41-7-835, and any existing amendments thereof, by taking

41-7-835, and any existing amendments thereof, by taking proceedings in the manner as hereinafter set forth and provided.

41-7-851. Resolution of commissioners.

Whenever the commissioners of any duly organized and existing irrigation district, heretofore organized under the laws of the state of Wyoming, shall determine by a majority vote thereof that it is or would be beneficial to and for the best interest of the landowners and entrymen therein either to use any or a part of its irrigation works theretofore constructed as a part of the necessary works required for the construction and development of a complete electric power plant or system for the production, distribution and sale of electric energy, or that it is for the best interest of the landowners and entrymen in said district that it should add thereto or to construct a complete new system of works for the development, sale and distribution of electric energy they may adopt and approve an appropriate resolution stating their determination thereof.

41-7-852. Report made to district court; contents.

(a) Upon the adoption of such a resolution, the said commissioners shall file an appropriate report with the district court of the county having jurisdiction of said irrigation district proceeding, stating in general the desirability of said district to have and obtain the rights, powers and authority of an irrigation and public power district, which report shall include:

(i) The name of the proposed irrigation and public power district to include the words "public power" therein;

(ii) The general necessity for the proposed works;

(iii) The object and purpose of the system proposed to be constructed together with a general description thereof;

(iv) A general prayer for an order to obtain all the rights, powers and authority of a "public power district".

41-7-853. Hearing on proposal.

Upon such petition being filed the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing a time and place of hearing thereon and require notice of the time and place of such hearing to be given thereon by the clerk of said court.

41-7-854. Notice of hearing; publication.

The clerk of said court shall give notice of the filing of said petition and of the time and place of hearing thereon to any and all persons interested therein by publishing a copy of said order at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in each county within which any of the lands of the said irrigation district is situated. If there be no newspaper in any such county, such notice may be published in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.

41-7-855. Notice of hearing; contents.

(a) Such notice shall disclose:

(i) In what court said petition is filed;

(ii) A general description of the proposed work;

(iii) The name proposed for said combined irrigation and public power district;

(iv) The time and place fixed by the court, when and where the hearing on said petition will be heard;  (v) It shall also require all persons interested to appear at the time and place stated, then and there to show cause why said irrigation district should not receive and have the rights, powers and authority of a public power district.

41-7-856. Order of court authorizing change.

If the court at the hearing so petitioned for, noticed, and held, shall decide the issues in favor of the petitioners, the court shall enter an order approving and confirming the petition, amend the name of said irrigation district to show that it is also a public power district, and authorize said district to have and receive all of the rights, powers and authority of a "public power district" in addition to all of the rights, powers and authority given to and enjoyed by it as an irrigation district under the laws of the state of Wyoming.

41-7-857. Submission of proposal to vote of landowners and entrymen.

In the event the board of commissioners by a majority vote, or the court by an appropriate order, shall request or determine that a vote should be had of the landowners and entrymen within the district on the question of whether or not the said irrigation district should acquire the rights, powers and authority of a "public power district", then the matter shall be submitted to the landowners and entrymen of the district at either a regular or special election, at a time and place or places, to be designated by the commissioners of the district under the order of the court to be held under the same rules and in the same manner as elections are held for commissioners within an irrigation district.

41-7-858. Effect of vote on court.

In the event such an election be had the result thereof shall be certified to the court and shall be advisory and determinative of the final order to be presented on the question of whether or not said irrigation district should receive all of the rights, powers and authority of a public power district.

41-7-859. Court order vests powers.

Upon the entry of an order of the court authorizing or approving the receipt by an existing irrigation district of the rights, powers and authority of a public power district, then it shall have and receive all of said rights, powers and authority as are given and granted to a public power district by the provisions of chapter 123, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1937 and the amendments thereof as now codified and compiled in W.S. 41-7-101 through