue derived from an annual tax on the real property within the health service district issuing them, and such real property shall re…

The board of directors of a health service district may charge and collect rentals and service charges for any service performed or property furnished by the district. Revenue therefrom shall be paid into the organizing county treasury to the credit of the operating fund or bond …

A. A lease of a district-owned medical clinic and its equipment executed by the board of directors of the district, shall: 1. Extend for a term to be determined by the board, but not less than five nor more than ten years. 2. Be executed for the purpose of providing ambulatory me…

A. The board of directors of a health service district, at the time of certifying the amount required for payment of principal and interest on bonds, may certify to the board of supervisors the amount necessary to maintain and operate the health service system of the district dur…

A. A health service district organized under this article which has no bonded indebtedness may, when all legal indebtedness of the district has been discharged, be dissolved on the vote of a majority of the qualified electors of the district at a special election called by the bo…

Nothing in this article shall in any way limit or authorize the limitation of the jurisdiction of the department or the director of the department as established under any other authority including, but not limited to, sections 36-132 and 36-136.

Services provided by a county to a health service district are subject to reimbursement pursuant to section 11-251.06.

A. The district may be established or the boundaries changed pursuant to section 48-262 to include incorporated cities or towns as well as unincorporated areas. B. Notwithstanding section 48-262, the governing body of an incorporated city or town that desires to withdraw from the…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "District" means an agricultural improvement district. 2. "Same general system of irrigation works" means any system of irrigation works of whatever character, combination or construction, by whatever means operated, and …

An agricultural improvement district organized under the provisions of this chapter is a public, political, taxing subdivision of the state, and a municipal corporation to the extent of the powers and privileges conferred by this chapter or granted generally to municipal corporat…

A. When five or more holders of title or evidence of title to agricultural lands which have at any time been recognized as within the exterior boundaries of a United States reclamation project and which are susceptible of irrigation by the same general system of irrigation works,…

A. In order to propose the organization of an agricultural improvement district, a petition shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county in which the lands within the proposed district, or the greater portion thereof, are located, signed by the required number of …

A. The county equalized assessment roll adopted next preceding presentation of the petition for organization of the district shall be sufficient evidence of title for the purposes of this chapter, but no person who has received or acquired title to land within the proposed distri…

A. At the time fixed in the notice for the hearing, the board of supervisors shall proceed to hear the petition, together with any statements offered by any holder of title or evidence of title to lands included within the boundaries of the proposed district, either in favor of o…

A. Any person interested who is a party to the record may appeal to the superior court in the county in which the petition was heard from the order of the board of supervisors, but if more than one appeal is taken, they shall be consolidated and tried together. The appeal shall b…

A. Upon entry of the order of the board of supervisors, it shall give notice of an election to be held in the proposed district for the purpose of determining whether or not it shall be organized under the provisions of this chapter. The notice shall designate the name for the pr…

A. No person shall be entitled to vote at any election held under the provisions of this chapter unless the person is a qualified district elector. In this chapter, a qualified district elector is a person who is otherwise qualified to vote for state officers under the general el…

A. The ballots at the organizational election shall contain the words, "agricultural improvement district - -yes," and "agricultural improvement district - -no." The ballots shall also set forth the names of one or more persons, according to the divisions of the proposed district…

The board of supervisors shall, on the first Monday succeeding the election, if then in session, or at its next succeeding regular or special session, canvass the votes cast. If upon the canvass it appears that a majority of all votes cast is "agricultural improvement district - …

A. The board shall cause a copy of the order, duly certified, to be immediately filed in the office of the county recorder of any county in which a portion of the lands included within the district is located, and immediately forward a copy thereof to the clerk of the board of su…

A. The election or organization may be contested by any person owning property within the proposed district subject to assessment for purposes of the district. The directors elected at the election shall be made parties defendant. B. The contest shall be brought in the superior c…

The directors elected at the organizational election shall immediately enter upon their duties as such, upon qualifying in the manner provided by section 48-2390. The directors shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified.

A. The directors of a district organized under the provisions of this chapter, on the first Tuesday after their election and after they have qualified, shall meet and classify themselves by lot into two classes as nearly equal in number as possible. The term of office of the clas…

A. On the third Tuesday in October following a regular district election, the directors elected at the regular October election and whose terms have not then expired shall meet and organize the board, elect a president and appoint a secretary who shall hold office during the plea…

The compensation of members of the board of directors shall be determined by the board, but shall not exceed sixty dollars per day for each day's attendance at meetings of the board, and actual and necessary expenses while engaged in official business under order of the board.

A. The board of directors shall hold a regular meeting in its office on the first Monday in March, June, September and December, and such special meetings as required for the transaction of business. If the day prescribed for a meeting is a legal holiday, the board shall meet on …

A. In this section, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Change in the standard electric rate schedule" means an increase or decrease or other modification of the rate blocks in, or a change in the method of calculating an escalation provision of, a standard electric rate s…

The board may, for and in the name of the district: 1. Manage and conduct the business and affairs of the district. 2. Make and execute all necessary contracts. 3. Adopt a seal for the district to be used in the attestation of documents. 4. Provide for the payment from the approp…

A. The board shall, for and in the name of the district: 1. Acquire in any lawful manner, lands, easements and other property, real and personal, of every kind, necessary or required for the uses and purposes of the district. 2. Construct, maintain, operate and keep in repair all…

A. The board of directors shall enter into, execute, acknowledge, deliver and perform all contracts or agreements which it finds in the best interest of the district, with any person, firm or corporation, or with the United States or the state, or any department or agency thereof…

A. The legal title to all property and property rights acquired under this chapter shall immediately vest in the district and shall be held by it in trust for, and is dedicated and set apart to, the uses and purposes set forth in this chapter. B. The board of directors may: 1. Ac…

A. The board of directors, its agents or authorized representatives may construct any of the works necessary to carry out any provision of this chapter, across any stream of water, watercourse, street, avenue, highway, railway, canal, ditch or flume which the route of any canal, …

Condemnation proceedings may be brought by the board of directors in the name of the district, and all laws of the state relating to the exercise of the right of eminent domain and the taking of private property for public purposes and obtaining immediate possession thereof shall…

A. The board, its agents, employees and authorized representatives may enter upon any land to make surveys or locate necessary irrigation or drainage works, rights of way, buildings, structures, power transmission lines, telephone lines or any other structures or appliances which…

A. When a drainage district organized under the laws of the state is included wholly or in part within the boundaries of an agricultural improvement district organized under this chapter, the board of directors of the drainage district shall cooperate in every reasonable manner w…

A. A district organized under the provisions of this chapter prior to March 6, 1952 and having within its boundaries not less than one hundred seventy-five thousand acres of land under cultivation may by appropriate resolution of its governing body: 1. Provide for its government …

A. The council shall consist of thirty members, three of whom shall be elected from each division. Each member shall at the time of election be a qualified district elector for land located in the division from which the member is elected, and shall be a resident of the district.…

A. Until the election held in 1980, the board of directors shall consist of the president and twelve directors, one of whom shall be elected from each division and two of whom shall be elected at large to fill the seats which shall be designated as at large director seats numbers…

The president and vice-president of the district shall be elected at large at the regular election and shall serve for a term of four years. Each shall be a qualified district elector and a resident of the district and shall have such powers and perform such duties as prescribed …

A. Elections shall be held on the first Tuesday in April each even-numbered year. The terms of councilmen, directors, president and vice-president shall be four years and shall commence on the first Monday in May following the election. The president, vice-president, and director…

If any member of the council or board of directors ceases to be a qualified district elector for land in the member's division or a resident of the district, or if the president, vice-president or an at large director ceases to be a qualified district elector for lands within the…

Neither the council nor the board of directors may dispose of, distribute or deliver any of the waters from lands of the district to or for use upon any lands outside the district, nor shall the boundaries of the district be changed except by the affirmative vote of three fourths…

This article shall not enlarge, restrict or change the powers of districts created under article 1 of this chapter, and except as modified by this article the provisions of this chapter shall remain in all respects applicable to districts which by appropriate action of their gove…

A. In each district organized under this chapter an election shall be held on the first Wednesday in October of the calendar year next succeeding that in which the organization of the district is completed, at which one or more directors for the district shall be elected to fill …

A. If an order is made increasing the number of members of the board of directors and the date on which the order is made is at least sixty days prior to the first Wednesday of October of the same calendar year, an election shall be held on the first Wednesday in October, but if …

A. The petition for organization of the district may provide that each owner of land shall have one vote, or may provide for voting on an acreage basis. B. Except as provided in section 48-2365, subsection D, if the district is or has been organized under a provision for voting o…