BOARD01531

• Board Meeting Date: 2/26/1957
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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upon its own initiative, or at the request of the State
Engineer, or upon petition of a substantial number of the
ground-water users within the district, review and readopt,
modify, or remove the restrictions which have been imposed
upon it.

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The Water board may, at any time, upon its own
initiative, or at the request of the State Engineer, or
upon petition of what the Water board considers to be a
substantial number of the ground-water users within a dis-
trict or within an area contiguous to any district, review
available hydrological, geological and other pertinent data
and information and expand or decrease the area of the dis-
trict by changing the boundaries thereof, or the restricted
aquifers therein to conform to the Water board's interpre-
tation of the data and information at hand. Any area added
to a district shall be subject to the regulations in effect
within such district.

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In addition to any other duties and as a part of
its official function, the Water board shall have the author-
ity to direct the State Engineer, who shall execute its
orders, in all matters pertaining to ground water except
those specifically delegated to the State Engineer by sta-
tute or court decree as his responsibility.

Section 147-18-6. Ground-water users from sources
within any Tentatively Critical or Critical Ground-Water
District may petition the Water board to conduct an election
to determine if a majority of the qualified electors in the
district wish to have a district advisory board selected,
and if so, to select a "District Advisory Board" of five
members to cooperate with the Water board and the state
engineer in promoting and maintaining legally equitable and
efficient use of ground water in such district. The peti-
tion shall be signed by not less than 50 qualified voters of
the district or five per cent of the qualified voters of the
district, whichever is less, and shall have attached thereto
a list of the ground-water USers in the district, with their
last known addresses, which shall have attached thereto an
affidavit signed by three of the petitioners that they have
examined such records as are available to them and that the
list of ground-water users is substantially correct. The
inadvertent omission of one or more names from the list of
ground-water users submitted with the petition shall not in-
validate the petition unless in the opinion of the Water board,
such omissions are sufficient to indicate that the petitioners
have not made a bona fide effort to comply with the provisions
of this section. .

Within thirty days after it shall have received a
petition, the Water board shall cause to be mailed to each