Title 41, Title 41 — Water

Petition; procedure when petition granted. If, upon the hearing, the prayer of the petition shall be granted, like proceedings shall be had in all respects as in case of the confirmation of the preliminary report of the commissioners, except that the boundaries and organizations …

Petition; assessments. In making their assessments of benefits and for the work to be done under the provisions of this amendment, the commissioners shall regard the proposed work as an integral part of an entire system, and shall take into consideration all assessments of benefi…

Authorized. Any drainage district now or hereafter organized under the provisions of chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920 and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, may be divided into two (2) or more districts in the manner provided in this chapter.

Contents of petition. (a) Whenever a majority of the adult owners of lands within any portion of an organized drainage district, who shall represent more than one-half in area of the lands within said portion which it is proposed shall be cut off and divided from the drainage dis…

Order for hearing on petition; notice generally. (a) On such petition being filed, the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing the time and place for a hearing thereon, and ordering notice; thereupon the clerk of said court shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the fil…

Manner of service. Service of said notice, and proof of service thereof, shall be made in the same manner as is now provided by law in the case of the organization of new districts under chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, as amended.

Hearing. Upon the day fixed for the hearing on such petition, all parties owning lands, or any interest or easement in land, within said district, proposed to be divided, or whomsoever would be affected thereby, or the commissioners of the original district, may appear and contes…

Court order; creation of new district as corporate entity; apportionment of indebtedness; proration of maintenance expenses of existing works in both districts. If it shall appear to the court upon said hearing that the requisite number of signers appear on said petition, as requ…

Agreement generally; apportionment of maintenance expenses; municipal assessments generally. Whenever any incorporated town, city or village lies in whole or in part within the boundaries of any drainage district now organized, or which may hereafter be organized in the state of …

Assessments for bond principal and interest; levy and collection. The commissioners of said drainage district, the holders of any bond or bonds of the said district and the authorities of any such town, city or village shall also enter into an agreement whereby all assessments fo…

Mill levy and indebtedness of town not to be affected. The provisions in this act contained for levy, assessment and collection of drainage taxes shall not limit the mill levy of said town, city or village and the portion of said bonded debt of said drainage district assumed for …

Qualifications of districts as prerequisites to contracting. Except as otherwise provided in this act, drainage districts organized under the provisions of chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, and contracting with the United States under authority of this act, shall be or…

When district authorized to enter into contract. Any drainage district organized under the provisions of chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, through its commissioners, shall have power to enter into contracts with…

Securing of district indebtedness due to contract. The commissioners may secure the indebtedness incurred by the district in such contract as provided for in W.S. 41-9-502, by issuing bonds of the district in such form, terms and denominations as may be fixed by the secretary of …

Unentered public lands as majority of district; appointment of commissioners; term; removal; subsequent appointment or election. When a majority of the lands within the district are unentered public lands, a majority of the commissioners of the district, who shall be residents of…

Petition of landowners. When the commissioners of a drainage district by unanimous vote of the total membership thereof shall determine to call an election or whenever a majority of the landowners in any drainage district in this state, who shall represent one-half of the ownersh…

Election; notice. Notice of such election shall be published for four (4) successive weeks in one (1) or more newspapers published in each county in which any portion of the lands embraced within such district is situated, stating the time and place of said election and the objec…

Election; conduct; certification of result; report of district indebtedness. If at any such election which shall be conducted in the same manner as is now provided by law for the conduct of annual elections in drainage districts, a majority of all of the qualified voters owning a…

Order for hearing on results of election; generally. Upon the filing of the commissioners' report and return of election, an order shall be made and entered by the court fixing the time and place for a hearing thereon, at which time and place all creditors and other persons inter…

Election hearing results; publication. A copy of such order to show cause shall be published for four (4) successive weeks prior to said hearing in a newspaper published in each county in which lands embraced in said district be situated.

Hearing; final settlement. Upon said hearing, the court must find, on the evidence submitted, if the district be ordered dissolved, that the best interests of all parties interested shall be served by the proposed dissolution, and shall determine the amount of the existing indebt…