§ 41-7-807 — Powers; generally

(a) A public irrigation district or a public irrigation
and power district, organized under the provisions of this act
shall have the following powers and shall be entitled to own,
have, or exercise the following rights, privileges and
franchises:
(i) Such district shall have all the usual powers of
a corporation for public purposes and may purchase, hold, sell
and lease personal property and real estate reasonably necessary
for the conduct of its business;
(ii) Such districts shall have the right and power to
own, construct, reconstruct, improve, purchase, lease, or
otherwise acquire, extend, manage, use or operate any
"irrigation works", as defined in this act, and any and every
kind of property, personal or real, necessary, useful or
incident to such acquisition, extension, management, use and
operation, whether the same be independent of or separated from
the power, business or functions of the district or in
connection or conjunction therewith, in whole or in part. In
connection with the aforesaid powers, such district shall have
the right and power to enter into any contract, lease, agreement
or arrangement with any state, county, city, village,
governmental or public corporation or association, or with any
person, firm or corporation, public or private, or with the
government of the United States, or with any officer,
department, bureau or agency thereof, or with any corporation
organized under federal law, for the purpose of exercising or
utilizing any one (1) or more of the above enumerated powers, or
for the sale, leasing, or otherwise furnishing or establishing
water rights, electric power, water supply, conveyance and
distribution of water, water service, or water storage, for
irrigation or flood control or for the financing or payment of
the cost and expenses incident to the construction, acquisition
or operation of such irrigation works, or incident to any
obligation or liability entered into or incurred by such
district;
(iii) Such district shall have the right, power and
authority to exercise any of the powers enumerated in paragraph
(ii) of this subsection, either within or beyond or partly
within and partly beyond the boundaries of the district and of
the state of Wyoming if not otherwise prohibited by the law of
such area, state or the United States of America;
(iv) Such district shall have the right to
appropriate the waters of the state in the same manner as other
appropriators in accordance with the general provisions of
chapter 122, Wyoming Revised Statutes, 1931, and other laws and
regulations of the state of Wyoming, so far as the same may be
applicable; provided, that such district shall, in the exercise
of the powers conferred by this act, not interfere with, injure
or otherwise damage or affect existing water rights.