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Terms Used In Idaho Code 42-5260

  • Board: means the board of directors of a ground water district organized pursuant to this chapter. See Idaho Code 42-5201
  • District: means a ground water district established, or to be established, pursuant to this chapter. See Idaho Code 42-5201
  • lands: when used in the context of the property of a ground water user subject to district assessment under this chapter, means the real property where ground water is diverted or placed to beneficial use, including the facilities in or through which a ground water user makes beneficial use of ground waters. See Idaho Code 42-5201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
The state board of land commissioners may, by resolution duly passed at any meeting of such state board and recorded in its minutes, after due consideration in each specific case, authorize the governor of the state of Idaho, as chairman of the board of land commissioners, to sign a petition for the annexation of adjacent Idaho state lands to a district, or sign a petition to exclude such state lands from a district. The governor shall be deemed the owner of such state lands for the purpose of signing any petition herein authorized, with like effect as the owner of private lands.