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WY Stat § 41-9-303 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 3 - Division|Section 41-9-303 - Order for Hearing on Petition; Notice Generally.

41-9-303. Order for hearing on petition; notice generally.| (a) On such petition being filed, the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing the time and place for a hearing thereon, and ordering notice; thereupon the clerk of said court shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the filing of said petition to be given:  (i) By posting notice thereof in at least five (5) public places in said proposed new district, and in at least five (5) public places in the remainder of the district proposed to be divided;  (ii) By serving or causing to be served a copy of such notice on each owner of land within said district, proposed to be divided, either personally or by registered mail to his last known address at least twenty (20) days prior to the hearing; and by serving in like manner a similar notice on each of the commissioners of the drainage district proposed to be divided; and  (iii) By publishing a notice thereof at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which any part of the district is located. If there be no newspaper in any such county, such notice shall be published in a newspaper published in the adjoining county nearest the land in said district.  (b) Such notice shall state:  (i) In what court said petition is filed;  (ii) A brief description of any proposed new work, with the starting points, routes and termini of new drains and ditches;  (iii) The boundaries of the proposed district;  (iv) The name proposed for such district;  (v) The proposed apportionment of the existing indebtedness as between the remaining portion of the original district and said proposed new district;  (vi) The time and place as fixed by the court for the hearing on said petition.
WY Stat § 41-9-304 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 3 - Division|Section 41-9-304 - Manner of Service.

41-9-304. Manner of service.| Service of said notice, and proof of service thereof, shall be made in the same manner as is now provided by law in the case of the organization of new districts under chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, as amended.
WY Stat § 41-9-305 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 3 - Division|Section 41-9-305 - Hearing.

41-9-305. Hearing.| Upon the day fixed for the hearing on such petition, all parties owning lands, or any interest or easement in land, within said district, proposed to be divided, or whomsoever would be affected thereby, or the commissioners of the original district, may appear and contest the granting of said petition on the grounds that said proposed division will not serve the best interests of all parties interested, and the grounds specified in W.S. 41-9-111.
WY Stat § 41-9-306 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 3 - Division|Section 41-9-306 - Court Order; Creation of New District as Corporate Entity; Apportionment of Indebtedness; Proration of Maintenance Expenses of Existing Works in Both Districts.

41-9-306. Court order; creation of new district as corporate entity; apportionment of indebtedness; proration of maintenance expenses of existing works in both districts.| If it shall appear to the court upon said hearing that the requisite number of signers appear on said petition, as required herein; that due and proper service has been had upon all parties interested as herein provided; and that the best interests of all parties interested will be served by the proposed division, he shall so find, and enter an order creating said new district, appointing commissioners therefor, apportioning the indebtedness of the original district as between the remaining portion of the original district and the proposed new district organized therefrom based upon the assessments for benefits last confirmed by the court against the lands embraced in each, and determining the proportionate amount, if any, of the annual operation and maintenance expense the new district shall bear of and for maintaining the drainage system constructed by the original district, and thereupon such new drainage district shall be, and thereby declared to be organized as an independent drainage district by the name fixed by court, with the boundaries as therein fixed, and with the indebtedness as apportioned to it, to be a body corporate, with the right to sue and be sued, adopt a corporate seal, and have perpetual succession the same as if organized as an original drainage district under the statute in such case provided; provided, however, that no such order shall be effective for the apportionment of indebtedness as herein provided unless and until the owners and holders of the evidences of indebtedness against the original district, whether bonds or otherwise, shall have filed in said court a written consent and approval of the apportionment thereof, as made by the court.
WY Stat § 41-9-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 4 - Joint Operation With Municipalities|Section 41-9-401 - Agreement Generally; Apportionment of Maintenance Expenses; Municipal Assessments Generally.

41-9-401. Agreement generally; apportionment of maintenance expenses; municipal assessments generally.| Whenever any incorporated town, city or village lies in whole or in part within the boundaries of any drainage district now organized, or which may hereafter be organized in the state of Wyoming, the commissioners of said district may enter into an agreement with said town, city or village under the terms of which said agreement, said town, city or village may agree to operate, maintain, repair or extend any drainage works lying wholly or in part within said town, city or village; and when such agreement has been entered into, said drainage district shall be relieved from the expense of operation, maintenance, extension or repairs of such drains except where any portion of the district discharges its water through the outlets diverted through said town, city or village in which case the drainage district shall assist in maintaining the said drain on a basis of land drained into said drain and said town, city or village and the individual freeholders within said town, city or village shall be relieved from the payment of assessments for operation, maintenance, repairs or extension levied by said drainage district during the life of said agreement. Such town, city or village shall thereafter levy each year, as a part of its assessment for city purposes, such amount as shall be found necessary to operate, maintain, extend or repair said drains in the same manner as is now provided for assessments for sewerage; provided, however, that any drain lying partly within said town, city or village and partly without may, by agreement between said commissioners by and with the consent of the bondholders and said town, city or village, be jointly maintained by the parties to such agreement.
WY Stat § 41-9-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 4 - Joint Operation With Municipalities|Section 41-9-402 - Assessments for Bond Principal and Interest; Levy and Collection.

41-9-402. Assessments for bond principal and interest; levy and collection.| The commissioners of said drainage district, the holders of any bond or bonds of the said district and the authorities of any such town, city or village shall also enter into an agreement whereby all assessments for bond principal and interest shall be collected by such town, city or village in the same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of sewerage taxes. Upon such agreement being reached, the commissioners and bondholders of such drainage district shall furnish to said town, city or village a roll showing the lots, tracts or parcels of land within said town, city or village assessed for drainage, the assessment for benefits thereon and the assessment for construction thereon. Said town, city or village shall thereupon proceed to levy and collect such amounts as may be necessary for the payment of said assessment for construction in the same manner as is now provided by law for the levy and collection of sewerage assessments, and shall remit payments to the bondholders entitled to receive such payments upon such drainage bonds semi-annually upon the first day of January and the first day of July of each year.
WY Stat § 41-9-403 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 4 - Joint Operation With Municipalities|Section 41-9-403 - Mill Levy and Indebtedness of Town Not to Be Affected.

41-9-403. Mill levy and indebtedness of town not to be affected.| The provisions in this act contained for levy, assessment and collection of drainage taxes shall not limit the mill levy of said town, city or village and the portion of said bonded debt of said drainage district assumed for collection by said town, city or village shall not be counted as a portion of the town's indebtedness when computing whether or not the debt limit of said town, city or village has been reached.
WY Stat § 41-9-501 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 5 - Contracts With United States|Section 41-9-501 - Qualifications of Districts as Prerequisites to Contracting.

41-9-501. Qualifications of districts as prerequisites to contracting.| Except as otherwise provided in this act, drainage districts organized under the provisions of chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, and contracting with the United States under authority of this act, shall be organized, administered and have the same powers, duties and obligations as provided for in said chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920 and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
WY Stat § 41-9-502 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 5 - Contracts With United States|Section 41-9-502 - When District Authorized to Enter Into Contract.

41-9-502. When district authorized to enter into contract.| Any drainage district organized under the provisions of chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, through its commissioners, shall have power to enter into contracts with the United States for the construction, operation and maintenance of any drainage or other works authorized to be done under the provisions of said statutes and authorized under any act of congress heretofore or hereafter enacted, providing for or permitting such a contract on the part of the United States, after said contract has been first submitted to the qualified electors of said district at an election held for that purpose, and at which a majority of the qualified electors present and voting has voted in favor of making such a contract.
WY Stat § 41-9-503 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 5 - Contracts With United States|Section 41-9-503 - Securing of District Indebtedness Due to Contract.

41-9-503. Securing of district indebtedness due to contract.| The commissioners may secure the indebtedness incurred by the district in such contract as provided for in W.S. 41-9-502, by issuing bonds of the district in such form, terms and denominations as may be fixed by the secretary of the interior in carrying out the provisions of any act of congress heretofore or hereafter enacted providing for or permitting such a contract on the part of the United States and the acceptance and deposit or sale of bonds of the district by the United States; said bonds may be delivered to the United States and held by it or, when deemed desirable or when the appraised value of the land in the district is double the bonded indebtedness, sold by the United States, and the net proceeds received from the sale of said bonds applied to the liquidation of the contract indebtedness of the district to the United States.
WY Stat § 41-9-504 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 5 - Contracts With United States|Section 41-9-504 - Unentered Public Lands as Majority of District; Appointment of Commissioners; Term; Removal; Subsequent Appointment or Election.

41-9-504. Unentered public lands as majority of district; appointment of commissioners; term; removal; subsequent appointment or election.| When a majority of the lands within the district are unentered public lands, a majority of the commissioners of the district, who shall be residents of the state, may be appointed by the secretary of the interior, and shall be subject to removal from office by him and any vacancy so created may be filled by further appointment by the secretary of the interior. Commissioners thus appointed by the secretary of the interior shall hold office until such time that the unentered public lands within the district constitute a minority of the total area, after which they shall be appointed or elected as otherwise provided by this chapter 76, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; if a majority of the commissioners of the district are so appointed by the secretary of the interior, then the remaining commissioners shall be appointed or elected at large within the entire drainage district for terms of two (2) years each, which terms, however, shall be limited to and expire on the first Tuesday in July next following the date when the unentered public lands within the district constitute less than a majority of the total acreage within the district, after which the commissioners shall be appointed or elected in the same manner and for the same terms as provided for in the case of first appointment or election of commissioners under the said statutes.
WY Stat § 41-9-601 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 6 - Dissolution|Section 41-9-601 - Petition of Landowners.

41-9-601. Petition of landowners.| When the commissioners of a drainage district by unanimous vote of the total membership thereof shall determine to call an election or whenever a majority of the landowners in any drainage district in this state, who shall represent one-half of the ownership of the lands theretofore assessed for benefits and construction within said drainage district, shall file with the commissioners of such district a petition praying for the dissolution thereof, it shall be the duty of the commissioners of such district to forthwith call an election of all of the landowners of said district to determine whether or not such district shall be dissolved.
WY Stat § 41-9-602 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 6 - Dissolution|Section 41-9-602 - Election; Notice.

41-9-602. Election; notice.| Notice of such election shall be published for four (4) successive weeks in one (1) or more newspapers published in each county in which any portion of the lands embraced within such district is situated, stating the time and place of said election and the object thereof, and in addition thereto, the commissioners of said district shall give the same notice as is required in case of annual elections in drainage districts.
WY Stat § 41-9-603 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 6 - Dissolution|Section 41-9-603 - Election; Conduct; Certification of Result; Report of District Indebtedness.

41-9-603. Election; conduct; certification of result; report of district indebtedness.| If at any such election which shall be conducted in the same manner as is now provided by law for the conduct of annual elections in drainage districts, a majority of all of the qualified voters owning a majority in acreage of the lands assessed for benefits in the district, shall be in favor of the dissolution of such district, the commissioners of such district shall forthwith certify to the district court having jurisdiction of such district the result of such election, and at the same time shall report to the court the amount and character of the then existing indebtedness of the district. In the event the question of the dissolution of such district does not carry at such election the question shall not again be raised for a period of one (1) year from the date of such election.
WY Stat § 41-9-604 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 6 - Dissolution|Section 41-9-604 - Order for Hearing on Results of Election; Generally.

41-9-604. Order for hearing on results of election; generally.| Upon the filing of the commissioners' report and return of election, an order shall be made and entered by the court fixing the time and place for a hearing thereon, at which time and place all creditors and other persons interested may appear and show cause why said district should not be dissolved.
WY Stat § 41-9-605 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 6 - Dissolution|Section 41-9-605 - Election Hearing Results; Publication.

41-9-605. Election hearing results; publication.| A copy of such order to show cause shall be published for four (4) successive weeks prior to said hearing in a newspaper published in each county in which lands embraced in said district be situated.
WY Stat § 41-9-606 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 6 - Dissolution|Section 41-9-606 - Hearing; Final Settlement.

41-9-606. Hearing; final settlement.| Upon said hearing, the court must find, on the evidence submitted, if the district be ordered dissolved, that the best interests of all parties interested shall be served by the proposed dissolution, and shall determine the amount of the existing indebtedness of such district, if any, and shall make an order requiring the payment of the same. Upon the filing by the commissioners of proper receipts, showing payment of all indebtedness against the district, the court shall thereupon make a final order dissolving the district, and in said order the court may provide for a receiver who shall have full authority to collect and distribute any assets or property formerly belonging to said district, who shall be guided by and shall comply with the provisions of W.S. 1-33-101 through 1-33-110, and the amendments thereof in the performance of his duties.
WY Stat § 41-11-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 11 - Interstate Streams Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 41-11-101 - Duties of Attorney General.

41-11-101. Duties of attorney general.| The attorney general shall be the legal advisor to the commission and it shall be his duty to defend any suit or suits that may be instituted against the state of Wyoming, or against the water users and appropriators from this state, by the United States government, or by any other state, involving the question of priorities and rights of interstate streams; or if advisable to prosecute any suit necessary to properly safeguard the interests of the state or its citizens, in such interstate streams.
WY Stat § 41-11-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 11 - Interstate Streams Commission|Article 2 - Commissioners|Section 41-11-201 - Appointment of Commissioners to Serve on Joint Commission; Ratification of Compacts; Governor May Serve as Commissioner.

41-11-201. Appointment of commissioners to serve on joint commission; ratification of compacts; governor may serve as commissioner.| (a) The governor of the state of Wyoming shall appoint any commissioners necessary to represent Wyoming on any joint commission to be composed of commissioners from Wyoming and one (1) or more adjoining states and an authorized representative of the United States for the purpose of negotiating compacts or agreements between those states, or between those states and the United States, respecting the equitable division, use and distribution of the waters of any interstate stream and its tributaries flowing from or into Wyoming. However, any such compact or agreement so entered into by the specified states, or between those states and the United States, is not binding or obligatory upon any of the compacting parties thereto unless it has been ratified and approved by the legislature of each of the party states and consented to by the congress of the United States.  (b) At his option, the governor may serve as one (1) of the commissioners for Wyoming in negotiating any compact or agreement respecting the equitable division, use and distribution of the waters of any interstate stream and its tributaries flowing from or into Wyoming.  (c) The governor may remove any commissioner he appoints under this section as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
WY Stat § 41-11-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 11 - Interstate Streams Commission|Article 2 - Commissioners|Section 41-11-202 - Designation of Commissioners to Represent State on All Interstate Compacts; Service of Governor on Compact Commission.

41-11-202. Designation of commissioners to represent state on all interstate compacts; service of governor on compact commission.| The governor of Wyoming shall appoint and designate such commissioners as may be necessary to represent the state of Wyoming on all negotiated interstate compacts, unless the compacts by their terms otherwise provide. The governor of Wyoming, at his option, may serve as a commissioner for Wyoming on any compact commission, if permitted under the terms of the compact. The governor may remove any commissioner he appoints as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
WY Stat § 41-11-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 11 - Interstate Streams Commission|Article 2 - Commissioners|Section 41-11-203 - Authority of Commissioners; Investigations.

41-11-203. Authority of commissioners; investigations.| Any commissioner appointed to serve under the provisions of any interstate water compact or in the negotiation of an interstate water compact or any other person designated by the governor to do so, shall have full authority to make any and all investigations of such interstate streams and the drainage area thereof which may become necessary in order to sufficiently advise him of the physical conditions obtaining upon such system, and of the present and future needs of the state of Wyoming, and its citizens to the use and benefits of the waters of such stream. To that end the governor or any commissioner or other person designated by the governor to conduct such investigation, shall have authority to administer oaths, examine and require the attendance of witnesses, and to perform such other duties as may be necessary to sufficiently apprise him of the facts and furnish him with adequate information in order that he may properly perform his duties as the representative of the state of Wyoming or to fully inform the designated representative of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 41-11-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 11 - Interstate Streams Commission|Article 2 - Commissioners|Section 41-11-204 - Assistant Commissioners.

41-11-204. Assistant commissioners.| The governor may appoint assistant commissioners to aid and assist him, or any interstate streams commissioner appointed by him, in the negotiations for determination of the equitable division of the waters of all Wyoming interstate streams, to serve only on call of the governor.