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ID Code § 43-223 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-223 - VERIFICATION AND CANVASS OF SIGNATURES — PROCEDURE.

43-223. VERIFICATION AND CANVASS OF SIGNATURES — PROCEDURE. (1) Upon the filing of a recall petition, the secretary of the irrigation district shall proceed to verify and canvass the names of legal voters on the petition. (2) The verification and canvass of signatures on the petition may be observed by persons representing the advocates and opponents of the proposed recall so long as they make no record of the names, addresses, or other information on the petitions or related records during the verification process except upon the order of the magistrate court. The secretary of the irrigation district may limit the number of observers if in his opinion a greater number would cause undue delay or disruption of the verification process. Any such limitation shall apply equally to both sides, but in no case shall fewer than two (2) observers on each side be allowed. If the secretary of the irrigation district finds the same name signed to more than one (1) petition, he shall reject all but one (1) such valid signature.  History: [43-223, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 853.]
ID Code § 43-224 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-224 - FIXING DATE FOR RECALL ELECTION — NOTICE.

43-224. FIXING DATE FOR RECALL ELECTION — NOTICE. If, at the conclusion of the verification and canvass, it is found that a petition for recall bears the required number of signatures of certified legal voters, the secretary of the irrigation district shall promptly certify the petitions as sufficient and fix a date for the special election to determine whether or not the director charged shall be recalled and discharged from office. The special election shall be held not less than fourteen (14) days nor more than forty-five (45) days from the certification. Notice shall be given in the manner as required by law for all other irrigation district elections as provided in section 43-206, Idaho Code.  History: [43-224, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 853.]
ID Code § 43-225 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-225 - RESPONSE TO PETITION CHARGES.

43-225. RESPONSE TO PETITION CHARGES. When a date for a special election is set, the secretary of the irrigation district shall serve a notice of the date of the election to the director whose recall is demanded and the person demanding recall. Such notice may be made only in person or by certified mail, return receipt requested. After having been served a notice of the date of the election and the ballot synopsis, the director whose recall is demanded may submit to the secretary of the irrigation district a response, not to exceed two hundred (200) words in length, to the charge contained in the ballot synopsis. Such response shall be submitted by the seventh consecutive day after service of the notice. The secretary of the irrigation district shall promptly send a copy of the response to the person who filed the petition.  History: [43-225, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 853.]
ID Code § 43-226 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-226 - DESTRUCTION OF INSUFFICIENT RECALL PETITION.

43-226. DESTRUCTION OF INSUFFICIENT RECALL PETITION. If it is found that the recall petition does not contain the requisite number of signatures of certified legal voters, the secretary of the irrigation district shall so notify the person filing the petition, and specify the number of additional signatures required to make the petition valid. The petition must be perfected within thirty (30) days of the date that the secretary finds the petition defective for lack of certified signatures. If the petition is not perfected within the thirty (30) day period, the secretary shall declare the petition null and void ab initio in its entirety.  History: [43-226, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 854.]
ID Code § 43-227 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-227 - INVALID NAMES — RECORD OF.

43-227. INVALID NAMES — RECORD OF. The secretary of the irrigation district shall keep a record of all names appearing thereon which are not certified to be legal residents of the district, and of all names appearing more than once thereon, and he may report the same to the prosecuting attorneys of the respective counties where such names appear to have been signed, to the end that prosecutions may be had for such violation of the provisions of this chapter.  History: [43-227, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 854.]
ID Code § 43-228 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-228 - CONDUCT OF ELECTION — FORM OF BALLOT.

43-228. CONDUCT OF ELECTION — FORM OF BALLOT. The special election to be called for the recall of directors of irrigation districts shall be conducted in the same manner as regular irrigation district elections are conducted. The secretary of the irrigation district shall provide for the holding of recall elections and the necessary places and officers, ballot boxes, ballots, poll books, voting machines, supplies, and returns as are required by law for holding regular irrigation district elections. The ballots at any recall election shall contain a full, true, and correct copy of the ballot synopsis of the charge, the director’s response to the charge if such has been filed, and shall be so arranged that any voter can, by making one cross (X), express his desire to have the director charged recalled from his office, or retained therein. The following form shall substantially comply with the provisions of this section: RECALL BALLOT      (Here insert the ballot   (Here insert the irrigation     synopsis of the charge.)   director’s response to the       charge.)       FOR the recall of (here insert the name of the director of the irrigation district)    AGAINST the recall (here insert the name of the director of the irrigation district)    History: [43-228, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 854.]
ID Code § 43-229 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-229 - ASCERTAINING THE RESULT — WHEN RECALL EFFECTIVE.

43-229. ASCERTAINING THE RESULT — WHEN RECALL EFFECTIVE. The votes on a recall election shall be counted, canvassed, and the results certified in the manner provided by law for counting, canvassing, and certifying the results of an election for directors. If a majority of all votes cast at the recall election is for the recall of the director charged, he shall thereupon be recalled and discharged from his office and there shall be declared a vacancy in the office.  History: [43-229, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 855.]
ID Code § 43-230 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-230 - ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS — MANDAMUS — APPEALS.

43-230. ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS — MANDAMUS — APPEALS. The magistrate court of the county in which the director subject to recall resides has original jurisdiction to compel the performance of any act required of any public officer or to prevent the performance by any such officer of any act in relation to the recall not in compliance with law.  History: [43-230, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 855.]
ID Code § 43-231 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-231 - VIOLATIONS BY SIGNERS.

43-231. VIOLATIONS BY SIGNERS. Every person who signs a recall petition with any other than his true name is guilty of a felony. Every person who knowingly (1) signs more than one (1) petition for the same recall, (2) signs a recall petition when he is not a legal voter, or (3) makes a false statement as to his residence on any recall petition is guilty of a misdemeanor.  History: [43-231, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 855.]
ID Code § 43-232 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 2 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-232 - VIOLATIONS — CORRUPT PRACTICES.

43-232. VIOLATIONS — CORRUPT PRACTICES. (1) Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor, who: (a) Wilfully or knowingly circulates, publishes or exhibits any false statement or representation concerning the contents, purpose or effect of any recall petition for the purpose of obtaining any signature to any such petition, or for the purpose of persuading any person to sign any such recall petition; (b) Presents to any officer for filing any recall petition to which is attached, appended or subscribed any signature which the person so filing the petition knows to be false or fraudulent, or not the genuine signature of the person purporting to sign such petition, or whose name is attached, appended or subscribed thereto; (c) Circulates or causes to circulate any recall petition, knowing the same to contain false, forged or fictitious names; (d) Makes any false affidavit concerning any recall petition or the signatures appended thereto; (e) Offers, proposes or threatens for any pecuniary reward or consideration: (i) To offer, propose, threaten or attempt to sell, hinder or delay any recall petition or any part thereof or any signatures thereon; (ii) To offer, propose or threaten to desist from beginning, promoting or circulating any recall petition; (iii) To offer, propose, attempt or threaten in any manner or form to use any recall petition or any power of promotion or opposition in any manner or form for extortion, blackmail or secret or private intimidation of any person or business interest. (2) A public officer is guilty of a felony, who knowingly makes any false return, certification or affidavit concerning any recall petition, or the signatures appended thereto.  History: [43-232, added 1989, ch. 337, sec. 1, p. 855.]
ID Code § 43-301 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-301 - ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

43-301. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. On the first Tuesday of January next following their election, the board of directors shall meet and organize as a board, elect a president from their number and appoint a secretary and treasurer, who shall each hold office during the pleasure of the board. At any regular or special meeting the board of directors may appoint an assistant secretary or an assistant treasurer, or both, and fix the duties, the length of term, and the amount of bond, of each of them.  History: [(43-301) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 12; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1, part of subd. 12; reen. R.C., sec. 2385; am. 1911, ch. 154, sec. 7, p. 461; am. 1915, ch. 86, sec. 1, p. 203; reen. C.L., sec. 2385; C.S., sec. 4343; I.C.A., sec. 42-301; am. 1933, ch. 33, sec. 1, p. 44.]
ID Code § 43-302 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-302 - OFFICE OF BOARD.

43-302. OFFICE OF BOARD. On the organization of the first board of directors of any such district they shall designate some place within the district as the office of said board: provided, that the board of directors may establish the office of the district temporarily outside of the boundary of the district, but within the county in which the same or some portion thereof is situated, in cases where the business of the district may be more conveniently transacted thereby; and if such temporary location be approved by a majority of the electors of the district voting at any regular election at which such question may be submitted then such temporary location may be fixed as the location of the office of the district for such period of years as may be designated on their ballots by the majority of such electors at such election.  History: [(43-302) 1903, p. 150, sec. 12; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; reen. R.C., sec. 2385; am. 1911, ch. 154, sec. 7, p. 461; am. 1915, ch. 86, sec. 1, parts of subd. 2385, p. 203; reen. C.L., sec. 2385a; C.S., sec. 4344; I.C.A., sec. 42-302.]
ID Code § 43-303 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-303 - MEETINGS OF BOARD.

43-303. MEETINGS OF BOARD. The board of directors shall hold a regular monthly meeting in its office, or in any other location the board deems more convenient and suitable within the boundary of the district, on the first Tuesday in every month or such date each month as it shall fix by resolution and such special meetings as may be required for the proper transaction of business. All meetings of the board shall be held in compliance with Idaho’s open meetings law as provided in chapter 2, title 74, Idaho Code. All meetings of the board must be public, and a majority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Unless otherwise provided by law, a question before the board shall be decided by a majority of the board members present. All records of the board shall be open to the inspection of any elector during business hours. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this section and section 43-325, Idaho Code, shall be the exclusive method for inspection of records of the board.  History: [(43-303) 1903, p. 150, part of sec. 12; am. 1907, p. 484, sec. 1; reen. R.C., sec. 2385; am. 1911, ch. 154, sec. 7, p. 461; am. 1915, ch. 86, sec. 1, p. 203; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 2385b; C.S., sec. 4345; I.C.A., sec. 42-303; am. 1965, ch. 38, sec. 1, p. 62; am. 2015, ch. 78, sec. 1, p. 200; am. 2019, ch. 191, sec. 1, p. 603.]
ID Code § 43-306 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-306 - LEVY AUTHORIZED FOR PURPOSE OF DRAINING LANDS WITHIN DISTRICT.

43-306. LEVY AUTHORIZED FOR PURPOSE OF DRAINING LANDS WITHIN DISTRICT. Any irrigation district now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of the state of Idaho, shall have authority to construct drainage works for the purpose of draining, or reclaiming, any land, or lands, within such irrigation district, which authority shall be exercised by the board of directors in its discretion. The board of directors before levy as hereinafter provided, shall determine by resolution spread on the minutes thereof if any of the lands within an irrigation district are in need of drainage, and should be drained to protect said land or other lands within said district from damage from seepage or other waters, subterranean or otherwise, then the board of directors of such district shall have the power and authority, at the time provided by law for levying assessments for the operation and maintenance of said irrigation district in addition to such assessments, to also levy an assessment against the lands of said irrigation district for drainage purposes, said levy not to exceed in any one (1) year forty per cent (40%) of the total amount levied for operation and maintenance purposes. Such assessment for drainage shall in all respects be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as assessments for operation and maintenance. All funds collected for drainage purposes under the provisions hereof shall be kept in a separate fund to be known as "Drainage Fund" of said irrigation district, and the moneys in said "Drainage Fund" from time to time may be expended by the board of directors of said irrigation district.  History: [(43-306) I.C.A., sec. 42-305A, as added by 1945, ch. 17, sec. 1, p. 25; am. 1951, ch. 48, sec. 1, p. 65.]
ID Code § 43-307 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-307 - AUTHORITY TO EXERCISE FUNCTIONS OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS.

43-307. AUTHORITY TO EXERCISE FUNCTIONS OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS. Any irrigation district heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of this state desiring so to do, and having received the petition required by and complied with the provisions of section 43-308 as amended, and sections 43-309, 43-310, 43-311, 43-312, [Idaho Code,] may exercise, and it is hereby given, all the functions, powers and authority of a drainage district and of its board of commissioners under the laws of this state relating to drainage districts. The functions, powers and authority granted by this act shall be exercised by such irrigation district through its board of directors and, so far as may be, in the manner provided in the drainage district laws of the state.  History: [(43-307) 1931, ch. 163, sec. 1, p. 277; I.C.A., sec. 42-306; am. 1945, ch. 4, sec. 1, p. 5.]
ID Code § 43-308 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-308 - AUTHORITY TO EXERCISE FUNCTIONS OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS — PETITION AND RESOLUTION.

43-308. AUTHORITY TO EXERCISE FUNCTIONS OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS — PETITION AND RESOLUTION. After receiving a petition signed by the holders of title or evidence of title to one-fifth (1/5) of the lands within the district praying it shall do so, any irrigation district desiring to accept the provisions of this act shall so declare by resolution adopted by majority vote of its directors and spread upon its minutes, and thereupon said district shall cause to be filed with the clerk of the district court of the county in which a greater portion of the lands of said irrigation district are located, its petition praying that the court shall set a day for hearing said petition and on and after said hearing make and enter its order and decree authorizing such irrigation district to perform all of the functions of a drainage district under the laws of the state of Idaho, and that there are lands within said district which need drainage: that there shall be attached to said petition so filed with the clerk of said court a true and correct copy of the petition of the said land owners in this section provided, together with a copy of said resolution of the board of directors of said district.  History: [(43-308) 1931, ch. 163, sec. 2, p. 277; I.C.A., sec. 42-307; am. 1945, ch. 4, sec. 2, p. 5.]
ID Code § 43-309 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-309 - NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION.

43-309. NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION. After the filing of said petition the judge of said court shall fix the time for hearing said petition by order by him made, which order shall provide that said petition shall be published for at least three (3) successive weeks in some newspaper or newspapers printed and published in said county or counties in which the lands are situated, or in case no such paper is published in said county, then in some paper of general circulation therein; together with a notice of the time and place when said judge shall consider said petition.  History: [(43-309) I.C.A., sec. 42-307a, as added by 1945, ch. 4, sec. 3, p. 5.]
ID Code § 43-310 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-310 - HEARING — OBJECTIONS — FINDINGS.

43-310. HEARING — OBJECTIONS — FINDINGS. Upon the day fixed for the hearing of said petition, any person or corporation interest [interested] therein, may appear before said court and make objections in writing to the granting of said petition but said objections shall be limited to determining whether or not the granting of authority to said irrigation district to perform the duties and functions of a drainage district and as such perform such functions is a proper and advantageous method of accomplishing the reclamation and protection of swamped, bogged or water-logged lands and lands subject to overflow therein, and whether or not there is a reasonable probability that the object sought by granting such powers to said irrigation district may be accomplished, and whether or not the drainage of lands in said district will be conducive either to the public health, welfare or convenience or increase the public revenue; and at the hearing the court shall hear and consider such evidence only as may be presented for or against the petition or objections thereto. Thereupon the court shall make its findings upon the facts alleged in the petition and objections and any other facts necessary and proper for the determination of the propriety of granting such powers to said irrigation district; and if such petition be granted the judge of said court shall make findings of fact setting forth the facts found by the said judge upon the hearing of said petition.  History: [(43-310) I.C.A., sec. 42-307b, as added by 1945, ch. 4, sec. 3, p. 5.]
ID Code § 43-311 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-311 - DECREE GRANTING PETITION — VESTING OF POWERS AND AUTHORITY IN DISTRICT.

43-311. DECREE GRANTING PETITION — VESTING OF POWERS AND AUTHORITY IN DISTRICT. Upon the filing of the findings of fact at the final hearing of said petition, as set forth in the last preceding section, said judge, if he finds that the granting of said petition and the drainage of the lands in said irrigation district will be conducive either to the public health, welfare or convenience, or will increase the public revenue, or will be of special benefit to the majority of the acreage of the lands in said irrigation district, shall enter the decree of said court granting said petition. Thereupon a certified copy of same shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state: and from and after the date of said filing of said decree, said irrigation district shall be vested with all of such functions, powers and authority of a drainage district and its board of commissioners under the laws of this state relating to drainage districts. The function, powers and authority granted by this act shall be exercised by such irrigation district through its board of directors and so far as may be in the manner provided by the drainage district laws of this state.  History: [(43-311) I.C.A., sec. 42-307c, as added by 1945, ch. 4, sec. 3, p. 5.]
ID Code § 43-312 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-312 - APPEALS.

43-312. APPEALS. Appeal may be taken by any interested person from said decree of the district court to the Supreme Court by serving a written notice of such appeal upon the secretary of said board of the irrigation district, within thirty (30) days after the rendition of said decree by said court.  History: [(43-312) I.C.A., sec. 42-307d, as added by 1945, ch. 4, sec. 3, p. 5.]
ID Code § 43-313 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-313 - ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS — CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION.

43-313. ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS — CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION. The board of directors of any irrigation district, organized under the laws of the state of Idaho, shall have the power to construct and operate, or to contract for the construction and operation, of electric power plants, power transmission lines, and all other works in connection therewith necessary or proper for generating and transmitting electric power, and for pumping water for irrigation and domestic use; and to contract to sell surplus power generated at such power plants.  History: [(43-313) 1915, ch. 50, sec. 1, p. 137; reen. C.L., sec. 2386p; C.S., sec. 4348; am. 1923, ch. 27, sec. 1, p. 29; am. 1931, ch. 22, sec. 1, p. 49; I.C.A., sec. 42-308; am. 1973, ch. 183, sec. 1, p. 427.]