Upon application of the owner or entryman prior to the board’s hearing on the question of district formation, the Board of Water and Natural Resources shall include lands capable of being irrigated from the proposed works in the proposed district, if the board determines that the inclusion of the lands is feasible and will not unreasonably compromise the ability of feasibly irrigable lands originally proposed for inclusion by petitioners to obtain the water to which they would be entitled and capable of receiving from the proposed district.

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Source: SDC 1939, § 61.0802; SL 1947, ch 417, § 2; SDCL, § 46-12-8; SL 1984, ch 294, § 10.