Irrigation districts-large expenditures.

WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0212

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0126

Irrigation districts-large expenditures.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Childers, Bonner and Krone and Senator(s) Coe and Geis

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
irrigation districts; providing a ceiling on the
minimum annual assessment irrigation districts may impose
;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section
1.
W.S. 41
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7
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403
is amended to read:

41
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7
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403.

Preparation of assessment roll; contents; how apportioned; certification by county commissioners; delivery to county assessors.

It shall be the duty of the commissioners of each irrigation district, on or before the third Monday in July in each year to prepare an assessment roll of said district, which shall contain the name of the owner, together with a description of each lot, tract and easement of land within said district and the aggregate assessments of benefits confirmed by the court against the same; the name of all corporations assessed together with the aggregate assessment levied against such corporations respectively. The assessment roll shall also show the amount assessed against each lot, tract and easement of land, and against each corporation in the district, for current expense and to meet the principal and interest on the indebtedness of the district for the current year. All such assessments to meet the principal and interest on the indebtedness of the district for the current year, shall be apportioned on the aggregate assessment of benefits last confirmed by the court. All such assessments for current expenses shall be based upon irrigable acreage and shall be uniform as to irrigable lands receiving the maximum apportionment of water from said district, and as to irrigable lands receiving less than such maximum apportionment such assessment shall bear the same proportion as the amount of water apportioned to such lands bears to the maximum apportionment of water to other lands in such district. Provided however, that the commissioners of any irrigation district may
, in their discretion,

provide for a minimum annual assessment for current expense.

A
minimum annual assessment shall not exceed
two

hundred percent (200%) of the three (3) year average
irrigable acreage
expense for five (5) acres of irrigable land receiving the
maximum apportionment
of water
in the district.
When such assessment roll is completed it shall be signed by the commissioners of said district, and verified by any one (1) of them. On or before the third Monday in July of each year the commissioners of the irrigation district shall deliver to the county commissioners of the county having jurisdiction of such irrigation district the assessment roll of such district. The county commissioners of said county, immediately upon the receipt of the assessment roll of such district and at the time of making the requisite tax levy for county purposes, shall levy and assess against each lot, tract and easement of land and against each corporation, the respective amounts levied and assessed against the same on said assessment roll. Thereupon the county commissioners shall certify to and deliver said assessment roll to the county assessor of such county, and in case the territory embraced in such district is located in two (2) or more counties a copy of the assessment roll as certified to by the county commissioners of the county having jurisdiction of such district shall be delivered to the assessor of each county in which any of the land of the district is located. Upon receipt of such assessment roll the assessors of the counties embracing any of the lands of such district, shall extend upon the tax roll of such county the respective amounts levied and assessed against each lot, tract and easement of land, and against each corporation as shown by said assessment roll of said districts.

Section 2
. This act is effective July 1, 2011.

(END)

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