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TN Code § 54-12-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-312. Bond Required of Engineer

 The board of directors shall require the engineer to give bond in a sum that it deems proper for the faithful performance of the engineer's duties, the bond to be payable to the county or state, for the use of the improvement district, and filed with the county clerk and recorded in the road improvement record.
TN Code § 54-12-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-313. Compensation of Engineers

 An engineer employed by a board of directors of an improvement district to supervise the work, etc., shall be paid for services a salary or sums that may be agreed upon between the engineer and the board of directors.
TN Code § 54-12-314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-314. Contractor Paid on Basis of Eighty Percent of Engineer's Monthly Estimate of Amount of Work Done

 The engineer in charge of the construction shall furnish to the contractor monthly estimates of the amount of work done on each section, and upon filing the estimates with the county clerk, the county mayor shall draw a warrant in favor of the contractor for eighty percent (80%) of the value of the work done according to the estimate.
TN Code § 54-12-315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-315. Warrant to Contractor for Balance Due on Completion of Work

 When the work is completed to the satisfaction of the board of directors and the engineer, so certified by both, and the certificate is filed with the county clerk, then the county mayor shall draw a warrant in favor of the contractor for the balance due.
TN Code § 54-12-316 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-316. Warrants Drawn as Ordinary Warrants, but Payable Only Out of Improvement Fund, and So Stated Upon Their Face

 The warrants shall be drawn upon the county trustee or treasurer as ordinary county warrants are drawn, but shall be payable only out of the fund provided for the road improvement district, and shall so state upon their face.
TN Code § 54-12-317 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-317. Contractor's Failure to Perform on Contract Forfeits Cash Deposit or Gives Recovery on Bond

 If any person to whom the work, or any portion of the work, in the improvement district has been let fails to perform the work according to the terms specified in the contract, then the cash deposit shall be forfeited for the benefit of the district and be paid into its fund; or if bond has been given by the contracting party so failing, then recovery of the damages sustained may be had by suit in the name of the payee in the bond for the use of the district, and the damage or judgment collected and paid into the fund of the district.
TN Code § 54-12-318 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-318. Road Overseer Employed for Protection of District — Compensation — Discharge and Employment of Another

  After the main improvement in any road improvement district has been completed, the board of directors, if it deems necessary for the protection of the district, and for the proper maintenance of the efficiency of the improvement, may employ a competent person to look after and take care of the improvement.   The person so employed shall be designated road improvement overseer.   The board of directors shall contract with the overseer to perform the prescribed duties, define the duties of the overseer, and contract for the amount to be paid for the overseer's services.   The board of directors shall have the right, at any time, to discharge the overseer and employ another whenever, in its judgment, it is to the best interest of the district that it be done.    The compensation of the road overseer shall be paid out of any funds in the district, not needed for the payment of bonds and interest maturing, and other improvements that are to be made, during the year.   The payment shall be made as is provided for other payments under this chapter.
TN Code § 54-12-319 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-319. Special Assessment for a Special Fund for Maintenance — Basis

  At any time after the main improvement or improvements in any road improvement district have been completed, it shall be made to appear to the monthly county court, by the petition of the board of directors of the district, supported by satisfactory proof, that a special fund is needed for the purpose of maintaining the improvement, or for the purpose of keeping the fund effective to give full efficiency to the original purpose for which the district was created, the court shall have the power to make a special assessment, and collect a special assessment for the purpose named; but the amount assessed and collected shall not be in any one (1) year an amount in excess of ten cents (10¢) per acre on all the lands within the district.   The assessment shall be based upon the apportionment of the benefits, as made by the commissioners.   The assessment shall be collected at the same time, and in the same manner, as is provided for the collection of assessments in road improvement districts.
TN Code § 54-12-320 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-320. Special Assessment a Lien Inferior to General Assessment — Enforcement

  The assessment shall be a lien upon the respective tracts of land upon which it is assessed, but inferior to the lien of the general assessment for the payment of bonds, interest, and administration charges.   The lien shall be enforced in the same manner as provided for the enforcements of liens in road improvement districts.
TN Code § 54-12-321 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-321. Special Maintenance Fund — Disbursements — Manner

  The amounts collected shall be a fund to be used for the purposes named, and shall be paid out for the purposes, on the order or warrant of the county mayor; but before payment is made, all accounts or claims for work done for the purposes named shall be approved by the board of directors of the district, by resolution or motion, spread of record on the minutes of the board.   A copy of the minutes shall be presented to the monthly county court, and approved by the court, and spread of record in the court on the road improvement record.   The payments in all respects shall be made as now provided by law for the paying out of road improvement funds.
TN Code § 54-12-322 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-322. Injury To, Damage or Obstruction of Road Unlawful — Penalty

  It is unlawful for any person in any way to injure, damage, or obstruct the rights-of-way, roadbeds, side ditches, culverts, or bridges of the roads constructed under this chapter.   A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 54-12-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-401. Collection of Assessments by County Trustee — Kept as a Separate Fund — Collection by Bill in Chancery — Personalty Not to Be Distrained for Such Assessment

 Assessments provided for by this chapter shall be collected by the county trustee as county taxes are collected, except as provided otherwise in this part, and the funds collected shall be kept as a separate fund, and shall be paid out only for purposes properly connected with the improvement on the order or warrant of the county mayor; but the assessments may be collected by bill filed in chancery, as provided in §§ 54-12-412 — 54-12-421, and no personal property of the owner of land assessed shall be liable or distrained upon for the assessment, but only the land assessed shall be liable for the assessment.
TN Code § 54-12-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-402. Amount Fixed for Annual Levy — County Bonds Issued — Cost Exceeding Estimate, New Apportionment of Assessment and Levy and Other Bonds

  If the county legislative body determines that the estimated cost of drainage of the district or road improvement district is greater than should be levied in a single year upon the lands benefited, the county legislative body may fix the amount that should be levied and collected each year, and may issue road improvement bonds of the county pursuant to title 9, chapter 21, and may devote the bonds at par, with accrued interest, to the payment of the expenses and work as it progresses or may sell the bonds at not less than par, with accrued interest, and devote the proceeds to the payment. If in the sale of the bonds a premium is received, the premium shall be credited to the improvement fund.   Should the cost of the work exceed the estimate, a new apportionment of the assessment may be made and levied and other bonds issued and sold in like manner, but in no case shall the bonds run longer than twenty (20) years.
TN Code § 54-12-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-403. Payment in Full Amount of Benefit Assessed Against Land Before Bonds Are Issued

  Any property owner may pay the full amount of the benefit assessed against the owner's property before the bonds are issued and receive a receipt in full for the payment.   The payment shall be made to the county trustee, and it shall be the duty of the county clerk to certify to the trustee the amount of the assessment when requested to do so.   The trustee shall enter the payment upon the assessment lists in the trustee's hands in a separate place provided for the payments, and furnish the county clerk with duplicate receipts given for all assessments paid in full, one (1) of which the clerk shall deliver to the county mayor, and the trustee shall also give a receipt to the property owner so paying in full.
TN Code § 54-12-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-405. Bonds to Be Paid Only by Assessments Levied on the Lands Within the District

 Each bond shall show expressly on its face that it is to be paid only by assessments levied and collected on the lands within the district so designated and numbered, and for the benefit of which district the bond is issued. No assessment shall be levied or collected for the payment of the bond or bonds, or the interest on the bonds, on any property, real or personal, outside the district so numbered, designated, and benefited.
TN Code § 54-12-410 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-410. Assessment Book Made by County Clerk for Entire Assessment or Annually — Interest on Assessments After Delinquency

  The assessments provided for by this chapter, and to be collected for the purpose provided in this chapter, shall be entered upon a book to be provided by the county clerk, at the expense of the county, for this purpose, in a similar manner to that in which taxes are entered upon the tax books, the books showing the tract of land, amounts of assessments, etc., and the book, when made out, shall be furnished to the county trustee for collection of assessments so levied.   This book shall be called the road improvement assessment book, and shall be made out by the county clerk of the county in which the particular assessment is levied.   The book may be made out but once, if practicable, for the entire assessment for the particular improvement project; but if not practicable, then a new assessment book may be made out for a shorter period, or for each year, and furnished to the county trustee.   The assessment levied under this chapter shall become due and payable and delinquent, and the assessments shall bear interest at the legal rate after they become delinquent.
TN Code § 54-12-411 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-411. Assessments Become Liens Upon Land

 The assessments provided for by this chapter, when made and levied, shall be and become valid liens upon lands.
TN Code § 54-12-412 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-412. Bill in Chancery to Sell Land for Collection of Delinquent Assessments

 When assessments have been due and delinquent for sixty (60) days, bills may be filed in the chancery court of the county, or chancery district in which the lands lie, upon which the assessments are due and delinquent, for the collection of the assessments, out of the lands by a sale of the lands in all cases.
TN Code § 54-12-413 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-413. Bill Filed in Name of County Against Landowners — All Delinquents May Be Made Defendants to Same Bill

  The bills in chancery shall be filed in the name of the county in which the lands are situated for the use of the improvement district for the benefit of which the assessments were made, and against the owners, if known, and if unknown, against them to the bill.   The owners of all the lands upon which assessments are delinquent may be made defendants to the same bill as parties to the bill.
TN Code § 54-12-414 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-414. Trustee to Furnish Certified List of Delinquent Lands and Names of Owners, Which Is Prima Facie Proof Authorizing a Decree

  When it is desired by the board of directors or other interested party entitled to sue, to file the bill, the county trustee, upon request, shall make out a statement or list, showing all the lands upon which assessments are delinquent and the names of the owners of the lands, as appear upon the road assessment book or showing any tract or tracts assessed to unknown owners, if such be the case, and certify as trustee to the correctness of the statement or list as the statement or list appears upon the book.   In the chancery suit, the certified statement or list shall be prima facie proof of the facts certified, and that the assessments are delinquent and sufficient proof to authorize a decree of sale in the absence of rebutting proof of the facts shown by the certificate.
TN Code § 54-12-415 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-415. Suits Proceeded With as Other Suits in Chancery, Except Separate Hearing and Decree as to Any One Defendant

 The suits in chancery shall be proceeded with as other suits are in that court, except that the court may hear the case as to any one (1) or more of the defendants, whether ready to be heard as to other defendants or not, and proceed to sale and final decree as to any one (1) or more of the defendants, though the case is not disposed of as to other defendants.
TN Code § 54-12-416 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-416. Public Taxes to Be Paid Before the Delinquent Assessments

 When a sale is ordered in the suit, and is made and reported, the clerk and master of the court, so making the sale, shall report what public taxes are a lien upon any tract so sold in favor of the state, county, or any municipality, and the court shall see that this is done, and any taxes, if the sale is confirmed, shall be first paid out of the proceeds of the sale before the delinquent assessments are paid.
TN Code § 54-12-417 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-417. Divestiture and Vestiture of Title Subject to Other Unpaid Assessments — Writ of Possession

 Upon confirmation of the sale by the chancery court, it shall divest title out of the owner and vest it in the purchaser and award a writ of possession, if asked for; but where title is so vested in a purchaser, the land so purchased shall still be subject in the hands of the purchaser, the purchaser's heirs, or assigns, to any other assessments not yet due, and are unpaid, that may have been made and fixed or levied upon it at the time of the confirmation of sale, for the benefit of the improvement district on account of which the sales have been made.
TN Code § 54-12-418 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-418. Sale for Cash Subject to Redemption Within Two Years — Manner of Redemption

 When the sale is made by decree of the chancery court, it shall be made for cash, and the owners of land sold shall have two (2) years from the date of the confirmation of the sale in which to redeem the land, by paying to the clerk and master of the court making the sale, the amount paid by the purchaser for the land, with legal interest on the amount to the date of redemption, and also a further sum equal to ten percent (10%) of the amount paid by the purchaser for the land.
TN Code § 54-12-419 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-419. Attorney's Fee Charged as Part of Judgment

 In the proceedings in chancery court, the attorneys or solicitors employed and attending to the suit shall be allowed as a fee ten percent (10%) of the amount found due as an assessment on each tract of land decreed to be sold, the fee to be charged up in the decree as part of the judgment for which the land is to be sold.
TN Code § 54-12-420 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-420. Adjudication of Redemption — Declaring Land That of Owner So Redeeming — Writ of Possession

 When the lands are redeemed as provided in §§ 54-12-418, 54-12-419, this section and § 54-12-421, and this fact is made satisfactorily to appear to the chancery court, the court shall enter a decree in the cause, adjudging the land redeemed and declaring it to be the property of the owner redeeming the property, or of the owner's heirs or assigns, if redeemed by the owner's heirs or assigns, and if necessary may award a writ of possession to put the person redeeming in possession of the land.
TN Code § 54-12-421 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-421. Redemption of Lands by Minors and Persons Adjudicated Incompetent Within a Year of Restoration of Competency

 Minors and persons who are adjudicated incompetent shall have the further period of one (1) year after the restoration of competency in which to redeem their lands sold under this chapter under like terms as to amounts to be paid, in redemption, as provided in § 54-12-418.
TN Code § 54-12-423 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-423. Assessments Collectible Only Out of the Assessed Land

 The assessments provided for by this chapter, if not paid by the owners of the land assessed, shall be collected only out of the land assessed for improvement purposes, and shall not be collected by distress warrant or otherwise out of any other property, real or personal, of the owners of the land assessed under this chapter.
TN Code § 54-12-424 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-424. Compensation of Trustee for Collecting and Paying Out, and for Certified Copies

 For collecting and paying out the assessments under this chapter, the county trustee shall receive as compensation two percent (2%) on all amounts paid out by the trustee; and for any certified statements furnished by the trustee, the same fees per one hundred (100) words as are allowed clerks of courts for certified copies of records.
TN Code § 54-12-425 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 4 - Collection of Assessments|§ 54-12-425. Compensation of Trustee for Receiving and Paying Out Money Derived From Sale of Bonds and Warrants — Bond and Compensation of Successor

   The county trustee, for receiving and paying out money received from the sale of bonds and warrants issued and sold under this part, shall be entitled to a commission of one-half of one percent (0.5%) for receiving the money, and one-half of one percent (0.5%) for paying out the money.   Any moneys and funds remaining with the county trustee at the expiration of the county trustee's term of office shall be paid over to the county trustee's successor when the successor has executed bond for the moneys and funds as provided in this part.     It is the duty of the succeeding trustee to execute the bond, and failure to do so shall result in liability for the penalties provided for the failure.   The trustee actually disbursing the funds arising from the sale of bonds or warrants shall be entitled to the commission of one-half of one percent (0.5%); provided, the successor shall not be entitled to any commissions for receiving the funds from the trustee's predecessor.