19-3526. Declaration of district organization, when; resolution; publication; name of district; quasi-municipality.
19-3526
19-3526. Declaration of district organization, when; resolution; publication;
name of district; quasi-municipality.
Upon the hearing, if it appears to the satisfaction of the
board that the general welfare of the inhabitants of Johnson county will
be promoted by the organization of a public wholesale water supply
district embracing the whole area of the county and by the
acquisition of a source of water and by the construction or acquisition
of facilities for the production, transportation and sale at wholesale
of water to public water supply districts, municipalities, and publicly
and privately owned water distribution companies within the county, and
that the same will be of public utility, the board shall, by resolution,
declare the district organized and give it the corporate name of Johnson
county public wholesale water supply district. The board shall publish the
resolution once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official
county paper. Thereupon the district
shall be a quasi-municipal body corporate with all the powers of like or
similar corporations.
History: L. 1961, ch. 473, § 5; L. 1981, ch. 173, § 62; July 1.