Idaho Code

Idaho Code § 42-3201 (2026)

Declaration of purpose. 

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Declaration of purpose. 

It is hereby declared that the organization of water and sewer districts, having the purposes and powers provided in this act, will serve a public use and will promote the health, safety, prosperity, security and general welfare of the inhabitants of said districts.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1959–2005 · leading case: Potts Constr. Co. v. North Kootenai Water Dist., 116 P.3d 8 (Idaho 2005).
Potts Constr. Co. v. North Kootenai Water Dist., 116 P.3d 8 (Idaho 2005). · cites it 4× “promote the health, safety, prosperity, security and general welfare of the inhabitants of said districts.” I.C. § 42-3201 (2003).”
Kootenai Cnty. Prop. Ass'n v. Kootenai Cnty., 769 P.2d 553 (Idaho 1989). · cites it 4× “Village of Kimberly, supra (ordinance requiring mandatory sewer hookup and requiring payment of reasonable fee, approved); City of Glendale v. Trondsen, supra (ordinance establishing rubbish collection service and requiring payment for service regardless of whether building…”
Dalton v. South Fork of Coeur D'Alene River Sewer Dist., 623 P.2d 141 (Idaho 1980). · cites it 2× “In 1972, the sewer district was created as a municipal corporation organized under the provisions of I.C. §§ 42-3201, et seq. In 1972 and early 1973, the District constructed a sewer line through Leisure Acres No.”
Clemens v. Pinehurst Water Dist., 339 P.2d 665 (Idaho 1959). · cites it 2× “The legislature recognized such rule in its declaration of public purpose expressed in I.C. § 42-3201, also in. I.C. § 42-3207, forbidding any attack on the validity of a district organized under the water and sewer district Act, except by the state in quo warranto proceedings,…”
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