41-7-306. Power to alter location of irrigation works; power of court to alter plans proposed by commissioners.
The commissioners shall not be confined to the points of location, commencement, routes or termini of the reservoirs, canals, ditches or other work, or the number, extent or size of the same, as proposed by the petitioners, but shall locate, design, lay out and plan same in such manner as to them shall seem best to promote the public welfare, and to reclaim or benefit the lands of the parties interested with the least damage and greatest benefit to all lands affected thereby. And any plan proposed by the commission, may, on the application of any person interested, on the hearing hereinafter provided for, or on the application of the commissioners, be altered by the court, by written order, in such manner as shall appear to the court to be just.