1. Any person or persons desiring to construct and maintain a ditch or flume within any one or more of the counties of this state shall make, sign and acknowledge, before a person entitled to take acknowledgments of deeds, a certificate, specifying:
(a) The name by which the ditch or flume shall be known; and
(b) The names of the places which shall constitute the termini of such ditch or flume.
2. Such certificate shall be accompanied with a plat of the proposed ditch or flume, and shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county or counties within or through which such ditch or flume is proposed to be located. The record of such certificate and plat shall give constructive notice to all persons of the matters therein contained.
3. The work of constructing such ditch or flume shall be commenced within 30 days of the time of making the certificate above mentioned, and shall be continued with all reasonable dispatch until completed.
[1:100:1866; B § 3852; BH § 362; C § 425; RL § 4710; NCL § 7997]