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SENATE BILL NO. 1109 – Highway dist, dissolution

SENATE BILL NO. 1109

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S1109.....................................................by TRANSPORTATION
HIGHWAY DISTRICTS - Amends existing law relating to dissolution of highway
districts to provide that certain highway districts shall not be dissolved
by petition; to provide that dissolved highway districts shall be replaced
by existing and adjoining county highway systems; to provide for procedures
for dissolution of highway districts; to provide for a petition and
hearings of petitions; to provide for an election on the question of
dissolution of the highway district and to provide for procedures; to
provide that the title to all moneys belonging to the dissolved highway
district shall be vested in the county highway system; to provide that no
city shall be entitled to receive any share of the machinery, buildings or
real or personal property of the dissolved highway district; to provide for
claims against dissolved highway districts; to provide for powers of the
county commissioners wherein the dissolved highway district was situated;
to provide the time within which no new proceedings for the dissolution of
a highway district shall be initiated following a failure of dissolution;
and to provide that highway districts will be deemed dissolved only after
the appropriate county highway system or systems have assumed control and
operation of the dissolved highway district.
                                                                        
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  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-sixth Legislature                  First Regular Session - 2001
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1109
                                                                        
                                BY TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO HIGHWAY DISTRICTS; AMENDING SECTION 40-1801, IDAHO CODE,  TO  PRO-
  3        VIDE THAT CERTAIN HIGHWAY DISTRICTS SHALL NOT BE DISSOLVED BY PETITION, TO
  4        PROVIDE THAT DISSOLVED HIGHWAY DISTRICTS SHALL BE REPLACED BY EXISTING AND
  5        ADJOINING  COUNTY  HIGHWAY SYSTEMS AND TO PROVIDE FOR PROCEDURES; AMENDING
  6        SECTION 40-1802, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR A PETITION  INITIATED  BY  THE
  7        GREATER OF FIVE PERCENT OR TWENTY-FIVE QUALIFIED ELECTORS, TO MAKE A GRAM-
  8        MATICAL  CORRECTION  AND  TO PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTION
  9        40-1803, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT HEARINGS OF  PETITIONS  SHALL  BE  AT
 10        LEAST  SIXTY  DAYS  FROM THE DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE PETITION AND
 11        HEARING NOTICE  AND  TO  PROVIDE  CORRECT  TERMINOLOGY;  AMENDING  SECTION
 12        40-1804,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO  PROVIDE  CORRECT TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTION
 13        40-1805, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT THE DISSOLUTION OF A HIGHWAY DISTRICT
 14        MUST BE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE HIGHWAY DISTRICT AND THE COUNTY HIGH-
 15        WAY SYSTEM, TO PROVIDE THAT AN ELECTION ON THE QUESTION OF DISSOLUTION  OF
 16        THE  HIGHWAY  DISTRICT SHALL BE HELD ON A DATE IN CONFORMANCE WITH SECTION
 17        34-106(1), IDAHO CODE, BUT NOT LESS THAN NINETY DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THE
 18        ORDER DIRECTING THE QUESTION BE SUBMITTED, TO MAKE GRAMMATICAL CORRECTIONS
 19        AND TO PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTION 40-1806, IDAHO  CODE,
 20        TO  REVISE HOURS DURING WHICH POLLS SHALL BE OPENED AND TO PROVIDE CORRECT
 21        TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTIONS 40-1807 AND 40-1808, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
 22        CORRECT TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTION 40-1809, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT
 23        AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE AFTER THE ELECTION THE COUNTY  COMMISSIONERS
 24        SHALL CANVASS THE RETURNS, TO MAKE A GRAMMATICAL CORRECTION AND TO PROVIDE
 25        CORRECT TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTION 40-1810, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE COR-
 26        RECT  TERMINOLOGY;  AMENDING  SECTION 40-1811, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT
 27        THE TITLE TO ALL MONEYS BELONGING TO THE DISSOLVED HIGHWAY DISTRICT  SHALL
 28        BE  VESTED  IN THE COUNTY HIGHWAY SYSTEM, TO PROVIDE THAT NO CITY SHALL BE
 29        ENTITLED TO ANY SHARE OF THE MACHINERY, BUILDINGS OR ANY REAL OR  PERSONAL
 30        PROPERTY  OF  THE DISSOLVED HIGHWAY DISTRICT, TO PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOL-
 31        OGY, TO CORRECT A CODIFIER'S ERROR AND TO MAKE A  GRAMMATICAL  CORRECTION;
 32        AMENDING SECTION 40-1812, IDAHO CODE, TO DELETE LANGUAGE RELATING TO ESTI-
 33        MATES  OF  REVENUE,  TO DELETE LANGUAGE REQUIRING THAT CLAIMS AGAINST DIS-
 34        SOLVED HIGHWAY DISTRICTS BE PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSIONERS FOR  ALLOWANCE,
 35        TO  PROVIDE  THAT CLAIMS AGAINST DISSOLVED HIGHWAY DISTRICTS SHALL BE PAID
 36        FROM THE SPECIAL FUND OF THE DISSOLVED HIGHWAY  DISTRICT  AND  TO  PROVIDE
 37        CORRECT  TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTION 40-1813, IDAHO CODE, TO DELETE REF-
 38        ERENCE TO CHAPTER 17, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, TO MAKE A GRAMMATICAL  CORREC-
 39        TION  AND  TO PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTION 40-1814, IDAHO
 40        CODE, TO PROVIDE CORRECT  TERMINOLOGY;  AMENDING  SECTION  40-1815,  IDAHO
 41        CODE,  TO  DELETE  REFERENCE  TO  THE  SUCCEEDING  OPERATIONAL UNIT OF THE
 42        COUNTY, TO PROVIDE THAT THE COUNTY  COMMISSIONERS  WHEREIN  THE  DISSOLVED
 43        HIGHWAY DISTRICT WAS SITUATED SHALL HAVE CERTAIN POWERS WITHIN THE RESPEC-
 44        TIVE COUNTIES, TO MAKE GRAMMATICAL CORRECTIONS AND TO PROVIDE CORRECT TER-
 45        MINOLOGY;  AMENDING  SECTION 40-1816, IDAHO CODE, TO MAKE GRAMMATICAL COR-
 46        RECTIONS AND TO PROVIDE CORRECT  TERMINOLOGY;  AMENDING  SECTION  40-1817,
                                                                        
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  1        IDAHO  CODE,  TO  PROVIDE THAT NO NEW PROCEEDINGS FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF A
  2        HIGHWAY DISTRICT SHALL BE INITIATED LESS THAN SIX YEARS AFTER  PROCEEDINGS
  3        FOR  SUCH  DISSOLUTION FAILED AND TO PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING
  4        SECTION 40-1818, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SEC-
  5        TION 40-1819, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF  APPLICATION  OF
  6        CHAPTER  18,  TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, AND TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN ACTIONS OR
  7        PROCEEDINGS MAY BE CONTINUED BY THE COUNTY OR HIGHWAY  DISTRICT;  AMENDING
  8        SECTION  40-1820, IDAHO CODE, TO DELETE REFERENCE TO CITY HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;
  9        AND AMENDING SECTION 40-1821, IDAHO CODE, TO  PROVIDE  THAT  HIGHWAY  DIS-
 10        TRICTS  WILL BE DEEMED DISSOLVED ONLY AFTER THE APPROPRIATE COUNTY HIGHWAY
 11        SYSTEM OR SYSTEMS HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL  AND  OPERATION  OF  THE  DISSOLVED
 12        HIGHWAY DISTRICT AND TO MAKE A GRAMMATICAL CORRECTION.
                                                                        
 13    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
 14        SECTION  1.  That  Section 40-1801, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 15    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 16        40-1801.  DISTRICTS SUBJECT TO DISSOLUTION. Any highway  district  of  the
 17    state,  unless  such  district was organized under chapter 13 or 17, title 40,
 18    Idaho Code, or if organized prior to July 1, 1985, chapter 27 or 30, title 40,
 19    Idaho Code, may be dissolved as provided in this chapter,  provided  the  dis-
 20    solved  highway district is to be replaced by an existing and adjoining county
 21    highway system. A petition for the dissolution of  a  highway  district  which
 22    shall  be  replaced by an existing adjoining highway district shall follow the
 23    procedures set forth in chapter 15, title 40, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 24        SECTION 2.  That Section 40-1802, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
 25    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 26        40-1802.  PETITION  FOR  DISSOLUTION  -- CONTENTS. All proceedings for the
 27    dissolution of highway districts shall be initiated by a petition of five per-
 28    cent (5%) or twenty-five (25) or more  qualified  electors  of  the  district,
 29    whichever  is  greater,  addressed to the commissioners of the county in which
 30    the highway district is situated, and which shall concisely state the  grounds
 31    or  reasons  for  the  dissolution  and contain a request for a hearing of the
 32    petition.
                                                                        
 33        SECTION 3.  That Section 40-1803, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
 34    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 35        40-1803.  ORDER  FOR  HEARING  UPON  PETITION. The petition shall be filed
 36    with the clerk of the county commissioners and at its next regular meeting, or
 37    at any special meeting called for that purpose, and the  county  commissioners
 38    shall  by an order fix a time and place for the hearing of the petition, which
 39    time shall not be less than twenty-one sixty  (2160) days from and  after  the
 40    date of the first publication of the notice of the petition and hearing.
                                                                        
 41        SECTION  4.  That  Section 40-1804, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 42    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 43        40-1804.  NOTICE OF PETITION AND HEARING. The county  commissioners  shall
 44    require  their  clerk to cause a notice to be published in accordance with the
 45    provisions of section 40-206, Idaho Code, setting forth that  a  petition  has
 46    been  filed,  the prayer of the petition and notice of the time and place when
                                                                        
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  1    and where the petition will be heard, and further notice that any  elector  of
  2    the  highway  district  may, prior to or at the time of the hearing, file with
  3    the clerk written objections to the proposed dissolution.
                                                                        
  4        SECTION 5.  That Section 40-1805, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
  5    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  6        40-1805.  HEARING  --  ORDER FOR ELECTION. At the time and place specified
  7    in the notice, the county commissioners shall proceed to consider the petition
  8    and all written objections to it, and shall hear all persons  in  relation  to
  9    it, and shall hear or take testimony as may be offered or as they desire. Upon
 10    the  conclusion  of the hearing which may be continued from day to day, if the
 11    county commissioners determine that the highway district ought  to  should  be
 12    dissolved  and  that  the dissolution would be to in the best interests of the
 13    highway district and the county  highway  system,  it  shall  enter  an  order
 14    directing  that the question of dissolution of the highway district be submit-
 15    ted to the qualified electors of the district at an election to be held  on  a
 16    date  in  conformance  with  section  34-106(1), Idaho Code, but not less than
 17    thirty (30) nor more than sixty ninety (690) days from and after the  date  of
 18    the order.
                                                                        
 19        SECTION  6.  That  Section 40-1806, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 20    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 21        40-1806.  ELECTION OFFICERS AND POLLING DISTRICTS -- NOTICE  OF  ELECTION.
 22    The county commissioners shall at the time of making the order appoint two (2)
 23    or  more judges and one (1) or more clerks for the election, to be chosen from
 24    the electors of the highway district for each of the polling districts in  the
 25    highway  district,  and shall by order establish polling districts and polling
 26    places. The county commissioners shall direct their clerk to cause  notice  of
 27    the  election  to  be  given  by  posting notices in at least three (3) public
 28    places within the highway district, one (1) of which shall  be  on  the  front
 29    door  of  the office of the highway district, and in addition to that posting,
 30    shall cause a copy of the notice to be published in accordance with the provi-
 31    sions of section 40-206, Idaho Code. The notice shall state the purpose of the
 32    election; the places of holding it; the polling districts, if an  election  be
 33    held  in  more  than one (1) place; the qualifications required of voters; and
 34    the hours during which the polls shall be opened, which shall be  between  the
 35    hours of 18:00 pa.m. and 78:00 p.m.
                                                                        
 36        SECTION  7.  That  Section 40-1807, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 37    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 38        40-1807.  QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. Any person  residing  in  the  highway
 39    district possessing the qualifications required by law for a voter at any gen-
 40    eral election of the state shall be entitled to vote in the election.
                                                                        
 41        SECTION  8.  That  Section 40-1808, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 42    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 43        40-1808.  CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS. (1) The polls in all  elections  shall  be
 44    presided  over  by the judges and clerks appointed by the county commissioners
 45    who must take an oath, to be administered by a qualified elector of the  high-
 46    way  district,  and  which oath shall obligate the judges and clerks to faith-
 47    fully perform the duties of the board of election.
                                                                        
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  1        (2)  All elections shall be by secret and separate ballot, each ballot in
  2    type, print or legible writing, stating in the affirmative  and  negative  the
  3    proposition  to  be  voted  upon,  and all ballots shall be in a form that the
  4    voters may express a choice by the marking of a cross (X).
  5        (3)  In all elections it is intended that no informalities  in  conducting
  6    the  elections  shall invalidate the election, if the election shall have been
  7    otherwise fairly conducted. The clerk of the county commissioners  shall  pre-
  8    pare the necessary ballots for use in each of the polling districts.
                                                                        
  9        SECTION  9.  That  Section 40-1809, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 10    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 11        40-1809.  COUNTING VOTES -- RETURN OF ELECTION -- CANVASS -- ORDER OF DIS-
 12    SOLUTION. Immediately following the close of the polls at the  time  specified
 13    in  the  notices  of  election the board or boards of election shall tally the
 14    results of the election, making the count in public view and shall immediately
 15    make return of the election to the clerk  of  the  county  commissioners  upon
 16    forms  to be supplied by him the clerk, and shall transmit all ballots cast at
 17    the election, whether the ballots were counted or rejected by  them.  election
 18    board.  At  the  earliest  possible date thereafter, tThe county commissioners
 19    shall immediately  canvass the returns, and in the event  a  majority  of  the
 20    votes  cast  in  the  highway district are in favor of dissolution, the county
 21    commissioners shall immediately make and enter an order declaring the  highway
 22    district dissolved.
                                                                        
 23        SECTION  10.  That Section 40-1810, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 24    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 25        40-1810.  EXPENSES OF DISSOLUTION -- HOW BORNE AND PAID. All  expenses  of
 26    proceedings  to dissolve highway districts, including the posting and publica-
 27    tion of notices of hearings on the petitions and of the election, the printing
 28    of ballots and compensation of judges and clerks of election, shall  be  borne
 29    by  the  highway  district.  In  cases where the proposal to dissolve shall be
 30    defeated, either by order of the county commissioners upon hearing  the  peti-
 31    tions,  or at the election, the expense shall be paid by the appropriate high-
 32    way district treasurer out of any current funds on hand on an order  presented
 33    by  the  clerk of the county commissioners; and, when the proposal to dissolve
 34    shall have been adopted at an election, the expense of all  proceedings  shall
 35    be  paid  by  the county treasurer out of the first moneys received from or on
 36    account of the respective highway district.
                                                                        
 37        SECTION 11.  That Section 40-1811, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 38    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 39        40-1811.  DISSOLUTION  DISPOSITION  OF  SURPLUS FUNDS AND PROPERTY OF DIS-
 40    SOLVED SYSTEM OR DISTRICT. (1) After final payment of all expenses of proceed-
 41    ings in relation to dissolution and of all legal claims,  liabilities,  bonded
 42    and  other  indebtedness of the dissolved highway district, and after liquida-
 43    tion and winding up of the affairs of the such district, all surplus moneys of
 44    the dissolved highway district remaining in the special fund of the  dissolved
 45    highway  district  shall immediately be delivered to the treasurer of the suc-
 46    ceeding operational unit county. Title to all  moneys,  machinery,  buildings,
 47    lands, and property of every kind and nature belonging to the dissolved system
 48    or  highway district shall immediately upon entry of the order of dissolution,
 49    and without further conveyance, be vested in the succeeding  operational  unit
                                                                        
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  1    county highway system.
  2        (2)  No  city whose incorporated limits lie wholly or partially within the
  3    boundaries of a dissolved highway district shall be entitled  to  receive  any
  4    share  of  the  moneys,  machinery,  buildings, lands, or any real or personal
  5    property of any kind of the dissolved highway district.
                                                                        
  6        SECTION 12.  That Section 40-1812, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
  7    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  8        40-1812.  PROVISION  FOR  PAYMENT OF CURRENT CLAIMS. As a part of the pro-
  9    ceedings of and order for dissolution of a highway district, the  county  com-
 10    missioners  shall make a determination, so nearly as may be done, of the total
 11    indebtedness of the dissolved highway district, including bonded, funded bond,
 12    and all warrant indebtedness, both as to registered and floating warrants, and
 13    current indebtedness of, or claims against, the  dissolved  highway  district.
 14    They  shall  likewise  determine  the amount of funds on hand belonging to the
 15    dissolved highway district, and shall estimate the revenue to be derived  from
 16    sale  of  district  property,  from uncollected taxes or assessments levied or
 17    assessed in the district, and the amount of highway users' funds as the  high-
 18    way  district  would  be entitled to receive from the county in which the dis-
 19    trict is situated had the district not been dissolved.  From  that  determina-
 20    tion,  the  county  commissioners  shall  compute the probable amount of money
 21    which may be applied in payment of current indebtedness of the dissolved high-
 22    way district and shall order and provide  for  the  manner  in  which  current
 23    claims  against  the dissolved highway district shall be presented to the com-
 24    missioners for allowance and payment by warrants drawn against paid  from  the
 25    special fund of the dissolved highway district in the county treasury.
                                                                        
 26        SECTION  13.  That Section 40-1813, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 27    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 28        40-1813.  DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT SITUATED IN TWO OR MORE  COUNTIES.  When
 29    any highway district is to be dissolved, situated in two (2) or more counties,
 30    the  commissioners  of the county whose county seat is situated most nearly to
 31    the geographical center of the highway district, shall  have  jurisdiction  of
 32    the  dissolution  of  the  highway  district and the same procedure, including
 33    notices and elections, shall be followed as  provided  in  this  chapter.  and
 34    chapter 17 of this title, for dissolution of highway districts situated in one
 35    (1)  county.  Meetings  shall  be  had at the county seat of the county having
 36    jurisdiction of the dissolution of the highway district before a joint session
 37    of the commissioners from all the counties affected by  the  dissolution.  The
 38    commissioners  of  the counties affected shall cause to be made and entered an
 39    order for notice, election, and for the dissolution  and  winding  up  of  the
 40    affairs  of  the  highway  district and specifying when the same shall be dis-
 41    solved, and the succeeding operational unit, if any county highway  system  or
 42    systems.
                                                                        
 43        SECTION  14.  That Section 40-1814, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 44    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 45        40-1814.  HIGHWAY DISTRICTS IN TWO OR MORE COUNTIES -- PROVISION FOR  PAY-
 46    MENT  OF  INDEBTEDNESS  UPON  DISSOLUTION.  The commissioners of the county in
 47    which the petitions for dissolution are filed, shall determine  the  indebted-
 48    ness  of  the entire highway district and shall provide for the payment of the
 49    indebtedness out of the highway district funds on hand, or  to  be  raised  by
                                                                        
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  1    special  levies,  levied by the county, and shall be certified to the clerk of
  2    the commissioners of each of the counties in which is situated any part of the
  3    dissolved highway district, and an ad valorem tax shall be levied and  imposed
  4    by each of the counties upon property of within the dissolved highway district
  5    as  may  be  within  the county. The tax shall be collected, and not less than
  6    quarterly, be remitted to the treasurer of the county where the petitions  are
  7    filed,  to  be applied in payment of the indebtedness of the dissolved highway
  8    district.
                                                                        
  9        SECTION 15.  That Section 40-1815, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 10    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 11        40-1815.  JURISDICTION  OF PROPERTY OF DISSOLVED HIGHWAY DISTRICT SITUATED
 12    IN TWO OR MORE COUNTIES. The succeeding operational  unit  of  the  county  in
 13    which  the  proceedings  for the dissolution of highway districts, situated in
 14    two (2) or more counties are had, or the commissioners of the county or  coun-
 15    ties  wherein  the  dissolved  highway  district was situated shall, after the
 16    order of dissolution, have exclusive jurisdiction over all  of  the  property,
 17    business  and  affairs  of the dissolved highway district, whether situated in
 18    the respective county, or not, including the  power  to  issue  funding  bonds
 19    against  the whole territory of the dissolved highway district for the payment
 20    of funding of bonds, warrants, and for other  indebtedness  of  the  dissolved
 21    highway district when funds for payment cannot be secured by current taxation.
                                                                        
 22        SECTION  16.  That Section 40-1816, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 23    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 24        40-1816.  CONTROL OF BRIDGES AND HIGHWAYS OF DISSOLVED  HIGHWAY  DISTRICT.
 25    From and after the entry of the order for dissolution of any highway district,
 26    the  commissioners  of the county or counties where the dissolved highway dis-
 27    trict was situated, or the succeeding operational unit, shall  have  the  same
 28    control  over all bridges and highways of the dissolved highway district situ-
 29    ate in the county, as was or is vested in the county  commissioners  in  other
 30    territory of the county of the dissolved highway district, including the power
 31    to  levy ad valorem taxes upon the property situated therein for general high-
 32    way and bridge purposes.
                                                                        
 33        SECTION 17.  That Section 40-1817, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 34    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 35        40-1817.  LIMITATION ON NEW PROCEEDINGS FOR DISSOLUTION. When any proceed-
 36    ings  for  dissolution  of any highway district shall have failed of adoption,
 37    either on account of order of the county commissioners or at election, no  new
 38    proceedings  for  dissolution  of the highway district shall be initiated less
 39    than one six (16) years thereafter.
                                                                        
 40        SECTION 18.  That Section 40-1818, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 41    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 42        40-1818.  VALIDITY  OF  OUTSTANDING  OBLIGATIONS.  Nothing in this chapter
 43    shall be construed as impairing the validity of any outstanding bonds or  war-
 44    rants of a dissolved system or highway district.
                                                                        
 45        SECTION  19.  That Section 40-1819, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 46    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
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  1        40-1819.  ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS ESTABLISHED  OR  COMMENCED  BEFORE  CHAPTER
  2    TAKES  EFFECT  NOT AFFECTED. This chapter shall not affect any act done, rati-
  3    fied or confirmed, or any right accrued or established, or any action or  pro-
  4    ceeding had or commenced in a civil or criminal cause before July 1, 19852001,
  5    but  those  actions  or  proceedings  may  be  prosecuted and continued by the
  6    county, or highway district. or city.
                                                                        
  7        SECTION 20.  That Section 40-1820, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
  8    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  9        40-1820.  CONTINUANCE IN SERVICE OF EMPLOYEES OF DISSOLVED SYSTEM OR HIGH-
 10    WAY  DISTRICT.  All persons in the employ of any dissolved city highway system
 11    or highway district may be continued in service so far as their  services  may
 12    be  required  by the succeeding operational unit county highway system or sys-
 13    tems.
                                                                        
 14        SECTION 21.  That Section 40-1821, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 15    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 16        40-1821.  NO  HIGHWAY DISTRICT DISSOLVED UNTIL SUCCEEDING OPERATIONAL UNIT
 17    IN EXISTENCE ASSUMPTION OF CONTROL BY COUNTY HIGHWAY SYSTEM. No  highway  dis-
 18    tricts  dissolved  under  the  terms  and  provisions of this chapter shall be
 19    deemed to have been dissolved and shall not cease to operate and perform their
 20    duties and obligations until there shall have been organized  and  existing  a
 21    succeeding  operational unit appropriate county highway system or systems have
 22    assumed control and operation of the dissolved highway district.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


                    STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                          RS 10898
                              
  This legislation clarifies procedures for the dissolution of
  highway districts as provided for in Idaho Code Title 40,
  chapter 18. The current chapter 18 statutes are in conflict
  with the other chapters of title 40 in the procedures for the
  petitioning process, elections, time limits, and polling
  places. Clarifications are also made to eliminate the
  confusion surrounding which board of commissioners, the
  highway district commissioners or the county commissioners,
  is required to act under the provisions of a petition for
  dissolution under this chapter, and the status of any surplus
  of funds and property owned by the highway district at the
  time of dissolution.
  
  
  
  
  
  None to the General Fund.
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  Contact
  Name:   Stuart O. Davis; Executive Director, Idaho Association
  of Highway Districts, Inc.
  
  Phone: 859-9378
  
  
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