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ID Code § 43-314 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-314 - ELECTRICAL POWER PLANTS — SALE OF SURPLUS POWER — RATIFICATION OF CONTRACT.

43-314. ELECTRICAL POWER PLANTS — SALE OF SURPLUS POWER — RATIFICATION OF CONTRACT. The question of the ratification of contracts for the sale of surplus power as provided in the preceding section shall be submitted in the same manner, and shall be governed by the same limitations and provisions as questions creating indebtedness: provided, that the form for the notices, and the form upon the prepared ballots, and the form for the returns, shall be so changed as to conform to the purposes of this and the preceding section. Notwithstanding any provisions of chapter 23, title 43, Idaho Code, or the provisions of this chapter, no election and no confirmation proceedings shall be required when the contract for construction of a hydroelectric plant by the district does not involve questions of indebtedness incurred by the district.  History: [(43-314) 1915, ch. 50, sec. 2, p. 138; reen. C.L., sec. 2386o; C.S., sec. 4349; I.C.A., sec. 42-309; am. 2016, ch. 144, sec. 1, p. 411.]
ID Code § 43-315 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-315 - ASSESSMENT FOR EXTERMINATION OF RODENTS.

43-315. ASSESSMENT FOR EXTERMINATION OF RODENTS. The board of directors of an irrigation district may levy an assessment upon the lands within the district, not to exceed ten (10) cents per acre for the purpose of raising funds to be used for the extermination of gophers and other rodents. Said assessment shall be levied at the same time and in the same manner and with a like effect, as assessments levied for maintaining and operating the property of the district. Said assessments shall constitute a lien upon the property assessed and shall be collected, in like manner as assessments for maintenance and operation. The funds realized from such assessment shall be used for the extermination of gophers and other rodents within the irrigation district, in such manner and by such means as the said board of directors may direct.  History: [(43-315) 1927, ch. 42, sec. 1, p. 57; I.C.A., sec. 42-310.]
ID Code § 43-316 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-316 - LEGAL TITLE TO PROPERTY.

43-316. LEGAL TITLE TO PROPERTY. The legal title to all property acquired under the provisions of this title shall immediately and by operation of law vest in such irrigation district, and shall be held by such district in trust for, and is hereby dedicated and set apart to, the uses and purposes set forth in this title. Said board is hereby authorized and empowered to hold, use, acquire, manage, occupy and possess said property as herein provided.  History: [(43-316) 1903, p. 150, sec. 13; reen. R.C. sec. 2387; am. 1915, ch. 143, sec. 3, p. 304; reen. C.L., sec. 2387; C.S., sec. 4350; I.C.A., sec. 42-311.]
ID Code § 43-317 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-317 - CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY — ACTIONS.

43-317. CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY — ACTIONS. The said board is hereby authorized and empowered to take conveyance or other assurances for all property acquired by it under the uses and provisions of this title, in the name of such irrigation district, to and for the purposes herein expressed; and to institute and maintain any and all actions and proceedings, suits at law and in equity, necessary or proper in order to fully carry out the provisions of this title, or to enforce, maintain, protect or preserve any and all rights, privileges and immunities created by this title, or acquired in pursuance thereof. In all courts, actions, suits or proceedings the said board may sue, appear and defend, in person or by attorneys, and in the name of such irrigation district.  History: [(43-317) 1903, p. 150, sec. 14; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2388; C.S., sec. 4351; I.C.A., sec. 42-312.]
ID Code § 43-318A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-318A - TRADE-IN OR EXCHANGE OF DISTRICT PROPERTY.

43-318A. TRADE-IN OR EXCHANGE OF DISTRICT PROPERTY. Whenever the board of directors of an irrigation district finds and by resolution declares that the district no longer has use for any personal property of the district, or finds and declares that such property is no longer economical to use, the district may, in lieu of the sale of said property as provided in section 43-318, Idaho Code, dispose of the property by exchanging the same in part payment for new or replacement property. If the acquisition of the new or replacement property is required to be let to bid under the provisions of chapter 28, title 67, Idaho Code, the district shall include in its request for bids, a full description of the property to be exchanged as part payment, and shall permit any interested bidder to examine the same, and any contract let as a result of said bid shall be awarded on the basis of net cost to the district after allowance for the property to be exchanged in part payment. Exchange of property will be permitted only when, in the opinion of the board of directors of the district, the sale of the property under the provisions of section 43-318, Idaho Code, will yield a lesser monetary return to the district than the exchange thereof as herein provided.  History: [43-318A, added 1988, ch. 160, sec. 1, p. 290; am. 2005, ch. 213, sec. 13, p. 650.]
ID Code § 43-319 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-319 - COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

43-319. COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. The members of the board of directors shall fix the compensation board members shall receive for each day spent attending the meetings, or while engaged in official business under the order of the board and actual and necessary expenses. The term "actual and necessary expenses," shall be deemed to include all traveling expenses and hotel expenses necessarily incurred by any director when absent from his residence in the performance of the duties of his office. The board shall fix the compensation to be paid to the other officers named in this title, to be paid out of the treasury of the district: provided, that such board shall, upon the petition of fifty (50) or a majority of the freeholders within such district, submit to the electors, at any general election, a schedule of salaries and fees to be paid hereunder. Such petition must be presented to the board twenty (20) days prior to a general election, and the result of the election shall be determined and declared in all respects as other elections are determined and declared under this title.  History: [(43-319) 1903, p. 150, sec. 38; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2389; C.S., sec. 4352; am. 1921, ch. 166, sec. 1, p. 361; am. 1923, ch. 73, sec. 1, p. 81; I.C.A., sec. 42-314; am. 1951, ch. 11, sec. 1, p. 20; am. 1969, ch. 32, sec. 1, p. 57; am. 1982, ch. 234, sec. 1, p. 617; am. 1989, ch. 338, sec. 1, p. 856.]
ID Code § 43-320 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-320 - OFFICERS MUST NOT BE INTERESTED IN CONTRACTS.

43-320. OFFICERS MUST NOT BE INTERESTED IN CONTRACTS. No director or any other officer named in this title shall in any manner be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by the board, or in the profits to be derived therefrom; and for any violation of this provision such officers shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and such conviction shall work a forfeiture of his office, and he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.  History: [(43-320) 1903, p. 150, sec. 39; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2390; C.S., sec. 4353; I.C.A., sec. 42-315.]
ID Code § 43-323 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-323 - PLACE OF USE.

43-323. PLACE OF USE. A change in the generally described place of use for a water right held by an irrigation district may be made without applying for a change under the provisions of section 42-222, Idaho Code, provided the district files with the department of water resources a map portraying the changes to the generally described place of use within which the district’s water rights shall be exercised. For this filing requirement, it shall be sufficient to provide a drawing on a seven-and-one-half-minute (7-1/2) quadrangle map having a scale of one to twenty-four thousand (1:24,000) which shows the changes to the outer limits of the boundaries of the irrigation district to include each quarter-quarter section within which irrigation occurs. This map showing changes to the generally described place of use shall be filed with the department no later than April 1 of the year following the changes. Notwithstanding the filing of such map, only the legal description of an irrigation district’s boundaries recorded in compliance with title 43, Idaho Code, shall constitute conclusive proof of the district’s boundaries for purposes other than defining the generally described place of use for a water right held by the district.  History: [(43-323) 1903, p. 150, sec. 37; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2393; C.S., sec. 4356; I.C.A., sec. 42-318; am. 1998, ch. 332, sec. 3, p. 1069; am. 2019, ch. 190, sec. 8, p. 602.]
ID Code § 43-324 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-324 - STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION.

43-324. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION. On or before the second Tuesday of February of each year the board of directors of each irrigation district organized under this title shall publish in at least one (1) issue of some newspaper published in the county or counties in which such district is situated, a full, true and correct statement of the financial condition of said district, at the end of the last preceding fiscal year, giving all liabilities and assets of the said district, in a form to be prescribed by the bureau of public accounts of the state of Idaho.  History: [(43-324) 1903, p. 150, sec. 57; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2394; C.S., sec. 4357; am. 1927, ch. 115, sec. 1, p. 160; am. 1931, ch. 126, sec. 1, p. 222; I.C.A., sec. 42-319; am. 1941, ch. 170, sec. 1, p. 341; am. 1998, ch. 332, sec. 4, p. 1069.]
ID Code § 43-325 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-325 - COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO HAVE ACCESS TO BOOKS.

43-325. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO HAVE ACCESS TO BOOKS. Any board of directors of any such irrigation district, or the secretary thereof, shall at any time allow any member of the board of county commissioners, when acting under the order of such board, to have access to all books, records and vouchers of the district which are in possession or control of said board of directors or said secretary of said board.  History: [(43-325) 1903, p. 150, sec. 58; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2395; C.S., sec. 4358; I.C.A., sec. 42-320.]
ID Code § 43-326 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-326 - POWER TO MAINTAIN PARKS.

43-326. POWER TO MAINTAIN PARKS. The board of directors of any irrigation district shall have the power to maintain public parks and recreation grounds for the benefit of the people of the district and may set aside for this purpose, land belonging to the district, including land acquired by the district from sale for delinquent water assessments. The district shall have the power to purchase land, or to acquire land by lease, within the district for public parks and recreation ground. In the maintenance of said grounds, the board of directors may construct buildings and provide facilities for recreation purposes and may receive gifts and donations of either real or personal property for the purposes hereinbefore enumerated.  History: [(43-326) I.C.A., sec. 42-322, as added by 1935, ch. 11, sec. 1, p. 26; am. 1959, ch. 7, sec. 1, p. 21.]
ID Code § 43-327 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-327 - DELINQUENT ASSESSMENTS — SHUTTING OFF OF WATER.

43-327. DELINQUENT ASSESSMENTS — SHUTTING OFF OF WATER. The board of directors of any irrigation district shall have the power to refuse to deliver water for the use on any lands upon which any assessments, tolls or charges levied, assessed or charged against said lands or the owner, lessee, occupant or contract purchaser thereof, under any section of this title, whether for irrigation or domestic water service, are unpaid for more than ninety (90) days after delinquency until such assessments, tolls or charges, together with any lawful penalties and additional charges are paid. Provided, that, in irrigation districts having a contract with the United States under the provisions of this title, for the construction, or operation, or maintenance of a domestic water system or for the repayment to the United States of a loan for any such purpose, the board of directors of such district may, by resolution, from time to time, fix a date or dates after which any or all lawful tolls and/or charges of the district, including without limitation domestic water tolls and charges, and excepting only assessments provided for in this title against real property within the district, shall be deemed delinquent. Such district shall have the right, in addition to and supplemental to all other legal rights now in effect, or hereafter acquired for the collection of any such sums, to cease delivery of domestic and irrigation water to all lands in connection with which such tolls or charges have been incurred and, at the district’s option, also to all other lands within the district belonging to the person or persons, firm, corporation or other legal entity incurring any such tolls or charges. Such delivery may be ceased at any time after the tenth day following the date any such sums become delinquent, and until all such sums together with any lawful penalties, additional charges and/or interest at the legal rate are paid.  History: [(43-327) I.C.A., sec. 42-323, as added by 1939, ch. 269, sec. 1, p. 668; am. 1959, ch. 14, sec. 1, p. 34; am. 1965, ch. 25, sec. 1, p. 38.]
ID Code § 43-328 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-328 - PETITION TO CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS FOR IRRIGATION — ASSENT OF PETITIONERS TO ASSESSMENT OF COST OF IMPROVEMENT.

43-328. PETITION TO CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS FOR IRRIGATION — ASSENT OF PETITIONERS TO ASSESSMENT OF COST OF IMPROVEMENT. The holders of title, or evidence of title, representing a majority of the acreage of any body of land within any irrigation district, may file with the board of directors of the district a petition in writing, praying for the construction of any improvement necessary or expedient for the efficient irrigation of the lands, including facilities for the recharge of ground water basins. The petition shall in a general way describe the proposed improvement and shall describe the tracts, or body of land, owned by the petitioners, and shall contain a description of the exterior boundaries of the land for which the proposed improvement is to be constructed, and describing therein any lands that are to be excepted from the benefit or use of the proposed improvement. The petition shall also contain an agreement on the part of the petitioners that the cost of construction of the improvement shall constitute a lien upon the lands within the exterior boundaries of the land described in the petition, except the lands that are therein excepted from the benefit or use of the proposed improvement, and that the lands shall be assessed for and pay the cost of the improvement. The petition shall be deemed to give assent of the petitioners to construction of the improvement and shall authorize the assessment of the cost of such improvement upon and against the lands described in the petition and not specifically therein excepted. The petition shall be acknowledged in the same manner that conveyances of land are required to be acknowledged.  History: [43-328, as added by 1973, ch. 64, sec. 1, p. 105; am. 1985, ch. 120, sec. 3, p. 294.]
ID Code § 43-329 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-329 - ELECTIONS TO DETERMINE QUESTION AS TO CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENT — RESOLUTION OF DIRECTORS.

43-329. ELECTIONS TO DETERMINE QUESTION AS TO CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENT — RESOLUTION OF DIRECTORS. (1) The board of directors, if they deem it for the best interest of the district that the proposed improvement be constructed, may by resolution call an election to be held within the boundaries of the land described in the petition for the purpose of submitting the question as to whether or not the proposed improvement shall be constructed. The board shall in the resolution fix the time and place of holding the election, and specify the polling place, and shall also appoint three (3) judges who shall constitute a board of election. The resolution shall also contain the ballot title to be used at the election, which title shall contain such information as in the judgment of the board will advise the owners of the land to be charged with the cost of the proposed improvement as to the general nature of the improvement and the estimated cost. (2) The board at the time of calling the election within the land described in the petition shall also by resolution call an election to be held within the district at large for the purpose of submitting the question as to whether or not the proposed improvement shall be constructed. This resolution shall contain provisions identical with those provided for in subsection (1) of this section. The election in the district at large shall be held on the same day that the election within the territory described in the petition is held. The election shall be conducted, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the general election laws of the state applicable to irrigation districts.  History: [43-329, as added by 1973, ch. 64, sec. 2, p. 105.]
ID Code § 43-330 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-330 - MAJORITY OF VOTES AS DETERMINATIVE — CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENT — COST — APPORTIONMENT — ASSESSMENT.

43-330. MAJORITY OF VOTES AS DETERMINATIVE — CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENT — COST — APPORTIONMENT — ASSESSMENT. If a majority of the votes cast by the electors within the boundaries of the land described in the petition are "Improvement–Yes," and if a majority of the votes cast by the electors in the district at large are "Improvement–Yes," then, but not otherwise, the board shall construct the improvement. The cost of construction shall be apportioned by the board to the lands within the boundaries described in the petition, so that each acre of irrigable land therein shall be assessed and required to pay the same amount. In all other respects the assessment and its levy and collection shall be, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the assessment, levy and collection of other assessments and taxes levied upon lands within the district.  History: [43-330, as added by 1973, ch. 64, sec. 3, p. 105.]
ID Code § 43-330A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-330A - CONTRACTS WITH LANDOWNERS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS.

43-330A. CONTRACTS WITH LANDOWNERS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS. When a parcel of land lying within an irrigation district has been subdivided and the owner or owners of the entire parcel propose to develop that parcel or any of the tracts therein for residential, commercial, industrial or municipal use, the board of directors of the district may enter into a contract with the owner or owners of the entire parcel, or of any tract therein, for the construction of a pressurized system for the proper distribution of irrigation water to the parcel or to the designated tracts within the parcel.  History: [43-330A, added 1993, ch. 261, sec. 1, p. 892; am. 1998, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 706.]
ID Code § 43-330B (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-330B - CONTRACT PROVISIONS.

43-330B. CONTRACT PROVISIONS. Any contract entered into under the authority of section 43-330A, Idaho Code, shall include the following provisions: (1) An apportionment of the cost of the construction of the distribution system against the parcel or against the tract or tracts which are included in the contract; (2) The cost of construction of the distribution system shall constitute a lien against the parcel, tract or tracts included in the contract, to secure payment of any portion of the cost of construction that is not paid upon completion of construction by the owner or owners, or by a third party on their behalf, and securing payment of interest on any deferred installments of the construction costs; (3) A schedule of annual installment payments, with accrued interest, for the portion, if any, of the construction costs that are not paid upon completion of construction; (4) The annual installment payment against the parcel or against the tract or tracts included in the contract shall be included in the annual assessments levied by the district against the parcel, tract or tracts and any such assessment and its levy and collection shall be, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the assessment, levy and collection of other assessments levied upon lands in the district; (5) The deferred annual installment payments of principal and accrued interest may be prepaid in whole or in part at any time without penalty, but any prepayment of principal shall not be less that [than] one-half (1/2) the amount of the annual installment payment of principal next coming due, but the prepayment privilege authorized in this subsection shall not be applicable where the construction costs have been financed through a local improvement district; (6) If the district has constructed or proposes to construct a pumping station and pipeline to serve the parcel, tract or tracts included in the contract and other lands, the cost of the pumping station and pipeline shall be apportioned by the board to all lands which are planned to be served by the pumping station, so that each acre of irrigable land to be served by the pumping station shall be assessed and required to pay the same amount; (7) A grant of an easement to the district for the installation, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of the portion of the distribution system located on the parcel, tract or tracts included in the contract. The easement shall be of sufficient width to allow construction, installation, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement by the use of ordinary mechanized equipment designed to perform those functions.  History: [43-330B, added 1993, ch. 261, sec. 1, p. 892.]
ID Code § 43-330C (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 43 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS|Chapter 3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS|Section 43-330C - COMPLIANCE.

43-330C. COMPLIANCE. If the contract provides for construction of any portion of the distribution system by the owner or owners, chapter 9, title 43, Idaho Code, shall not be applicable to that portion of the construction. If any portion of the distribution system is to be constructed by the district, the district shall comply with the provisions of chapter 9, title 43, Idaho Code, insofar as applicable to the construction to be performed by the district or by a contractor under a separate contract with the district, unless the owner or owners furnish a written waiver of such compliance.  History: [43-330C, added 1993, ch. 261, sec. 1, p. 893.]