41-7-1006 and any existing amendments thereof.

41-7-1006 and any existing amendments thereof.

41-7-860. Construction and application of Public Irrigation and Power District Law.

(a) In applying and adapting the public power district law to the existing irrigation district law, organization and procedures, the Public Irrigation and Power District Law of the state of Wyoming as aforesaid shall be and the same is hereby construed in the following specific manner, when applied to a regularly organized irrigation district which assumes and receives the rights, powers and authority of a "public power district", as follows, to wit:

(i) The word "board" shall mean the board of commissioners of the existing irrigation district;

(ii) Whenever the phrase, "members of the board of directors" appears in the existing Public Irrigation and Power District Law, the same shall be read as "members of the board of commissioners";

(iii) The requirements and limitations as to number, terms of office, vacancies, election, qualifications, and compensation of commissioners shall be governed by the Irrigation District Law of the state of Wyoming and not by the Public Irrigation and Power District Law of the state.

41-7-861. Irrigation and power funds to be kept in separate accounts.

The board of commissioners of any irrigation district which shall have and receive the rights, powers and authority of a public power district under and pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall keep separate accounts for all money received from assessments for construction and for the operation and maintenance of the irrigation works portion thereof from the funds received or accumulated from the power works and system thereof; and none of said funds shall ever be commingled or diverted from their proper uses as fixed by law.

41-7-862. Different laws to apply to additions to irrigation works and power works. In the construction of additional irrigation works or features or of needed or required works or features for the power portion of said project, all irrigation works thereof shall be constructed, built and financed under the provisions of the Irrigation District Law of the state of Wyoming and the power works and system shall be built, financed and paid for following the public power district portion of the Wyoming law.

41-7-863. Report of proposed construction to court; apportionment of irrigation and power costs.

Prior to the starting of any construction work thereon, the commissioners shall report the purpose, whether for irrigation or power for which any of said works is to be constructed; and shall recommend to the court an equitable and fair division and distribution of the cost thereof as between irrigation and power; and the court upon the hearing for the authorization thereof, shall fix and determine the proportionate amount as between the irrigation and power works or features which shall be beneficial and chargeable to the irrigation portion and the power portion thereof and the order of the court thereon shall be determinative and final thereon.

41-7-864. Rights and powers preserved.

An irrigation district receiving the rights, power and authority of a public power district as aforesaid, shall not lose any of its rights and powers under and by virtue of the provisions of chapter 2, Session Laws of Wyoming, Special Session, 1920, as amended, codified and compiled in W.S. 41-7-101 through