37-7-101. Formation; petition for organization. (a) Whenever a majority of the freeholders on lands and entrymen upon public lands in any district who shall represent at least one-third of the area of lands within said district which desire to provide for the purchase of electric power for use in electrifying the lands within said district […]
37-7-102. Lands need not be contiguous; benefits to exceed damages and costs; must be cheaper as single district. The lands proposed to be included in any power district need not be contiguous, provided that the benefits of the proposed work in each part will exceed the damages from and costs of said proposed work in […]
37-7-103. Time and place of hearing on petition; notice. On such petition being filed the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing the time and place of the hearing thereon and ordering notice; thereupon the clerk of said county, for the county in which the proceedings are instituted, shall cause twenty (20) days […]
37-7-104. Contests and objections at hearing; notices of contest or objection; court to hear and determine issues. (a) On the day fixed for hearing on such petitions all persons owning or entitled to the possession of lands, or any interest or easement in land, within said proposed district, or who would be affected thereby, may […]
37-7-106. Affidavit of signers evidence of facts therein. 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 corporations and adult persons owning lands in […]
37-7-107. Transfer of lands to establish or defeat petition; filing of petition lis pendens against lands therein. 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 […]
37-7-108. Petition dismissed for improper signatures; costs; court to include or exclude lands from district. 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 […]
37-7-109. Order of court upon decision for petitioners; appointment of commissioners; findings and orders final unless appealed. (a) If the issues at this hearing are decided in favor of the petitioners, the court shall make an order: (i) Approving and confirming the petition; (ii) Defining the boundaries of the district; (iii) Establishing said district as […]
37-7-110. Oath and bond of commissioners; quorum; majority rule; term of office. 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 […]
37-7-111. Records of commissioners; annual statement; compensation and expenses; suit upon bonds. 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 of such payments and shall keep full, accurate and true minutes of all […]
37-7-112. Commissioners to constitute corporate authority; organization; powers of board. The commissioners appointed as aforesaid and their successors in office shall, from the entry of such order of confirmation constitute the corporate authority of said power district, and shall exercise the power conferred on them by law. They shall organize a board, elect a president […]
37-7-113. Duties of commissioners as to proposed work; report to court. (a) As soon as may be after the organization of said district or within such time as the court may direct, said commissioners shall proceed to have all necessary surveys made and shall lay out said proposed work making a map thereof, and plans […]
37-7-114. Notice and hearing on report of commissioners. Upon the filing of said report, the court or judge thereof shall make and enter an order fixing the time and place when and where all persons interested may appear and remonstrate against the confirmation thereof, and the clerk of said court shall cause notice of the […]
37-7-115. Notice when lands situate in more than one county. In case the lands are situated in more than one county the notice published in the county wherein the court having jurisdiction is situated shall contain a description of all the lands in said proposed district [with] the damages awarded to the several parcels thereof, […]
37-7-116. Modification of report by order of court. If the court finds that the report requires modification, the same may by order of the court be referred back to the commissioners, who may be required to modify it in any respect.
37-7-117. Order of confirmation of report or modified report; effect of confirmation; appeal. If there be no remonstrance, or if the finding be in favor of the validity of the proceedings, or after the report shall have been modified to conform to the findings, the court shall confirm the report and the order of confirmation […]
37-7-118. Petitions regarding orders of confirmation; supplemental report from commissioners. Said order of confirmation may, at the same or at any subsequent term of said court be revised, modified or changed, in whole or in part, on petition of the commissioners, after such notice as the court may require to parties interested. At any time […]
37-7-119. Assessment for construction; time of payment; interest. At the time of the confirmation of such assessments, it shall be competent for the court to order the assessment for construction to be paid in not more than twenty (20) installments, of such amounts and at such times as will be convenient for the accomplishment of […]
37-7-120. Assessments due at same time as taxes; budget to be filed and approved by court; expenditures in excess of budget; unauthorized debts void. (a) Assessments to meet expenses of any current year of any district shall become due, payable and delinquent at such time or times each year as may be fixed by law […]
37-7-121. Preparation of assessment roll; assessments based on county assessments; commissioners to verify; levy of assessments; assessments to extend to tax roll. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of each power district on or before the third Monday in July in each year to prepare an assessment roll of said district which shall […]
