7-14-2901. Road improvement district -- purpose -- benefited property defined. (1) The board of county commissioners may establish road improvement districts in those areas of the county that are not within the limits of an incorporated city or town.
     (2) The purpose of a road improvement district is to allow a public entity to assess owners of parcels of land directly benefited by a proposed public road or a public road within the county that is not a county road or a highway to provide for the road's reconstruction, upgrade, repair, or maintenance. The county surveyor must determine that it would be physically impractical to improve the road to standard county road specifications.
     (3) For the purposes of this part, "benefited property" means land within the district that receives a direct benefit from the road for which the road improvement district was created. A parcel of land is not benefited property if the parcel is within the district solely because the road passes over the property to provide access to benefited property. A parcel of land within the district used solely for agricultural purposes is not considered benefited property.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 308, L. 1989.