North Dakota Code 61-05-01 – Definitions
As used in this chapter and in succeeding chapters dealing with irrigation districts:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 61-05-01
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- 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
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
1. “Board” means the board of directors of any irrigation district.
2. “Elector” means any landowner owning not less than five acres [2.02 hectares] of land whose land will be or is subject to assessments for construction or other costs, within a proposed or existing irrigation district, and who is a resident of this state. As herein used the term “owner” means an owner in fee simple and also includes:
a. An entryman of government land.
b. A purchaser of land under contract.
c. A guardian, executor, administrator, or trustee.
d. A corporation organized and existing under the laws of this state.
e. A limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of this state. f. The United States of America and the state of North Dakota.
3. “Irrigable acres” or “irrigable lands” means those lands which can or will be served by the district’s works, as determined by the department of water resources before the district is organized, or as determined from time to time by the district’s board of directors. Whenever land or acreage is described as being susceptible of irrigation or subject to assessment, it means the same as irrigable acres.
4. “Works” includes canals, ditches, pipelines, and other conveyance systems, pumping plants, rights of way, easements, reservoirs, dams, well fields, and other works for the appropriation of water and the necessary sites for pumping plants, reservoirs, dams, well fields, and all means and property required for a completed operating system of irrigation works.