Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

103C.201 FORMING SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Petition. (a) A petition must be signed by at least 50 resident owners in an area proposed to be organized into a district and filed with the state board requesting that a soil and water conservation district…

103C.205 ANNEXING ADDITIONAL AREA. (a) Resident owners may file a petition to include additional area within an existing district with the state board. The procedure for a petition to establish a district shall be followed on a petition to include additional area. The state board…

103C.211 CONSOLIDATING DISTRICTS. (a) One or more districts may petition the state board for a consolidation. The state board shall take action on the petition if signed by a majority of the supervisors of each of the affected districts. (b) The petition must: (1) describe with p…

103C.215 CHANGING NAME. The name of a district may be changed with the approval of the state board, after the adoption of a resolution by a majority of the supervisors stating the new name, by filing a certified copy of the resolution with the secretary of state. History: 1990 c …

103C.221 CHANGING LOCATION OF PRINCIPAL OFFICE. The location of the principal office of the district may be changed after the adoption of a resolution by a majority of the district board stating the new location within the district and by filing a certified copy of the resolution…

103C.225 TERMINATING DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Petition for termination. (a) Five years after the organization of a district, a district board may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the board, or resident owners may, by a petition filed with the state board, ask that the op…

103C.231 COOPERATION BETWEEN DISTRICTS AND OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES. § Subdivision 1.Cooperation with other agencies. (a) The district boards of two or more districts may cooperate with one another or with appropriate agencies to exercise powers conferred in this chapter or sections…

103C.235 STATE AGENCIES TO COOPERATE. State agencies which have jurisdiction over or administer state-owned lands, and agencies of a county, or other governmental subdivision, that have jurisdiction over or administer county-owned or other publicly owned lands that are in a distr…

103C.305 GENERAL ELECTION OF SUPERVISORS. § Subdivision 1.Time for election. Elections must be held at the state general election specified in section 204D.03, subdivision 2. A primary may not be held. § Subd. 2.Filing for office; affidavit of candidacy. A candidate for the offic…

103C.311 SUPERVISOR DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Supervisors elected at large. (a) The district board shall, with the approval of the state board, divide a district into supervisor districts for purposes of nomination for election. At each election after the division, one or more s…

103C.315 SUPERVISORS. § Subdivision 1.Members. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c), the district board shall consist of five supervisors, elected or appointed as provided in sections 103C.201, subdivision 8, and 103C.305. (b) Supervisors must be eligible voters residing in th…

103C.321 OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. § Subdivision 1.Officers. (a) The supervisors shall elect or appoint officers for the district and the district board. (b) A chair of the district board shall be elected from its own members. (c) A secretary and a treasurer shall be appointed who …

103C.325 RECORDS; AUDIT; INFORMATION TO STATE BOARD. § Subdivision 1.Records. The district board shall keep a full and accurate record of all proceedings and resolutions, regulations, and orders issued or adopted. § Subd. 2.Audit. The state auditor shall annually audit the books …

103C.331 POWERS OF DISTRICT BOARDS. § Subdivision 1.General authority. A soil and water conservation district is a governmental and political subdivision of this state, and a public body, corporate and politic, and has the following powers in addition to any others prescribed by …

103C.332 SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS; DUTIES AND SERVICES. § Subdivision 1.Duties. In addition to any other duty prescribed by law, soil and water conservation districts must: (1) respond to and provide technical and financial assistance to landowners to maintain and im…

103C.335 TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE TO DISTRICTS. At the request of local districts, the Agricultural Extension Service of the University of Minnesota, county extension committees, and county extension agents shall: (1) advise the districts in developing their compre…

103C.401 BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES. § Subdivision 1.Powers and duties. In addition to the powers and duties of the state board provided by other law, the state board shall: (1) offer to assist the district boards to implement their programs; (2) keep the district boards o…

103C.405 PROGRAM PLAN. § Subdivision 1.Contents. The state board shall prepare, in consultation with the districts and appropriate agencies, a program plan to accomplish its duties. The state board shall use the program plan in decisions to allocate funds to districts. The state …

103C.501 CONSERVATION CONTRACTS PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Program authorization. The state board may allocate available funds to districts for practices, projects, and systems for: (1) erosion or sedimentation control; (2) improvements to water quality or water quantity; (3) habit…

103C.601 WORKS OF IMPROVEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Authority. (a) The district board may, if directed by resolution of the boards of commissioners from the counties where the district is located undertake, construct, install, maintain, and operate works of improvement for a district …

103C.605 COUNTY DETERMINATION OF PROJECT. § Subdivision 1.Petition. (a) The county board or joint county board, acting jointly under section 471.59, may take action on a project within the improvement work unit to construct or install works of improvement or part of the works of …

103C.611 PROJECT WITHOUT ASSESSMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Order establishing project. (a) If a portion of the project cost is not to be paid from assessments on benefited property, the county board or joint county board may proceed with complete surveys and detailed plans and specifi…

103C.615 ACTION ON PROJECT WITH ASSESSMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Viewers. If part of the cost of the project is to be paid from the proceeds of assessments on benefited property, viewers must be appointed as provided in section 103E.305, and report as required by sections 103E.311, 1…

103C.621 PROJECT BONDS. The county board may pledge the proceeds of assessments on property made for the purposes of a project, any revenues derived from the project, and the proceeds of tax levies or funds from other sources to pay bonds issued for the project. History: 1990 c 3…

103C.625 STATUS OF DISCONTINUED PROJECT. If a project is discontinued after action on it has begun under section 103C.605, the project shall have the same status as if the action had not begun. The recommendation report of the district board on the project shall continue to be su…

103C.631 REPAIR. § Subdivision 1.Definition. The term "repair" used in this section means to restore a work of improvement or part of it as nearly as practicable to the same condition as when originally constructed or subsequently improved. § Subd. 2.Maintaining projects. After t…

103C.635 APPEALS. (a) A person aggrieved by an order of a county board or joint county board in a proceeding under sections 103C.601 to 103C.631 may appeal to the district court upon the grounds and in the manner provided by sections 103E.091 and 103E.095, for a county drainage p…