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WY Stat § 41-7-815 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-815 - Sale or Mortgage of Irrigation Works.

41-7-815. Sale or mortgage of irrigation works.| Any project created under the provisions of this act shall not be sold to private interests. No irrigation works, power plant, or system owned by the district shall be sold, alienated or mortgaged by the district, except under the following circumstances, to wit: if, in order to borrow money from the federal government or from any of its agencies or from the state of Wyoming, it shall become necessary that the district mortgage or otherwise hypothecate any or all its said property or assets to secure the payment of a loan or loans made to it by or from such source or sources, the district is hereby authorized and empowered to mortgage or hypothecate such property and assets for such purpose. Nothing in this section contained shall prevent the district from assigning, pledging, or otherwise hypothecating its revenues, incomes, receipts or profits to secure the payment of indebtedness to the federal government or any agency thereof, or the state of Wyoming, provided, that the state of Wyoming shall never pledge its credit or funds, or any part thereof, for the payment or settlement of any indebtedness or obligation whatsoever of any district created under the provisions of this act; and provided further, that if any district created under this act shall execute and deliver a mortgage or trust deed to secure the payment of any moneys borrowed by it for the purposes herein authorized, it may be provided in such mortgage or trust deed that the same may be foreclosed upon default and that a receiver may be appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction with such authority as may be provided for in such mortgage or trust deed.
WY Stat § 41-7-817 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-817 - Dissolution.

41-7-817. Dissolution.| Any district organized under this act may, at any regular or called meeting of the board of directors, be dissolved by a majority vote of a quorum present at such meeting; provided, such district shall not at the time of such dissolution own any property or rights or have outstanding any contract or contracts or obligations of any kind; provided further, that in case of such dissolution all applications for appropriation of water shall be, by the state engineer of the state of Wyoming, cancelled and all rights of said district therein and thereunder shall thereupon cease and determine.
WY Stat § 41-7-818 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-818 - Construction; Generally.

41-7-818. Construction; generally.| This act shall not be construed as repealing, limiting, or in any way affecting the provisions of chapter 122, Wyoming Revised Statutes, 1931, with reference to irrigation districts, and the provisions of W.S. 37-7-101 through 37-7-136, with reference to power districts, or any other laws of the state of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 41-7-819 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-819 - Construction; Cities and Towns.

41-7-819. Construction; cities and towns.| This act shall not be construed as restraining any city or town, within the state of Wyoming, located either wholly or partially within, or outside of any irrigation or power district from constructing or maintaining power plants for the purpose of manufacturing electricity for light and power purposes. Provided, that any district formed under the provisions of this act, in which may be included a city or town shall not be permitted to assess any such city or town with any part of the debt of such district which would in itself exceed the constitutional limitations. Provided, however, that any such city or town may purchase electric current for resale from any such district whenever deemed advisable.
WY Stat § 41-7-830 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-830 - Authority.

41-7-830. Authority.| The landowners in a public irrigation and power district organized under W.S. 41-7-801 through 41-7-819 shall have the right to convert such district into an irrigation district as provided for in chapter 122, article 7, Wyoming Revised Statutes 1931, having all the rights and powers as though originally created under the provisions of said chapter 122, article 7, Wyoming Revised Statutes 1931.
WY Stat § 41-7-831 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-831 - Resolution of Board of Directors.

41-7-831. Resolution of board of directors.| In order to effect such change the board of directors shall pass a resolution stating that it is the desire of the board to transform said district into an irrigation district as provided in chapter 122, article 7, Wyoming Revised Statutes 1931 and said resolution shall fix the time and place of holding an election within the district to determine whether or not the transformation shall be made.
WY Stat § 41-7-832 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-832 - Election; Notice.

41-7-832. Election; notice.| (a) Immediately after the adoption of the resolution by the board the secretary of the district shall proceed to give notice of the time and place of holding such election in the manner following:  (i) By serving or causing to be served a copy of the notice stating the time, place and object of the election on each person owning or entitled to possession by virtue of public filing of land within the district residing in any county in which any lands of the district are situated either personally or by leaving a copy thereof at his usual place of abode, with a person of suitable age and discretion, and by registered mail to any mortgagee, mortgagees or judgment lien holder whose mortgage or judgment lien and address is of record in the record of said liens in the county or counties in which said district is situated; and  (ii) By publishing a copy of said notice at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in each county within which any of the lands of the district are situated, giving the time, place and object of said election;  (iii) If any of the persons owning or entitled to possession of land in said district are nonresidents of the county or counties in which the district lies, such notice of time, place and object of the election shall be sent by registered mail to such nonresidents if their addresses are known and if unknown the secretary shall make an affidavit so stating. Such notice to be mailed within two (2) days after the first publication. Notice of the time, place and object of the election must be given at least twenty (20) days before the date of election.
WY Stat § 41-7-833 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-833 - Election; Procedure.

41-7-833. Election; procedure.| At the time and place for holding the election, the president of the district board shall read the notice of election and call the roll of those entitled to vote and the number of votes to which each is entitled. Every person owning or entitled to possession by virtue of public filing of land within the district shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote for each acre of land held within the district at such election. The board of directors shall keep a record of all qualified voters present, receive all proxies and prescribe the manner of canvassing votes. All proxies shall be in writing and signed by the person entitled to vote. The vote of a majority of the owners of land or persons entitled to possession of land in the district by virtue of public filing of land and representing at least one-third of the lands within the district shall be necessary to make effective the transformation of the district to a district under chapter 122, article 7, Wyoming Revised Statutes 1931.
WY Stat § 41-7-834 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-834 - Filing of Certificate of Change.

41-7-834. Filing of certificate of change.| If the vote shows that the transformation has been authorized by the district, the secretary shall file a certificate to that effect in the office of the clerk of court in the counties embraced within the district and a duplicate copy with the state engineer; thereafter said district shall proceed to act under the provisions of chapter 122, article 7, Wyoming Revised Statutes 1931, and any and all acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof and shall have all of the rights, powers and obligations as if originally organized under said chapter and article.
WY Stat § 41-7-835 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-835 - Construction.

41-7-835. Construction.| This act shall not be construed as repealing or in any way affecting the provisions of W.S. 41-7-801 through 41-7-819.
WY Stat § 41-7-850 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-850 - Irrigation District May Assume Status of Public Power District.

41-7-850. Irrigation district may assume status of public power district.| Any irrigation district heretofore organized and existing under and by virtue of the provisions of chapter 2, Session Laws of Wyoming, Special Session, 1920, as amended, codified and compiled in W.S. 41-7-101 through 41-7-603 [§§ 41-7-101 through 41-7-415], as now amended, shall have and receive all of the rights, powers and authority which it would have and enjoy if it had been created and formed as a public power district under the provisions of chapter 137, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1937, as amended, codified and compiled in W.S. 41-7-801 through 41-7-835, and any existing amendments thereof, by taking proceedings in the manner as hereinafter set forth and provided.
WY Stat § 41-7-851 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-851 - Resolution of Commissioners.

41-7-851. Resolution of commissioners.| Whenever the commissioners of any duly organized and existing irrigation district, heretofore organized under the laws of the state of Wyoming, shall determine by a majority vote thereof that it is or would be beneficial to and for the best interest of the landowners and entrymen therein either to use any or a part of its irrigation works theretofore constructed as a part of the necessary works required for the construction and development of a complete electric power plant or system for the production, distribution and sale of electric energy, or that it is for the best interest of the landowners and entrymen in said district that it should add thereto or to construct a complete new system of works for the development, sale and distribution of electric energy they may adopt and approve an appropriate resolution stating their determination thereof.
WY Stat § 41-7-852 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-852 - Report Made to District Court; Contents.

41-7-852. Report made to district court; contents.| (a) Upon the adoption of such a resolution, the said commissioners shall file an appropriate report with the district court of the county having jurisdiction of said irrigation district proceeding, stating in general the desirability of said district to have and obtain the rights, powers and authority of an irrigation and public power district, which report shall include:  (i) The name of the proposed irrigation and public power district to include the words "public power" therein;  (ii) The general necessity for the proposed works;  (iii) The object and purpose of the system proposed to be constructed together with a general description thereof;  (iv) A general prayer for an order to obtain all the rights, powers and authority of a "public power district".
WY Stat § 41-7-853 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-853 - Hearing on Proposal.

41-7-853. Hearing on proposal.| Upon such petition being filed the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing a time and place of hearing thereon and require notice of the time and place of such hearing to be given thereon by the clerk of said court.
WY Stat § 41-7-854 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-854 - Notice of Hearing; Publication.

41-7-854. Notice of hearing; publication.| The clerk of said court shall give notice of the filing of said petition and of the time and place of hearing thereon to any and all persons interested therein by publishing a copy of said order at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in each county within which any of the lands of the said irrigation district is situated. If there be no newspaper in any such county, such notice may be published in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.
WY Stat § 41-7-855 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-855 - Notice of Hearing; Contents.

41-7-855. Notice of hearing; contents.| (a) Such notice shall disclose:  (i) In what court said petition is filed;  (ii) A general description of the proposed work;  (iii) The name proposed for said combined irrigation and public power district;  (iv) The time and place fixed by the court, when and where the hearing on said petition will be heard;  (v) It shall also require all persons interested to appear at the time and place stated, then and there to show cause why said irrigation district should not receive and have the rights, powers and authority of a public power district.
WY Stat § 41-7-856 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-856 - Order of Court Authorizing Change.

41-7-856. Order of court authorizing change.| If the court at the hearing so petitioned for, noticed, and held, shall decide the issues in favor of the petitioners, the court shall enter an order approving and confirming the petition, amend the name of said irrigation district to show that it is also a public power district, and authorize said district to have and receive all of the rights, powers and authority of a "public power district" in addition to all of the rights, powers and authority given to and enjoyed by it as an irrigation district under the laws of the state of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 41-7-857 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-857 - Submission of Proposal to Vote of Landowners and Entrymen.

41-7-857. Submission of proposal to vote of landowners and entrymen.| In the event the board of commissioners by a majority vote, or the court by an appropriate order, shall request or determine that a vote should be had of the landowners and entrymen within the district on the question of whether or not the said irrigation district should acquire the rights, powers and authority of a "public power district", then the matter shall be submitted to the landowners and entrymen of the district at either a regular or special election, at a time and place or places, to be designated by the commissioners of the district under the order of the court to be held under the same rules and in the same manner as elections are held for commissioners within an irrigation district.
WY Stat § 41-7-858 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-858 - Effect of Vote on Court.

41-7-858. Effect of vote on court.| In the event such an election be had the result thereof shall be certified to the court and shall be advisory and determinative of the final order to be presented on the question of whether or not said irrigation district should receive all of the rights, powers and authority of a public power district.
WY Stat § 41-7-859 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-859 - Court Order Vests Powers.

41-7-859. Court order vests powers.| Upon the entry of an order of the court authorizing or approving the receipt by an existing irrigation district of the rights, powers and authority of a public power district, then it shall have and receive all of said rights, powers and authority as are given and granted to a public power district by the provisions of chapter 123, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1937 and the amendments thereof as now codified and compiled in W.S. 41-7-101 through 41-7-1006 and any existing amendments thereof.
WY Stat § 41-7-860 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-860 - Construction and Application of Public Irrigation and Power District Law.

41-7-860. Construction and application of Public Irrigation and Power District Law.| (a) In applying and adapting the public power district law to the existing irrigation district law, organization and procedures, the Public Irrigation and Power District Law of the state of Wyoming as aforesaid shall be and the same is hereby construed in the following specific manner, when applied to a regularly organized irrigation district which assumes and receives the rights, powers and authority of a "public power district", as follows, to wit:  (i) The word "board" shall mean the board of commissioners of the existing irrigation district;  (ii) Whenever the phrase, "members of the board of directors" appears in the existing Public Irrigation and Power District Law, the same shall be read as "members of the board of commissioners";  (iii) The requirements and limitations as to number, terms of office, vacancies, election, qualifications, and compensation of commissioners shall be governed by the Irrigation District Law of the state of Wyoming and not by the Public Irrigation and Power District Law of the state.
WY Stat § 41-7-861 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-861 - Irrigation and Power Funds to Be Kept in Separate Accounts.

41-7-861. Irrigation and power funds to be kept in separate accounts.| The board of commissioners of any irrigation district which shall have and receive the rights, powers and authority of a public power district under and pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall keep separate accounts for all money received from assessments for construction and for the operation and maintenance of the irrigation works portion thereof from the funds received or accumulated from the power works and system thereof; and none of said funds shall ever be commingled or diverted from their proper uses as fixed by law.
WY Stat § 41-7-862 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-862 - Different Laws to Apply to Additions to Irrigation Works and Power Works.

41-7-862. Different laws to apply to additions to irrigation works and power works.| In the construction of additional irrigation works or features or of needed or required works or features for the power portion of said project, all irrigation works thereof shall be constructed, built and financed under the provisions of the Irrigation District Law of the state of Wyoming and the power works and system shall be built, financed and paid for following the public power district portion of the Wyoming law.
WY Stat § 41-7-863 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-863 - Report of Proposed Construction to Court; Apportionment of Irrigation and Power Costs.

41-7-863. Report of proposed construction to court; apportionment of irrigation and power costs.| Prior to the starting of any construction work thereon, the commissioners shall report the purpose, whether for irrigation or power for which any of said works is to be constructed; and shall recommend to the court an equitable and fair division and distribution of the cost thereof as between irrigation and power; and the court upon the hearing for the authorization thereof, shall fix and determine the proportionate amount as between the irrigation and power works or features which shall be beneficial and chargeable to the irrigation portion and the power portion thereof and the order of the court thereon shall be determinative and final thereon.
WY Stat § 41-7-864 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-864 - Rights and Powers Preserved.

41-7-864. Rights and powers preserved.| An irrigation district receiving the rights, power and authority of a public power district as aforesaid, shall not lose any of its rights and powers under and by virtue of the provisions of chapter 2, Session Laws of Wyoming, Special Session, 1920, as amended, codified and compiled in W.S. 41-7-101 through 41-7-415, as now amended.
WY Stat § 41-7-865 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 8 - Public Irrigation and Power Districts|Section 41-7-865 - Liberal Construction; Restrictions; Regulation by Public Service Commission.

41-7-865. Liberal construction; restrictions; regulation by public service commission.| (a) This act shall be construed liberally for the purpose of making it possible for irrigation districts by the development and sale of hydroelectric energy and power through the construction or purchase of necessary and required properties and works to create sufficient income to make said works in connection with their irrigation works a feasible project to save, conserve and preserve their full water rights under the laws of Wyoming.  (b) The generation of electric energy and power under the provisions of this act and under the provisions of chapter 137, Session Laws of Wyoming 1937, as amended, codified and compiled in W.S. 41-7-801 through 41-7-835, shall be restricted to the generation of hydroelectric energy and power for wholesale transmission and sale and such irrigation and public power districts established under the provisions of said acts shall be subject to the regulations of the public service commission of Wyoming in the establishment of wholesale rates and transmission facilities, applicable to any other public utility generating electric energy and power for wholesale transmission and sale.
WY Stat § 41-7-901 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 7 - Irrigation Districts|Article 9 - Revenue Bonds|Section 41-7-901 - "Revenue" Defined.

41-7-901. "Revenue" defined.| As used in this act the word "revenue" means all or any part of any source or sources of payment excluding assessments upon or against the lands and property of the landowners and entrymen therein, but including the proceeds of or income from any existing or proposed contract or contracts.