§ 42-5226 — INTERSECTIONS WITH STREETS, RAILROADS, WATERCOURSES

Idaho § 42-5226

• Jurisdiction: Idaho
• Title 42: IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE — WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION
• Ch. 52: GROUND WATER DISTRICTS

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The board of directors shall have power to construct the works necessary to implement an approved mitigation plan across any stream of water, watercourse, street, avenue, highway, railway, canal, ditch or flume which the works may intersect or cross, in such manner as to comply with the requirements of the stream channel alteration act, chapter 38, title 42, Idaho Code, and to afford security for life and property, provided that the board shall restore the same when so crossed or intersected, to its former state as near as may be, or in a sufficient manner not to have impaired unnecessarily its usefulness; and every company whose railroad shall be intersected or crossed pursuant to this section, shall unite with the board in forming the intersections and crossings and grant the privileges aforesaid; and if such railroad company and the board, or the owners and controllers of the property, thing or franchise to be crossed, cannot agree upon the amount to be paid therefor, or upon the points or the manner of said crossings or intersections, the same shall be ascertained and determined in all respects as herein provided in respect to the taking of land.

Legislative History

[42-5226, added 1995, ch. 290, sec. 1, p. 995.]