§ 299-q. Expense of the improvement. The cost of establishment of a
watershed district and the furnishing of the improvement therein shall
include the amount of all contracts, the costs of all lands and
interests therein necessarily acquired, the costs of erection of
necessary buildings for operation or administration of the improvement,
the costs of necessary original equipment for operation or
administration of the improvement, printing, publishing, interest on
loans, legal and engineering services and all other expenses incurred or
occasioned by reason of the establishment of the watershed district and
the furnishing of the improvement. In addition, there shall be
apportioned against, charged to and included in such cost such allowance
as the board of supervisors may make for expenditures made by the
initiating agency which are directly attributable to the establishment
of the watershed district, as well as for any services rendered by the
county attorney, the county engineer or any other salaried county
officer or employee, when such services have been necessary to or
occasioned by reason of the establishment of the watershed district.