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ID Code § 42-2945 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2945 - CONNECTIONS BY PRIVATE DRAINS — COSTS.

42-2945. CONNECTIONS BY PRIVATE DRAINS — COSTS. Any person or corporation owning land within said district shall have a right to connect any private drains or ditches for the proper drainage of such land with said system, and in case any person or corporation shall desire to drain such lands into said system, and shall find it necessary, in order to do so, to procure the right of way over the land of another, or others, and if consent thereto cannot be procured from such person or persons, then such landowner may present in writing a request to the board of commissioners of said district, setting forth therein the necessity of being able to connect his private drainage with said system, and pray therein that said system be extended to such point as he may designate in said writing, and immediately thereon said board of commissioners shall cause a petition to be filed in the district court for and in the name of said drainage district, requesting, in said petition, that said system be extended as requested, setting forth therein the necessity thereof and praying that leave be granted by the board to extend the system in accordance with the prayer of said petition, and the proceedings in such case, upon the presentation of such petition and the hearing thereof shall be, in all matters, the same as in the hearing and presentation of the original petition, for the establishment of the original system of drainage in said district, as far as applicable. The costs in such proceedings shall be paid from the assessment of benefits to be made on the lands of the person or persons benefited by such extension, and the assessment and compensation for the right of way, damages and benefits and payment of damages and compensation, and the collection of the assessments for benefits shall be the same as in the proceedings under the original petition, and the construction of the said extension shall be made under the same provisions as the construction of the original improvement; and all things that may be done or performed in connection therewith shall be, as near as may be applicable, in accordance with the provisions already set forth herein for the establishment and construction of said original improvement: provided, that such petitioner or petitioners shall, at the time of filing such petition by said drainage commissioners, enter into a good and sufficient bond to said drainage district, in the full penal sum of $500, with two (2) or more sureties to be approved by the court, conditioned for the payment of all costs in case the prayer of said petitioner shall not be granted, which bond shall be filed in said court.  History: [(42-2945) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 21, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:42; C.S., sec. 4536; I.C.A., sec. 41-2545.]
ID Code § 42-2947 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2947 - USE OF NATURAL WATERCOURSES AND PREVIOUSLY CONSTRUCTED WORKS.

42-2947. USE OF NATURAL WATERCOURSES AND PREVIOUSLY CONSTRUCTED WORKS. The whole or any portion of any natural watercourse which drains any district established under this chapter, or the whole or any portion of any ditch or drainage system already constructed or partially constructed prior to the passage of this chapter, or which may be constructed subsequent thereto, may be improved and completed as a system under the provisions of this chapter: provided, that the owner or owners of any land upon or in which any drainage system has been established or constructed in whole or in part or which may hereafter be constructed in whole or in part, may take advantage of the provisions of this chapter to organize same as a drainage district, for the purpose of completing same or for the purpose of making provision for the payment or funding of any indebtedness incurred in the construction of such system, or either; and providing for the maintenance thereof. The procedure to be followed in such case shall be the same as is herein provided for the organization of a drainage district in the first instance to the extent that same is applicable to the situation: provided, that the necessary changes and substitutions therein may be made: provided further, that in the improvement of any natural watercourse, the rights of the public therein for the purpose of navigation shall not be in any wise impaired.  History: [(42-2947) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 24, p. 58; am. 1915, ch. 42, sec. 3, p. 123; reen. C.L. 168:44; C.S., sec. 4538; I.C.A., sec. 41-2547.]
ID Code § 42-2948 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2948 - CONSTRUCTION OF DIKES ALONG PUBLIC ROADS.

42-2948. CONSTRUCTION OF DIKES ALONG PUBLIC ROADS. In the construction of any diking system under the provisions of this chapter, where it is desired to construct the same along the right of way of any public road which has theretofore been legally established, said district shall have a right to construct its dikes along such road: provided, that the dikes so constructed along such road shall not destroy or impair the same for use as a public highway; and in case of the construction or improvement of any dike along any public highway, such dike shall be constructed of sufficient width and in such manner as will be of use as a public highway.  History: [(42-2948) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 39, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:45; C.S., sec. 4539; I.C.A., sec. 41-2548.]
ID Code § 42-2949 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2949 - PAYMENTS OF CLAIMS — OPTION FOR DEPOSIT AND DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS — ISSUANCE OF CHECKS OR WARRANTS — INVESTMENT OF FUNDS

42-2949. PAYMENTS OF CLAIMS — OPTION FOR DEPOSIT AND DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS — ISSUANCE OF CHECKS OR WARRANTS — INVESTMENT OF FUNDS . (1) The board of commissioners may issue warrants of such district, in payment of claims of indebtedness against such district; such warrants shall be in form and substance the same as county warrants, or as near the same as may be practicable and shall draw the legal rate of interest from the date of their presentation to the treasurer for payment, as hereinafter provided, and shall be signed by the chairman and attested by the secretary of said board: provided, that no warrants shall be issued by said board of commissioners in payment of any indebtedness of such district for less than face or par value. (2) The board of commissioners may, in the alternative and as an option to subsection (1) of this section, elect by resolution to receive moneys due the district from the levy of taxes, assessments and other sources, to provide for the safekeeping and deposit of such moneys in accordance with the provisions of chapter 1, title 57, Idaho Code, and to pay all claims of indebtedness of the district allowed and approved by either warrant or check. If a drainage district elects this option, a certified copy of said resolution shall be served upon the board of county commissioners, the county auditor and the county treasurer. Upon allowance of claims by the board of commissioners, payment may be ordered by warrant or check signed by the chairman and the secretary. The secretary may be directed by resolution or order of the board to invest surplus funds in accordance with and subject to the provisions of chapter 1, title 57, Idaho Code, and section 50-1013, Idaho Code. The board of commissioners shall cause to be kept an accurate account of all moneys received, the sources from whence received, all moneys expended and the purposes to which applied.  History: [(42-2949) 1913, ch. 16, part of sec. 6, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:46; C.S., sec. 4540; I.C.A., sec. 41-2549; am. 1983, ch. 60, sec. 1, p. 139.]
ID Code § 42-2950 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2950 - WARRANTS — PAYMENT — INTEREST.

42-2950. WARRANTS — PAYMENT — INTEREST. (1) All warrants issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be presented by the holder thereof to the county treasurer, who shall indorse thereon the day of presentation for payment, with the additional indorsement thereof in case of nonpayment that they are not paid for want of funds; and no warrant shall draw interest under the provisions of this chapter until it is so presented and indorsed by the county treasurer. And it shall be the duty of such treasurer, from time to time, when he has sufficient funds in his hands for that purpose, to advertise in the newspaper doing the county printing for the presentation to him for payment of as many of the outstanding warrants as he may be able to pay: provided, that thirty (30) days after the first publication of said notice of the treasurer calling in any of said outstanding warrants, said warrants shall cease to bear interest, which shall be stated in the notice. Said notice shall be published two (2) weeks consecutively, and said warrants shall be called in and paid in the order of their indorsement. (2) If a board of commissioners has elected and complied with the provisions of section 42-2949(1), Idaho Code, and in the absence of funds to pay warrants issued, the board may by resolution order payment of warrants presented by registering such warrants as hereinafter provided, and at the same time shall prescribe the interest rate said warrants shall draw. All warrants issued shall be presented to the secretary of a drainage district by the persons holding the same. If there are insufficient funds to pay the warrants presented, the secretary must indorse thereon "not paid for want of funds," the date of indorsement, the rate of interest such warrant shall draw as fixed by resolution of the board of commissioners, and sign his name thereto; and thereafter the said warrant shall draw interest at the rate specified in such indorsement until called for payment. Warrants issued by a drainage district shall be paid in the order of their issuance from funds accruing for the year in which they are issued. After all outstanding indebtedness for any one (1) year has been paid, any balance for that year shall be transferred to a warrant redemption fund for payment of uncalled registered warrants. Where there is no outstanding indebtedness nor any uncalled registered warrants, any balance may be used for the payment of current expenses for the next fiscal year.  History: [(42-2950) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 32, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:47; C.S., sec. 4541; I.C.A., sec. 41-2550; am. 1983, ch. 60, sec. 2, p. 140.]
ID Code § 42-2951 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2951 - LEGALIZATION OF WARRANTS ISSUED UNDER FORMER ACT.

42-2951. LEGALIZATION OF WARRANTS ISSUED UNDER FORMER ACT. Whenever any territory of the state of Idaho heretofore organized as a drainage district under the provisions of sections 2444 to 2483 inclusive, of the Revised Codes, shall be hereafter organized as a drainage district under the provisions of a subsequent drainage law, all debts incurred and warrants issued by the commissioners of said drainage district as heretofore organized, shall be and hereby are made legal and valid obligations against the district as organized under such subsequent drainage law: provided, however, that all debts incurred and warrants issued shall be reported to the district court by the commissioners who incurred said indebtedness or issued said warrants, or by any one of said commissioners, under oath, and be certified to as correct by the district judge of the county in which said district was located; and after such certification said district judge shall order a levy made for the payment of said obligations, and the taxes shall be collected the same as general taxes are collected: provided, however, that any creditor of any drainage district organized under sections 2444 to 2483 inclusive, of the Revised Codes, shall have the right of suit against said district, after reasonable notice of his claim to the commissioners therein, and their neglect or refusal to report said claim to the district court for certification as to its correctness: provided further, that in cases where the district as organized under a subsequent drainage law shall include other lands than were included in the district originally organized under sections 2444 to 2483 inclusive, of the Revised Codes, upon the certification of the correctness of the debts incurred and warrants issued by the commissioners of said district, by the district judge as herein provided, such debts incurred and warrants issued shall be deemed to be obligations upon the lands embraced within the limits of the district as originally organized under said sections 2444 to 2483 inclusive, of the Revised Codes, and be collected as herein provided.  History: [(42-2951) 1913, ch. 17, sec. 1, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:48; C.S., sec. 4542; I.C.A., sec. 41-2551.]
ID Code § 42-2953 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2953 - FUNDING BONDS.

42-2953. FUNDING BONDS. Such commissioners may, at any time thereafter, issue such bonds in the manner and form herein prescribed for the purpose of funding any outstanding warrants or obligations of such district. In case of such last-named issue all the outstanding warrants shall immediately become due and payable upon receipt of the money by the county treasurer from the sale of said bonds, and upon a call of such outstanding obligations to be issued by him. Such call shall be made by said treasurer immediately upon the receipt of the proceeds from the sale of said bonds, by publication for two (2) consecutive weeks in the county paper authorized to do the county printing, and such warrants and outstanding obligations shall cease to draw interest at the end of thirty days after the date of the first publication.  History: [(42-2953) 1913, ch. 16, part of sec. 25, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:50; C.S., sec. 4544; I.C.A., sec. 41-2553.]
ID Code § 42-2954 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2954 - FORM OF BONDS — INTEREST — MATURITIES.

42-2954. FORM OF BONDS — INTEREST — MATURITIES. Said bonds shall be numbered from one (1) upward, consecutively, and be in denominations of not less than $100 nor more than $1000. They shall bear the date of issue, shall be made payable to the bearer and bear interest, payable semi-annually, with coupons attached for each interest payment. The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board of drainage commissioners, and shall be attested by the secretary of said board, and the seal of such district shall be affixed to each bond, but not to the coupons. The coupons may be signed by the facsimile lithographed or engraved signatures of the said officers. The board of commissioners shall fix the maturities of said bonds not exceeding forty (40) years from the date of their issuance and an amortization period which shall be not less than three-fourths (3/4) of the maximum maturity. During the first fourth of the period covered by the last maturity provision may be made, in the discretion of the board, for the payment of interest only. Maturities shall be so arranged that during at least the latter three-fourths (3/4) of the period covered by the last maturity the principal shall be amortized by payments thereof in annual or semi-annual instalments so arranged as to maturities that the combined principal and interest payments during the amortization period shall be approximately the same each year. Said bonds shall be payable at such place within or without the state of Idaho as may be designated by the board of commissioners. The issuing drainage district may reserve the right to redeem said bonds or any of them at any time after ten (10) years from date thereof.  History: [(42-2954) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 26, p. 58; reen. C.L., 168:51; C.S., sec. 4545; am. 1927, ch. 179, sec. 1, p. 242; am. 1927, ch. 254, sec. 1, p. 429; am. 1929, ch. 78, sec. 1, p. 116; I.C.A., sec. 41-2554; am. 1935, ch. 49, sec. 3, p. 89; am. 1970, ch. 133, sec. 6, p. 309.]
ID Code § 42-2955 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2955 - EXCHANGE OF BONDS FOR WARRANTS.

42-2955. EXCHANGE OF BONDS FOR WARRANTS. Said bonds may be exchanged at not less than their par value for an equal amount of the warrants of the district issuing such bonds.  History: [(42-2955) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 27, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:52; C.S., sec. 4546; I.C.A., sec. 41-2555.]
ID Code § 42-2956 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2956 - LEVY FOR SINKING FUND.

42-2956. LEVY FOR SINKING FUND. At least one (1) year before the first principal maturity of said bonds (as fixed by the board of commissioners pursuant to section 42-2954[, Idaho Code,]) and thereafter annually, the drainage commissioners of such district issuing them are hereby authorized and required to levy an assessment sufficient to liquidate said bonds at their respective maturities. Such assessment shall be collected by the official whose duty it is to collect the county taxes, and kept as a separate fund for the sole purpose of liquidating said bonds in accordance with the provisions of the following section. The annual levies of assessments to pay bonds issued prior to the effective date of this amendment shall be made according to the law in existence at the time of the issuance of said prior bonds and according to the maturity needs thereof.  History: [(42-2956) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 28, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:53; C.S., sec. 4547; I.C.A., sec. 41-2556; am. 1935, ch. 49, sec. 4, p. 89.]
ID Code § 42-2957 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2957 - CALLING OF BONDS.

42-2957. CALLING OF BONDS. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of any county in which there may be a district issuing bonds under the provisions of this chapter whenever he has upon hand $5000 of the special fund for the payment of said bonds, and when said bonds shall have run for a period of three (3) years, to advertise in the newspaper doing the county printing, for the presentation to him for payment of as many of the bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter as he is able to pay with the funds in his hands, to be paid in numerical order of said bonds, beginning with the bond number one (1), until all of said bonds are paid: provided, that thirty (30) days after the first publication of said notice of the treasurer calling in any of said bonds, said bonds shall cease to bear interest.  History: [(42-2957) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 29, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:54; C.S., sec. 4548; I.C.A., sec. 41-2557.]
ID Code § 42-2958 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2958 - LEVY FOR INTEREST.

42-2958. LEVY FOR INTEREST. It shall be the duty of such drainage commissioners annually to levy an assessment sufficient for the payment of the coupons hereinbefore mentioned as they fall due.  History: [(42-2958) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 30, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:55; C.S., sec. 4549; I.C.A., sec. 41-2558; am. 1935, ch. 55, sec. 2, p. 103.]
ID Code § 42-2959 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2959 - REGISTRATION OF BONDS.

42-2959. REGISTRATION OF BONDS. Before the bonds are delivered to the purchaser they shall be presented to the county treasurer, who shall register them in a book kept for that purpose, and known as the bond register, in which register he shall enter the number of each bond, the date of issue, the maturity, amount and rate of interest, to whom and when payable, and the proceeds derived from the sale of said bonds shall in all cases be paid by the purchaser thereof to the county treasurer.  History: [(42-2959) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 31, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:56; C.S., sec. 4550; I.C.A., sec. 41-2559.]
ID Code § 42-2960 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2960 - MAINTENANCE OF SYSTEM — DISTRICT NOT TO BE OPERATED FOR PROFIT.

42-2960. MAINTENANCE OF SYSTEM — DISTRICT NOT TO BE OPERATED FOR PROFIT. Any drainage district organized under the provisions of this chapter is not to be conducted or operated for profit or with the view of paying dividends, but solely for the benefit and welfare of the residents and property owners of said district.  History: [(42-2960) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 42, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:57; C.S., sec. 4551; I.C.A., sec. 41-2560.]
ID Code § 42-2961 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2961 - APPORTIONMENT OF COST OF MAINTENANCE.

42-2961. APPORTIONMENT OF COST OF MAINTENANCE. The board of commissioners of any drainage district organized under the provisions of this chapter shall, on or before the third Monday of September of each year, make an estimate of the cost of maintenance of the drainage system constructed in such district, which estimate shall include the cost of making any necessary repairs that it might become necessary to make in the maintenance of such system. Such estimate shall be made for the succeeding year, and the amount so estimated shall be certified by the board of commissioners to the auditor of the county in which such district is located, on or before said date, and the amount thereof shall be apportioned to the landowners in such district benefited by said improvement in proportion to the benefit apportioned or reapportioned, and such amount shall be added to the general taxes of such landowners and collected therewith; provided however, that at the option of the commissioners the amount apportioned to every landowner on any parcel or piece of land shall be not less than one dollar ($1.00), which amount shall be a minimum assessment to be collected as a tax for the year on every such parcel or piece of land.  History: [(42-2961) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 23, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:58; am. 1919, ch. 20, sec. 1, p. 82; C.S., sec. 4552; am. 1927, ch. 53, sec. 1, p. 68; I.C.A., sec. 41-2561; am. 1953, ch. 257, sec. 1, p. 411; am. 1974, ch. 118, sec. 1, p. 1289; am. 2012, ch. 106, sec. 2, p. 283.]
ID Code § 42-2962 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 42 - IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION|Chapter 29 - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS|Section 42-2962 - LEVY OF AND LIMITATION ON ASSESSMENTS.

42-2962. LEVY OF AND LIMITATION ON ASSESSMENTS. The commissioners may also levy assessments for any expense necessarily incurred by them for construction, maintenance, repair, or any extraordinary reasons, and also may add to said assessment sufficient to pay any deficiency occurring the preceding year or any other unpaid warrant indebtedness, if any, or to pay any outstanding warrants: provided, that any assessments to be hereafter made by any drainage commissioners to pay for the payment or retirement of any bonds or warrants shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) of the original cost of organization and construction, and said assessment for the payment or retirement of any bonds or warrants shall be in addition to the assessments which may be levied under this section or section 42-2936, Idaho Code, and such assessments, when made, shall be apportioned under section 42-2961, Idaho Code, and collected as hereinbefore provided for.  History: [(42-2962) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 23, p. 58; reen. C.L. 168:58; am. 1919, ch. 20, part of sec. 1, p. 82; C.S., sec. 4553; I.C.A., sec. 41-2562; am. 2012, ch. 106, sec. 3, p. 283; am. 2018, ch. 92, sec. 3, p. 198.]