Title 70 — WATERCOURSES AND PORT DISTRICTS

70-1501. Acquisition of property and facilities — Operation. A port district may finance, construct, condemn, purchase, acquire, add to, equip, maintain and operate any and all facilities and services reasonably incident to the operation of a modern, efficient and competitive por…

70-1502. Acquisition of property — Eminent domain — Levy of assessments. A port district may acquire by purchase, for cash or on deferred payments for a period not exceeding ten (10) years, or by condemnation, or by both, all lands, property, property rights, leases or easements …

70-1503. Ownership and operation of property in general. A port district may own and control lands, leases, and all easements and interests in land and all manner of personal property for all lawful port purposes and operate any and all property or facilities in any way acquired …

70-1504. Navigation — Waterway improvement. Port districts shall have full power and authority to regulate and control all navigable and non-navigable waters of the United States and of the state of Idaho, so far and to the full extent that this state can grant the same, within a…

70-1505. Rates and charges. A district may fix, without right of appeal therefrom, the rate of wharfage, dockage, warehousing, and all necessary port and terminal charges upon all improvements owned and/or operated by it, and the charges of ferries operated by it. The port commis…

70-1506. Foreign trade zones. A port district may apply to the proper authority of the United States under any law now or hereafter in force for the right to establish, operate and maintain foreign trade zones within the limits of the port district and may establish, operate and …

70-1507. Industrial development — Improvements. A port district may improve its lands by dredging, filling, bulk-heading, providing waterways, or otherwise developing such lands for sale or lease for industrial and commercial purposes. Such district may cooperate with the U.S. Ar…

70-1508. Joint exercise of powers — Joint acquisition of property — Contracts with other governmental entities. Any two (2) or more port districts shall have the power, by mutual agreement, to exercise jointly all powers granted to each individual district, and in the exercise of…

70-1509. Cooperation with United States — Federal aid — Sale of bonds — Powers conferred. Every port district shall have power and is hereby authorized to completely and fully cooperate with the United States in all its programs and under all its laws, and to accept and use all a…

70-1510. Federal aid — Preliminary studies. Port districts are hereby authorized to accept from the United States government all loans, advances, grants in aid, or donations which may be made available under any federal act, rule or regulation, for the purpose of financing the co…

70-1511. United States surplus property — Acquisition. Port districts may acquire, by gift or for consideration, individually or with other port districts or municipal corporations or instrumentalities of this state, surplus United States property, and/or other property of the Un…

70-1512. Federal aid powers supplemental — Construction. The powers conferred by sections 70-1509—70-1512 shall be in addition and supplemental to, and not in diminution of or substitution for any powers now or hereafter conferred upon any port district by this act or any other l…