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ID Code § 43-111 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-111 - QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS — VOTES BASED ON ASSESSED ACRES.

43-111. QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS — VOTES BASED ON ASSESSED ACRES. (1) No person shall be entitled to vote at any election held under the provisions of this title for the purpose of electing directors, for the purpose of determining whether indebtedness shall be created or bonds issued by the district, or for any other purpose, unless he shall possess all the qualifications required of electors under the general laws of the state, and own land within the district, or the proposed district, and be a resident of the county in which the district, or a portion thereof, is located for a period of thirty (30) or more days next preceding the election; provided that the bylaws may, by resolution of two-thirds (2/3) of the board and adoption by two-thirds (2/3) of the electors voting in a district election conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state applicable to irrigation districts, set forth a provision allowing a district landowner to vote, if the landowner possesses all the qualifications required of electors under the general laws of the state and has resided within fifteen (15) miles of the district for a period of at least thirty (30) days prior to the election. (2) After approval by a majority of the electors voting upon the issue in a district election conducted using the elector criteria of subsection (1) of this section, in subsequent district elections, a person having the qualifications described in subsection (1) of this section shall have the right to cast one (1) vote for each acre of assessed land and a proportionate vote for each fraction of an acre of assessed land owned by him within the district. Co-owners or multiple owners of parcels of land shall cast no more than the total number of votes represented by the acres or fraction of acres of assessed land within the district.  History: [(43-111) 1903, p. 150, sec. 2b, as added by 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; reen. R.C., sec. 2375; am. 1915, ch. 49, sec. 1, last part of subd. 2375, p. 136; reen. C.L., sec. 2375a; C.S., sec. 4323; I.C.A., sec. 42-111; am. 1933, ch. 27, sec. 1, p. 36; am. 1951, ch. 27, sec. 1, p. 39; am. 1982, ch. 254, sec. 11, p. 653; am. 1999, ch. 207, sec. 1, p. 554; am. 2006, ch. 200, sec. 1, p. 616; am. 2007, ch. 160, sec. 1, p. 483.]
ID Code § 43-112 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-112 - CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS.

43-112. CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS. (1) Such election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the general laws of the state: provided, no particular form of ballot shall be required, and that the provisions of the election laws as to the form and distribution of ballots shall not apply. Said board of county commissioners shall establish one (1) or more election precincts, not exceeding seven (7), as may be necessary, and define the boundaries thereof, which boundaries, when the district is divided into precincts, shall be the same as the division boundaries above-provided for and which said precincts may thereafter be changed by the board of directors of such district as may be necessary: provided, that districts containing more than ten thousand (10,000) acres shall have not less than three (3), nor more than seven (7) voting precincts. Said board shall also appoint three (3) judges of election for each such election precinct, who shall perform the same duties as near as may be as judges of election, under the general laws of the state. (2) When an irrigation district has duly adopted the voting system set forth in subsection (2) of section 43-111, Idaho Code, and a person seeks to vote at any district election, following completion of an electors oath as required by section 43-113, Idaho Code, one (1) of the judges of election shall deliver to the elector the number of ballots for the votes the elector is entitled to cast, as shown by the registrar’s list of assessed lands within the district.  History: [(43-112) 1903, p. 150, sec. 3; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; R.C., sec. 2376; am. 1915, ch. 47, sec. 1, p. 134; reen. C.L., sec. 2376; C.S., sec. 4324; am. 1925, ch. 123, sec. 1, p. 169; I.C.A., sec. 42-112; am. 2006, ch. 200, sec. 2, p. 616.]
ID Code § 43-113 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-113 - REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED.

43-113. REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED. No registration shall be required in any irrigation district election, but in lieu thereof the judges of election shall require every elector to subscribe to an elector’s oath as prerequisite to casting his vote, and such oath shall be the usual elector’s oath with the following words added thereto, "and I own land within the …. irrigation district, and am a resident of the county within which the district, or a portion thereof, is located."  History: [(43-113) 1903, p. 150, sec. 3; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; compiled R.C., sec. 2376; am. 1915, ch. 47, sec. 1, last part of subd. 2376, p. 134; reen. C.L., sec. 2376a; C.S., sec. 4325; I.C.A., sec. 42-113; am. 1933, ch. 109, sec. 1, p. 170; am. 1951, ch. 27, sec. 2, p. 39.]
ID Code § 43-114 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-114 - CANVASS OF VOTES — COMPLETION OF ORGANIZATION.

43-114. CANVASS OF VOTES — COMPLETION OF ORGANIZATION. Immediately after any election for voting upon the organization of an irrigation district, the judges of such election shall forward the official results of said election to the clerk of said board of county commissioners. The said board of county commissioners shall meet within ten (10) days after said returns are received, and shall proceed to canvass the votes cast thereat, and if upon such canvass it appears that two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast are "Irrigation district–yes," the said board shall, by order entered on its minutes, declare such territory duly organized as an irrigation district, under the name and style theretofore designated, and shall declare the persons receiving respectively the highest number of votes for such several offices to be duly elected to such offices.  History: [(43-114) 1903, p. 150, part of 3a, as added by 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; reen. R.C., sec. 2377; am. 1915, ch. 143, sec. 2, p. 304; reen. C.S., sec. 2377; C.S., sec. 4326; I.C.A., sec. 42-114.]
ID Code § 43-115 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-115 - LIMITATION ON PROCEEDINGS AFFECTING VALIDITY.

43-115. LIMITATION ON PROCEEDINGS AFFECTING VALIDITY. No action shall be commenced or maintained, or defense made affecting the validity of such organization after two (2) years from and after the making and entering of said order on its minutes by the board of county commissioners.  History: [(43-115) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 3, as added by 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; reen. R.C., sec. 2377; am. 1915, ch. 143, sec. 2, p. 304; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 2377a; C.S., sec. 4327; I.C.A., sec. 42-115.]
ID Code § 43-116 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-116 - ORGANIZATION MEETING OF BOARD.

43-116. ORGANIZATION MEETING OF BOARD. Said board shall cause a copy of such order, duly certified, to be immediately filed for record in the office of the county recorder of each county in which any portion of such lands are situated. If it shall appear, however, that more than one-third (1/3) of said votes are "Irrigation district–no," then a record of that fact shall be duly entered upon the minutes of said board, and all proceedings in regard to the organization of said district shall be void, and the expenses properly incurred thereunder may be collected on the bond provided for in section 43-104, Idaho Code. From and after the date of such filing of said order of the board of county commissioners, the organization of such district shall be complete. The directors of the district shall be entitled to enter immediately upon the duties of their respective offices, upon qualifying according to law, and shall hold such offices respectively, until their successors are elected and qualified. The board of directors so elected shall meet within thirty (30) days after their election and elect a director to hold the office of president, and shall appoint a secretary and treasurer, who shall perform the duties imposed upon such officers under this title.   History: [(43-116) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 3a, as added by 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; reen. R.C., sec. 2377; am. 1915, ch. 143, sec. 2, p. 304; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 2377b; C.S., sec. 4328; I.C.A., sec. 42-116; am. 2014, ch. 71, sec. 1, p. 178.]
ID Code § 43-117 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-117 - TREASURER’S OFFICIAL BONDS.

43-117. TREASURER’S OFFICIAL BONDS. The treasurer shall on his appointment execute and file with the secretary an official bond in such amount as may be fixed by the board of directors of the district, which shall not be less than $5000; and shall thereafter from time to time execute and file such further bonds as may be required by said board in amounts fixed by it, which amounts shall be of at least fifty per cent (50%) of the maximum probable amount of money in the treasurer’s hands at any one time. All such official bonds shall be executed by a lawfully qualified surety company.  History: [(43-117) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 3a, as added by 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; reen. R.C., sec. 2377; am. 1915 ch. 143, sec. 2, part of subd. 2377, p. 304; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 2377c; C.S., sec. 4329; am. 1929, ch. 110, sec. 1, p. 178; I.C.A., sec. 42-117.]
ID Code § 43-118 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-118 - DISTRICTS INCLUDING LANDS UNDER EXISTING CANALS — DECREE OF CONFIRMATION — RIGHTS OF LANDOWNERS — POWERS OF DISTRICTS.

43-118. DISTRICTS INCLUDING LANDS UNDER EXISTING CANALS — DECREE OF CONFIRMATION — RIGHTS OF LANDOWNERS — POWERS OF DISTRICTS. Where the petition or petitions for the organization of any irrigation district now or hereafter organized under the laws of the state of Idaho, includes lands lying under any existing irrigation canal or canals, and entitled to receive water therefrom for irrigation purposes, and such petition or petitions recite that it is proposed to construct or purchase or acquire an interest in any reservoir, or reservoirs constructed, or to be constructed by or in cooperation with the United States or under contract with the United States, the decree of the district court confirming the organization of such irrigation district shall recite such provision of said petition, or petitions, and the landowners of said district who by reason of stock ownership (in the canal company or companies owning or operating any of such existing canal), or otherwise, own or are entitled to the use of canal capacity or a proportionate interest in any such canal, shall be entitled to have delivered into such canal for the use and benefit of such landowners their proportionate share of the district’s share of the stored water from such reservoir in the proportion that their lands are assessed for such reservoir, in such amounts, or at such rate of delivery as may be needed by the landowners not in excess of the amount which can be safely carried through such landowners’ proportionate share of such canal, whenever such canal is not being utilized to its full capacity in carrying the natural flow or other water owned or controlled by the canal company operating said canal and the board of directors of such district shall have power to provide by contract for the carriage and distribution of the stored water from such reservoir to the landowners of the district through such existing canals, but such district shall be without power to purchase or condemn or otherwise acquire, or to operate or control any such canal, unless such petition for the organization of such district shall also recite the purpose to acquire such canal or canals.  History: [(43-118) 1923, ch. 88, sec. 1, p. 100; I.C.A., sec. 42-118.]
ID Code § 43-119 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT|Section 43-119 - RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF CORPORATIONS — LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES — PARTNERSHIPS — TRUSTS.

43-119. RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF CORPORATIONS — LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES — PARTNERSHIPS — TRUSTS. A corporation, the stock of which is owned entirely by natural persons related by blood or affinity, a limited liability company, in which all the members are natural persons related by blood or affinity, a partnership, in which all the partners are natural persons related by blood or affinity, and a trust, in which all of the beneficiaries are natural persons related by blood or affinity, shall have the same rights and privileges in the conduct of irrigation district business as do natural persons, including, but not limited to, voting in elections and signing petitions. A corporation shall vote or otherwise act through its majority shareholder; a limited liability company shall vote or otherwise act, if member-managed, through its member and, if manager-managed, through its manager; a partnership shall vote or otherwise act through its majority partner; a trust shall vote or otherwise act through its trustee. For voting purposes the residence of such person shall establish the residence of the corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust. If there is no single majority stockholder, no single majority member, no single manager, no single majority partner or no single trustee, then the corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust must furnish the irrigation district a written designation stating the name of the stockholder, manager or member, partner or trustee who is authorized to vote and otherwise act for the corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust, respectively. If the majority or designated stockholder, manager or member, partner or trustee is married, his or her spouse shall have the same rights and privileges in the conduct of irrigation district business as do the spouses of individual land owners in the district. A person, or the spouse of a person, voting for a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust shall not be entitled to vote again as an individual.  History: [43-119, added 1983, ch. 49, sec. 1, p. 120; am. 2010, ch. 142, sec. 1, p. 299; am. 2013, ch. 333, sec. 1, p. 870.]
ID Code § 43-201A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-201A - WHEN ELECTION NOT REQUIRED.

43-201A. WHEN ELECTION NOT REQUIRED. If, pursuant to section 43-201, Idaho Code, the secretary of the district verifies that there is only one (1) qualified candidate who has been nominated for the position of director to be filled, it shall not be necessary to hold an election for that position, and the board of directors shall declare such candidate elected as director at the next regularly scheduled board meeting following the expiration of the date for filing written nominations. If the secretary of the district verifies that there is no qualified candidate, the incumbent director’s term of office shall continue until the director’s successor is elected and qualified. The procedure set forth in this section shall not apply to any other irrigation district election.  History: [43-201A, added 1979, ch. 293, sec. 1, p. 772; am. 2012, ch. 119, sec. 1, p. 335; am. 2014, ch. 64, sec. 1, p. 167.]
ID Code § 43-202 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-202 - DIRECTOR’S OATH AND BOND.

43-202. DIRECTOR’S OATH AND BOND. On the date a director’s term of office is to begin, at the meeting of the irrigation district’s board of directors as provided in section 43-201(2), Idaho Code, the person that has been elected shall: (1) take and subscribe the official oath required by section 59-401, Idaho Code, in which the person shall verify that he or she meets the qualification requirements of section 43-111, Idaho Code; (2) be presented a certificate of election; (3) execute a bond if one (1) is hereinafter required; and (4) assume the duties of the office of director. The incumbent director’s term of office shall be terminated upon the next director’s assumption of office as provided in this section. Each director shall file the same in the office of the board of directors, and execute the bond hereinafter provided for. Each member of said board of directors shall execute an official bond in the sum of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), the amount to be determined and approved by the judge of the probate court of said county where such organization was effected and shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder thereof and filed with the secretary of said board. All official bonds provided for in this title shall be in the form prescribed by law for the official bond of county officers. If the district obtains a surety bond, blanket surety bond or crime insurance coverage pursuant to the applicable provisions of chapter 8, title 59, Idaho Code, the directors shall not be required to post a bond under the provisions of this section.  History: [(43-202) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 4; reen. R.C., sec. 2378; am. 1915, ch. 48, sec. 1, p. 135; am. 1917, ch. 90, sec. 1, part of subd. 2378, p. 313; reen. C.L., sec. 2378a; C.S., sec. 4331; I.C.A., sec. 42-202; am. 2010, ch. 285, sec. 1, p. 766; am. 2013, ch. 133, sec. 2, p. 305.]
ID Code § 43-203 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-203 - INCREASING OR DECREASING NUMBER OF DIRECTORS — PETITION.

43-203. INCREASING OR DECREASING NUMBER OF DIRECTORS — PETITION. In any irrigation district, organized under the laws of the state of Idaho, having three (3), five (5) or seven (7) directors, whenever a petition amounting to fifty per cent (50%) of the votes cast at the last annual election within the district, shall be filed with the board of directors of such district asking for an election within the district, for the purpose of increasing or decreasing the number of directors of such district, such board of directors shall thereafter immediately call an election for the purpose of deciding the question: provided, that the petition shall recite that each signer thereof is a legal voter, or land holder within such district and the signatures thereupon are verified by the person or persons circulating the same: provided, that the petition shall specify the number of directors demanded, which shall be three (3), five (5) or seven (7): provided, that such petition shall represent not less than twenty-five per cent (25%) of the area of the lands within such district as shown by the records of the district.  History: [(43-203) 1915, ch. 91, sec. 1, p. 210; reen. C.L., sec. 2378b; C.S., sec. 4332; I.C.A., sec. 42-203.]
ID Code § 43-204 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-204 - INCREASING OR DECREASING NUMBER OF DIRECTORS — HEARING AND ELECTION.

43-204. INCREASING OR DECREASING NUMBER OF DIRECTORS — HEARING AND ELECTION. Upon the filing of a petition with the board of directors of any irrigation district as provided in section 43-203[, Idaho Code,] the board of directors of such district shall set a date for hearing the said petition, not less than two (2) weeks and not more than sixty (60) days after the first regular monthly meeting following the filing of such petition, and if the petition does comply with the requirements of section 43-203[, Idaho Code,] then the directors shall immediately thereafter order an election upon the question, and proceed according to the laws governing elections within irrigation districts for the submission of questions of creating indebtedness.  History: [(43-204) 1915, ch. 91, sec. 2, p. 210; reen. C.L., sec. 2378c; C.S., sec. 4333; I.C.A., sec. 42-204.]
ID Code § 43-204B (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-204B - BYLAW LIMITING DIRECTOR LIABILITY AUTHORIZED.

43-204B. BYLAW LIMITING DIRECTOR LIABILITY AUTHORIZED. The bylaws of the district may set forth a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director to the district or its qualified electors for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that such provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director: (a) For any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the district or its qualified electors. (b) For acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law. (c) For any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. No such provision shall eliminate or limit the liability of a director for any act or omission occurring prior to the date when such provision becomes effective.  History: [43-204B, added 1988, ch. 325, sec. 2, p. 988.]
ID Code § 43-205 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-205 - INCREASING OR DECREASING NUMBER OF DIRECTORS — PROCEDURE FOLLOWING ELECTION.

43-205. INCREASING OR DECREASING NUMBER OF DIRECTORS — PROCEDURE FOLLOWING ELECTION. Upon the canvass of the returns, as provided by section 43-208[, Idaho Code], of any election for determining the number of the directors for any irrigation district, and if there be any change voted, then the board shall immediately proceed to redivide the said district into directors’ divisions of convenient boundaries and as nearly as possible of equal area, and appoint a qualified person from each division as a director whose term of office shall expire with the next regular election, and the first succeeding directors elected under the new arrangement shall determine their terms of office as contemplated by this chapter, and in case the number of directors shall have been decreased the old members of the board of directors shall continue in office until the expiration or sooner determination of their terms, successors being appointed or elected only in divisions where representation will terminate with the term of such director.  History: [(43-205) 1915, ch. 91, sec. 3, p. 210; reen. C.L., sec. 2378d; C.S., sec. 4334; I.C.A., sec. 42-205.]