31-102. Ditch, defined; petition, how construed; requirements. The word ditch, as used in sections 31-101 to 31-138, shall be held to include a drain or watercourse. The petition for any such improvement shall be held to include any side lateral, spur or branch ditch, drain or watercourse necessary to secure the object of the improvement, […]
31-1020. Local government; failure to implement flood plain management regulations; department; powers and duties. If a local government does not adopt and implement flood plain management regulations in accordance with section 31-1019 within one year after flood hazard data and maps have been provided to it pursuant to such section, the department shall, upon petition […]
31-1021. Local government; enforce department regulations. It shall be the duty of the local government to administer and enforce any regulations adopted by the department pursuant to section 31-1020 in the same manner as if the local government had enacted such regulations. Such duty may be enforced in a mandamus action brought against such local […]
31-1022. Adoption of regulations; notice; hearing; appeal. Notice of any hearing to be conducted by the department pursuant to section 31-1020 shall be given to the clerk of the local government and to such other local officials as the department deems appropriate, at least thirty days prior to the hearing. Notice shall also be published […]
31-1023. State agencies, boards, and commissions; flood plain management duties. (1) All state agencies, boards, and commissions shall take preventive action to minimize flood hazards and losses in connection with state-owned and state-financed buildings, roads, and other facilities, and shall take such steps as are necessary to insure compliance with the minimum standards adopted by […]
31-103. Drainage improvements; costs and expenses; apportioned to county or railroad; when. When the proposed improvement will drain the whole, or any part of any public or corporate road or railroad, or will so benefit any such road that the traveled track or roadbed thereof will be improved by its construction, there shall be apportioned […]
31-104. Drainage improvements; petition for construction. A petition for any such improvements shall be made to the county board, signed by one or more owners of lots and lands which shall be benefited thereby, which petition shall be filed with the county clerk, shall set forth the necessity of the proposed improvement and describe the […]
31-105. Drainage improvements; survey; approval of county board. The county clerk shall deliver a copy of the petition to the county board at its next meeting, which shall thereupon take to its assistance a competent surveyor or engineer, if in the opinion of the board his services are necessary, and at once proceed to view […]
31-106. Drainage improvements; change of proposed route; power of county board. If the county board, upon actual view, shall find that the route proposed is not such as to best effect the object sought, it shall change the same and establish the route and determine the dimensions of the proposed improvements; Provided, any change so […]
31-107. Drainage improvements; survey; plat; estimate of work required. If the county board shall find for the improvement, it shall cause to be entered on its journal an order directing the county surveyor, or an engineer, to go upon the line described in the petition, or as changed by the board in accordance with section […]
31-108. Drainage improvements; plat; profile; requisites; surveyor’s report. The plat provided for in section 31-107 shall be drawn upon a scale sufficiently large to represent all the meanderings of the proposed improvement, and shall show the boundary lines of each lot or tract of land, and of each road or railroad to be benefited thereby, […]
31-109. Drainage improvements; schedule of land benefited; apportionment; estimate of cost of construction; specifications. The county board shall also by its order direct the surveyor or engineer to make and return a schedule of all lots, lands, public or corporate roads, or railroads that will be benefited by the proposed improvement, whether the same are […]
31-110. Drainage improvements; hearing; notice. Upon the filing of the report of the surveyor or engineer, the county clerk shall, without delay, fix a day for the hearing of the same, which shall not be more than forty days from the time of the filing of the report, and shall prepare a notice in writing, […]
31-111. Drainage improvements; hearing; procedure; order. The county board shall meet at the office of the county clerk on the day fixed for the hearing, and shall first determine whether the requisite notice has been given. If it finds that due notice has not been given, it shall continue the hearing to a day to […]
31-112. Drainage improvements; compensation and damages for land taken or affected; application; when made. At any time before the day set for hearing, after persons are notified as provided in section 31-110, any person or corporation whose lands are taken or affected in any way by the improvement may make application to the commissioners in […]
31-113. Drainage improvements; allowance of compensation and assessment of damages; when and how made. The county board on actual view of the premises shall fix and allow such compensation for land appropriated and assess such damages as will in its judgment accrue from the construction of the improvement to each person or corporation making application […]
31-114. Drainage improvements; objections to apportionment, compensation, damages; when made; exceptions; hearing; costs. A person or corporation party to the proceedings may file exceptions to the apportionment, or to any claim for compensation or damages at any time before the time set for the final hearing of the report and apportionment. The county board may […]
31-115. Drainage improvements; appeal from order of county board; grounds; procedure. Any person or corporation feeling aggrieved thereby may appeal to the district court within and for the proper county, from any final order or judgment of the board made in the proceedings and entered upon its journal determining any one of the following matters: […]
31-116. Drainage improvements; appeal; effect upon progress of work; bond. No appeal taken in pursuance of the provisions of section 31-115 shall in any manner affect the progress of the construction of the proposed improvement; Provided, the petitioners shall enter into a good and sufficient bond to be approved by the district court or by […]
31-117. Drainage improvements; appeal; transcript; certification to county board. The clerk of the district court, immediately after the close of the term at which the appeal is tried, as provided for in section 31-116, shall certify to the county board a full and complete transcript of the proceedings had upon such appeal in the district […]
