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United States — Minnesota
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The director may conduct a drainage project or drainage system field survey or investigation when it is needed or when the drainage authority asks in writing.
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The director may prepare and publish drainage-related data, specifications, and forms, and may share the information with engineers and drainage authorities.
United States — Minnesota
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The director may investigate drain tile manufacturing, determine failure causes, and conduct research and testing. The director or an authorized agent must have free access to drain tile plants for inspections and tests, and the results must be made public.
United States — Minnesota
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This section sets signing, filing, and bond requirements for petitions for drainage projects and repair.
United States — Minnesota
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To start a new drainage system, the petitioners and drainage authority must follow this section, and the petition must meet signature and content requirements.
United States — Minnesota
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This section sets the procedure for improving an established drainage system, including petition, filing, review, and assessment steps.
United States — Minnesota
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If overflow conditions exist, an affected county or overflowed-property owners may begin outlet improvement proceedings, but the petition and filing steps have specific requirements.
United States — Minnesota
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People near an existing drainage system may petition to connect a lateral, but the petition has filing, signature, content, and bond requirements.
United States — Minnesota
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Certain persons and public bodies may petition to impound, reroute, or divert drainage system waters, but the petition must meet filing, content, bond, permit, and public-process requirements.
United States — Minnesota
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Petitioners can dismiss or delay certain drainage proceedings if the stated voting and hearing conditions are met, and the drainage authority must assess related costs.
United States — Minnesota
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When a drainage project covers two or more counties, the boards must meet, choose five members as the drainage authority, keep at least one member from each board, and fill vacancies by joint action.
United States — Minnesota
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The county attorney must review each county-filed petition and bond within 30 days, and either send it back to the petitioners with a deficiency opinion or refer it to the drainage authority.
United States — Minnesota
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The drainage authority must appoint an engineer, and the engineer must file an oath and bond and stay within the petitioners’ bond limit.
United States — Minnesota
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The engineer must promptly survey the proposed drainage project area, stay within the petitioned drainage area unless needed to secure an outlet, and report feasibility details to the drainage authority.
United States — Minnesota
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The engineer must file the completed preliminary survey report in duplicate with the auditor.
United States — Minnesota
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The commissioner must prepare and file a preliminary advisory report, include needed investigation and evaluation issues, and meet the filing and request deadlines.
United States — Minnesota
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This provision sets out the preliminary hearing process for a drainage project, including notice, participation, petition review, dismissal, and findings.
United States — Minnesota
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If the preliminary hearing order is filed with the auditor, the drainage authority must order an engineer to do a detailed survey and report. The drainage authority may waive that survey if adequate data, plans, and specifications have already been provided by a United States engineer.
United States — Minnesota
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An engineer must survey and examine affected property when a detailed survey order is filed, and drainage surveys must follow specified measurement and recordkeeping rules.
United States — Minnesota
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The engineer may change the drainage plan and related outlet/ditch arrangements when needed to drain the property, and must report the variance in the detailed survey report.