48-2342. Effect of inclusion of drainage district within boundaries

A. When a drainage district organized under the laws of the state is included wholly or in part within the boundaries of an agricultural improvement district organized under this chapter, the board of directors of the drainage district shall cooperate in every reasonable manner with the board of directors of the agricultural improvement district, and shall permit the use by the agricultural improvement district of all or any part of the drainage works of the drainage district as required by the agricultural improvement district.

B. The board of directors of the drainage district may transfer or otherwise surrender to the board of directors of the agricultural improvement district the full and complete management, control, maintenance, use and operation of all or any such portions of the drainage works of the drainage district as the agricultural improvement district may require, and thereafter the agricultural improvement district shall have full power to manage, control, maintain, use, operate, extend, change, enlarge or improve the works in the same manner and to the extent it is authorized, empowered or permitted to control, maintain, manage, use, operate, extend, enlarge, change or improve any works owned or otherwise controlled by it, as its board of directors, its agents or representatives find necessary to accomplish any of the purposes of this chapter.

C. From and after the date of such transfer or surrender and thereafter as long as such works remain under control of the agricultural improvement district, the drainage district shall not be liable for any of the cost and expense of making the enlargement, change, extension or improvement of or on the works, or for the management, control, maintenance or operation thereof, but the drainage district shall continue to be and shall remain liable for and shall pay and discharge its indebtedness and other obligations incurred or sustained prior to the date of such transfer or surrender in the same manner and extent as if the transfer or surrender had not been made. The board of directors of the drainage district, for such purpose, shall continue to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties by law conferred on or required of it to pay and discharge such indebtedness or other obligation and to provide the funds therefor.