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(a) A district may contract to operate, maintain, improve, or improve construct ditches and or laterals not owned by the district upon petition of at least two-thirds of the owners of land served by such those ditches or laterals.(b) In order to carry out the purposes of this section, a district may make such enter into contracts as that the board deems necessary, including including, but not limited to to, loan and repayment contracts, construction contracts, and rental of equipment contracts.
(c) The amendment of this section made at the 1963 Regular Session of the Legislature by Chapter 524 of the Statutes of 1963 does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, the pre-existing law.