The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16] Page: 415 of 1,574
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GENERAL LAWS. 405
SEC. 94. When an irrigation district acquires an established irrigation
system which has supplied water to lot owners in a city, town or village
and such city, town or village is not included in such district, such district
shall continue to supply water to such lot owners for a reasonable
annual rental.
SEC. 95. Between the first day of January and the first day of March
of each year, every person desiring to receive water during the course of
the year, or at any time during the year from the irrigation district,
shall furnish to the secretary of the board of directors a specific statement
of the acreage intended by him to be put under irrigation and for which
water is to be used, and as near as may be a statement of the different
crops to be planted by him, and the acreage of each. If such statements
should not be furnished within this time, there shall be no obligation on
the part of the irrigation district to furnish such water to such person
for that year. On the first day of March of each year, or as soon thereafter
as practicable, the Board of Directors shall carefully estimate the
expense to be incurred during the course of the next succeeding twelve
months for the maintenance of the irrigation system and its operation.
One third of the amount so estimated shall be paid by the assessments
against all irrigable lands within the district, pro rata per acre, that is
to say, against all lands to which the district is in condition to furnish
water, but without reference as to whether such land is to be actually
irrigated or not; the other two-thirds of the expense of maintaining and
operating the plant shall be paid by the persons taking water under the
system. This amount shall, as nearly as may be, equitably pro rated
among the water takers, and in making such assessments the board of
directors may take into consideration the acreage to be planted by each
water taker, and the cron to be grown by him; provided, however, that
each water user shall be charged the same price per acre for use of water
upon the same class or character of crops. All assessments shall be paid
in three installments, the first of which shall be for one-fourth of the
total assessment, and shall be payable on April first of each year; the
second installment shall be for one-fourth of such assessment and shall
be payable on the first day of July of each year; the balance of the
assessment shall be payable on or before December first of each year.
And if the crop for which such water was furnished shall be harvested
prior to the time of the payment of any installment the entire assessment
shall become due and shall be paid within ten days after the harvesting
of such crop, and before the removal of such crop from the county or
counties in which the district is situated. The Board of Directors may,
at their discretion, require every person desiring water during the course
of the year to enter into a contract with the irrigation district, which
contract shall indicate the acreage to be watered, the crops to be planted,
and the amount to become due, and the terms of payment; and it may
be further required that the water taker shall execute a negotiable note
or notes for such amounts, or for parts thereof. The making of such
contracts shall not constitute a waiver of the lien given by this Act upon
the crops of the water taker for the service furnished to him. If the
water taker shall water more land than is called for in his. contract, he
shall pay for the additional service rendered as and at the times hereinbefore
indicated. To secure money for the operating and maintenance
expense of the district, the Board of Directors shall have authority to
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16], book, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10838/m1/415/?rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .