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Statutes > Idaho > Title42 > T42ch13 > T42ch13sect42-1301IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION
CHAPTER 13
LATERAL DITCH WATER USERS’ ASSOCIATIONS
42-1301. Organization -- Officers -- Rules. Where three (3) or more parties take water from same canal or reservoir at the same point to be conveyed to their respective premises for any distance through a lateral or distributing ditch or laterals or distributing ditches such parties shall constitute a water users’ association known as "Water Users’ Association of Lateral or Laterals." Such water users’ association may meet and organize at any time after thirty (30) days after this chapter shall take effect, and shall meet annually thereafter between January first and the last Monday in March of each year, at the call of the secretary of such association, said secretary to give ten (10) days’ notice by mail of such annual meeting; provided that if for any reason the secretary should fail to call a meeting, then the annual meeting of such association shall be held on the last Monday in March of each year. At such annual meetings each water user shall be entitled to one (1) vote in person, for each inch and a fractional vote for each fraction of an inch of water which such water user is entitled to receive from such laterals, and a corporation shall vote by one (1) of its officers designated by it. Such association shall organize by the election of a chairman, vice-chairman and a secretary-treasurer, which officers shall also constitute the board of directors of such association, and shall hold office for one (1) year and until their successors are elected. Such association at the annual meeting shall also elect a manager of said lateral or laterals to be known as "lateral manager" for the succeeding season and shall fix the compensation of said manager, and of all officers. Such association may adopt such rules and regulations for the management of said lateral or laterals or distributing ditch or ditches and the delivery of water therefrom as they deem best, and may, by majority vote, if it be deemed for the best interests of the association, combine one or more laterals and abandon laterals not in use, and do any and all things not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter or the laws of this state wherein the best interests of the association will be furthered.
