It shall be the duty of the treasurer of every irrigation district, drainage district, or any person or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing water for irrigation and having the power to make assessments for maintenance or for any other purpose, or having a lien for maintenance or otherwise, to report to the state department of finance any such assessments or such claim of lien on any lands mortgaged to the state to secure a loan of state endowment funds such report to be made within sixty (60) days after written request for such report by said department. Said report shall be made for all lands on which there is a loan of state endowment funds whether the assessments thereon are delinquent or not; provided, that such request shall contain a description of all the property upon which a report is desired and shall not be made more than once a year and that forms for such report shall be furnished by said department. A failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall subject the party guilty of such failure to a penalty of three hundred dollars ($300) to be recovered by the state in an appropriate action and to be paid into the general fund in the state treasury.