In the event a change in the boundaries of a district is made by an order of the board of directors, said board of directors shall present to the secretary of state an amendment to its articles of incorporation, containing the legal description of the lands to be annexed to or excluded from the district. A certified copy of the amendment to the articles of incorporation shall be filed for record with the register of deeds of each county wherein any district lands or any of the lands added to and included in or excluded from the district are located, and with the chief engineer of the division of water resources. Thereupon the irrigation district shall be and remain an irrigation district as fully and as to every intent and purpose as if the lands which are included in the district by the change of boundaries, had been included therein at the original organization of the district or as if the lands which were excluded from the boundaries of the district had never been included therein.