Watershed District Act

The act provides for the formation and operation of watershed districts — local public corporations organized to study a watershed area and to carry out projects and improvements within it. It sets out the process for creating a district by petition, notice, and an election, followed by the issuance of a charter, and then governs the district's affairs: an elected board of directors and officers, open meetings, filing fees and organizational funding, boundary changes, mergers, and contributions or tax levies by participating counties, cities, and towns. For individual projects it establishes a benefit-assessment procedure in which a petition receives a public hearing with an opportunity to object and appeal, appointed commissioners report the benefits and costs to affected property, and a decree authorizes special assessments that are recorded, collected, and enforced against delinquencies, with revenue bonds available to finance the work.

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