§ 299-l. Declaration of policy and purposes. Whereas erosion, flood water and sediment damage in the watersheds of the rivers and streams of the state cause loss of life and damage to property and constitute a menace to the health, safety and welfare of the people of this state, it is the sense of the […]
§ 299-m. County small watershed protection districts. The board of supervisors of each county may establish or extend county small watershed protection districts in the manner hereinafter provided, for the purpose of undertaking, constructing and maintaining projects and works of improvement for flood prevention, land treatment, and for the conservation, development, disposal and utilization of […]
§ 299-n. County small watershed agency and processing of applications. 1. Designation of an agency. The board of supervisors may appoint or designate a county small watershed agency (hereinafter referred to as the agency), in similar manner as provided in section two hundred fifty-one of this chapter in the case of county water districts, as […]
§ 299-o. Establishment of a county small watershed protection district. When the agency has the complete final maps, plans, specifications and cost estimates for a project, as provided in section two hundred ninety-nine-n of this article, the agency shall petition the board of supervisors that a certain area or areas of the county as delineated […]
§ 299-p. Administration of the watershed district; powers; limitations. 1. Administrative head or body of district. When a watershed district shall have been established, the board of supervisors, with the advice of the agency, shall appoint, designate or establish an administrative head or body in the manner prescribed in section two hundred sixty-one of this […]
§ 299-q. Expense of the improvement. The cost of establishment of a watershed district and the furnishing of the improvement therein shall include the amount of all contracts, the costs of all lands and interests therein necessarily acquired, the costs of erection of necessary buildings for operation or administration of the improvement, the costs of […]
§ 299-r. Increase of maximum amount to be expended. At any time after the establishment of a district pursuant to this article the maximum amount authorized to be expended for the original improvement or for the original improvement, the plans for which have been amended or modified pursuant to section two hundred ninety-nine-n of this […]
§ 299-s. Assessment of the cost. The expense of the establishment of a watershed district and of providing improvements therein, including modifications, shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as is provided in section two hundred seventy-one of this chapter.
§ 299-t. Extension of the district. A watershed district may be extended so as to include territory not previously included within its boundaries in the same manner as hereinbefore prescribed for the original establishment of the watershed district. The cost of the extension and of providing the improvements therein shall be assessed, levied and collected […]
§ 299-u. Joint construction and operation of projects. Where two or more adjoining counties have established agencies and have created watershed districts for the purposes of this act in the watershed common to the counties, the agencies and the administrative heads or bodies, subject to the approval of their respective boards of supervisors, may enter […]
§ 299-v. Jurisdiction of state agencies not affected. No provision of this article shall be deemed to alter, repeal or modify the powers and duties of the state departments of conservation, health and transportation, the state water resources commission, the water pollution and control board, and the state soil conservation committee.
§ 299-w. Federal assistance. The watershed district is designated as a “local organization” authorized to make application to the secretary of agriculture of the United States for financial assistance in installing and carrying out a district project under the provisions of said “Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act”. The watershed district, as the local organization, […]
§ 299-x. State aid. 1. Recognizing that general public benefits, in terms of flood prevention, and erosion control, will accrue to the people of the state, through the establishment of small watershed protection projects because such benefits will go beyond the limits of watershed districts and their parent counties; and recognizing that the health, welfare, […]
§ 299-y. Certain powers of board of supervisors and soil conservation districts not affected. Nothing in this article contained shall be deemed to repeal, amend or modify the powers of the board of supervisors as provided by section two hundred twenty-three of this chapter in relation to flood control and soil conservation. Nothing in this […]
