Title 43, IRRIGATION DISTRICTS

43-1105. SURVEY OF LAND TO BE EXCLUDED. The board of directors may cause any survey to be made it deems necessary for the purpose of determining the change in the district by reason of an exclusion or proposed exclusion. In any case where the land is excluded on the ground that i…

43-1106. APPEAL. An appeal shall lie from the decision of the board of directors of such irrigation district denying the petition or any part thereof to the district court of the county where the lands described in the petition are located. The appeal shall be taken in accordance…

43-1107. COSTS. The costs of excluding any land as provided in this chapter shall be borne by the petitioner or petitioners except in cases where: (1) The lands excluded are found to be too high or not susceptible of irrigation from the water system of the district without pumpin…

43-1108. CHANGES TO BE FILED FOR RECORD. The decision and order of the board of directors or the district court, in case of appeal, excluding the petitioner's land and changing the boundaries of such irrigation district shall be filed for record in the recorder's office of the co…

43-1109. EFFECT OF EXCLUSION. An exclusion of land from any irrigation district shall not impair its existence, nor its rights, including those in its property or its obligations. The land excluded from an irrigation district shall not thereafter be entitled to receive water from…

43-1110. RESIDENTIAL LAND NOT USING WATER RIGHTS -- EXCLUSION -- PROCEDURE. The board of directors of an irrigation district may by resolution, or must, if petitioned by the owners of record of over fifty per cent (50%) of the number of lots in a platted subdivision, declare its …

43-1111. RESOLUTION -- CONTENTS. The resolution proposing to exclude such lands shall: (a) Describe each lot or parcel proposed to be excluded; (b) Specify the period of time during which each such lot or parcel has not received water from the water rights or through the irrigati…

43-1112. NOTICE. The secretary shall publish notice of such hearing for at least once a week for two (2) weeks before the date of such hearing in a newspaper published in the county in which the land proposed to be excluded is situated. If no newspaper is published in the county …

43-1113. NOTICE -- CONTENTS. Such notice shall contain: (a) A statement of the date, time and place of the hearing; (b) A description of each lot or parcel proposed to be excluded; (c) The reasons for the exclusion stated in the resolution of intention; and (d) Notice to each per…

43-1114. HEARING. At the hearing on the proposed exclusion, the board of directors shall hear all of the objections presented to it in writing and all evidence introduced in support of the exclusion and in support of the objections to the exclusion.

43-1115. ORDER -- DETERMINATION. The board after the hearing on its proposal to exclude and the objections thereto shall order the exclusion of all or any part of the land described in the resolution when as to the land to be excluded, the board determines that: (a) The land has …

43-1116. BOARD -- ENTRY OF ORDER OF EXCLUSION. If the board determines from the hearing that any lot or parcel included in the proceedings should be excluded from the district, the board shall make and enter an order of exclusion in its proceedings describing each lot or parcel b…

43-1117. ORDER -- FILING FOR RECORD. A copy of the order or resolution of exclusion, certified by the president and secretary of the district, shall be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of each county wherein any portion of the land is situated.

43-1118. APPEALS -- PROCEDURE. An appeal shall lie from the resolution or the order of the board of directors excluding, and from the order of the board of directors not excluding, lands covered by proceedings under sections 43-1110 through 43-1117, Idaho Code, or from any part o…

43-1119. EXCLUSION -- LOSS OF WATER RIGHTS -- OBLIGATIONS OUTSTANDING -- EFFECT -- ENFORCEMENT -- PAYMENT -- CERTIFICATE. (1) Land excluded from any irrigation district shall not thereafter be entitled to receive water from the water rights or from the irrigation works and system…

43-1120. REINSTATEMENT OF NONAGRICULTURAL LANDS -- ORDER -- FILING FOR RECORD. Where lands have been excluded from an irrigation district under the provisions of this chapter and the owner or owners of the excluded lands desire to receive irrigation water: through an existing dis…

43-1121. NOTICE OF PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM -- TIME FOR FILING WRITTEN REQUEST. Prior to construction of a distribution system under the authority of either section 43-329 or 43-333, Idaho Code, or under any law authorizing a local improvement district, an irr…

43-1122. TRANSFER OF LANDS BETWEEN DISTRICTS. The boards of directors of two (2) irrigation districts may by resolution declare and act upon their proposal to transfer lands from one (1) district to the other through exclusion and annexation in accordance with sections 43-1122 th…

43-1123. RESOLUTION -- CONTENTS. The districts proposing to transfer lands as authorized by section 43-1122, Idaho Code, shall adopt a resolution, either separately or jointly, which shall: (1) Identify the excluding district and the annexing district; (2) Provide a legal descrip…

43-1124. NOTICE. The secretaries of the excluding and annexing districts shall publish and provide notice of the hearing on the proposed transfer in the manner described in section 43-1112, Idaho Code. The secretaries may publish and provide such notice separately or jointly.

43-1125. NOTICE -- CONTENTS. The notice required by section 43-1124, Idaho Code, shall contain: (1) The information identified in section 43-1123, Idaho Code; and (2) Notice to each person, firm, corporation and other legal entity interested in the proposed transfer to appear at …

43-1126. HEARING. The boards of directors of the districts may hold separate hearings or a joint hearing on the proposed transfer. At such hearing(s), the boards of directors shall hear all of the objections presented to them in writing and all evidence introduced in support of t…

43-1127. ORDERS -- DETERMINATIONS. After the hearing(s) on the transfer proposal, the boards of directors of the districts shall order the transfer of all or any part of the land described in the resolution when as to the lands to be excluded they determine that: (1) The transfer…

43-1128. ENTRY AND RECORDING OF ORDERS. If the boards of directors determine from the hearing that all or part of the lands described in the resolution should be transferred from one (1) district to another, the boards shall enter orders as follows: (1) The board of the excluding…

43-1129. EFFECT OF ORDERS. The order excluding the transferred lands from the excluding district shall have the same effect described in sections 43-1109 and 43-1119, Idaho Code. The order annexing the transferred lands to the annexing district shall have the same effect describe…

43-1130. APPEALS -- PROCEDURE. An appeal shall lie from the orders of the boards of directors transferring lands covered by the procedures pursuant to sections 43-1122 through 43-1128, Idaho Code, and from any part of such orders. The appeal may be taken by any landowner in the e…

43-1131. COSTS. All costs incurred by the districts in the transfer process provided by sections 43-1122 through 43-1128, Idaho Code, shall be divided equally between the districts, unless the districts agree upon a different apportionment of costs.