Title 61, Waters

Any person who is a resident and qualified elector of the county, who aspires to the office of director of the southwest water authority, shall, before four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before any primary election preceding a general election at which a director of the authority …

Any person who is a resident and qualified elector of the city of Dickinson or Mandan who aspires to the office of director of the southwest water authority shall, before four p.m. on the sixty-fourth day before the election, file with the city auditor a petition signed by not le…

Members of the board of directors of the authority hold office for a term of four years, until a successor has been duly elected and qualified. If the office of any director becomes vacant by reason of the failure of any director elected at any election to qualify or for any othe…

The board of directors of the southwest water authority has the power: 1. To sue and be sued in the name of the authority. 2. To exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by title 32 for the purpose of acquiring and securing any right, title, interest, estate, o…

For each taxable year through 2020, the authority may levy a tax of not to exceed one mill annually on each dollar of taxable valuation within the boundaries of the authority for the payment of administrative expenses of the authority, including per diem, mileage, and other expen…

In July of each year, the board of directors shall estimate and itemize all the administrative expenses and obligations of the district, including expenses of directors, expenses of operating the office, and any other obligations and liabilities relating to administrative, cleric…

Upon the adoption of the annual mill levy by the board of directors, but no later than October first, the secretary of the board shall send one certified copy of the mill levy to the county auditor of each county which is a member of the authority. Copies of all such documents mu…

The county auditor of each county within the authority, to whom a mill levy is certified in accordance with this chapter, shall extend the levy upon the tax lists for the current year against each description of real property and all personal property within the county in the sam…

The treasurer of each county in which a mill levy has been certified shall collect the taxes, together with interest and penalty thereon, if any, in the same manner as the general taxes are collected, and shall pay over to the treasurer of the authority, on demand, all taxes, int…

The board of directors of the authority, after entering into a contract with the United States government, the state of North Dakota, or with any public corporation or political subdivision of the state of North Dakota, may commence a special proceeding in and by which the procee…

1. Any county in the authority not benefited or not to be benefited, in whole or in part, by the southwest pipeline project, or any part thereof, may be excluded from the authority as provided herein. The board of county commissioners of any such county may by resolution direct t…

An appeal from an order of the board of directors of the authority denying a petition for exclusion may be taken to the district court of the petitioning county. The appeal provided for herein must be taken within thirty days after the order of the authority board has been filed …

In connection with the construction and development of the southwest pipeline project, there is granted over all the lands belonging to the state, including lands owned or acquired for highway right-of-way purposes, a right of way for pipelines, connections, valves, and all other…

To identify and distinguish the revenues received by the southwest water authority from water user entities for operation and maintenance of the southwest pipeline project, the southwest water authority shall maintain a fund designated as the southwest pipeline project operation …

Money derived and received by the southwest water authority from water user entities for operation and maintenance of the southwest pipeline project must be deposited by the southwest water authority in the operation and maintenance fund and must be used to pay for costs and expe…

To identify and distinguish the revenues received by the southwest water authority from water user entities for replacement and extraordinary maintenance of the southwest pipeline project, there must be maintained a fund to be designated as the southwest pipeline project reserve …

Money derived and received by the southwest water authority from water user entities for replacement and extraordinary maintenance of the southwest pipeline project must be deposited by the southwest water authority in the reserve fund for replacement and must be used to pay for …