TITLE 42

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE — WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION

CHAPTER 29

DRAINAGE DISTRICTS

42-2915.  Assessment of benefits against high lands. In determining the amount which each tract of land will be benefited by such proposed drainage system the commissioners shall consider the damage done to low land from seepage and saturation by irrigation water from high land, and the necessity for the carrying off of waste water, and such high lands shall be considered as being benefited to the extent and in the amount that such lands are responsible for damage to low lands from seepage and saturation by irrigation water.

History:

[(42-2915) 1913, ch. 16, sec. 9a, as added by 1915, ch. 42, sec. 2, p. 124; reen. C.L. 168:13; C.S., sec. 4506; I.C.A., sec. 41-2515.]