The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-05-22
Noxious Weed Law
Be It Enacted by the Legislature

five per cent (25 per cent? OF the
resident freeholders living in reg
ularly organized road district shall
petition the board Of county COM
missioners for the determination OF
certain noxious weeds to be exter-
minated within the said road district.
it shall be the duty of said board of
county commissioners at their first
meeting after receiving such petition
to issue an order to the road super
visor of such road district for the
determination of all such weeds as
prayed for in said petition. 1t shall
be the duty of the road overseer in
charge Of the road district where
such petition has originated to post
in three 60 cospicuous places in
said road district copy of the order
of said board of county commission
ers, and serve said order on the
owner of the said property if an
individual, or upon the superintend-
ent or managing agent, if a corpor-
alton, association Of persons or joint
stock company. There shall be
posted with said order notice re-
curing the owners of lands within
said district to exterminate all such
weeds (naming them) on or before the
date fixed in such order; there shall
be served with said order, where the
same is served, notice directed to
the owners of property in said dis
trict requiring them to exterminate
such weeds on or before the date
fixed in said order.
Section 2. After receiving such
petition it shall be the duty of the
board of county commissioners of
every county in the State, so petit
toned, to cause to be entered OF
record an order declaring and speci-
flying the kind of noxious weeds as
are named in said petition to be
detrimental to the agricultural in
terests of the road district named
in such petition, and, by such order,
shall fix the time for the destruction
of such weeds and direct that notice
of such action shall be given the
road supervisor of the respective
districts by the county auditor.
Section 8. And it shall be the
duty of every road overseer, upon
receipt of such order, to proceed to
destroy all the noxious weeds of the
kind included in the order of said
board, in the highways of his dis
trict, within the time fixed by the
notice provided for in Section l of
this Act, and, after the expiration
of the time fixed in said notice, it
shall be the duty of every road over
seer to proceed to destroy all such
noxious weeds in his district out
side of public highways, and for
that purpose has the right, either
by him or his order, to enter upon
the premises of another And he
shall have the right to employ such
help as may be necessary to com.
plete said work within such time as
will prevent such weeds from matur
ing and going to seed, and the cost
of such additional help, together
with his own compensation as nov
fixed by law, shall be legal claim
against the county and paid out o.
the current expense fund.
Section 4. 1t is the duty of ever!
road overseer, Immediately after thu
work required of him by the act il
complete, to render to the count!
4 auditor of his county an itemizet
statement showing in detail the to
tai cost of destroying noxious weed
l on any piece of land or railroad
right-of-way in his district, out sid
\ of the public highways, on whicl
\ noxious weeds have been destroyer
Y by him or under his direction. AM
II the county auditor shall, under
\ proper heading, enter the same o.
II the tax list as charge against sal
i land or right-of-way and against tn
Il owner thereof, and that the charg
II shall be collected at the same tim
II and in the same manner as genera
II taxes and, when collected, shall b
Il turned into the general county funC
H Section 5. If noxious weeds Q
\ any of the kinds included in tn
II order of the board of county con
H missioners are growing on publ
n lands, or on lands of such quality q
II will make it impracticables ito collet
\. the cost of destruction from sal
II lands or the owner thereof, sal
4 road overseer shall have such weec
: destroyed and the cost of destructio
. shall be paid from the general fun
of the county.
IN Section 6. Every person, conn
any or corporation, owning or ope
VS. ating any canal, railroad or irrig'
ting system, shall within the tin
fixed by the order of the board {