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Water Commission (North Dakota Century Code: Title 61 Waters; Chapter 61-02)

Pays/Territoire
États-Unis d'Amérique
Sous-division territoriale
North Dakota
Type du document
Législation
Date
2017
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Sujet
Eau
Mot clé
Institution Gestion des resources en eau douce Politique/planification Inondation Eaux superficielles Eaux continentales Eaux souterraines Santé publique Navigation Ouvrages Gouvernance Questions de procédures
Aire géographique
Amériques, Arctique, Pacifique du Est, Amérique du Nord, Atlantique Nord
Résumé

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.

Texte intégral
Anglais
Site web
www.legis.nd.gov