Water Commission (North Dakota Century Code: Title 61 Waters; Chapter 61-02) Country/Territory United States of America Territorial subdivision North Dakota Document type Legislation Date 2017 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Water Keyword Institution Freshwater resources management Policy/planning Flood Surface water Inland waters Groundwater Public health Navigation Waterworks Governance Procedural matters Geographical area Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic Abstract This Chapter of the North Dakota Century Code concerns the state Water Commission. It provides that the Commission shall develop policies, including cost-sharing guidelines, which further the development of water retention projects for flood control. It is hereby declared that the general welfare and the protection of the lives, health, property, and the rights of all the people of this state require that the conservation, management, development, and control of waters in this state, public or private, navigable or non-navigable, surface or subsurface, the control of floods, and the management of the atmospheric resources, involve and necessitate the exercise of the sovereign powers of this state and are affected with and concern a public purpose. It is declared further that any and all exercise of sovereign powers of this state in investigating, constructing, maintaining, regulating, supervising, and controlling any system of works involving such subject matter embraces and concerns a single object, and that the state water commission in the exercise of its powers, and in the performance of all its official duties, shall be considered and construed to be performing a governmental function for the benefit, welfare, and prosperity of all the people of this state. Full text English Website www.legis.nd.gov