North Dakota Century Code Title 61. Waters § 61-05-01. Definitions

1. “Board” means the board of directors of any irrigation district.

2. “Elector” means any landowner owning not less than five acres [2.02 hectares] of land whose land will be or is subject to assessments for construction or other costs, within a proposed or existing irrigation district, and who is a resident of this state. As herein used the term “owner” means an owner in fee simple and also includes:

3. “Irrigable acres” or “irrigable lands” means those lands which can or will be served by the district's works, as determined by the department of water resources before the district is organized, or as determined from time to time by the district's board of directors. Whenever land or acreage is described as being susceptible of irrigation or subject to assessment, it means the same as irrigable acres.

4. “Works” includes canals, ditches, pipelines, and other conveyance systems, pumping plants, rights of way, easements, reservoirs, dams, well fields, and other works for the appropriation of water and the necessary sites for pumping plants, reservoirs, dams, well fields, and all means and property required for a completed operating system of irrigation works.