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VA Code § 21-305 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-305. Tile system of drainage

Whenever a supplementary petition signed by the owner or owners of any tract of land in the proposed district, be subsequently filed with the clerk of the court, requesting that tile be used to drain the tract, the clerk shall immediately notify the engineer of the district of such petition. The engineer shall thereupon design and lay out a system of tile drainage upon the tract, and the board of viewers appointed to classify the lands in the district, as hereinafter provided for, shall, in the schedule of classification, place a special assessment upon the tract and also classify the tract in a class which will result in the total assessment being equal to the cost of the tile drainage of the tract, in addition to the proportional part of the liability for other benefits derived from the drainage canals of the district.The tile drainage system shall become part of the proposed drainage district, and shall be governed by all the provisions of this chapter, insofar as the same may be applicable.Code 1919, § 1738; 1926, p. 608.
VA Code § 21-306 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-306. Compensation of engineer, assistants and viewers

The board of viewers of the project involved shall at the first meeting after the selection of a drainage engineer make provision for the compensation to be paid him, if any, and his necessary assistants and the members of the board of viewers together with their incidental expenses. The rate of pay to each member of the board of viewers shall not exceed five dollars per day.When the lands proposed to be drained and created into a drainage district are located in two or more counties, the clerk of the circuit court of either county shall have and exercise the jurisdiction herein conferred, and the venue shall be in that county in which the petition is first filed.Code 1919, § 1739; 1924, p. 707; 1926, p. 608; 1954, c. 642.
VA Code § 21-307 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-307. Publication against unknown owners

If, at the time of the filing of the petition, or at any time subsequent thereto, it shall be made to appear to the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, by affidavit or otherwise, that the owner or owners of the whole or any share of any tract or tracts of land affected or within the bounds of the proposed drainage district, whose names are unknown, and cannot, after due diligence, be ascertained by the petitioners, the court or the judge thereof, shall order a notice in the nature of a summons to be given to all such persons by publication of the petition, or of the substance thereof, and describing generally the tract or tracts of land as to which the owner or owners are unknown, with the order of the court or the judge thereof thereon, in some newspaper published in the county wherein the land is located or in any city within the geographical limits of the county. If no newspaper shall be published in the county or city, then in some newspaper designated in the order of the court or the judge thereof, and a copy of such publication shall also be posted in at least three conspicuous places within the boundaries of the proposed district, and at the courthouse door of the county. Such publication in a newspaper shall be made once a week for four successive weeks.Code 1919, § 1740; 1926, p. 608.
VA Code § 21-308 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-308. Appointment of representative of unknown owner

After the time of publication shall have expired, if no person claiming and asserting title to the tract or tracts of land and entitled to notice shall appear, the court or the judge thereof, in its or his discretion, may appoint some disinterested person to represent the unknown owner or owners of the lands, and thereupon the court shall assume jurisdiction of the tract or tracts of land, and shall adjudicate as to the lands to the same extent as if the owners were present and represented, and shall proceed against the land itself.Code 1919, § 1740; 1926, p. 609.
VA Code § 21-309 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-309. Subsequent appearance of unknown owners

If at any time during the pendency of the drainage proceeding the owner or owners of the lands shall appear in person, they may be made parties defendant of their own motion and without the necessity of personal service, and shall thereafter be considered as parties to the proceeding, but they shall have no right to except to or appeal from any order or judgment theretofore rendered as to which the time for filing exceptions or notice shall have expired.Code 1919, § 1740; 1926, p. 609.
VA Code § 21-310 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-310. Guardian ad litem for infants and incapacitated adults

These proceedings shall not be stayed because of infancy or incapacity; but the court in which the petition was filed shall appoint some discreet and competent attorney at law as guardian ad litem to any infant or incapacitated person who may own or be interested in any of the land affected by these proceedings, whether such persons have been served with process or not. If no such attorney is found willing to act, the court shall appoint some other discreet and proper person as guardian ad litem, but the person so appointed shall not be liable to costs. Every guardian ad litem shall faithfully represent the interest or estate of the infant or incapacitated person for whom he is appointed, and it shall be the duty of the court to see that the estate of such defendant is so represented and protected. Wherever the court is of opinion that the interests of any infant or incapacitated person require, it shall remove any guardian ad litem and appoint another in his stead.Code 1919, § 1741; 1997, c. 801.
VA Code § 21-311 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-311. Recordation of petition and orders

A copy of the petition, duly certified by the clerk of the court in which the same was originally filed, shall be recorded in the deed book in the clerk's office, of each county in which any of the lands affected thereby are located and duly indexed in the names of all the parties, the costs of such recordation to be taxed as a part of the costs of the proceedings. Any orders in the proceedings whereby other persons are made parties, shall be recorded and indexed in like manner.Code 1919, § 1742.
VA Code § 21-312 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-312. Examination; preliminary report

The board of viewers shall proceed, as soon as practicable, to examine the land described in the petition and other land if necessary, to locate properly such improvement or improvements as are petitioned for, along the route described in the petition, or any route answering the same purpose, if found more practicable or feasible, unless previously surveyed by United States or other engineer and may run levels such as may be necessary to determine the elevation of the several parts of the district, and shall make and return to the clerk of the court of the county, within sixty days, unless, either before or after the expiration of the period, the time shall be, for good cause shown, extended by the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, a written report, signed by the members of the board or by the majority, thereof, which shall in the case of drainage, set forth:(a) Whether the proposed drainage is practicable or not;(b) Whether it will benefit the public health or any public highway or be conducive to the general welfare of the community;(c) Whether the improvement proposed will benefit the lands sought to be benefited;(d) The character of the lands and their probable value after the proposed drainage has been completed;(e) Whether or not all the lands that are benefited are included in the proposed drainage district; and naming the owners thereof and the approximate acreage of each which they estimate will be affected. They shall also file with this report a map of the proposed drainage district, showing the location of the ditch or ditches or other improvements to be constructed and the lands that will be affected thereby, and such other information as they may have collected that will tend to show the correctness of their findings.Code 1919, § 1743; 1920, p. 607; 1926, p. 609.
VA Code § 21-314 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-314. Notice of consideration of preliminary report

After the petition is entertained by the court, notice shall be given to all interested landowners or their representatives in writing mailed to their last known address and by publication in two consecutive issues of any daily or weekly newspaper published in any city, town or village situated within the original geographical bounds of the county or counties in which the proposed district is located, if such there be, otherwise in any daily or weekly newspaper designated by the court or the judge thereof, and also by posting a written or printed notice at the door of the courthouse, that on the date set, naming the day, the court will consider and pass upon the preliminary report of the board of viewers. At least five days shall intervene between the date of the second publication and the posting of the notices and the date set for the hearing.Code 1919, § 1745; 1926, p. 610; 1954, c. 642.
VA Code § 21-315 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-315. Hearing objections to preliminary report

At the date appointed for the hearing, or upon any date to which the same may be continued, in its discretion, the court shall hear and determine any objection that may be offered to the report of the board of viewers.Code 1919, § 1746.
VA Code § 21-316 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-316. Exclusion of land not affected by drainage

If it appears that there is any land within the proposed levee or drainage district that will not be affected by the leveeing or drainage thereof, such lands shall be excluded and the names of the owners withdrawn from such proceeding.Code 1919, § 1746.
VA Code § 21-317 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-317. Changing boundaries to include land affected

If it shall be shown that there is any land not within the proposed district that will be affected by the construction of the proposed levee or drain, the boundary of the district shall be so changed as to include such land, and such additional landowners shall be made parties plaintiff or defendant, respectively, and summons shall be issued accordingly, as hereinbefore provided. And, upon petition of any party so summoned, filed within ten days after such summons has been served upon him, the court shall hear and decide any objection made by the petitioner as to the establishment of the district or the inclusion of the petitioner's land in the same. After such changes in the boundary are made, the sufficiency of the petition shall be verified to determine whether or not it conforms to the requirements of § 21-295. Any person, whose lands are affected, may, at this stage of the proceedings, sign the petition so as to render same sufficient.Code 1919, § 1746.
VA Code § 21-318 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-318. Determining efficiency of drainage; changes

The efficiency of the drainage or levee shall also be determined, and if it appears that the location of any levee or drain can be changed so as to make it more effective, or that other branches or spurs should be constructed, or that any branch or spur projected may be eliminated, or other changes made that will tend to increase the benefits of the proposed work, such modification and changes shall be made by the court.Code 1919, § 1746.
VA Code § 21-319 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-319. Board of viewers to attend hearing

The board of viewers shall attend such hearing, and give any information or evidence that may be sought to verify and substantiate their report.Code 1919, § 1746.
VA Code § 21-321 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-321. Preliminary establishment of district

The above facts having been determined to the satisfaction of the court, and the approximate boundaries of the proposed district determined, it shall declare the preliminary establishment of the drainage or levee district, which shall be designated by name or number, for the object and purpose as herein set forth.Code 1919, § 1746.
VA Code § 21-322 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-322. Land excluded from district but located within boundaries

If any lands shall be excluded from the district because of the court having found that such lands will not be affected or benefited, and the names of the owners of such lands have been withdrawn from such proceedings, but such lands are so situated as necessarily to be located within the outer boundaries of the district, such fact shall not prevent the establishment of the district, and the lands shall not be assessed for any drainage tax, but this shall not prevent the district from acquiring a right-of-way across such lands for constructing a canal or ditch or for any other necessary purpose authorized by law.Code 1919, § 1746.
VA Code § 21-323 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-323. Condemnation of land

If it shall be necessary to acquire a right-of-way and outlet over and through any lands or to remove any dam or other obstacle, whether the same is or is not operated under a decree of court, and the same cannot be acquired by purchase at a price deemed reasonable by the court upon report to the court by the board of viewers thereupon, then in such event the power of eminent domain is conferred, and the same may be condemned. Such owner of the land, dam, or other obstacles proposed to be condemned, may all be made parties defendant in one condemnation suit or proceeding, whether such owner or owners are all interested in one tract or parcel of land, dam or other obstacle, or different owners are interested in different tracts or parcels of land or different dams or other obstacles, and the procedure in such condemnation suit or proceeding shall be under the restrictions provided by the general statutes of this Commonwealth relative to the condemnation of land so far as the same may be applicable and are not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter.Code 1919, § 1747; 1928, p. 604.
VA Code § 21-324 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-324. Right of appeal

Any person or corporation owning lands within the drainage or levee district, which he or it thinks will not be benefited by the improvement, and should not be included within the district, shall have a right to appeal as provided by Chapter 26 (§ 8.01-669 et seq.) of Title 8.01; but such appeal shall be perfected within sixty days from the date of the order finally establishing the drainage district, after which time, no appeal shall be allowed.Code 1919, § 1748; 1926, p. 610.
VA Code § 21-325 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-325. Complete survey

After the district is preliminarily established the court shall refer the report of the board of viewers back to them, and unless United States or state engineers have already surveyed the district or the major portion thereof, may make a complete survey, plans and specifications for the drainage or levees, and fix a time when the board of viewers shall complete and file their report, not exceeding six months; but such time may be extended by the court for good cause shown, either before or after the expiration of the time.Code 1919, § 1749; 1920, p. 607.
VA Code § 21-326 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-326. Assistance in making survey

The board of viewers shall have power to employ such assistants as may be necessary to make a complete survey of the drainage district, and unless already completely surveyed and chartered, by United States or state engineers, shall enter upon the ground and make a survey of the main drain, or drains, and all its laterals, as approved by the court at the preliminary hearing, or any other drainways, answering the same purpose, if found more feasible or economical.Code 1919, § 1750; 1920, p. 609; 1926, p. 610.
VA Code § 21-327 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-327. Courses, distances and levels

The line of each ditch, drain or levee shall be plainly and substantially marked upon the ground, by the cutting or marking of necessary trees, staking or otherwise. The course and distance of each ditch shall be carefully noted and sufficient notes made so that it may be accurately platted on the plan of the drainage district. A line of levels shall be run for the entire work, and sufficient data secured from which accurate profiles and plans shall be made.Code 1919, § 1750; 1920, p. 609; 1926, p. 611.
VA Code § 21-328 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-328. Bench marks

Frequent bench marks shall be established along the line, on permanent objects, and their elevation recorded in the field books.Code 1919, § 1750; 1920, p. 610; 1926, p. 611.
VA Code § 21-329 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-329. Other levels

If it is deemed expedient by the board of viewers, other levels may be run to determine the fall from one part of the district to another. If an old watercourse, land drainage, ditch or channel is to be widened, deepened, or straightened, it shall be accurately cross-sectioned so as to compute the number of cubic yards saved by the use of such old channel.Code 1919, § 1750; 1920, p. 610; 1926, p. 611.
VA Code § 21-330 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-330. Drainage map

A drainage map of the district shall then be completed, showing the location of the ditch or ditches, and other improvements, and the acreage as closely as may be determined by the records, or if necessary, from the notes of the survey, by the drainage engineer, of the lands, designating each tract by a number, owned by each individual landowner or corporation within the district. The location of any railroads or public highways and the boundary of any incorporated town or village within the district shall be shown on the map.Code 1919, § 1750; 1920, p. 610; 1926, p. 611.
VA Code § 21-331 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-331. Profile of each levee, etc.; estimate of costs; rights-of-way

There shall also be prepared to accompany this map a profile of each levee, drain, or watercourse, showing the surface of the ground, the bottom of the grade of the proposed improvement and the number of cubic yards of excavation or fill in each mile or fraction thereof, and the total number of cubic yards in the proposed improvement and the estimated cost thereof, the cost of any other work required to be done including the cost of the rights-of-way for the levees, drains and ditches of the district, and the report shall state an estimate of the cost thereof and what rights-of-way are required to be purchased or condemned, and the board of viewers is directed to obtain the consent in writing of such landowners as will permit the levees, ditches and drains to be constructed through their lands without charge on their part for the land so to be taken and occupied, and before the county board of drainage commissioners hereinafter mentioned shall advertise for bids under the provisions of this chapter, they shall proceed to condemn such lands as shall have been reported by the board of viewers and approved by the court as necessary to be condemned; such condemnation proceedings to be in accordance with § 21-323.Code 1919, § 1750; 1920, p. 610; 1926, p. 611.
VA Code § 21-332 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-332. Adoption of surveys already made

In any case where surveys have been made by or under the direction of any engineer, surveyor, corporation, town, city, county, state or of the United States government, of lands, in any part or parcel of land included within any proposed drainage district, authority is given to the court in which the proceedings involving such land are condemned to adopt such survey or surveys and such information concerning the same as can be obtained from the engineer, surveyor, corporation, town, city, county, state or United States government, and to dispense with any other survey work which in its judgment can be omitted without prejudice to the right of any party whose lands are affected.Code 1919, § 1750; 1920, p. 610; 1926, p. 611.
VA Code § 21-333 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-333. Assessment of damages

It shall be the further duty of the board of viewers to assess the damages claimed by anyone that are justly right and due him for land taken or for inconvenience imposed because of the construction of the improvement or for any other legal damages sustained. Such damage shall be considered separate and apart from any benefit the land would receive because of the proposed work.Code 1919, § 1751.
VA Code § 21-334 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 21 - Drainage, Soil Conservation, Sanitation and Public Facilities Districts|Chapter 6 - Drainage Projects|§ 21-334. Classification of land; benefits; assessments

It shall be the further duty of the board of viewers personally to examine the land in the district and classify it with reference to the benefit it will receive from the construction of the levee, ditch, drain, or watercourse or other improvement and to determine rates of assessment in direct proportion to the benefits received on an acreage basis subject to the approval of a majority of the petitioners who own a majority of the land.Code 1919, § 1752; 1924, p. 707; 1926, p. 612; 1954, c. 642.