Opinion ID: 2455113
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 12

Heading: Does the Petition for Exclusion of Mountain Cement Company from the South of Laramie Water and Sewer District, taking the facts alleged in the Petition as true and the allegations viewed in the light most favorable to Mountain Cement, state a claim upon which relief can be granted?

Text: [¶ 56] The district court determined that the Board correctly dismissed Mountain Cement's petition for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. In doing so, it appears that the district court treated the last sentence of § 22-29-307 as creating a period of limitations for the filing of any petition to have property excluded from a district. In effect, the district court treated March 31, 1999, as a drop dead date. While we agree with the district court that Mountain Cement's petition does not state a claim upon which relief can be granted, we disagree with the district court's rationale in reaching that conclusion. The last sentence of § 22-29-307 does not prohibit the filing of petitions after March 31, 1999; rather, it makes the requirements of the section applicable only to those petitions filed on or before March 31, 1999. The problem is that the legislature has provided boards of county commissioners with no method or manner with which to deal with petitions filed after that date, leaving boards of county commissioners with no ability to act. That is why Mountain Cement's petition was properly dismissed.