§ 61-05-01 — Definitions

North Dakota § 61-05-01

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 61: Waters
• Ch. 61-05: Organization of Irrigation Districts

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As used in this chapter and in succeeding chapters dealing with irrigation districts:
1. "Board" means the board of directors of any irrigation district.
2. "Elector" means any landowner owning not less than five acres [2.02 hectares] of land
whose land will be or is subject to assessments for construction or other costs, within a
proposed or existing irrigation district, and who is a resident of this state. As herein
used the term "owner" means an owner in fee simple and also includes:
a. An entryman of government land.
b. A purchaser of land under contract.
c. A guardian, executor, administrator, or trustee.
d. A corporation organized and existing under the laws of this state.
e. A limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of this state.
f. The United States of America and the state of North Dakota.
3. "Irrigable acres" or "irrigable lands" means those lands which can or will be served by
the district's works, as determined by the department of water resources before the
district is organized, or as determined from time to time by the district's board of
directors. Whenever land or acreage is described as being susceptible of irrigation or
subject to assessment, it means the same as irrigable acres.
4. "Works" includes canals, ditches, pipelines, and other conveyance systems, pumping
plants, rights of way, easements, reservoirs, dams, well fields, and other works for the
appropriation of water and the necessary sites for pumping plants, reservoirs, dams,
well fields, and all means and property required for a completed operating system of
irrigation works.