Circumstances under which county commissioners authorized to enter and perform work on private property.

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The board of county commissioners is authorized to enter onto private property adjoining county roads and to perform work by county employees or by contractors working for the county, on such private property, when:

1. The available right-of-way does not provide enough space for needed conservation works of improvement to diminish erosion and siltation of the right-of-way;

2. The owner, or owners, of the adjoining property sign a cooperative agreement permitting such works, which agreement shall state the amount of land to be treated, and the works of improvement to be constructed. Any work performed will be restricted solely to that specified in the cooperative agreement;

3. The local Conservation District has approved the proposed works of improvement; and

4. A copy of the cooperative agreement and a statement of approval from the local Conservation District has been filed with the records of the county commissioners in the office of the county clerk and the cooperative agreement and statement from the local Conservation District have become a part of the minutes of the county commissioners' proceedings.

Added by Laws 1985, c. 274, § 2, emerg. eff. July 18, 1985.


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