Utah Code Title 17B. Limited Purpose Local Government Entities--Special Districts § 17B-2a-503. Additional irrigation district powers--No authority to levy property tax

(a) issue bonds as provided in and subject to Chapter 1, Part 11, Special District Bonds, to carry out the purposes of the district;

(b) purchase stock of an irrigation, canal, or reservoir company;

(c) enter upon any land in the district to make a survey and to locate and construct a canal and any necessary lateral;

(d) convey water rights or other district property to the United States as partial or full consideration under a contract with the United States;

(e) pursuant to a contract with the United States, lease or rent water to private land, an entryman, or a municipality in the neighborhood of the district;

(f) if authorized under a contract with the United States, collect money on behalf of the United States in connection with a federal reclamation project and assume the incident duties and liabilities;

(g) acquire water from inside or outside the state;

(h) subject to Subsection (2), lease, rent, or sell water not needed by the owners of land within the district:

(i) repair a break in a reservoir or canal or remedy any other district disaster.

(2)(a) The term of a lease or rental agreement under Subsection (1)(h) may not exceed five years.

(b) A vested or prescriptive right to the use of water may not attach to the land because of a lease or rental of water under Subsection (1)(h).