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Section 547.010 - Petition to form district; contents. - (1) The name proposed for the district. (2) The boundary...
Section 547.020 - Fixing time and place of hearing; notice; jurisdiction over district. - (a) The clerk shall cause notice to be published once...
Section 547.030 - Evidence at hearing; findings; appeal. - (2) Thereupon the court shall make its findings upon the...
Section 547.045 - Public lands within district; authority to sign petition or objections; liability of lands; assessments. - (2) Whenever any such district or proposed district includes any...
Section 547.057 - Drainage district activity as urban service. - (a) Is located in a county that has a population...
Section 547.063 - Definitions. - (1) "Flood control project" means a system or method, including,...
Section 547.065 - Public hearing required. - (2) At least 14 days before the date of the...
Section 547.067 - Powers of drainage district. - (2) A drainage district in a county with a population...
Section 547.069 - Formation of drainage district by owners of certain lands permitted. - (1) For sanitary or agricultural purposes; or (2) When reclaiming...
Section 547.071 - Powers of drainage district officers and employees. - (a) Enter upon any land in the manner provided by...
Section 547.073 - Powers of board of supervisors. - (a) Build, construct and complete any works and improvements needed...
Section 547.075 - Contracts with federal government permitted. - (1) May enter into a contract with the United States...
Section 547.077 - Powers of boards of supervisors west of the Cascade Mountains. - (a) Shall supervise and control flood control projects within the...
Section 547.079 - Clogged or obstructed conditions; notice to owner or occupant. - (2) The notice shall be served by delivering to the...
Section 547.081 - Repair of clogged or obstructed condition. - (2) The drainage district shall review a plan and schedule...
Section 547.083 - Owner or occupant liable for repair expense; notice and recordation of lien. - (2) If any charge remains unpaid beyond the due date...
Section 547.105 - Election of supervisors; qualifications and terms of office; quorum for transaction of business at owners’ meetings. - (2) The county clerk shall give notice of the meeting...
Section 547.112 - Change in number of supervisors. - (2) If the board of supervisors acts under subsection (1)...
Section 547.125 - Secretary as treasurer; duties; audit of books and report to landowners; compensation. - (2) The treasurer shall receipt for all moneys received by...
Section 547.140 - Uniform charge to pay expenses of organizing district, surveys, assessing benefits and damages; collection; surplus funds; refunding in case of dissolution. - (2) The charge shall be due and payable as soon...
Section 547.205 - Appointment of engineer; duties; surveys; report; maps. - (1) Have control of the engineering work in the district....
Section 547.210 - Engineer’s report; adoption by supervisors; report constitutes "Plan for Reclamation"; exclusion of lands not benefited; certain irrigated lands deemed to be benefited. - (2) Any lands included in the district, which will not...
Section 547.225 - Assessment of benefits and damages by commissioners; report; compensation. - (2) The commissioners shall proceed to view the premises and...
Section 547.230 - Notice of report of commissioners; publication; form. - ______________________________________________________________________________ Notice of Filing of Commissioners’ Report for _____ Drainage...
Section 547.250 - Changes in plan for reclamation; petition for amendment of plan; notice. - (1) The board of supervisors, for and in behalf of...
Section 547.260 - Appointment of commissioners when plan amended; subsequent proceedings; court costs. - (2) If the petition is dismissed the district shall pay...
Section 547.305 - Entry on land; acquisition of property; water filings and appropriations; condemnation of property devoted to public use; right of way across state lands. - (a) Enter upon any land in the manner provided by...
Section 547.310 - Board authority regarding reclamation works; contracts; engineer’s duties. - (a) Build, construct and complete any works and improvements needed...
Section 547.315 - Connecting existing improvements; procedure; connection with improvements outside district. - (2) If the landowners wishing to make such connection are...
Section 547.325 - Powers of districts under 1,000 acres regarding domestic water supply. - (a) Within and adjacent to the district, own, construct, install,...
Section 547.410 - Maintaining improvements; notice to owner or occupant of premises. - (2) The notice shall be served by delivering to the...
Section 547.420 - Liability for cost of work; notice of claim of lien; foreclosure; sale of land. - (2) If any charge remains unpaid beyond the due date...
Section 547.425 - Prohibited practices. - (1) Throw, dump or place or allow to be thrown,...
Section 547.455 - Annual charge or assessment; computation; apportionment; liability of state lands; payment of assessments by bonds, coupons or warrants. - (2) Any land owned by any person totaling less than...
Section 547.482 - Filing boundary change with county assessor and Department of Revenue. - Note: 547.482 was added to and made a part of...
Section 547.492 - Alternative charge or assessment method. - (2) A resolution adopted under this section may apply to...
Section 547.510 - Form of crop lien claim; foreclosure. - ______________________________________________________________________________ NOTICE OF LIEN UPON CROPS Notice is given that...
Section 547.555 - Bonds; issuance; interest; place of payment; maturities. - (2) The bonds shall be signed by the president of...
Section 547.570 - Bond proceeds; depository. - (2) If the board deems it more expedient, the board...
Section 547.580 - Retirement of bonds before maturity; call provisions. - (2) Notice of intention to call bonds for payment before...
Section 547.610 - Sale or exchange of bonds; application of proceeds; cancellation of retired obligations; record of transactions. - (2) The district treasurer shall keep a record of all...
Section 547.620 - Retirement of outstanding bonds; notice to bondholders to submit propositions; premium; calling of bonds. - (2) The district treasurer shall, at the time and place...
Section 547.665 - Numbering; maturities; negotiability; interest; place of payment; denominations; execution; registration; authority to retire bonds. - (2) Each bond shall bear on its back the registration...
Section 547.670 - Offer by holders of indebtedness to surrender evidences thereof or accept proportional payment; sale of bonds; notice; publication. - (2) The offer shall be in writing and shall, upon...
Section 547.675 - Lien on land assessed for bond payment. - (a) A certified copy of the resolution of the board...
Section 547.680 - Emergency fund; assessments for; use of. - (2) All moneys received from such assessments shall be placed...
Section 547.697 - Bond fund separate from district general fund; deposits to bond fund and district general fund; expenditures from bond fund and district general fund. - (2) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (1) of this...