Water System Certification
50-1334. REVIEW OF WATER SYSTEMS ENCOMPASSED BY PLATS.
Whenever any plat is subject to the terms and requirements of sections 50-1326 through 50-1329, Idaho Code, no person shall offer for recording, or cause to be recorded, a plat unless he or she shall have certified that at least one (1) of the following is the case:
1) The individual lots described in the plat will not be served by any water system common to one (1) or more of the lots, but will be served by individual wells.
2) All of the lots in the plat will be eligible to receive water service from an existing water system, be the water system municipal, a water district, a public utility subject to the regulation of the Idaho public utilities commission, or a mutual or nonprofit water company, and the existing water distribution system has agreed in writing to serve all of the lots in the subdivision.
3) If a new water system will come into being to serve the subdivision, that it has or will have sufficient contributed capital to allow the water system's wells, springboxes, reservoirs and mains to be constructed to provide service without further connection charges or fees to the landowners of the lots, except for connection of laterals, meters or other plant exclusively for the lot owner's own use.
Failure to comply with this section is a misdemeanor subject to the provisions of section 50-1329, Idaho Code. The certification must be filed or recorded as part of the plat document preserved for public inspection. Property owners in the area encompassed by the plat will be entitled to the benefits of the third provision of this section when that option is chosen.
[I.C., § 50-1334, AS ADDED BY 1990, CH. 178, § 1, P. 377.]
Local practices usually include this somewhere in the Certificate of Owners, to avoid adding another separate certification to the plat. Simply adding a note to the face of the plat stating that “water service is provided by [water provider]” does not meet the requirements of this section.
Occasionally, this certificate is worded to include a statement about the provider of sewer service. Sewer service is not included in this required certification, and should not be included here, even for information purposes.
Review
· Is the wording used as it appears in Idaho Code?
· If the Subsection of the Title/Chapter/Section is referenced, is it correct? If the certification by the Owner references, for example 50-1334(1), verify that the wording is as shown in subsection 1.
· Does the named water service provider appear to be correct? While we generally do not check whether the service provider is correct, we do note (for example) that Eagle Water does generally not service a Meridian plat. So if you copied a back page of the plat from another project, make sure that all of the information got checked.
Last revised: 11/17/2008 3:18:20 PM