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TN Code § 54-12-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 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  In making the estimate and apportionment pursuant to § 54-2-203 [repealed], the lands receiving the greatest benefit shall be marked on a scale of one hundred (100), and those benefited in a less degree shall be marked with a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 the greatest benefit.   This classification, when finally established, shall remain a basis for all future assessments connected with the objects of the road improvement district, unless the monthly county court, for good cause, shall authorize a revision of the classification.
TN Code § 54-12-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-205. Subdivision and Classification of Body of Land in One Owner

 In making the classification, 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 the 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 classify it in subdivisions.
TN Code § 54-12-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-206. Description and Ownership of Lands Specified in Reports

 In the report of the commissioners, they shall specify each tract of land by reasonable description and the ownership of the tract, as the tract appears on the tax books of the county or as the tract has been previously adjudged in the proceeding.
TN Code § 54-12-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-207. Objections to Assessment and Apportionment — Filing

 Any objections to the 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 monthly county court.
TN Code § 54-12-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-208. Assessment Made Without Notice

 The assessment may be made without notice, just as taxes are assessed without notice in such cases.
TN Code § 54-12-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-209. Publication of Hearing Assessments and Apportionments

 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), 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 can appear and be heard, if they desire; the last of the publications to be at least five (5) days before the day set for the hearing of the matter, and the publication to be in lieu of and instead of notice personally served, but shall not give the names of the parties, but only a brief statement of the date and purpose of the hearing.
TN Code § 54-12-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-210. District in More Than One County — Manner and Times of Publication

 If the district lies in more than one (1) county, the publication need only be made in one (1) weekly newspaper published in each of the counties having land embraced within the district; and, if there are daily newspapers published in any county, and no weekly newspaper, it shall be sufficient if such publication is made in a daily paper in such county, one (1) day in each week for the length of time required, instead of in a weekly newspaper.
TN Code § 54-12-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 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 the apportionment and assessments made in the report, or in 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. When the hearing has been had, the court shall assess the apportionment fixed by it upon the lands within the road improvement district.
TN Code § 54-12-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 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.
TN Code § 54-12-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 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.
TN Code § 54-12-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 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 only for purposes properly connected with the improvement, and on the order or warrant of the county mayor.
TN Code § 54-12-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 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 the costs and expenses of the proceedings up to that state of the proceedings have not been otherwise paid, the court shall have the power to make a special assessment upon all the lands within the district, for an amount sufficient to pay the costs and expenses, including the expenses of collecting the special assessment.
TN Code § 54-12-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 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 § 54-12-111; provided, that, for this special assessment, the monthly county court may fix the dates within which the assessment shall be collected, the court fixing the dates within dates the court deems reasonable for the collection of the assessments.   The assessments made for this purpose shall be a lien upon the respective tracts of land in the district upon which the assessment is made, but shall be inferior to the lien of any assessment that shall hereafter be made for the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of bonds and the interest on the bonds, as provided in this chapter, and by law.
TN Code § 54-12-217 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 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.
TN Code § 54-12-218 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-218. Trustee to Pay Collections Over to County Clerk Who Shall Pay to Parties Entitled Under Orders of Court

 The trustee shall pay the amount collected to the county clerk, upon the order or warrant of the county mayor; and when the amount collected has been paid to the clerk, the clerk will pay out the amount collected to the parties entitled under the order of the monthly county court.
TN Code § 54-12-219 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-219. Bonds Required of Trustee and County Clerk

 The trustee, before receiving the assessment book and proceeding to the collection of the assessments, and the county clerk, before receiving the funds from the trustee, shall, respectively, enter into a bond for double the amount that will come into their hands, respectively, payable to the state, and conditioned on the faithful paying over and accounting for the funds arising from the assessment.
TN Code § 54-12-220 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-220. Appeal From Order Fixing Assessment of Benefits Within Five Days — Other Provisions Applicable

 An appeal may be taken within five (5) days to the circuit court of the county from the order of the monthly county court fixing the assessment of benefits upon the lands in the same manner and time as provided in §§ 54-12-141 — 54-12-149 for appeals from the assessment of damages, including the provisions as to consolidating cases, making transcript, etc., and certifying to the monthly county court the action and doings of the circuit court.
TN Code § 54-12-221 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-221. Appellant From Order Fixing Assessment of Benefits Shall Give Appeal Bond, and Not Pauper's Oath

  Any landowner, tenant, or encumbrancer who appeals from the order fixing the assessment of benefits shall execute bond, with security, for cost and damages.   The oath provided by law for poor persons shall not be allowed in lieu of the bonds.
TN Code § 54-12-222 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-222. Appeal Does Not Prevent Collection of Assessments, if Appellant Is Indemnified by Bond

 The appeal shall not prevent the collection of the assessments, nor stay the collection in any way, if the district or any petitioner for the district executes a bond, with good security, payable to the appellant, and conditioned to hold the appellant harmless against loss and to abide by and perform the judgment of the court, if the appeal is successfully prosecuted.
TN Code § 54-12-223 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-223. Indemnity Bond — Execution

 The bond, if given by the district, may be executed before and accepted by the county clerk at any time after appeal is perfected by the landowner, tenant, or encumbrancer, and a certified copy of the bond shall be sent to the circuit court.
TN Code § 54-12-224 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-224. Counsel Employed for District on Trial in Appellate Court — Payment

 When an appeal is taken from any order of the monthly county court made in any proceedings before it under this chapter, the court may employ counsel to represent the interests of the road improvement district affected by appeal, on the trial of the order in the appellate courts, and the expenses of counsel shall be paid out of the fund of the district.
TN Code § 54-12-225 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-225. If Any Assessment Cannot Be Enforced, Assessments and Apportionments Shall Be Made as if Never Made — Lands Not Assessed Will Be Assessed — Validity Not Affected

  Where any assessments made and levied under this part or part 1 of this chapter cannot for any reason be enforced, and part of the work has been done, the monthly county court shall proceed as to any or all lands benefited by the improvement in the same manner as if the appraisement and apportionment of benefits had never been made, in which event any payment already made shall be duly credited to those who have paid the assessments.   After a district is ordered established, if it is found that any parcel of land within its limits has been overlooked, or is not reported for assessment, or if it is found that any owner or encumbrancer of any land has not been properly brought before the court, the mistake or order may be corrected, and the court shall cause the parcel of land to be listed for assessment and cause the owner or encumbrancer, if any, to be properly brought before the court, and as to the lands or parties, the matter shall be proceeded with as if proceeded in the beginning, so as to enforce proper and proportional assessments. As to all other parties already before the court, the validity of the proceedings shall not be affected because some of the lands have been overlooked and some of the owners or encumbrancers of the lands were not brought before the court before the district was ordered established.
TN Code § 54-12-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-301. Directors to Be Appointed for District — Qualifications — Terms — Duties and Powers

  After a road improvement district has been located and established as provided for by parts 1 and 2 of this chapter, the monthly county court shall appoint two (2) directors for the district.   The directors shall be owners of land, or interested in land, in the district, and at least one (1) of those first appointed shall be one (1) of the petitioners for the establishment of the district, or a successor of that petitioner in estate or interest.   The directors shall hold their offices for two (2) years from the date of appointment, and these two (2) thus appointed and their successors, together with the county mayor, shall constitute the directors, or board of directors, of the district.   The directors shall have the general control, management and supervision of the business affairs of the district, and be vested with power and authority to make contracts, as provided by this chapter, and for all improvements to be done in the district.
TN Code § 54-12-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-302. Vacancy, Filling — Removal of Director — Appeal From Order of Removal — Appeal Bond — Hearing Anew in Circuit Court — Appointment of Another

  If there is a vacancy in the office of the director appointed pursuant to § 54-12-301 because of death, resignation or any other reason, the monthly county court shall appoint another director of like qualifications to fill the vacancy until the end of the two-year term.   For sufficient reason, the monthly county court may remove an appointed director, but not until the director has had at least five-days' notice of the time of the hearing and of the grounds for removal as alleged, and the director shall thus be entitled to be heard and to introduce proof upon the issue as to whether removal should be undertaken.   If, on hearing, the decision of the monthly county court is that the director be removed, the director may appeal from the decision, upon giving proper cost bond, to the circuit court of the county where the matter shall be heard anew and judgment given as that court deems just and proper.   If a director is removed, the monthly county court shall appoint another to serve the remainder of the two-year term, having like qualifications as to ownership of lands, etc., as provided in § 54-12-301.
TN Code § 54-12-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-303. Successors of Directors — Appointment

 At the end of each two-year term, the office of the two (2) appointed directors shall be again filled by appointment by the monthly county court from among those owning or interested in lands in the district.
TN Code § 54-12-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-304. Organization of Board — Bond of Treasurer

  The county mayor shall be chair of the board of directors.   The board shall elect one (1) of the other directors secretary and treasurer of the board, and as the treasurer shall give bond in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) faithfully to account for all money received as treasurer.   The bond shall be approved by the monthly county court and payable to the county or state, for the use of the district, and shall be recorded in the record.
TN Code § 54-12-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-305. Compensation and Expenses of Directors

  The members of the board of directors shall receive as compensation for their services, in attending to their duties as directors, fifty cents (50¢) per hour for the time actually consumed in attending to their duties, but not to exceed twenty-five (25) hours in any one (1) month.   They shall also receive their actual expenses paid out or incurred on account of attending to their duties as directors. The account for time and expense shall be kept, made out and sworn to, and filed with the county clerk before payment is made.
TN Code § 54-12-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-306. Contracts for Improvements Not to Be Made Until After Inspection, Classifications, Apportionment, and Assessment of Benefits

  No contracts for improvements to be done in the road improvement district shall be made until after the commissioners provided for by part 2 of this chapter have made their inspection, classifications, and apportionment as directed in part 2 of this chapter, nor until the questions of classification and apportionment and assessment of benefits have been determined and settled by the monthly county court.   After the commissioners and the court have so acted, then the contracts may be made by the board of directors of the district.
TN Code § 54-12-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-307. Publication of Notice of Letting Work of Construction or Improvement

  Before entering into any contract for improvements, the board of directors of the improvement district shall cause notice to be given once a week for four (4) consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which the improvement is located, and additional publication elsewhere as the board may direct at the time and place of letting the work of construction of the improvement.   In the notice, the board shall specify the approximate amount of work to be done in each section, and the time fixed for the commencement and completion of the work.
TN Code § 54-12-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-308. Contracts for Sections of Work or the Whole May Be Let to the Lowest Bidder — Rejection of Bids and Readvertisement

 The board of directors shall award a contract or contracts for each section of the work to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, or may award the contract as a whole to the lowest responsible bidder, exercising its own discretion as to the letting of the work as a whole or in sections, and reserving the right to reject any and all bids and readvertise the letting of the work.
TN Code § 54-12-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-309. Deposit of Bidders Required

  Each person bidding for the work shall deposit with the treasurer of the board of directors in cash or certified check a sum equal to ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid, not in any event, however, to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000).   The deposit shall be returned to the bidder if the bid is not successful, or, if successful, to be retained as a guarantee only of the bidder's good faith in entering into the contract.
TN Code § 54-12-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-310. Bond or Cash Deposit Required of Successful Bidders

 The successful bidder shall be required to execute a bond, with sufficient sureties, payable to the county, for the use and benefit of the improvement district, in an amount equal to twenty-five percent (25%) of the estimated cost of the work, so let or that amount may be deposited in cash with the treasurer of the board of directors as security for the performance of the contract, and upon the execution of the bond or the making of the deposit, the deposit originally made with the bid shall be returned.
TN Code § 54-12-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 3 - Management|§ 54-12-311. Engineer Employed to Supervise Construction of Improvement Work — Compensation — Removal, and Contract With Another

  The board of directors shall employ a competent engineer to have charge and supervision of the construction of the improvement work, contract for compensation for the engineer's services in a sum or at a rate that may be agreed upon, and to be paid as other expenses of the district.   The directors may remove the engineer and contract with another, if they see fit for any reason.