Section 46A-9-20 - Extension of district--Petition to include additional territory, filing, verification,number of signers, resolution of board of directors.

46A-9-20. Extension of district--Petition to include additional territory, filing, verification, number of signers, resolution of board of directors. A water user district may be extended by including additional territory by filing in the Department of Water and Natural Resources a petition in writing, verified by the circulator thereof, addressed to the department, signed by at least twenty-five percent of the landowners or entrymen in any area to be included, and bearing the approval by resolution, of a majority of the board of directors of such water user district, upon compliance with the requirements hereinafter set forth. Such petition shall contain a description of the lands to be included.

Source: SL 1943, ch 310; SDC Supp 1960, § 61.1304 (2); SDCL, § 46-16-19.