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9-9-14
Section 9-9-14 Board of water management commissioners - Composition; qualifications, appointment,
terms of office, oath and bond of commissioners; seal; officers and employees generally; meetings;
vacancies; quorum. Upon the organization of the district, the court of probate shall appoint
three water management commissioners to be designated "Board of Water Management Commissioners,"
who shall have control of the affairs of the district, and each commissioner shall be an owner
of real property within the district and shall be over 19 years of age, and at least one of
them shall be a resident of the county in which the proceedings are held. Whenever the owners
of a majority in acres of the land comprising a district petition the court for appointment
of a person qualified under this article to act as a water management commissioner, it shall
be the duty of the court to appoint such person or persons, but in the absence of such petition
it shall be the duty of the court to appoint such...
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9-13-3
Section 9-13-3 Assistance, etc., of private landowners; suppression of forest fires, etc.;
promotion and development of forestry, etc.; acquisition, management and disposition of land;
officers, assistants and employees. (a) The commission shall give such advice, assistance
and cooperation as may be practicable to private landowners and promote, so far as it may
be able, a proper appreciation in this state among all classes of the population of the benefits
to be derived from forest culture, preservation and use. (b) The commission may take such
measures as may be reasonable and practicable to prevent and suppress forest fires and other
influences harmful to forest growth and may apply such parts of the forestry fund and other
funds accruing to it as may be necessary to such purposes and to providing such systems of
control as it may establish, either independently or in cooperation with the federal government
and other agencies, public or private. (c) The commission shall be the sole...
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9-8-25
Section 9-8-25 Powers and duties of districts; performance of work on private lands; acquisition,
etc., of land by public bodies; exemption from taxation. (a) A soil and water conservation
district organized under this article shall constitute a governmental subdivision of this
state and a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public powers, and such district
and the supervisors thereof shall have the following powers, in addition to others granted
in other sections of this article: (1) To carry out preventive and control measures within
the district including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of cultivation,
the growing of vegetation, changes in use of land, and other erosion control measures on lands
owned or controlled by this state or any of its agencies with the consent and cooperation
of the agency administering and having jurisdiction thereof and on any other lands within
the district upon obtaining the consent of the owner of such lands or the...
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9-9-48
Section 9-9-48 Control and supervision of completed improvements; annual tax for repairs and
maintenance; payment of costs of repairs and maintenance; injury, damage or obstruction of
improvements. Whenever any improvement constructed under this article is completed, it shall
be under the control and supervision of the board of water management commissioners. It shall
be the duty of said board to maintain the levees, ditches, drains, watercourses, floodwater
retarding structures and any other improvements in good repair, and for this purpose the board
of water management commissioners may annually levy a tax on the lands benefited by the construction
of such improvement in the same manner as other water management taxes are levied, not to
exceed 10 percent of the assessed benefits in any one year, and the fund that is collected
shall be used for repairing and maintaining the ditches, drains, watercourses, floodwater
retarding structures and other improvements in perfect order;...
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11-88-132
Section 11-88-132 Acquisition, etc., of water system of water and fire protection authority
by city board of water and sewer commissioners - Conveyance of funds in trust for authority's
fire protection system; governing board of authority as trustees; trustees' powers and liabilities.
(a) In the event that the board of water and sewer commissioners of any city ("commissioners")
should acquire, operate, or control by virtue of assignment, conveyance, court order, operation
of law, or otherwise the water system of a water and fire protection authority ("authority"),
then the commissioners shall thereupon convey to the authority the principal sum of $2,000,000
in irrevocable trust for the support and maintenance of the authority's fire protection system.
(b) The trustees of the trust so established shall be the members of the governing board of
the authority, as it may be comprised from time to time, who shall have all powers necessary
to effect the support and maintenance of the...
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9-16-127
Section 9-16-127 Acquisition and disposition of lands. (a) The director, with the approval
of the Secretary of Interior, may acquire title in the name of the state to any land or interest
therein by purchase, donation, or condemnation if such land or interest is adversely affected
by past coal mining practices and upon a determination that acquisition of such land is necessary
to successful reclamation and that: (1) The acquired land after restoration, reclamation,
abatement, control or prevention of the adverse effects of past coal mining practices will
serve recreation and historical purposes, conservation and reclamation purposes or provide
open space benefits; and (2) Permanent facilities such as a treatment plant or a relocated
stream channel will be constructed on the land for restoration, reclamation, abatement, control
or prevention of the adverse effects of past coal mining practices; or (3) Acquisition of
coal refuse disposal sites and all coal refuse thereon will serve the...
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9-9-23
Section 9-9-23 Appointment of district engineer, etc.; preparation, adoption, etc., of report
and water management plan for improvements in district. (a) Within 60 days after the district
is established, it shall be the duty of the board of water management commissioners to appoint
as district engineer a competent civil or agricultural engineer of good standing in his profession
who is familiar with the type of project involved if said engineer is needed or required by
the district. Such services of an engineer may not be required if engineering services are
furnished by a federal, state or local agency. (b) In case an engineer is needed or required,
it shall be the duty of the court of probate to refer the report of the preliminary survey
or other plans to the district engineer, who shall make a survey of the district and shall
prepare a report with plans for improvements for the district. Such report shall include maps,
profiles, specifications, estimates of cost and other data and...
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9-9-26
Section 9-9-26 Transmittal of certified copy of water management plan to probate court; petition
for appointment of viewers; composition, etc., of board of viewers; qualifications and appointment
of members. Within 90 days after the adoption of the plan of water management, the secretary
of the board of water management commissioners shall prepare and transmit a certified copy
thereof to the court of probate of the county in which the district is organized, and at the
same time the board of water management commissioners shall file with said court of probate
a petition to appoint viewers to appraise the lands within and without said district to be
acquired for rights-of-way on the works of improvement of the district and to assess benefits
and damages according to all lands in the district and other property by reason of the execution
of the plan of water management. Within 30 days after the filing of such petition, the court
of probate shall by an order appoint a board of viewers...
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45-29-90.11
Section 45-29-90.11 Regulation of zoning, planning, and construction. For the purpose of promoting
the health, safety, morals, convenience, environment order, prosperity, and general welfare,
all power and authority regarding zoning and planning within the management area is hereby
vested in the board of directors of the authority. As described herein, no regulated activity
shall commence without the applicant having first obtained a land use certificate as issued
by the authority. (1) The board is authorized to regulate the planning, zoning, and construction
within the management area of all activity involving public streets, public roads, subdivisions,
drainage structures in subdivisions, mobile home parks, residential and commercial developments,
apartments, recreation parks, coal mining, gas/oil and methane exploration and development,
excavation, and logging. The board is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce such ordinances
as shall be necessary to implement any development...
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9-17-152
Section 9-17-152 Board approval; recordation of order; certificate of effectiveness; dissolution
of fields and units; determination of commercial reserves; creation of cavities. (a) The use
of an underground reservoir as a storage facility for gas is hereby authorized, provided that
the board shall first enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the provisions
of Sections 9-17-3 to 9-17-8, inclusive, approving such proposed underground storage of gas
and designating the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the storage facility, such boundaries
to include within them any necessary or reasonable buffer zone for the purpose of insuring
the safe operation of the storage facility and to protect the storage facility against pollution,
invasion, and escape or migration of gas therefrom, upon finding as follows: (1) That the
storage facility is suitable and feasible for the injection, storage and withdrawal of gas
and has a greater value or utility for the storage of gas than for...
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