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WY Stat § 41-9-129 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-129 - Hearings on Report; Notice to Owners of Added Lands.

41-9-129. Hearings on report; notice to owners of added lands.| When lands are added to the district the owners thereof shall be served with said notice as provided for serving of notice of hearing on the petition.
WY Stat § 41-9-130 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-130 - Hearings on Report; Adjournment.

41-9-130. Hearings on report; adjournment.| Upon the day fixed for hearing upon said report, said court may adjourn said hearing for good cause or may proceed to hear, try and determine all issues arising upon said report.
WY Stat § 41-9-131 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-131 - Hearings on Report; Remonstrances.

41-9-131. Hearings on report; remonstrances.| Any interested party may appear and remonstrate against said report or any material part thereof. All remonstrances shall be in writing, be verified on oath, be filed at least five (5) days before the day fixed for hearing, and shall set forth the facts upon which they are based.
WY Stat § 41-9-132 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-132 - Hearings on Report; Trial; When Petition for Organization Dismissed.

41-9-132. Hearings on report; trial; when petition for organization dismissed.| All issues arising upon said preliminary report shall be tried by the court without a jury. If the court shall find in favor of the remonstrance, or if said report be that the proposed work will not promote the public health, and will not promote the public welfare, or that the benefits from said proposed work will not exceed the damages and cost of construction, and no remonstrance against said report is filed, the petition shall be dismissed and the costs taxed against the petitioners, and judgment entered therefor, as in W.S. 41-9-231 hereinafter provided.
WY Stat § 41-9-133 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-133 - Hearings on Report; When Report Confirmed.

41-9-133. Hearings on report; when report confirmed.| But if the preliminary report be that the benefits of said proposed work (or work by the commissioners proposed) will exceed the damages and the cost of construction and that the public health will be promoted thereby, or that the public welfare will be promoted thereby, and no remonstrance thereto is filed, or if on trial of the issues made on said report the court finds that the benefits will exceed the damages and cost of construction, and that the public health or the public welfare will be promoted by said proposed work, the court shall make and file such findings in writing and make an order confirming said report, or directing amendment of the report to conform to the findings of said court. And when so amended the court shall by order confirm the same, and direct said commissioners to proceed with said work with all convenient speed.
WY Stat § 41-9-134 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-134 - Hearings on Report; Findings Conclusive; Appeal.

41-9-134. Hearings on report; findings conclusive; appeal.| Such findings and order shall be final and conclusive unless appealed from to the supreme court within thirty (30) days after filing thereof.
WY Stat § 41-9-135 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-135 - Creation of Corporate Entity Upon Confirmation of Report.

41-9-135. Creation of corporate entity upon confirmation of report.| Upon entering of such order of confirmation of said preliminary report of record, such drainage district shall be, and is thereby declared to be organized as a drainage district, by the name mentioned in said petition, or such other name as the court shall fix, with the boundaries fixed by the order confirming the report of said commissioners, to be a body corporate by said name fixed in said order, with the right to sue and be sued, to adopt and use a seal, and to have perpetual succession.
WY Stat § 41-9-136 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-136 - Corporate Authorities.

41-9-136. Corporate authorities.| The commissioners appointed as aforesaid and their successors in office shall, from the entry of such order of confirmation, constitute the corporate authority of said drainage district, and shall exercise the functions conferred on them by law, and do all things and perform all acts necessary to the construction and preservation of the proposed work.
WY Stat § 41-9-137 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-137 - All Proceedings Deemed Necessary.

41-9-137. All proceedings deemed necessary.| All proceedings herein required, prior to the entry of such order of confirmation of record, shall be deemed to be and are hereby declared to be necessary to the formation of said body corporate.
WY Stat § 41-9-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-201 - Authority of Commissioners to Enter Lands for Repairs.

41-9-201. Authority of commissioners to enter lands for repairs.| The commissioners, their agents, servants and employees shall have the right to go upon all lands along any drain, ditch, levee 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.
WY Stat § 41-9-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-202 - Power of Eminent Domain.

41-9-202. Power of eminent domain.| Any drainage district created and existing under W.S. 41-9-101 through 41-9-278 may, whenever it shall require a way of necessity outside its boundaries for any of its work or works theretofore authorized by the court, proceed to procure the same by the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
WY Stat § 41-9-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-203 - Presumption of Validity of Acts of Commissioners.

41-9-203. Presumption of validity of acts of commissioners.| Commissioners of drainage districts are hereby declared to be public officers. The presumption shall be in favor of the regularity and validity of all their official acts. Whenever any report of the commissioners of any drainage district or any part of any such report is contested, remonstrated against or called in question, the burden of proof shall rest upon the contestant, remonstrant or questioner.
WY Stat § 41-9-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-204 - Commissioners Under Supervision of Court; Removal; New Bonds.

41-9-204. Commissioners under supervision of court; removal; new bonds.| The court shall at all times have supervision of said commissioners, and may at any time require them to make a report on any matter or matters connected with their duties as commissioners, and after due hearing may remove from office any or all of said commissioners for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office or for other good cause. The court may at any time require the commissioners to give new bonds to the clerk of the court and may fix the amount thereof, and said bonds shall be submitted to the court or the presiding judge thereof for approval.
WY Stat § 41-9-205 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-205 - Waiver of Notice.

41-9-205. Waiver of notice.| In case of failure to serve any notice of any proceeding or hearing in this chapter provided for, upon any person or corporation, such person or corporation, may appear in open court and waive such defect of service, or may waive it by filing in court or delivering to the commissioners of the drainage district to be filed in court a written waiver of such defect, in which waiver said defect shall be described; which waiver shall be signed by such party and witnessed and acknowledged before a proper officer having power to take acknowledgments of deeds.
WY Stat § 41-9-206 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-206 - Liberal Construction.

41-9-206. Liberal construction.| The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed to promote the public health and welfare by reclaiming wet or overflowed lands, building embankments or levees and the preservation of any system of drainage heretofore constructed according to law.
WY Stat § 41-9-210 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-210 - Levels, Surveys and Maps to Be Made; Report to Court Required.

41-9-210. Levels, surveys and maps to be made; report to court required.| As soon as may be after the confirmation of the said preliminary report, or within such time as the court may direct, said commissioners shall proceed to have all necessary levels taken and surveys made, and shall lay out said proposed work, make a map thereof and plans, profiles and other specifications thereof, and report in writing to the court.
WY Stat § 41-9-211 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-211 - Contents; Starting Points, Routes and Termini.

41-9-211. Contents; starting points, routes and termini.| The commissioners shall report whether the starting point, routes and termini of the proposed work and the proposed location thereof, as in the petition contained, are in all respects proper and feasible, and, if not, shall report such as are most proper and feasible.
WY Stat § 41-9-212 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-212 - Contents; Change of Boundaries Generally.

41-9-212. Contents; change of boundaries generally.| If it be found necessary to change the boundaries of said proposed district, as by them previously fixed, they shall report said proposed change, and, if possible, shall report the names, residence and post-office addresses of the owner or owners of all lands affected by said change in boundaries, but no such change in boundaries shall be made as to deprive the court of jurisdiction; provided, however, that if the owners of lands adjacent to the district petition to have their lands brought into the district such may be considered the same as original petitioners in making changes of boundaries.
WY Stat § 41-9-213 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-213 - Contents; Assessment of Damages.

41-9-213. Contents; assessment of damages.| The commissioners shall report what lands within the district will be injured by the proposed work, if any, and they shall therein award to each tract, lot, easement or interest by whomsoever held, the amount of damages which they shall determine will be caused to the same by the proposed work.
WY Stat § 41-9-214 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-214 - Contents; Assessment of Benefits.

41-9-214. Contents; assessment of benefits.| The commissioners shall report what lands within the district will be benefited by the proposed work and they shall assess against each tract, lot and easement by whomever held the amount of benefits which they determine will be caused to the same by the proposed work. The benefits so assessed are herein referred to as "assessment of benefits".
WY Stat § 41-9-215 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-215 - Contents; Cost of Construction.

41-9-215. Contents; cost of construction.| The commissioners shall also determine and report to the court the total amount, as near as they can determine, what said proposed work will cost, which cost shall include all incidental expenses, the reasonable cost of organizing said district, the costs of proceeding, and all probable damage to lands, both within and without the district, together with a reasonable sum for attorney fees for the petitioners, and such sum as the commissioners may deem necessary to provide for possible defaults and delinquencies in payment of assessments, which cost will hereinafter be referred to as "cost of construction".
WY Stat § 41-9-216 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-216 - Contents; Assessments Upon Particular Tracts, Lots and Corporations.

41-9-216. Contents; assessments upon particular tracts, lots and corporations.| If the cost of construction of any particular part of the work so proposed to be done should be assessed upon any particular tract or tracts, lot or lots of land, or upon any corporation or corporations, the commissioners shall so specify, and in their report shall fix and determine the sums which should be assessed against said tracts, lots and corporations, and assess such sum against said tracts, lots and corporations.
WY Stat § 41-9-217 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-217 - Contents; Assessments for Construction Generally.

41-9-217. Contents; assessments for construction generally.| They shall apportion and assess the part of this "cost of construction," not assessed as above, against the several benefited tracts, lots and easements in said drainage district, in proportion to the benefits which they have assessed against the same, by setting down opposite each tract, lot or easement, the sum which they assess against the same for construction. The assessments which together make up the cost of construction, as above defined, are herein referred to as "assessments for construction".
WY Stat § 41-9-218 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-218 - Contents; Special Benefits to Corporations.

41-9-218. Contents; special benefits to corporations.| (a) If any corporation would, in the judgment of said commissioners, derive special benefits from the whole or any part of such proposed work, the commissioners shall so report and assess those benefits, and assess against the same its proportionate share of the costs of said proposed work. The word "corporation" wherever in this act contained, shall be construed to include:  (i) Railroad companies;  (ii) Other private corporations of all kinds;  (iii) Towns;  (iv) Cities;  (v) Villages; and  (vi) Other drainage districts.
WY Stat § 41-9-219 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-219 - Contents; Costs of Repairs.

41-9-219. Contents; costs of repairs.| The commissioners shall further report to the court the probable cost of keeping said proposed work in repair after it is completed.
WY Stat § 41-9-220 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-220 - Contents; Maps and Plans.

41-9-220. Contents; maps and plans.| They shall include in their said report, said map, plans and other specifications, and file the same with their report.
WY Stat § 41-9-221 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-221 - Commissioners Not to Be Confined to Plans in Petition.

41-9-221. Commissioners not to be confined to plans in petition.| The commissioners shall not be confined to the points of commencement, routes or termini of the drains or ditches, or the number, extent or size of the same, or the location, plan or extent of any levee, ditch or other work, as proposed by the petitioners, but shall locate, design, lay out and plan the same in such manner as to them shall seem best, to promote the public health or welfare, and to drain, or to protect the lands of the parties interested with the least damage and the greatest benefit to all lands affected thereby. And any plan proposed by the commissioners, 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 § 41-9-222 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-222 - Changing Boundaries Upon Application to Court; Filing of Report.

41-9-222. Changing boundaries upon application to court; filing of report.| 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, or that of any person interested, 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 § 41-9-223 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-223 - Notice of Hearings on Report; Contents; Order for Hearing.

41-9-223. Notice of hearings on report; contents; order for hearing.| Upon the filing of said report, the court shall make and enter an order fixing the time and place when and where all persons interested may appear and remonstrate against the confirmation thereof, and 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 to the several tracts, parcels, easements and corporations to which damages are awarded, and the sum in each case assessed for construction against said several benefited parcels, tracts, easements and corporations.
WY Stat § 41-9-224 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-224 - Notice of Hearings on Report; Publication and Service Generally.

41-9-224. Notice of hearings on report; publication and service generally.| Said notice shall be published for at least three (3) successive 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 out of which the proposed district is formed, at least twenty (20) 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 § 41-9-225 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-225 - Notice of Hearings on Report; When Land Situated in Several Counties.

41-9-225. Notice of hearings on report; when land situated in several counties.| 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 amounts assessed for construction 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 construction against the several tracts, parcels, easements and interests situate in said county for which publication is made.
WY Stat § 41-9-226 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-226 - Notice of Hearings on Report; Effect of Personal Service.

41-9-226. Notice of hearings on report; effect of personal service.| In case of service of said notice personally, or the acceptance and waiver thereof on all the owners of the lands within the district, said service shall be sufficient and give the court jurisdiction without said publication.
WY Stat § 41-9-227 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-227 - Hearings; Modification of Report Generally.

41-9-227. Hearings; modification of report generally.| 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 § 41-9-228 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-228 - Hearings; Confirmation Order Generally; Appeal.

41-9-228. Hearings; confirmation order generally; appeal.| 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 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, the said order of confirmation shall also fix the commissioners' bond.
WY Stat § 41-9-229 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-229 - Hearings; Modification of Combination Order.

41-9-229. Hearings; modification of combination order.| 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 adversely interested.