§ 54-12-211. Determination of All Objections to Report and Questions of Apportionment and Assessments — Failure to Benefit Cannot Be Shown
When the day set for hearing has arrived, and the hearing is not continued by the court for good reason, as it may be, and when the hearing is had, the monthly county court shall proceed to hear and determine all objections made and filed to the report, and may increase, diminish, annul, or affirm […]
§ 54-12-212. Additional Assessments, if First Insufficient
If the first assessment made by the monthly county court for the original cost of any improvement as provided in this part and part 1 of this chapter is insufficient, the court may make an additional assessment in the same ratio as the first.
§ 54-12-213. New Report Ordered and New Commissioners When Report Annulled or Set Aside
If for any reason the monthly county court annuls in toto or sets aside the report of the commissioners, it shall order them to make a new report, or shall remove them and appoint new commissioners to act as in the first instance, if desired by the parties concerned.
§ 54-12-214. Levy of Assessments — Collected as Other Taxes — Paid Out on County Warrant
The assessments shall be levied upon the lands of the owners so benefited in the ratio mentioned in § 54-12-204, and shall be collected in the same manner as taxes for county purposes, except as specifically provided in this part. The funds collected shall be kept as a separate fund, and shall be paid out […]
§ 54-12-215. Special Assessment to Pay Costs and Expenses
If, after the district has been created and the commissioners for the assessment of benefits have made their report, the report has been acted upon and confirmed by the monthly county court, the time for an appeal from the confirmation has elapsed and no appeal has been taken, and it appears to the court that […]
§ 54-12-216. Special Assessment, Collection — Delinquencies — Compensation of Trustee
The assessment shall be made and collected in the same manner, and the delinquencies, if any, shall be collected and enforced in the same manner as provided in §§ 54-12-412 — 54-12-421, and by law. The compensation of a trustee for collecting and paying over the assessment shall be the same as is provided by […]
§ 54-12-217. Fund for Payment of Costs and Expenses
When the assessment is collected, it shall constitute a fund for the payment of the costs and expenses.
§ 54-12-202. Oath of Commissioners — Classification of Lands on Graduated Scale of Benefits
The commissioners shall, as soon as practicable after their appointment, and after being duly sworn to perform their duties faithfully and impartially to the best of their abilities, inspect and classify all the lands benefited by the location and construction of the drainage or levee district in a graduated scale of benefits, naming the tract […]
§ 54-12-203. Commissioners Shall Equitably Apportion and Assess Costs — Report in Writing
The commissioners shall make an equitable apportionment and assessment of the costs, expenses, cost of construction, fees, and damages assessed for the construction of any improvement, and make a report in writing to the monthly county court.
§ 54-12-204. Classification According to Percentage of Benefits — Remains Basis Unless Revised
In making the estimate and apportionment pursuant to § 54-2-203 [repealed], the lands receiving the greatest benefit shall be marked on a scale of one hundred (100), and those benefited in a less degree shall be marked with a percentage of one hundred (100) as the benefit received bears in proportion to the lands receiving […]