41-9-401. Agreement generally; apportionment of maintenance expenses; municipal assessments generally.

Whenever any incorporated town, city or village lies in whole or in part within the boundaries of any drainage district now organized, or which may hereafter be organized in the state of Wyoming, the commissioners of said district may enter into an agreement with said town, city or village under the terms of which said agreement, said town, city or village may agree to operate, maintain, repair or extend any drainage works lying wholly or in part within said town, city or village; and when such agreement has been entered into, said drainage district shall be relieved from the expense of operation, maintenance, extension or repairs of such drains except where any portion of the district discharges its water through the outlets diverted through said town, city or village in which case the drainage district shall assist in maintaining the said drain on a basis of land drained into said drain and said town, city or village and the individual freeholders within said town, city or village shall be relieved from the payment of assessments for operation, maintenance, repairs or extension levied by said drainage district during the life of said agreement. Such town, city or village shall thereafter levy each year, as a part of its assessment for city purposes, such amount as shall be found necessary to operate, maintain, extend or repair said drains in the same manner as is now provided for assessments for sewerage; provided, however, that any drain lying partly within said town, city or village and partly without may, by agreement between said commissioners by and with the consent of the bondholders and said town, city or village, be jointly maintained by the parties to such agreement.