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TN Code § 69-5-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-303. Compensation of Viewers, Commissioners, and Helpers

 The viewers and commissioners provided for by parts 1-3 of this chapter shall be paid at the rate of three dollars ($3.00) per day while engaged in the work, and, in addition, all actual expenses, including board paid for, for which itemized accounts shall be reported and sworn to. Other necessary help aiding the engineers, viewers, or commissioners, such as chain carriers, axmen, shall be paid not more than two dollars ($2.00) per day.
TN Code § 69-5-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-304. Apportionment of Costs — Report

 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 such improvement, and make a report in writing of the apportionment and assessment to the county court.
TN Code § 69-5-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-305. Scale and Classification as Basis of Assessment

 In making the apportionment and assessment provided for in § 69-5-304, the lands receiving the greatest benefit shall be marked on scale of one hundred (100), and those benefited in a lesser degree shall be marked with such percentage of one hundred (100) as the benefit received bears in proportion to the scale of one hundred (100). This classification, when finally established, shall remain as a basis for all future assessments connected with the objects of the drainage or levee district, unless the county court, for good cause, shall authorize a revision of the classification.
TN Code § 69-5-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-306. Division Into Tracts and Classification of Subdivisions

 In making the classification provided for in § 69-5-305, the commissioners are authorized to divide the land of one (1) owner lying in one (1) body into more than one (1) tract, and classify each subdivision of the tract, if they are of opinion that portions of the entire tract will be more benefited than other portions, and especially when the entire tract is a large one, and that it will be more equitable and just to so classify it in subdivisions.
TN Code § 69-5-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-307. Description of Land — Objection to Assessment and Apportionment — Notice

 The commissioners shall specify in their report each tract of land by reasonable description and the ownership of the tract as it appears on the tax books of the county or as it has been previously adjudged in the proceeding. Any objection to such assessment and apportionment shall be filed in writing with the county clerk on or before twelve o'clock (12:00) noon of the day the matter of the assessment and apportionment is set for hearing by the court. The assessment may be made without notice, as taxes are assessed without notice in such cases; but publication shall be made in three (3) weekly newspapers published in the county where the proceeding is pending, if there are that number published in the county, otherwise in at least one (1) weekly newspaper, for two (2) consecutive weeks, notifying all parties, concerned in any way, of the date set for hearing the matter of assessment and apportionment by the court, when they may appear and be heard, if they desire. The last of the publications shall be at least five (5) days before the day set for the hearing, and the publication shall be in lieu and stead of notice personally served, but shall not give the names of the parties, but only a brief statement of the date and purpose of such hearing.
TN Code § 69-5-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-308. Publication

 If such district lies in more than one (1) county, publication need only be made in one (1) weekly newspaper published in each of the counties having land embraced within the district. If there are daily newspapers published in any county, but no weekly newspaper, it shall be sufficient, if such publication is made in a daily paper of such county, one (1) day in each week for the length of time required instead of in a weekly newspaper.
TN Code § 69-5-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-309. Objections to Apportionment and Assessments — Hearings

 When the day set for hearing has arrived, and the hearing is not continued by the court for good reason, as it may be, the county court shall proceed to hear and determine all objections made and filed to the report, and may increase, diminish, annul, or affirm the apportionment and assessments made in such report, or any parts of the report, as may appear to the court to be just and equitable; but in no case shall it be competent to show that the lands assessed would not be benefited by the improvement. The county court shall assess such apportionment so fixed by it upon the lands within such levee or drainage district.
TN Code § 69-5-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-310. Additional Assessments

 If the first assessment made by the court for the original cost of any improvement as provided is insufficient, the court may make an additional assessment in the same ratio as the first.
TN Code § 69-5-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-311. New Report May Be Ordered and New Commissioners Appointed

 If, for any reason, the court annuls in toto or sets aside such 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.
TN Code § 69-5-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-312. Levy Upon Lands of Benefited Owners — Ratio — Funds Kept Separate — Disbursement

 The assessments shall be levied upon the lands of the owners so benefited in the ratio mentioned in § 69-5-305, and shall be collected in the same manner as taxes for county purposes, except as specially provided in this chapter, and the funds so collected shall be kept as a separate fund, and shall be paid out only for purposes properly connected with such improvement, and on the order or warrant of the county mayor.
TN Code § 69-5-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-313. Railroads and Highways

 Whenever any railroad or public highway will be beneficially affected by the construction of any improvement or improvements in such district, it shall be the duty of the commissioners appointed to classify and assess benefits to determine and return in their report the amount of the benefit to such railroad or highway, and notice shall be served as to such railroad upon its nearest station agent, as provided in case of an individual property owner; and as to a highway, notice shall be served upon the county mayor, as in case of an individual property owner. When such special assessments have been approved and fixed by the county court as to such railroad, it shall be a debt due personally from the railroad company, and, unless the same is paid by the railroad company as special assessment, it may be collected in the name of the county in any court having jurisdiction; and as to a highway, such assessment shall be paid by the county out of the general county fund or highway tax fund, such assessments to be paid into the fund of such district.
TN Code § 69-5-314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-314. Claims Commission to Compensate Districts for Benefits Accruing to Highways

  Whenever any levee or drainage district is or has been organized under appropriate statutes of this state providing for the levee or drainage district, which levee or drainage district embraces within its boundaries any highway or highways that are a part of the state highway system, and if it is contended that such levee or drainage district, when completed, will contribute materially to the protection of such state highways from floods and other similar elements, such levee or drainage district may file its petition before the claims commission setting forth the fact that such state highways have been benefited thereby, the amount of the benefits claimed and praying for compensation for such benefits.   Upon the filing of the petition, the claims commission shall hold a hearing on the petition, at which evidence may be introduced with reference to the benefits or lack of benefits to the highway by the creation and completion of the district.   If the claims commission is of the opinion, after the hearing, that the creation and completion of the district will result or has resulted in material benefit and protection to the highway or highways, then and in that event the claims commission is expressly authorized and empowered to direct payment from the general highway funds toward the creation of the district, such amount as it may find to fairly represent the benefits accruing to the highways and occasioned by the creation and completion of the district; provided, that the actual payment of the sums found to fairly represent such benefits may, at its option, be postponed by the claims commission until there has been a substantial completion of such district; and provided further, that this section does not apply to levee or drainage districts organized more than five (5) years prior to February 13, 1941.
TN Code § 69-5-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 4 - Correction of Errors|§ 69-5-401. Mistake in the Number of Acres — Correction

 Whenever a district has been established or is being established and a mistake has been made as to the number of acres assessed to the owner of any tract of land embraced in the district, the decree in the cause fixing or adjudging the number of acres shall not be final until the assessment roll provided by statute to be made by the directors has been reported to the court by the directors and decree has been entered confirming the acres; and when any such mistake shall have been made, the aggrieved person may file a petition in the county court in which the cause is pending, seeking to have the mistake corrected.
TN Code § 69-5-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 4 - Correction of Errors|§ 69-5-402. Mistake in Number of Acres — Notice — Hearing — Decree

 Upon the filing of such petition, the county clerk shall give at least ten (10) days' written notice to all the directors of the district of the filing of the petition and at any time after twenty (20) days from the service of such notice on the directors the matter may be heard by the court, either upon oral testimony or upon depositions or on documentary evidence and on all the records in the cause, or on all such evidence, and the court shall render decree according to the merits of the controversy.
TN Code § 69-5-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 4 - Correction of Errors|§ 69-5-403. Mistake in Acres — Appeal

 From a decree correcting a mistake in the number of acres, either side may appeal upon the same terms and conditions and to the same courts as provided for appeal from the decree on commissioners' reports fixing the acres assessed to each owner.
TN Code § 69-5-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 4 - Correction of Errors|§ 69-5-404. Mistake in Acres — Correction After Decree Has Been Made Final

 No such petition shall be filed or heard after the decree has been rendered upon the directors' report upon assessment roll and the number of acres assessed to each owner, and the boundaries of land so assessed to the owner shall be final after the rendering of the decree upon the report on assessment roll, except as provided in § 69-5-305.
TN Code § 69-5-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 4 - Correction of Errors|§ 69-5-405. Mistake in Owner's Identity — Correction

  When a mistake has been made by which the lands belonging to one person have been assessed to or in the name of another person or as embraced within the boundaries set out for a tract assessed to another person, the original decree fixing such assessment shall not be final, and any aggrieved party may file a petition in the county court in which the drainage or levee cause is pending to correct such mistake and to correct the assessments and all decrees, reports, blueprints, and plats accordingly.   Upon the filing of such petition, the county clerk shall give ten (10) days' written notice to the person or persons to whom it is claimed that such land should have been assessed, and at any time within twenty (20) days after the service of such notice, the cause may be heard by the court as provided for hearing causes in § 69-5-402, and the court shall render decree according to the merits of the controversy.   If the court decrees that such mistake was made, then by decree all the reports, decrees, blueprints, maps, and plats shall be amended and corrected accordingly.   In case any assessment or assessments of any land thus newly assessed to any person is or are past due, whether they have been paid by the aggrieved person or not, they shall be collected by the county trustee immediately and shall become delinquent and shall be proceeded against as delinquent as now provided by law for proceeding in the matter of delinquent assessment, unless paid within sixty (60) days after rendering such decree. If any of the assessment has been previously collected by the trustee from the aggrieved party in the petition, it shall be refunded to the aggrieved party by the trustee upon warrant drawn as now provided by law for the drawing and issuing of warrants in the matter of drainage and levee districts.
TN Code § 69-5-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 4 - Correction of Errors|§ 69-5-406. Mistake in Owner's Identity — Appeal

 From a decree of the county court correcting a mistake in the owner's identity, any aggrieved party may appeal to the circuit court of the county, upon giving bonds for costs within ten (10) days after the decree in such amount as the county court may fix, and the cause shall be heard de novo in the circuit court, and from the judgment of such circuit court, appeals shall lie as provided by the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure.
TN Code § 69-5-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 4 - Correction of Errors|§ 69-5-407. Mistake in Owner's Identity — Certified Copy of Decree Recorded by Clerk and Transmitted to Trustee

 A certified copy of the decree in a case of a mistake in the owner's identity shall be certified by the clerk of the court to the clerk of the county having possession of the “drainage record” book of the district, and the clerk shall copy the decree on the drainage record book as a part of the records of the drainage district, and file the decree among the papers in the cause in which the drainage district was established. The county clerk shall also certify a copy of the decree from the drainage record book to the trustee of the county charged with the collection of the assessments against the property affected by the decree, and the trustee shall note the changes on the trustee's “drainage assessment book”, which has been made out and delivered to the trustee by the county clerk, and thereafter collect the assessments on the property according to the changes so made in the decree.
TN Code § 69-5-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-501. Right of Appeal — Time — Notice — Bond

 Any party aggrieved may appeal from the decision of the court in establishing, or refusing to establish, the improvement district, or its decision in the allowance of damages, such appeal being to the circuit court, and any party so desiring to appeal shall have the right to have the benefit of appeal at any time within five (5) days after the decision is made, without formally praying an appeal, by filing with the clerk of the county a notice of the appeal, at the same time filing with such clerk a bond, to be approved by the clerk in the sum and condition prescribed in § 69-5-502.
TN Code § 69-5-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-502. Penalty and Condition of Appeal Bond

 Any person opposing the creation of such district who appeals from the judgment of the county court establishing the district shall execute bond, with good security, in the penalty of four percent (4%) of the estimated cost of the improvement, as shown by the engineer's report, and conditioned to pay all such damages, actual, and also punitive, if any, and costs as may be suffered by the district and the petitioners for the damages, if such appeal is not successfully prosecuted, such damages to be recovered by suit upon the bond or writ of inquiry in the circuit court, which may be awarded in such cases. If the appeal is from a judgment of the county court refusing to establish the district, the appeal bond shall be for costs only. The appeal bonds, when made by persons asking damages or by persons opposing the establishment of such district, shall be made payable to the state of Tennessee, for the use of those entitled, upon which bond judgment may be rendered in favor of the party or parties litigant for costs, and suits maintained for damages, actual, and also punitive, if any, in the name of the state, for the use of the district or parties entitled.
TN Code § 69-5-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-503. Appeal Bonds by District — Petitioner Signing for District — Sureties — No Pauper Oath

 If an order has been entered by the county court creating or establishing a district, and giving it a name or designation, the appeal bonds, when the district or petitioners for the bonds are appellants, may be made by the district in such name, to be signed by some one (1) of the petitioners nominated for that purpose by the county court, it being declared the duty of the county court to so nominate some of the petitioners for this purpose; and on any appeal from the circuit court to an appellate court, the name of the district, if it has been ordered established by the county court, may in like manner be signed to any appeal bond, the circuit court nominating the petitioner to so sign it. Nothing in this chapter is to be construed as excusing the giving of good security on any such bonds for appeal, and the district shall be liable for any damages and costs adjudged against it on any appeal, as well as the sureties on the bonds; and the oath provided by law for poor persons shall not be allowed in lieu of any of the bonds.
TN Code § 69-5-504 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-504. Continuation of Work Pending Appeal

 When an appeal is taken and prosecuted from the judgment of the county court awarding damages, such appeal shall not prevent the work of the improvement or district being proceeded with, and the appropriation and condemnation of the lands, as provided by §§ 69-5-207 — 69-5-209, if the district, or the petitioners for the district, or any of them, will give bond, with good security, payable to the party or person awarded damages, in double the amount of damages awarded and costs as may be awarded on appeal.
TN Code § 69-5-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-505. Damages — Recording and Certification of Award

 The circuit court shall hear any such appeal de novo; and if the appeal is from the amount of damages allowed by the county court, the amount ascertained and fixed by the circuit court shall be entered of record, but no judgment shall be entered for that amount. The amount thus ascertained shall be certified by the clerk of the circuit court to the county court, which court shall thereafter proceed as if the amount had been by it allowed the claimant as damages.
TN Code § 69-5-506 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-506. Establishment of District — Circuit Court Order

 If the appeal is from the action of the county court in establishing, or refusing to establish, the drainage or levee district, the circuit court shall enter such order as it deems just and proper in the premises, and the clerk of that court shall certify the order to the county court, which shall proceed thereafter in the matter in accordance with the order of the circuit court.
TN Code § 69-5-507 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-507. Docketing — Consolidation — Transcript

 In the circuit court, in such cases, the cases shall be docketed with the appellant or appellants as plaintiffs and the adversary parties as defendants, and where there are several appellants on questions of damages, the circuit court may consolidate the causes and try them together, if practicable, making proper findings or orders as to each; and in appeals from orders of the county court made at the same session where there are several appellants, at their request only one (1) transcript shall be made out by the court clerk.
TN Code § 69-5-508 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-508. Costs

 On appeals under this part, it shall rest in the discretion of the circuit court how the costs shall be adjudged and distributed among the litigants.
TN Code § 69-5-509 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 5 - Appeals|§ 69-5-509. Trial With or Without Jury

 The trial in the circuit court shall be with or without a jury, as the court may deem the right of the parties to be under the particular issues to be tried, the right to a jury being accorded wherever the parties have such right under the law of the land.