The board of supervisors or the board of drainage commissioners, for and in behalf of any drainage district organized under the provisions of this chapter, or the owners of land adjacent to such district may file a petition in the office of the clerk of the court organizing the district, praying the court to amend its former decree incorporating the district by correcting the names of the landowners, by striking out any such names, or in any other manner. Such petition may ask permission of the court to amend or change the Plan of Reclamation or to correct any errors, omissions or other mistakes that have been discovered in the Plan of Reclamation or the petition may ask that the boundary lines of the district be extended so as to include lands not included in the petition and decree of the court incorporating the district. If such petition asks the court's permission to change the Plan of Reclamation or that the boundary lines of such district be in any manner changed it shall also ask the court to appoint three commissioners as provided under the provisions of Section 49-19-930 to appraise the land that shall be taken for rights of way, holding basins or other works or to assess the benefits and damages to any or all lands, public highways, railroad and other property already in the district or that may be annexed to the district by the proposed amendments and changes to the Plan of Reclamation or the proposed change in the boundary lines of the district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 18-621; 1952 Code Section 18-621; 1942 Code Section 6194; 1932 Code Section 6194; Civ. C. '22 Section 3248; 1920 (31) 663.