The purpose of the special drainage district was to create a tax raising body to provide works in areas where there was no sanitary authority.
This was enforced for all such areas by the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 and those remaining were abolished.
[2] The Netherlands has long been divided into approximately 35 waterschappen, local authorities responsible for water quality and management, including dikes and drainage.
Article VI, Part III of the Louisiana constitution authorizes the legislature to create levee districts.
Once formed by a 2/3 vote of the resident property-tax payers, the district may raise property taxes to construct and maintain ditches, canals and levees.