irrigation district
Defined in 2 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Black's (1910)
United States Code
43 U.S.C. § 485H — in this section (5 versions over time)
The term “irrigation district” means any irrigation, water conservation or conservancy, multicounty water conservation or conservancy district, or any separate public entity composed of two or more such districts and jointly exercising powers of its member districts.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A public and quasi-municipal corporation authorized by law in several states, comprising a defined region or area of land which is susceptible of one mode of irrigation from a common source and by the same system of works. These districts are created. by proceedings in the nature of an election under the supervision of a court, and are authorized to purchase or condemn the lands and waters necessary for the system of irrigation proposed and to construct necessary canals and other works, and the water is apportioned ratably among the land-owners of the district.
Defined under Irrigation in Black's Law Dictionary.