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WY Stat § 41-7-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-302 - Oath and Bond; Quorum; Term; Removal; Vacancies.

41-7-302. Oath and bond; quorum; term; removal; vacancies.| Before entering upon their duties, commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Wyoming, to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as commissioners and to render a true account of their doing to the court by which they are appointed whenever required by law or the order of the court. Commissioners shall execute a bond running to the clerk of court and his successors in office as obligees, to be filed with the clerk for the benefit of the parties interested, in an amount to be fixed by the court or presiding judge, and with sureties to be approved by the court or presiding judge, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties as commissioners and the faithful accounting of all monies which shall come into their hands as commissioners. A majority shall constitute a quorum and a concurrence of a majority in any matter within their duties shall be sufficient to its determination. The commissioners appointed shall hold their office until the first regular meeting of the commissioners following the date of the order organizing the district and until their respective successors are qualified under the provisions of W.S. 41-7-316. The commissioners appointed by the secretary of the interior shall be subject to removal from office and any commissioner appointed by the secretary of the interior to fill a vacancy shall hold office until less than a majority of the lands within the district are unentered public lands, after which the commissioners shall be elected as otherwise provided in this chapter. If the office of any commissioner so appointed shall become vacant by reason of death, or other cause, the court or judge thereof shall appoint a qualified person to fill the vacancy.
WY Stat § 41-7-304 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-304 - Financial Records and Reports; Compensation and Expenses; Suit on Bonds.

41-7-304. Financial records and reports; compensation and expenses; suit on bonds.| The commissioners shall keep an accurate record of all monies collected on account of the work under their charge and of all payments made by them, and shall take vouchers for payments and shall keep full, accurate and true minutes of all their proceedings. On or before the tenth day of July each year the commissioners shall file in the office of the clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the matter, an itemized statement of all their receipts and disbursements, for the preceding fiscal year, and leave the report in the office for examination by parties interested at all times, and include a copy thereof in the regular call for the annual meeting hereinafter provided. They shall receive for their services compensation as the court or presiding judge thereof may determine. They shall also be reimbursed for their actual reasonable expenses. Suit may also be brought upon their bonds, and the amount recovered shall be applied to the construction of the work or to the party injured, as justice may require.
WY Stat § 41-7-306 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-306 - Power to Alter Location of Irrigation Works; Power of Court to Alter Plans Proposed by Commissioners.

41-7-306. Power to alter location of irrigation works; power of court to alter plans proposed by commissioners.| The commissioners shall not be confined to the points of location, commencement, routes or termini of the reservoirs, canals, ditches or other work, or the number, extent or size of the same, as proposed by the petitioners, but shall locate, design, lay out and plan same in such manner as to them shall seem best to promote the public welfare, and to reclaim or benefit the lands of the parties interested with the least damage and greatest benefit to all lands affected thereby. And any plan proposed by the commission, may, on the application of any person interested, on the hearing hereinafter provided for, or on the application of the commissioners, be altered by the court, by written order, in such manner as shall appear to the court to be just.
WY Stat § 41-7-307 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-307 - Exclusion or Inclusion of Lands in District; Review of Report by Court Generally.

41-7-307. Exclusion or inclusion of lands in district; review of report by court generally.| If the commissioners find that the proposed district, as described in the petition filed, will not embrace all of the lands that will be benefited by the proposed work, or that it will include lands that will not be benefited and are not necessary to be included in said district for any purpose, they shall extend or contract the boundaries of the proposed district so as to include or exclude all such lands, as the case may be; and the boundaries adopted and reported by them, may upon the hearing of their report, as hereinafter provided, upon their application, be altered by the court in such manner as shall appear to be just; provided, that the alteration of boundaries as aforesaid shall not have the effect of so far enlarging or contracting the proposed district as to render such petition void or dismissible. Said report shall be filed with the clerk of the court.
WY Stat § 41-7-308 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-308 - Hearings on Commissioners' Report; Filing of Objections; Notice Generally.

41-7-308. Hearings on commissioners' report; filing of objections; notice generally.| Upon the filing of the said report, the court or judge thereof, shall make and enter an order fixing the time and place when and where all persons interested may appear and object to the confirmation thereof. All objections shall be in writing and shall clearly specify the grounds of objection and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of court wherein said report is filed at least five (5) days prior to the date set for the hearing. The clerk of said court shall cause notice of the time and place of such hearing to be given to all parties interested, which notice shall contain a brief description of the lands benefited and damaged, together with the net damage awarded the several tracts, parcels, easements and corporations to which damages are awarded, and the sum in each case assessed for benefits and cost of construction against the several benefited parcels, tracts, easements and corporations, and the amount of water apportioned to each acre of land in the district. Said notice shall be published for at least three (3) consecutive weeks, prior to the day set for the hearing, in one (1) newspaper published in each county in which said lands, or any part thereof within said district are situate (and if no newspaper is published in said county, in some newspaper in an adjoining county), and by serving a copy of such notice on each of the persons or corporations by said report recommended to be assessed, or whose lands are by said report recommended to be included in said district, and who resides in any of the counties in which any lands of the proposed district are situated, at least twelve (12) days before the day of hearing in the same manner that a summons is required to be served; provided, absence from the county of such person, or corporation shall excuse personal service, whereupon due publication of such notice shall be sufficient service.
WY Stat § 41-7-309 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-309 - Hearings on Commissioners' Report; Notice When Land Situated in More Than 1 County.

41-7-309. Hearings on commissioners' report; notice when land situated in more than 1 county.| In case the lands are situated in more than one (1) county the notice published in the county wherein the court having jurisdiction is situated shall contain a description of all the lands in said proposed district, the damages awarded to the several parcels thereof and the amounts assessed for benefits against the several parcels thereof, but the notice published in any other county or counties may contain a description of only the lands situate in said county for which said publication is made, together with the damages awarded to and assessments for benefits against the several tracts, parcels, easements and interests situate in said county for which publication is made. In case of service of said notice personally or the acceptance and waiver thereof of all the owners of the lands within the district, said service shall be sufficient and give the court jurisdiction without said publication.
WY Stat § 41-7-310 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-310 - Hearings on Commissioners' Report; Procedure When Report Requires Modification.

41-7-310. Hearings on commissioners' report; procedure when report requires modification.| If the court finds that the report requires modification, the same may by order of the court be referred back to the commissioners, who may be required to modify it in any respect.
WY Stat § 41-7-311 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-311 - Hearings on Commissioners' Report; Confirmation of Report.

41-7-311. Hearings on commissioners' report; confirmation of report.| If there be no remonstrance, or if the finding be in favor of the validity of the proceedings, or after the report shall have been modified to conform to the findings, the court shall confirm the report and the order of the confirmation shall be final and conclusive, the proposed work shall be established and authorized, and the proposed assessments approved and confirmed unless within thirty (30) days an appeal be taken to the supreme court, and the said order of confirmation shall also fix the commissioners' bond.
WY Stat § 41-7-312 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-312 - Hearings on Commissioners' Report; Revision of Confirmation.

41-7-312. Hearings on commissioners' report; revision of confirmation.| Said order of confirmation may, at the same or at any subsequent term of said court be revised, modified or changed, in whole or in part, on petition of the commissioners, after such notice as the court may require to parties interested. At any time prior to making the order confirming said report or thereafter, the court may permit the commissioners to present and file a supplemental report, or amend their report, as to any matter which, pursuant to the provisions hereof, was or might have been included in the original report presented by them, and after reasonable notice given to all parties interested, in such manner as the court shall direct, the court may, upon the hearing in said matter, make such order as the case may require.
WY Stat § 41-7-313 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-313 - Hearings on Commissioners' Report; Payment of Costs When Objections Dismissed.

41-7-313. Hearings on commissioners' report; payment of costs when objections dismissed.| In case the petition or proceedings are dismissed as provided herein, a judgment shall be entered against the petitioners and in favor of the commissioners for the costs, expenses, and liabilities incurred in said proceedings, for the benefit of those who have rendered services or advanced money in the prosecution of said proceedings, or have recovered costs on successful contests therein. Before any such judgment is entered, said commissioners shall file with the clerk of the district court, in which said proceedings were instituted, an itemized statement of such costs and expenses, duly verified, upon which an order shall issue, requiring said petitioners to show cause before said court, at a time and place named, why judgment should not be entered against said petitioners for the amount of said costs and expenses. Notice of the hearing on said order, to show cause, shall be given to said petitioners, by mailing to each a copy thereof, to their last known post office address, at least twenty (20) days prior to the time set for hearing, and by publication of the same in one (1) or more newspapers, published in the county, where the proceedings are pending, at least three (3) successive weeks prior to the day set for such hearing. Said motion need not contain an itemized statement of said account. All petitioners shall, among themselves, contribute in the payment of said judgment, in proportion to the number of acres of land they have within the boundaries of the proposed district at the time of filing said petition.
WY Stat § 41-7-314 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-314 - Power to Enter Land to Repair Irrigation Works; Construction of Ditches Across Railway Rights-of-Way.

41-7-314. Power to enter land to repair irrigation works; construction of ditches across railway rights-of-way.| (a) The commissioners, their agents, servants, and employees shall have the right to go upon all lands along any reservoirs, ditch, canal, or embankment in their district, to inspect, deepen, widen and repair the same whenever necessary, doing no unnecessary damage, and shall not be liable for trespass therefor.  (b) Said commissioners shall have the right to lay out and construct all necessary canals, ditches, drains and embankments across any railway right-of-way or yard within their district, and any railway company whose right-of-way or yard is crossed by the line of any proposed canal, ditch, drain or embankment shall open its right-of-way or yard and permit such canal, ditch, drain or embankment to cross the same as soon as such canal, ditch, drain or embankment is constructed to such right-of-way. Upon receiving fifteen (15) days notice in writing any railway company across whose right-of-way or yard any such canal, ditch, drain or embankment is laid out, shall open its right-of-way or yard and permit said commissioners and their contractors, agents and employees to construct such canal, ditch, drain or embankment across said right-of-way or yard. For every day that such railway company fails, after the end of said fifteen (15) days to open its right-of-way or yard as hereinbefore required, it shall forfeit twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to said irrigation district to be collected in an action as other forfeitures are collected, or to be set off against any damages that have been awarded to such railway company. If such railway company fails to open its right-of-way or yard along the line of any such canal, ditch, drain or embankment, the commissioners may at any time after the expiration of said fifteen (15) days open such right-of-way or yard along the line of such canal, ditch, drain or embankment and construct the same. Every irrigation district shall be liable to the railway company whose right-of-way or yard is crossed by any canal, ditch, drain or embankment of the district, for the reasonable cost of any culverts or bridges for railway purposes made necessary by the crossing of such right-of-way or yard by any such canal, ditch, drain or embankment, but the cost so entailed shall not be greater than the average cost of other culverts and bridges of similar size installed on the same division of the railway, and crossing streams, canals, ditches or drains of approximately the same width and depth within a distance of one hundred (100) miles of the canals, ditches or drains of said district.
WY Stat § 41-7-315 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-315 - Sale of Water Rights.

41-7-315. Sale of water rights.| Whenever any of the lands embraced within said district have been or are to be reclaimed by the work done or proposed to be done by said district and the segregation of said lands has been secured by said district, it shall be competent for the commissioners of said district, in the name of said district, to contract with any person competent to make entry upon said lands for the sale of water rights thereto, and any and all payments by such contracts provided to be paid to the district shall be and are a lien upon said lands and water rights until paid, and such lien may be foreclosed in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure of such liens.
WY Stat § 41-7-317 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-317 - Election; Where Held; Notice to Voters; Qualifications of Voters; Recording Vote; Proxies.

41-7-317. Election; where held; notice to voters; qualifications of voters; recording vote; proxies.| The commissioners of the district shall fix the hour and place, within the boundaries of or at a place convenient to the landowners within the irrigation district, of each election and preside at the same. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, at least twenty (20) days prior to the date of an election, to mail to each person or corporation entitled to vote thereat, at his or its last known place of residence or business, a notice stating the time, place and purpose of such elections. Every person or corporation owning or entitled by virtue of public land filing to the possession of land situated within and being a part of any commissioner district in which an election for commissioner is being held, and upon which land no assessment for operation, maintenance or repairs is delinquent for more than four (4) years, shall be entitled to cast, for the commissioner to be elected, for the commissioner district wherein such land is situated, one (1) vote for each irrigable acre of such land assessed upon the last annual assessment of said district upon or against which land no assessment for operation, maintenance or repairs is delinquent for more than four (4) years. At the hour and place of such election the commissioners shall call the roll of those entitled to vote, and the number of votes each is entitled to cast. They shall make a record of the qualified voters present, receive all proxies and prescribe the manner of canvassing votes. All proxies shall be in writing and signed by the person or corporation entitled to vote.
WY Stat § 41-7-318 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 3 - District Commissioners Generally|Section 41-7-318 - Election; Validity; Qualifications of Candidates; Vacancies in Office; Duties of Elected Commissioners.

41-7-318. Election; validity; qualifications of candidates; vacancies in office; duties of elected commissioners.| No person shall be declared elected as a commissioner who shall not be a landowner in said commissioner district and who shall not have received a majority of all votes cast by the qualified voters of said commissioner district. No election shall be invalid by reason of the fact that a majority of the acreage within the district was not represented at such election. Whenever the office of any elected commissioner shall become vacant by reason of death, resignation or other cause, the vacancy shall be filled by the surviving commissioners for the unexpired term. In case such vacancy is not so filled within thirty (30) days, the court shall fill such vacancy. All elected commissioners shall have the same qualifications and duties as herein prescribed for appointed or elected commissioners.
WY Stat § 41-7-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 4 - Assessments|Section 41-7-402 - Due Dates; Annual Budget of District; Hearings on Budget; Petition for Additional Funds; Hearings on Petition.

41-7-402. Due dates; annual budget of district; hearings on budget; petition for additional funds; hearings on petition.| (a) Assessments to meet expenses of any current year of any district shall become due, payable and delinquent at such time or times each year as may be fixed by law for state and county taxes to become due, payable and delinquent. Commissioners having charge of any irrigation district shall on or before the first Tuesday of June of each year file with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction of such district, a report showing an itemized estimate of the money to be raised by assessment within the district for the purpose of constructing new work, maintenance and to meet the yearly current expenses of the district. In addition to the amount above provided, the commissioners may add a sum which in their judgment shall be sufficient to provide for possible delinquencies. Within thirty (30) days after filing such annual report, at a time and place to be fixed by the court or a judge thereof, the judge shall examine such report, hear all objections thereto, fix and determine the amount to be raised by assessments for the current year and cause such adjudication to be entered of record in said court and a certified copy thereof to be delivered to the commissioners of such district. The commissioners shall add thereto such amount as may be necessary to meet the principal and interest on lawful indebtedness of the district maturing during the current year, together with a sum which in their judgment shall be sufficient to provide for possible delinquencies. When thus completed it shall be known as "the budget of .... district for the year (year)" and also be verified under oath by any one (1) of the commissioners.  (b) The commissioners of any irrigation district within the state of Wyoming are hereby forbidden to incur any indebtedness for current expenses of the district in excess of the amount provided in the budget. Provided, however, in case a greater sum than that provided in the budget is required, the commissioners may file a petition setting forth the causes therefor, with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction of said district. Immediately upon the filing of said petition the court shall make an order fixing the time and place of hearing and directing the form and manner of notice thereof to be given if the court deem such hearing advisable. If the court shall authorize the expenditure of a greater sum of money the commissioners shall be authorized to incur indebtedness equal to the amount of the additional sum authorized by the court, and in case the expenditure occurs at a time when it is too late to place the amount upon the assessment roll for the current year such amounts may be added to the budget of ensuing years. All debts contracted in contravention of this section shall be void.