North Dakota Code 61-24.5-03 – Southwest water authority created
The southwest water authority shall consist of that part of the state which is included within the boundaries of Dunn, Stark, Golden Valley, Billings, Slope, Bowman, Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Morton, and Mercer Counties.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 61-24.5-03
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
Such authority is a governmental agency, body politic and corporate with the authority to exercise the powers specified in this chapter, or which may be reasonably implied.
Any county adjoining the authority as herein created, or as hereafter composed, may join such authority upon application of its board of county commissioners and the approval of such application by the board of directors of the authority. The board of directors, as a condition of approval of such application, may require payments as may be equitable to equalize the burden of such county with the obligations paid or assumed by the other counties in the authority.