41-9-201. Authority of commissioners to enter lands for repairs. The commissioners, their agents, servants and employees shall have the right to go upon all lands along any drain, ditch, levee or embankment in their district, to inspect, deepen, widen and repair the same whenever necessary, doing no unnecessary damage, and shall not be liable for […]
41-9-202. Power of eminent domain. Any drainage district created and existing under W.S. 41-9-101 through 41-9-278 may, whenever it shall require a way of necessity outside its boundaries for any of its work or works theretofore authorized by the court, proceed to procure the same by the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
41-9-203. Presumption of validity of acts of commissioners. Commissioners of drainage districts are hereby declared to be public officers. The presumption shall be in favor of the regularity and validity of all their official acts. Whenever any report of the commissioners of any drainage district or any part of any such report is contested, remonstrated […]
41-9-204. Commissioners under supervision of court; removal; new bonds. The court shall at all times have supervision of said commissioners, and may at any time require them to make a report on any matter or matters connected with their duties as commissioners, and after due hearing may remove from office any or all of said […]
41-9-205. Waiver of notice. In case of failure to serve any notice of any proceeding or hearing in this chapter provided for, upon any person or corporation, such person or corporation, may appear in open court and waive such defect of service, or may waive it by filing in court or delivering to the commissioners […]
41-9-206. Liberal construction. The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed to promote the public health and welfare by reclaiming wet or overflowed lands, building embankments or levees and the preservation of any system of drainage heretofore constructed according to law.
41-9-210. Levels, surveys and maps to be made; report to court required. As soon as may be after the confirmation of the said preliminary report, or within such time as the court may direct, said commissioners shall proceed to have all necessary levels taken and surveys made, and shall lay out said proposed work, make […]
41-9-211. Contents; starting points, routes and termini. The commissioners shall report whether the starting point, routes and termini of the proposed work and the proposed location thereof, as in the petition contained, are in all respects proper and feasible, and, if not, shall report such as are most proper and feasible.
41-9-212. Contents; change of boundaries generally. If it be found necessary to change the boundaries of said proposed district, as by them previously fixed, they shall report said proposed change, and, if possible, shall report the names, residence and post-office addresses of the owner or owners of all lands affected by said change in boundaries, […]
41-9-213. Contents; assessment of damages. The commissioners shall report what lands within the district will be injured by the proposed work, if any, and they shall therein award to each tract, lot, easement or interest by whomsoever held, the amount of damages which they shall determine will be caused to the same by the proposed […]
41-9-214. Contents; assessment of benefits. The commissioners shall report what lands within the district will be benefited by the proposed work and they shall assess against each tract, lot and easement by whomever held the amount of benefits which they determine will be caused to the same by the proposed work. The benefits so assessed […]
41-9-215. Contents; cost of construction. The commissioners shall also determine and report to the court the total amount, as near as they can determine, what said proposed work will cost, which cost shall include all incidental expenses, the reasonable cost of organizing said district, the costs of proceeding, and all probable damage to lands, both […]
41-9-216. Contents; assessments upon particular tracts, lots and corporations. If the cost of construction of any particular part of the work so proposed to be done should be assessed upon any particular tract or tracts, lot or lots of land, or upon any corporation or corporations, the commissioners shall so specify, and in their report […]
41-9-217. Contents; assessments for construction generally. They shall apportion and assess the part of this “cost of construction,” not assessed as above, against the several benefited tracts, lots and easements in said drainage district, in proportion to the benefits which they have assessed against the same, by setting down opposite each tract, lot or easement, […]
41-9-218. Contents; special benefits to corporations. (a) If any corporation would, in the judgment of said commissioners, derive special benefits from the whole or any part of such proposed work, the commissioners shall so report and assess those benefits, and assess against the same its proportionate share of the costs of said proposed work. The […]
41-9-219. Contents; costs of repairs. The commissioners shall further report to the court the probable cost of keeping said proposed work in repair after it is completed.
41-9-220. Contents; maps and plans. They shall include in their said report, said map, plans and other specifications, and file the same with their report.
41-9-221. Commissioners not to be confined to plans in petition. The commissioners shall not be confined to the points of commencement, routes or termini of the drains or ditches, or the number, extent or size of the same, or the location, plan or extent of any levee, ditch or other work, as proposed by the […]
41-9-222. Changing boundaries upon application to court; filing of report. If the commissioners find that the proposed district, as described in the petition filed, will not embrace all of the lands that will be benefited by the proposed work, or that it will include lands that will not be benefited and are not necessary to […]
41-9-223. Notice of hearings on report; contents; order for hearing. Upon the filing of said report, the court 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 time […]
