North Dakota Code 61-04.1-24 – Petition contents
The petition for the creation of a weather modification authority and for appointment of commissioners shall contain:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 61-04.1-24
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- qualified elector: means a citizen of the United States who is eighteen years of age or older; and is a resident of this state and of the area affected by the petition. See North Dakota Code 1-01-51
- 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
- written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
1. A title with the heading: “Petition for Creation of (insert name of county) Weather Modification Authority”.
2. The following paragraph: We, the undersigned qualified electors of (name of county), state of North Dakota, by this initiated petition request that the (name of county) board of county commissioners of said county create by resolution a (name of county) weather modification authority and appoint the following five qualified electors of the county to a ten-year term of office as commissioners for the (name of county) weather modification authority:
(Here insert the name and address of each proposed commissioner for the (name of county) weather modification authority.) 3. The following paragraph: We, the undersigned qualified electors of the (name of county), state of North Dakota, are notified hereby that the creation of the (name of county) weather modification authority and the appointment of its commissioners by the (name of county) board of county commissioners will grant unto the authority by law the power to certify to the board of county commissioners a mill levy tax not to exceed seven mills upon the taxable valuation of property in said county for a weather modification fund, which tax may be levied in excess of the mill levy limit fixed by law for taxes for general county purposes and that such fund shall be used for weather modification activities in conjunction with the state of North Dakota. We, the undersigned, understand that the authority requested in this petition expires ten years after the creation of the weather modification authority, except that the board of county commissioners may by resolution create a weather modification authority and all its powers, including the power to certify a tax levy as provided by section 61-04.1-26, for five-year periods in accordance with section 61-04.1-27.
4. A heading: “Committee for Petitioners”, followed by this statement: The following qualified electors of (name of county), state of North Dakota, are authorized to represent and act for us, and shall constitute the “Committee for the Petitioners” in the matter of this petition and all acts subsequent thereto.
5. Petition details: All signatures to such petition shall be numbered and dated by month, day, and year. The name shall be written with residence address and post-office address, including the county of residence followed by state of North Dakota.
6. An affidavit to be attached to each petition and sworn to under oath before a notary public by the person circulating each petition attesting to the fact that the person circulated the petition and that each of the signatures to said petition is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that each such person is a qualified elector in the county in which the petition was circulated.
7. The petition must state the mills to be levied by the county for the purposes of this chapter.