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24-1234. Intermittent closing of roads within watershed district;county roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of countycommissioners; publication and notice.(a) Upon application of the board of directors of any watersheddistrict, the board of county commissioners of any county is herebyauthorized to permit the intermittent closing of any county road locatedwithin the boundaries of such watershed district whenever in its judgmentit is necessary to do so and when the road will be intermittently subjectto inundation by flood waters retained by an approved watershed retentionstructure.
(b) Before any permit may be issued for the temporary inundation andclosing of such a road, an application for such permit shall be made to theboard of county commissioners by the watershed district. The applicationshall specify the road involved and shall request that a permit be grantedto the district to allow the intermittent closing of the road.
(c) Upon receipt of such an application, the board of countycommissioners shall give notice of the proposed action by publication onceeach week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of generalcirculation in the county, and such notice shall contain a description ofthe places of beginning and the places of ending of such intermittentclosing. In addition to such publication, the board of county commissionersshall give notice to all public utilities or common carriers havingfacilities located within the rights-of-way of any roads being closed bymailing copies of such notice to the offices of such public utilities orcommon carriers located within the county, or if no office is locatedwithin said county, then to the office of such utilities or common carrierslocated nearest to said county. Not sooner than three (3) days after thelast publication and not sooner than fourteen (14) days after the mailingof such notice, such board may issue its permit with respect to such road.
History: L. 1974, ch. 270, § 1; March 8.
