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Session Laws, 1959
Volume 642, Page 841   View pdf image (33K)
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J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           841

on the Board of Directors caused by death, resignation, or for any
reason the Board of County Commissioners shall have authority to
appoint a director to serve until the next annual meeting.

184. The Board of Directors of the Public Watershed Association
shall proceed to develop a plan for the watershed or sub-watershed
area for flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization
and disposal of water. It shall engage the services of competent and
experienced private engineers or may use the services of planners
and engineers of local, State and Federal agencies. The Directors or
their employees or agents may enter upon the lands within or without
the area in order to make surveys and examinations to accomplish
their purpose, being liable, however, for actual damage done. Any
person or corporation preventing such entrance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars in the
discretion of the court.

185.    The Board of Directors shall, upon completion of the Water-
shed Work Plan, call a meeting of the owners of land within the
Watershed Association for the purpose of voting upon the adoption
of the plan for submission to the Board of County Commissioners.
The Board of Directors shall give at least ten days' notice of the
meeting by notices posted in four public places within the Association
or in the vicinity thereof and by written or printed notices mailed
to each owner of land within such Association stating the time, place
and purpose of the meeting. At such meeting, each landowner within
the Watershed Association shall be entitled to one vote. Any such
landowner may vote by proxy if the proxy is dated, signed by the
person entitled to vote, and duly witnessed by at least one person. The
Board of Directors shall determine whether the plan shall be trans-
mitted to the Board of County Commissioners for review and ap-
proval. In making such determination the Board of Directors shall
on the basis of
CONSIDER the vote, the probable apportionment of
benefits based on acreage, location, and extent of such benefits to such
voter's land by the works of improvement.

186.    Upon its determination that the Watershed Work Plan
should be submitted to the Board of County Commissioners, the
Board of Directors shall, prior to the construction of any works of
improvement, file the Watershed Work Plan in triplicate with the
Board of County Commissioners. The plan shall show:

1.  The location of the proposed works of improvement on a map,
drawing, or aerial photograph.

2.  A general delineation of the boundaries of the Public Watershed
Association with the general location in the county or counties
affected.

3. Engineering plans and specifications in sufficient detail to define
the proposed project or projects.

4. A general delineation of the boundaries of each individual
ownership within the Watershed Association with an estimate of
the acreage which each contains.

5. The total estimated construction cost of each of the proposed
works of improvement.


 

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