7-12-2102. Authorization to create rural improvement districts. (1) Whenever the public interest or convenience may require, the board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to order and create special improvement districts outside of the limits of incorporated towns and cities for the purpose of building, constructing, or acquiring by purchase one or more of the improvements of the kind described in 7-12-4102, in or for the benefit of the special improvement district.
     (2) The board of county commissioners may order and create special improvement districts covering projects abutting the city limits and include properties inside the city where the rural improvement district abuts and benefits that property. Property owners within the proposed district boundaries inside the city may not be included in the rural special improvement district if 40% of those property owners protest the creation of the rural special improvement district. The property inside the city must be treated in a similar manner as to improvements, notices, and assessments as the property outside the city limits. A joint resolution of the city and county must be passed agreeing to the terms of the rural special improvement district prior to passing the resolution of intention or resolution creating the rural special improvement district. A copy of the resolution of intention and the resolution creating the rural special improvement district must be provided to the city clerk upon the passage of the respective resolutions.

     History: En. Ch. 123, L. 1915; superseded by Ch. 156, L. 1917; amd. Ch. 67, L. 1919; superseded by Sec. 1, Ch. 147, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 4574, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 133, L. 1929; re-en. Sec. 4574, R.c.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 30, L. 1961; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 134, L. 1961; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 304, L. 1969; R.C.M. 1947, 16-1601(part); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 342, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 665, L. 1985.