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WY Stat § 41-9-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-102 - Petition for Organization; Amendment; Multiple Petitions.

41-9-102. Petition for organization; amendment; multiple petitions.| No petition having as many signers as are required by this section shall be declared void, but the court may at any time permit the petition to be amended in form and substance to conform to the facts, if the facts justify the organization of a drainage district. Several similar petitions for the organization of the same district may be circulated, and when filed, shall together be regarded as one (1) petition having as many signers as there are separate adult signers on the several petitions filed, who own lands within said proposed drainage district. All petitions for the organization of said district filed prior to the hearing on said petition shall be considered by the court, the same as is filed with the first petitions placed on file, and the signatures thereon contained shall be counted in determining whether sufficient landowners have signed said petition.
WY Stat § 41-9-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-103 - What Lands May Be Included.

41-9-103. What lands may be included.| Said territory need not be contiguous, provided, that it be so situated that the public health or welfare will be promoted by such drainage of each part thereof, and the benefits of the proposed work in each part will exceed the damages from and costs of said proposed work in each part; and provided, further, that the court shall be satisfied that said proposed work can be more cheaply done if in a single district than otherwise.
WY Stat § 41-9-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-104 - Notice of Hearing; Service Generally; Contents.

41-9-104. Notice of hearing; service generally; contents.| (a) On such petition being filed the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing a time and place of hearing thereon and ordering notice; thereupon the clerk of said court, for the county in which the proceedings are instituted, shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the filing of such petition to be given:  (i) By serving or causing to be served a copy of such notice on each owner of land within said proposed district, residing in any county in which any lands in said proposed district are situated, either personally or by leaving a copy thereof at his last usual place of abode, with a person of suitable age and discretion, and by registered mail to any mortgagee, mortgagees or judgment lienholder whose address is of record in the records of said liens in the county or counties in which said district is situated; and  (ii) By publishing a copy thereof at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks in some newspaper published in each county from which any part of the district is proposed to be taken. If there be no newspaper in any such county, such notice may be published in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.  (b) Such notice shall state:  (i) In what court said petition is filed;  (ii) State briefly the starting points, routes and termini of said drains, ditches and levees;  (iii) Give a general description of the proposed work;  (iv) Give the proposed boundaries of said district (or a general description of all of the lands in said proposed district);  (v) Give the name proposed for said drainage district; and  (vi) Shall also state the time and place by the court fixed, when and where the petitioners will ask a hearing on said petition.
WY Stat § 41-9-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-105 - Notice of Hearing; Nonresidents.

41-9-105. Notice of hearing; nonresidents.| If any of the owners of land in said district are nonresidents of the county or counties in which the proposed district lies, the petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit giving the names and post-office address of such nonresidents, if such are known, and if unknown shall state that, upon diligent inquiry their names or post-office addresses (whichever may be the fact) cannot be ascertained. The clerk of the court shall mail a copy of the notice aforesaid to each of said nonresident owners whose post-office address is known, within six (6) days after the first publication of the same.
WY Stat § 41-9-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-106 - Notice of Hearing; Proof of Service.

41-9-106. Notice of hearing; proof of service.| The certificate of the clerk of the court or other public officer, or the affidavit of any other person who knows the facts, affixed to a copy of said notice, shall be sufficient evidence of the posting, serving, mailing or publication thereof.
WY Stat § 41-9-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-107 - Notice of Hearing; Effect of Personal Service.

41-9-107. Notice of hearing; effect of personal service.| Personal service of said notice on (or service by leaving at the last usual place of abode of) all owners of lands or easements or interest in lands within said district, shall give the court complete jurisdiction, without posting, publication or mailing of said notice.
WY Stat § 41-9-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-108 - Notice of Hearing; Adjournment of Hearings When Notice Not Fully Served.

41-9-108. Notice of hearing; adjournment of hearings when notice not fully served.| If it shall be found, before the hearing on a petition for the organization of a drainage district, that one (1) or more owners of land in said district have not been duly served with notice of hearing on said petition, the court, or presiding judge, shall not thereby lose jurisdiction. The court, or presiding judge, in such case shall adjourn the hearing, make an order directing the serving of said notice upon said landowner, and fixing the time and manner of service of such notice, which notice shall notify him to appear at said adjourned time and place and be heard on said petition.
WY Stat § 41-9-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-109 - Notice of Hearing; Service After Adjournment.

41-9-109. Notice of hearing; service after adjournment.| Said notice shall be served personally or by leaving at the last usual place of abode of said unserved owners, as in W.S. 41-9-104; provided, not less than eight (8) days before said adjourned hearing, or published not less than fourteen (14) days before said adjourned hearing, in some newspaper published in the county in which said owners' lands lie, or if no newspaper be published in said county, then in some newspaper published in an adjoining county.
WY Stat § 41-9-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-110 - Notice of Hearing; Defective Service Generally.

41-9-110. Notice of hearing; defective service generally.| Upon the adjourned day the same proceedings, adjournments, trial findings and orders may be had as in case of complete service of notice in the first instance. In case of failure to mail said notice as herein required, the court or judge may order the same mailed later and shall adjourn said hearing so that said notice shall be mailed at least fourteen (14) days before said adjourned hearing. In case of failure to publish or post notice, as in this act required, the court or judge may adjourn said hearing for sufficient time to permit the due posting and publication of said notice, and order said notice posted or published as in W.S. 41-9-104 hereof directed. In case of adjournment to permit notice to be given the notice shall state the fact of such adjournment and the time and place of hearing pursuant to said adjournment.
WY Stat § 41-9-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-111 - Hearings; Grounds for Contesting.

41-9-111. Hearings; grounds for contesting.| On the day fixed for hearing on such petition all parties owning lands, or any interest or easement in land, within said proposed district, or who would be affected thereby, may appear and contest (a) the sufficiency of the petition, (b) the sufficiency of the signers of the petition, (c) the sufficiency of the notice, (d) the constitutionality of the law, and (e) the jurisdiction of the court, specifying their objections to such jurisdiction; and the petitioners and contestants may, on the trial, offer any competent evidence in regard thereto. All notices of contest shall be in writing and shall clearly specify the grounds of contest.
WY Stat § 41-9-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-112 - Hearings; Procedure Generally.

41-9-112. Hearings; procedure generally.| The court shall hear and determine whether or not the petition contains the signatures of a majority of the adult owners of lands within the said proposed district who are of lawful age, and who represent one-third in area of the lands proposed to be affected by said work, or the signatures of the adult owners of more than one-half of such lands and shall determine all questions of law arising on said contest. The district court in which such petition shall be filed or the judge thereof may adjourn the hearing on said petition from time to time for want of sufficient notice, or to give time to prepare for trial, or for other good cause.
WY Stat § 41-9-113 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-113 - Hearings; Affidavits of Petitioners as Evidence.

41-9-113. Hearings; affidavits of petitioners as evidence.| The affidavit of any three (3) or more of the signers of said petition stating that they have examined it and are acquainted with the locality of said district and that said petition is signed by a sufficient number of adult owners of lands in said district, to satisfy W.S. 41-9-101, may be taken by the court or judge as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. And the affidavit of any petitioner or other landowner before such court, or represented before the court, giving the age of such affiant and his or her ownership of such lands, to be named therein by proper description, shall be sufficient evidence to the court of such facts.
WY Stat § 41-9-114 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-114 - Hearings; Dismissal of Defective Petition.

41-9-114. Hearings; dismissal of defective petition.| If the court or presiding judge thereof, after hearing any and all competent evidence that may be offered for and against the said petition, shall find that the same has not been signed as herein required, the said petition shall be dismissed at the cost of the petitioners, and judgment shall be entered against said petitioners for the amount of said costs.
WY Stat § 41-9-115 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-115 - Fraudulent Conveyances to Defeat or Establish Petition.

41-9-115. Fraudulent conveyances to defeat or establish petition.| All deeds made for the purpose of establishing or defeating the prayer of said petition, and not made in good faith and for a valuable consideration, shall be taken and held to be a fraud and the holders thereof shall not be considered as the owners of the land described therein.
WY Stat § 41-9-116 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-116 - District Commissioners; Number; Appointment; Preliminary Bond; Qualifications; Petition for Election; Election Decree; Election Procedures; Modification of Decree.

41-9-116. District commissioners; number; appointment; preliminary bond; qualifications; petition for election; election decree; election procedures; modification of decree.| If it shall appear that the petition has so been signed, the court or judge shall so find, and order any necessary amendments thereto, and shall appoint three (3) suitable, competent persons as commissioners, and fix their preliminary bond. If the district is situated in two (2) or more counties, not more than two (2) of said commissioners shall reside in any one (1) of said counties. Ownership of land within the district shall not disqualify a person from acting as a commissioner. Provided, however, after the appointment of the first board of commissioners a majority of the owners of land within said district who own one-third in area of the lands within said district, shall petition the court asking that the commissioners of said district be elected by vote of the owners of land assessed in said district, the court shall make and enter an order fixing the time of the annual election for said district, prescribing the manner of giving notice of such election, and the manner in which such election shall be conducted, and may provide for cumulative voting; said order may provide for the election of one (1) commissioner for one (1) year and two (2) commissioners for two (2) years at the first election, succeeding commissioners to be elected for two (2) years; at such election every person, company or corporation owning land assessed for benefits within such district shall be entitled at such election to cast one (1) vote for each acre of land, or fraction thereof, owned by such person, company or corporation within said district and assessed for benefits therein; such order shall provide for voting by proxy, and such order may be modified from time to time upon petition as herein provided for the election of commissioners, and upon like petition such order may be revoked and thereafter such commissioners shall be appointed by the court.
WY Stat § 41-9-117 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-117 - District Commissioners; Oath; Bond Generally; Quorum.

41-9-117. District commissioners; oath; bond generally; quorum.| Before entering upon their duties such commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Wyoming, to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as such commissioners and to render a true account of their doings to the court by which they are appointed whenever required by law or the order of the court, and shall execute a bond running to the clerk of said court and his successors in office as obligees, to be filed with said clerk for the benefit of the parties interested, in an amount to be fixed by the court or presiding judge, and with sureties to be approved by the court or presiding judge, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties as such commissioners and the faithful accounting for and application of all moneys which shall come into their hands as such commissioners. A majority shall constitute a quorum and a concurrence of a majority in any matter within their duties shall be sufficient to its determination.
WY Stat § 41-9-118 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-118 - District Commissioners; Term.

41-9-118. District commissioners; term.| The commissioners first appointed shall hold their office until the first Tuesday in the second succeeding July following the date of the order organizing such district and until their respective successors are qualified. All commissioners appointed after the first board, excepting those appointed to fill vacancies, shall hold their respective offices for the term of two (2) years and until their respective successors are qualified.
WY Stat § 41-9-119 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-119 - District Commissioners; New Appointments.

41-9-119. District commissioners; new appointments.| Appointments to fill expired terms in the office of drainage commissioner shall be made by the presiding judge of the district court of the county having jurisdiction of the drainage district at the courthouse therein on the first Tuesday of July in each succeeding year or as soon thereafter as possible.
WY Stat § 41-9-120 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-120 - District Commissioners; Vacancies.

41-9-120. District commissioners; vacancies.| Vacancies in the board may be filled by such judge at any time, the commissioners appointed to hold for the residue of the unexpired term. The removal of any commissioner from the county or counties in which lands of such district are situated shall render his office vacant.
WY Stat § 41-9-121 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-121 - District Commissioners; Financial Records, Minutes of Meetings to Be Kept.

41-9-121. District commissioners; financial records, minutes of meetings to be kept.| The commissioners shall keep an accurate record of all moneys collected on account of the work under their charge and of all payments made by them, and shall take vouchers for such payments and shall keep full, accurate and true minutes of all their proceedings.
WY Stat § 41-9-122 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-122 - District Commissioners; Filing of Annual Financial Report.

41-9-122. District commissioners; filing of annual financial report.| On the first Tuesday of July each year they shall file in the office of the clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the matter an itemized statement of all their receipts and disbursements, and leave said report in such office for examination by parties interested at all times.
WY Stat § 41-9-123 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-123 - District Commissioners; Compensation and Expenses.

41-9-123. District commissioners; compensation and expenses.| They shall receive for their services such compensation as the court or presiding judge thereof may determine. They shall also receive their actual reasonable expenses.
WY Stat § 41-9-124 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-124 - District Commissioners; Under Control and Direction of Court; Failure to Obey.

41-9-124. District commissioners; under control and direction of court; failure to obey.| They shall at all times be under the control and direction of the court or presiding judge, and shall obey its or his directions; for failure so to do they shall forfeit their compensation and be dealt with summarily as for contempt.
WY Stat § 41-9-125 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-125 - Suit on Bond of Commissioners.

41-9-125. Suit on bond of commissioners.| Suit may also be brought upon their bonds, in the name of the clerk of the court, and the amount recovered shall be applied to the construction of the work or to the party injured, as justice may require.
WY Stat § 41-9-126 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-126 - Organization of Commission; Examination of Lands; Contents of Preliminary Report.

41-9-126. Organization of commission; examination of lands; contents of preliminary report.| (a) Within ten (10) days after said commissioners shall be appointed and qualified they shall meet and organize by electing one (1) of their number secretary, and as soon as may be thereafter, they shall personally examine the lands in said district and make a preliminary report to the court, which report shall state:  (i) Whether said proposed work is necessary, or would be of utility in carrying out the purposes of the petition;  (ii) Whether the proposed work would promote the public health;  (iii) Whether the proposed work would promote the public welfare;  (iv) Whether the total benefits from said proposed work will exceed the cost thereof together with the damages resulting therefrom; and in arriving at this they shall include all benefits and all damages resulting therefrom both within and without said district;  (v) Said commissioners shall in said report fix as near as may be and report to the court the boundaries of said proposed drainage district. Said boundaries shall not be so changed from those in the petition described as to deprive the court of jurisdiction by reason of not having on the petition the required number of signers owning land within said changed boundaries.
WY Stat § 41-9-127 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-127 - Change of Plan Proposed in Petition.

41-9-127. Change of plan proposed in petition.| If said proposed work as in the petition described, is not best suited to carry out the purposes of the petition the commissioners shall consider and base their report upon the one (1) best suited to carry out those purposes and propose to the court the one (1) by them considered.
WY Stat § 41-9-128 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 9 - Drainage Districts|Article 1 - Organization and Preliminary Report of Commissioners|Section 41-9-128 - Hearings on Report; Notice Generally.

41-9-128. Hearings on report; notice generally.| Upon the filing of the preliminary report the court or the presiding judge thereof shall by order fix a time and place when and where the same shall be heard at some general or special term of said court, not less than thirty (30) days from the filing of said report. Notice of the time and place of hearing upon said preliminary report shall be given to all interested persons by publishing a brief notice of the filing of said report, including a brief statement of the substance of said report, in one (1) or more newspapers published in each county in which any land in said proposed drainage district shall be situated (or if no newspaper is published in said county, in one (1) or more newspapers in an adjoining county) once in each week for three (3) successive weeks prior to the day appointed for hearing thereon. Said notice shall describe all lands by said report included in said district, which were not included therein by the petition, and state that such lands are to be included in said district, and shall describe all lands excluded from said district which were by the petition included therein and shall state that such lands are to be excluded from said district.