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WY Stat § 41-9-256 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-256 - Notes and Bonds Generally.

41-9-256. Notes and bonds generally.| (a) The commissioners may borrow money, not exceeding the amount of assessment for construction, additional assessments and assessments for repairs, reconstruction, enlargement, extension and improvement, unpaid at the time of borrowing for the construction, repair, reconstruction, enlargement, extension or improvement of a work which they shall be authorized to construct, repair, reconstruct, enlarge, extend or improve, or for the payment of indebtedness they may have lawfully incurred, and may secure the same by notes or bonds, bearing interest and not running beyond one (1) year after the last installment of the assessment, on the account of which the money is borrowed, shall fall due, which notes or bonds shall not be sold at less than ninety percent (90%) of their face value, which bonds are transferable by delivery to the same extent as negotiable paper of the highest character. The notes or bonds shall not be held to make the commissioners personally liable, but shall be held to be the lawful indebtedness of the district and constitute a lien upon the assessments for the repayment of the principal and interest of the notes or bonds.  (b) In case any monies derived from bonds sold to pay for the original construction of said drainage system, or for the reconstruction, enlargement, extension or improvement thereof, now or hereafter, remains on hand after such work is completed and paid for, and not raised for damages unpaid for, such residue may be used in maintenance and repair work, as in this act provided before making assessments for such maintenance and repair.
WY Stat § 41-9-257 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-257 - Refunding of Indebtedness.

41-9-257. Refunding of indebtedness.| The court may, upon the petition of the commissioners, authorize them to refund any lawful indebtedness of the district now existing or which may hereafter be incurred by taking up and canceling all or a part of its outstanding notes and bonds, as fast as they become due or before, if the holders thereof will surrender the same, and issue in lieu thereof new notes or bonds of the district, payable in a time as the court deems proper, in an amount sufficient to retire all notes and bonds of the district then outstanding and the unpaid accrued interest thereon, together with an amount as the commissioners of the district deem necessary to provide for possible future defaults and delinquencies in the payment of assessments. For the purpose of providing funds to pay the refunding bonds with interest thereon, the commissioners may levy assessments against the land in the district, but not in excess of the benefits assessed. In the alternative the commissioners may, if they deem it advisable, issue refunding bonds in an amount sufficient only to retire all notes and bonds of the district then outstanding and the unpaid accrued interest thereon, and may, if they desire to provide a fund to provide for possible defaults and delinquencies in the payment of assessments, levy from year to year assessments against the land in the district for these purposes, but not in excess of the benefits assessed against the same.
WY Stat § 41-9-258 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-258 - Effect of Change in Assessments Upon Existing Bonds.

41-9-258. Effect of change in assessments upon existing bonds.| No bonds or other obligations issued by any drainage district shall be adversely affected by any subsequent change in assessments of benefits.
WY Stat § 41-9-259 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-259 - Collection Generally.

41-9-259. Collection generally.| All drainage assessments shall be collected by the same officer and in the same manner and at the same time as state and county taxes are collected and when collected shall be paid to the treasurer of the district, except such assessments, together with interest, penalty and costs thereon, as are collected upon assessments levied for the payment of principal and interest of bonded indebtedness of said district, which funds shall be retained by the county treasurer of the county in which such district is organized, and the principal and interest of all bonded indebtedness of such district shall be paid by such county treasurer from such fund, at the place of payment designated in said bonds and interest coupons; provided, that when all bonded indebtedness of any drainage district is fully paid and retired such funds remaining in the hands of the county treasurer shall be paid to the treasurer of such district, for the use of the district. The commissioners of any drainage district may elect the treasurer of the county having jurisdiction of such district treasurer of such district.
WY Stat § 41-9-260 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-260 - Bidding Procedure When Cost Over $500.00.

41-9-260. Bidding procedure when cost over $500.00.| In all cases where the work to be done at any one time under the direction of the commissioners shall, in their opinion, cost to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), the same shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, and the commissioner shall advertise for sealed bids, by notice published in some newspaper published in the county in which the petition is filed, and may advertise in one (1) or more newspapers published elsewhere. If there be no newspaper published in the county in which the petition is filed, they shall advertise in some newspaper published in an adjoining county, which said notice shall particularly set forth the time and place when and where the bids advertised will be opened, the kind of work to be let and the terms of payment. Said commissioners may continue the letting from time to time, if in their judgment the same shall be necessary, and shall reserve the right to reject any and all bids.
WY Stat § 41-9-261 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-261 - Commissioners Not to Have Financial Interest in Construction Contracts.

41-9-261. Commissioners not to have financial interest in construction contracts.| (a) While in office no commissioner shall be interested directly or indirectly:  (i) In any contract for the construction of any drain, ditch, levee or other work in a drainage district;  (ii) In the sale of materials used for any work in a drainage district; or  (iii) In the wages of or supplies for men or teams employed on any work in a drainage district.
WY Stat § 41-9-262 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-262 - Entry of Commissioners on Land; Payment of Damages to Owner.

41-9-262. Entry of commissioners on land; payment of damages to owner.| The damages allowed to the owners of lands shall be paid or tendered before the commissioners shall be authorized to enter upon the lands, for damage to which the award is made, for the construction of any drains, ditches or levees proposed thereon. If the owner is unknown or there shall be a contest in regard to the ownership of the lands, or the owner will not receive payment, or there exists a mortgage or other lien against the same, or the commissioners cannot for any other reason pay him, they may deposit the said damages with the clerk of the court, for the benefit of the owner, or parties interested, to be paid or distributed as the court shall direct, and such payment shall have the same effect as the tender to and acceptance of the damages awarded by the true owner of the land. This section shall not, however, prevent said commissioners, their agents, servants and employees going upon said lands to do any and all work found necessary prior to making their assessment of benefits and award of damages, and the trial on their report thereof.
WY Stat § 41-9-263 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-263 - Location of Drains.

41-9-263. Location of drains.| When practicable said drains herein provided for shall be laid out and constructed on the side of public highways.
WY Stat § 41-9-264 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-264 - Drained Lands Outside of District; Commissioners' Report Requesting Assessments.

41-9-264. Drained lands outside of district; commissioners' report requesting assessments.| Whenever any drained lands outside a drainage district are receiving the benefits of the drains of said district, by direct or indirect, natural or artificial connection therewith, the commissioners of said district may report said facts to the court and ask that said lands, describing them, be brought into said district and assessed for the benefits by them received from the drains, ditches or levees of said district.
WY Stat § 41-9-265 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-265 - Drained Lands Outside of District; Court Order to Landowners to Show Cause.

41-9-265. Drained lands outside of district; court order to landowners to show cause.| Upon the filing of said report the court shall order the owners of such lands to be notified of the filing of said report and the contents thereof, and shall require such owners to show cause at a time and place therein fixed, not less than twenty (20) days thereafter, why their said lands should not be brought into said district and assessed for said benefits.
WY Stat § 41-9-266 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-266 - Drained Lands Outside of District; Hearings; Remonstrances; Trial on Issues.

41-9-266. Drained lands outside of district; hearings; remonstrances; trial on issues.| At the time and place fixed for hearing said report any of said landowners may appear and remonstrate against the confirmation of said report. All remonstrances shall be in writing, verified and shall set forth the facts on which they are based. All issues arising on said report shall be tried by the court without a jury.
WY Stat § 41-9-267 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-267 - Drained Lands Outside of District; Hearings; Findings; Annexation to District.

41-9-267. Drained lands outside of district; hearings; findings; annexation to district.| If the court shall find that said lands or any of them are receiving the benefits of any such drain, ditch or levee, the court shall so find in writing and shall order said lands to be annexed to and made a part of said district and benefits to be assessed against the same by the commissioners of said district.
WY Stat § 41-9-268 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-268 - Drained Lands Outside of District; Effect of Court Order; Appeal.

41-9-268. Drained lands outside of district; effect of court order; appeal.| Said order shall be final and conclusive unless appealed from the supreme court within thirty (30) days from the date of entry thereof.
WY Stat § 41-9-269 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-269 - Drained Lands Outside of District; Levy of Assessments by Commissioners.

41-9-269. Drained lands outside of district; levy of assessments by commissioners.| Said commissioners shall, after the time for appeal is past, assess against each parcel, tract and easement of and in said annexed lands reasonable and just benefits, and shall assess against said lands for construction and repairs such sum as shall be just. If lands similarly situated and benefited are found in said district the annexed lands shall be assessed a like sum of benefits and damages as said lands in the said district to which they are sought to be annexed, and a sum for construction of said work which shall be equal to all sums assessed for the complete construction of the drainage system in the district to which they are sought to be annexed against lands having the same assessment of benefits in said district.
WY Stat § 41-9-270 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-270 - Drained Lands Outside of District; Filing of Commissioners' Assessment Report; Hearing; Trial; Amendment or Confirmation of Report.

41-9-270. Drained lands outside of district; filing of commissioners' assessment report; hearing; trial; amendment or confirmation of report.| The commissioners shall file their said report and assessments in court. The court shall by order require said owners to show cause at a time and place therein fixed, not less than twenty (20) days after the service of said order, why said report and assessments should not be confirmed. And on the hearing on said order to show cause if a jury trial is demanded the court shall frame issues on benefits and damages and empanel a jury or adjourn the hearing thereon until a jury is in attendance and take the verdict of a jury on such issues. All other issues arising on said report shall be tried by the court. The court shall order all necessary amendments of said report and make written findings of fact and when said report is amended shall by order confirm the same.
WY Stat § 41-9-271 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-271 - Drains Across Railroad Rights-of-Way; Generally.

41-9-271. Drains across railroad rights-of-way; generally.| Said commissioners shall have the right to lay out and construct all necessary drains, ditches and levees across any railway right-of-way or yards in their district, and any railway company, whose right-of-way or yards crosses the line of any proposed drain, ditch or levee, shall open its right-of-way or yards and permit such drain, ditch or levee to cross the same, as soon as said drain, ditch or levee is constructed to such right-of-way.
WY Stat § 41-9-272 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-272 - Drains Across Railroad Rights-of-Way; Liability of District to Railroad.

41-9-272. Drains across railroad rights-of-way; liability of district to railroad.| Every drainage district shall be liable to the railway company, whose right-of-way or yard any of its drains, ditches or levees crosses, for the reasonable cost of the culverts and bridges, made necessary by said drain, ditch or levee, crossing said right-of-way or yards, but of not more expensive character than the average other culverts and bridges on said division of railway, crossing streams or ditches of approximately the same width and depth, and within a hundred (100) miles of said district ditches.
WY Stat § 41-9-273 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-273 - Drains Across Railroad Rights-of-Way; Railroads to Grant Free Access; Failure to Comply.

41-9-273. Drains across railroad rights-of-way; railroads to grant free access; failure to comply.| Upon receiving fifteen (15) days notice in writing, any railway company, across whose right-of-way or yard any such drain, ditch or levee is laid out shall open its right-of-way or yards, and permit said commissioners and their contractors, agents and employes to construct said drain, ditch or levee, across said right-of-way or yards. For every day that said railroad company fails, after the end of said fifteen (15) days, to open their said right-of-way or yard, as hereinbefore required, it shall forfeit twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to said drainage district, to be collected in an action, as other forfeitures are collected, or set off against any damages that have been awarded to such company. If said railway company fails to open its right-of-way or yard along the line of said drainage district, drain, ditch or levee, the commissioners may, at any time after the expiration of said fifteen (15) days, open such right-of-way and yard along the line of said drains, ditches and levees, and construct the same.
WY Stat § 41-9-274 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-274 - Petition for Reconstruction, Enlargement, Extension or Improvement; Filing by Commissioners; Contents.

41-9-274. Petition for reconstruction, enlargement, extension or improvement; filing by commissioners; contents.| (a) If, after the completion of work on any drainage system under the provisions of this act, it shall become necessary to reconstruct, enlarge, extend or improve the said system in order to protect or reclaim any part of the district from waste or seepage water, the commissioners of said district may file in the court, in which the original proceedings were had, a petition setting forth:  (i) The necessity for the proposed work describing the necessity;  (ii) A general description of the proposed work;  (iii) A general description of the starting point routes and termini of any new ditches, drains, levees or other work proposed to be constructed;  (iv) The names of owners of all lands through or over which any such ditch, drain, levee or other work is proposed to be constructed, so far as such names are known to the petitioners;  (v) That the proposed work will promote public health and welfare;  (vi) That the total benefit from the proposed work will exceed the cost, together with the damages resulting therefrom, taking into consideration all benefits and all damages resulting therefrom both within and without said district;  (vii) A prayer that the commissioners be authorized to proceed with the proposed work.
WY Stat § 41-9-275 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-275 - Petition for Construction; Filing by Landowners in Lieu of Commissioners.

41-9-275. Petition for construction; filing by landowners in lieu of commissioners.| If, in any such case, the commissioners fail or refuse to file such petition, the same may with like effect be signed and filed by not less than fifty percent (50%) of the owners of land within the district, or by the owners representing not less than fifty percent (50%) in area of the lands therein.
WY Stat § 41-9-276 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-276 - Petition; Hearing Procedures Generally.

41-9-276. Petition; hearing procedures generally.| Upon the filing of such petition like proceedings shall be had as in the case of the filing of the preliminary report of the commissioners, except that the boundaries and organization of the district shall in no way be affected by the proceeding and except that in the notice of hearing shall state the names of the owners of lands over or through which any ditch, drain, levee or other work is proposed to be constructed as stated in the petition, which owners shall be served with said notice as provided for serving of notice of hearing on the petition for organization of the district and if the petition is filed by landowners, the commissioners also shall be served with notice in like manner.
WY Stat § 41-9-277 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-277 - Petition; Procedure When Petition Granted.

41-9-277. Petition; procedure when petition granted.| If, upon the hearing, the prayer of the petition shall be granted, like proceedings shall be had in all respects as in case of the confirmation of the preliminary report of the commissioners, except that the boundaries and organizations of the district shall not be affected by the proceedings and any costs taxed against the petitioners therein shall be paid by the district, if the petition was filed by the commissioners. If, upon the hearing of the final report of the commissioners, the proposed work or any part thereof is by the court ordered to be done, all subsequent proceedings with respect to the doing thereof and the payment therefor shall be governed by the provisions of the statute applicable in cases of original construction work.
WY Stat § 41-9-278 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 2 - Operation and Administration|Section 41-9-278 - Petition; Assessments.

41-9-278. Petition; assessments.| In making their assessments of benefits and for the work to be done under the provisions of this amendment, the commissioners shall regard the proposed work as an integral part of an entire system, and shall take into consideration all assessments of benefits and for construction previously made, in order that, insofar as practicable, no part of the district shall bear an unjust portion of the total cost of the entire system.
WY Stat § 41-9-301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 3 - Division|Section 41-9-301 - Authorized.

41-9-301. Authorized.| Any drainage district now or hereafter organized under the provisions of chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920 and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, may be divided into two (2) or more districts in the manner provided in this chapter.
WY Stat § 41-9-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 3 - Division|Section 41-9-302 - Contents of Petition.

41-9-302. Contents of petition.| (a) Whenever a majority of the adult owners of lands within any portion of an organized drainage district, who shall represent more than one-half in area of the lands within said portion which it is proposed shall be cut off and divided from the drainage district as organized, desire to effect such division, they may file in the district court of the county having jurisdiction over the original district, a petition setting forth:  (i) The proposed name of the new drainage district to be formed by such division;  (ii) The necessity of the proposed work, if any, and the necessity and reasons for division, describing the same;  (iii) A general description of the proposed starting points, routes and termini of the proposed drains, ditches and laterals;  (iv) A general description of the lands proposed to be included in said district;  (v) The names of the owners of all lands in said proposed district, when known;  (vi) The names of the owners of all other lands in the district proposed to be divided, when known;  (vii) A detailed statement of the existing indebtedness of the original drainage district and the proposed apportionment of said indebtedness as between the remaining portion of the original district and the proposed new district based upon the assessments for benefits against the lands contained therein, as last confirmed by the court.  (b) If the purpose of said petition, in addition to a division of the district, is the enlargement, repair and maintenance of a ditch, or other work heretofore constructed under any law of the state, said petition shall give the general description of the same, with such particulars as may be deemed important.  (c) Said petition shall pray for the organization of a drainage district by name, and with the boundaries proposed, and for the appointment of commissioners for the execution of any proposed work according to the general provisions of chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, as amended.