42-247. NOTICE OF CHAPTER PROVISIONS — HOW GIVEN — REQUIREMENTS. To ensure that all persons referred to in sections 42-242 and 42-243, Idaho Code, are notified of the provisions of this chapter, the department of water resources is directed to give notice of the provisions of this chapter as follows:

(1) It shall cause a notice in writing to be placed in a prominent and conspicuous place in at least one (1) newspaper published and of general circulation in each county of the state, if there is such newspaper, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, at least once each year for five (5) consecutive years.

(2) It shall cause a notice substantially the same as a notice in writing to be broadcast by each commercial television station operating in the state, and by at least one (1) commercial radio station operating from each county of the state having such a station, regularly, at six (6) month intervals for five (5) consecutive years.

(3) It shall cause a notice in writing to be placed in a prominent and conspicuous location in each county courthouse in the state.

(4) The county treasurer of each county shall enclose with each mailing of one (1) or more statements of taxes due issued in 1981 a copy of a notice in writing and a declaration that it shall be the duty of the recipient of the statement of taxes due to forward the notice to the beneficial owner of the property. A sufficient number of copies of the notice and declaration shall be supplied to each county treasurer by the director of the department of water resources before the fifteenth day of January, 1981.

The director of the department may also in his discretion give notice in any other manner which will carry out the purposes of this section.

History:

[42-247, added 1978, ch. 345, sec. 10, p. 890; am. 1980, ch. 276, sec. 1, p. 720.]