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TN Code § 54-12-133 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-133. Claim for Damages to Be Filed — Guardian or Conservator Ad Litem Appointed for Persons Under Disability

 Any person claiming damages as compensation for or on account of the construction of the improvement shall file a claim in the office of the county clerk at least three (3) days prior to the day on which the petition has been set for hearing, and on failure to file the claim at the time specified shall be held to have waived any rights to the claim; provided, that if the person is an infant or adjudicated incompetent and without regular guardian or conservator, or the guardian or conservator has not been notified of the proceedings as provided in §§ 54-12-128 — 54-12-131 for notice, and the facts are made to appear by affidavit, the monthly county court shall appoint a guardian or conservator ad litem for the person, who may file the claim for damages, if deemed proper, for the person under disability, within the time allowed in this section or within three (3) days after the appointment.
TN Code § 54-12-134 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-134. Sufficiency of Petition Determined — Amendment of Petition — District Allowed or Refused — if No Claim for Damages, District Located and Established

  The monthly county court, upon the hearing of the petition at the time set for hearing, or at the time to which the matter has been adjourned or continued, shall determine the sufficiency of the petition in form and manner, which petition may be amended at any time, as to form and substance, before final action on the petition; and if the court finds that the improvement district would not be for the public benefit or utility, or conducive to the public health or welfare, it shall dismiss the proceedings.   If the court should find the improvement conducive to the public health or welfare, or to the public benefit or utility, it shall determine and adjudge the necessity of the road improvement district.   If no claim for damages has been filed as provided for in §§ 54-12-136 — 54-12-151, the court may, if deemed advisable, locate and establish the district, or may refuse to establish the district, as the court deems best.
TN Code § 54-12-135 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-135. Further Examination and Report by Engineer Ordered — Hearing Continued Until Filing of Report

 At the hearing, the monthly county court may order the engineer, or a new engineer appointed by it, if deemed advisable, to make further examination and report to the court as to the improvement in which the hearing shall be continued until the filing of the further report.
TN Code § 54-12-136 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-136. Claims for Damages Prevent Establishment of District Until Viewers Appointed — Qualifications — Engineer to Accompany Viewers and Give Them Information

 If any claims for damages have been filed, as provided in § 54-12-133, the monthly county court shall not establish the district until viewers have been appointed and have reported, and the court shall proceed to appoint three (3) viewers to assess the damages, who shall be disinterested freeholders of the county, and not related to any party interested in the proposed improvement, nor themselves interested in a like improvement, and the engineer appointed by the court shall accompany the viewers and furnish information called for by them concerning the survey of the improvement.
TN Code § 54-12-137 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-137. Viewers Upon Being Sworn to View Premises, Fix Damages and Report

 The viewers appointed to assess damages, after being duly sworn to act impartially and faithfully to the best of their abilities, shall proceed to view the premises and determine and fix the amount of damages to which each claimant is entitled, and file reports in writing with the county clerk showing the amount of damages to which each claimant would be entitled, because of the establishment of proposed improvement.
TN Code § 54-12-138 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-138. Report of Viewers to Be Filed Promptly — Others Appointed Upon Failure to Act

 The report of the viewers shall be filed as soon as practicable, and if any of them fails or refuses to act, for any reason, or they do not proceed to act with promptness, the monthly county court may appoint others as viewers in the place of any or all of them.
TN Code § 54-12-139 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-139. Value of Land — Incidental Benefits Considered in Estimating Incidental Damages

 In establishing the damages, the viewers shall give the value of the land proposed to be taken without deduction, but incidental benefits that may result to the owners by reason of the proposed improvement may be taken into consideration in estimating the incidental damages.
TN Code § 54-12-140 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-140. Damages Awarded Considered in Establishing District — Location and Establishment — Damages Determined

 After the filing of the report of the viewers, the monthly county court shall consider the amount of damages awarded in deciding whether the road improvement district should be established. If, in its judgment, the probable cost of construction is not a greater burden than should be properly borne by the land benefited by the improvement and the improvement is conducive to the public health or welfare, or to the public benefit or utility, then the court shall locate and establish the road improvement district by proper order or judgment, to be entered of record, and the court shall then proceed to determine the amount of damages sustained by each claimant, and may hear evidence in respect to the amount of damages, and may increase or diminish the amount awarded by the viewers as deemed just and right.
TN Code § 54-12-141 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-141. Appeal From Decision Establishing District or Allowing Damages — Appeal Bond

  Any party aggrieved may appeal to the circuit court from the decision of the monthly county court in establishing or refusing to establish the improvement district, or its decision in the allowance of damages.   Any party desiring to appeal shall have the right to have the benefit of the appeal at any time within five (5) days after the decision is made, without formally praying an appeal, at the same time filing a bond, to be approved by the clerk in the sum and condition prescribed in §§ 54-12-104 and 54-12-109.
TN Code § 54-12-142 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-142. Appeal From Order Establishing or Refusing to Establish District, and Penalty of Appeal Bond — Damages on Appeal Bond

  When any person opposing the creation of the district appeals from the order or decision of the monthly county court establishing or creating the district, the person 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 damages, actual and punitive, if any, and costs as may be suffered by the district and the petitioners for the appeal, if the appeal is not successfully prosecuted, the damages to be recovered by suit upon the bond or writ of inquiry in the circuit court that may be awarded in those cases.   If the appeal is from an order or judgment of the monthly county court refusing to establish the district, the appeal bond shall be for costs only, and the appeal bond, when made by persons asking damages or by persons opposing the establishment of the district, shall be made payable to the state 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 § 54-12-143 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-143. Appeal Bond Signed for All Petitioner Appellants by a Designated Petitioner — Surety on Bond Required — Pauper's Oath Not Allowed

  If an order has been entered by the monthly county court creating or establishing the district, and giving it a name or designation, the bonds, when the district or petitioners for the district are appellants, may be made by the district in that name, to be signed by one (1) of the petitioners nominated for that purpose by the court, it being declared the duty of the court to nominate some of the petitioners for this purpose.   On any appeal from the circuit court to an appellate court, the name of the district, if it has been ordered established by the court, may in like manner be signed to any appeal bond, the circuit court nominating the petitioner to so sign it.   Nothing in this part shall be construed as excusing the giving of good security on any 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.   The oath provided by law for poor persons shall not be allowed in lieu of the bonds.
TN Code § 54-12-144 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-144. Appeal From Award of Damages Will Not Prevent Appropriation and Condemnation of Land, if Petitioners Give Bond

 When an appeal is taken and prosecuted from the judgment or order of the monthly county court awarding damages, the appeal shall not prevent the work of the improvement district from proceeding, nor with the appropriation and condemnation of the lands, as provided in §§ 54-12-151 and 54-12-152, if the district or the petitioners for the appeal, or any of them, 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 § 54-12-145 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-145. Appeal Heard De Novo by Circuit Court That Enters No Judgment but Enters Amount Fixed — Clerk Certifies to Monthly County Court

 The circuit court shall hear the appeal de novo; and if the appeal is from the amount of damages allowed by the monthly county court, the amount ascertained and fixed by the circuit court shall be entered of record, but no judgment shall be entered. The amount thus ascertained shall be certified by the clerk of the circuit court to the monthly county court, which shall thereafter proceed as if the monthly county court had allowed the claimant that amount as damages.
TN Code § 54-12-146 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-146. Circuit Court Order Entered — Certified to Monthly County Court

 If the appeal is from the action of the monthly county court in establishing or refusing to establish the road improvement district, the circuit court shall enter an order as it deems just and proper in the premises, and the clerk of the circuit court shall certify the same to the monthly county court, which shall proceed thereafter in the matter in accordance with the order of the circuit court.
TN Code § 54-12-147 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-147. Appellants as Plaintiffs in Circuit Court — Consolidation of Damage Cases — One Transcript in Several Appeals

  In the circuit court, 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 hear or try them together, if practicable, making proper findings or orders as to each.   If the appeals from orders of the monthly county court are made at the same session where there are several appellants, at their request, only one (1) transcript shall be made.
TN Code § 54-12-148 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-148. Costs in Discretion of Circuit Court

 On the appeals, it shall rest in the discretion of the circuit court how costs shall be adjudged and distributed among the litigants.
TN Code § 54-12-149 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-149. Trial With or Without a Jury in Circuit Court

 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 the right under the law of the land.
TN Code § 54-12-150 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-150. Damages Fixed Shall Be Paid or Secured — Manner of Payment

 After the amount of damages due any claimant or claimants has been finally ascertained and fixed by the monthly county court, the court shall require the damages to be paid, in the first instance, by the parties benefited by the road improvement district, or be secured, to be paid upon terms and conditions the court deems just and proper.
TN Code § 54-12-151 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-151. Condemnation After Damages Are Paid or Secured

 After the damages have been paid or secured, the monthly county court shall enter a proper order of condemnation showing all the lands are appropriated and belong to the road improvement district for all its necessary purposes.
TN Code § 54-12-152 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-152. Appropriation of Right-of-Way, and of Other Necessary Lands

 In establishing any road improvement district, all necessary lands may be appropriated as provided in this part and a right-of-way of as much as one hundred feet (100') may be so appropriated if deemed necessary for the sites and location of any road to be built under this chapter, but the provision in this section as to the width of the right-of-way shall not prevent the monthly county court from ordering the appropriation of other lands deemed necessary for the purposes of the improvement district under this chapter.
TN Code § 54-12-153 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-153. Engineer or Another Appointee Directed to Make More Complete Survey and Estimate of Cost of Improvement

  After the road improvement district is established by the monthly county court, and all damages paid or secured, if the court is of the opinion that the report of the engineer already made is not sufficiently full or definite to enable the proper letting of contracts for the construction of the improvement, or for other reasons is not as full and definite as it should be, the court shall direct the engineer, or another appointed by the court for that purpose, to make a further and more complete survey and estimates of the district and cost of proposed improvements, and report to the court as to the same, giving all necessary and required information; how much of the improvements will be upon each tract of land, as nearly as practicable, giving definite estimates as to the cost and character of work, and dividing the work into convenient sections for making contracts, etc., and giving other particulars the court sees fit to direct.   The report of the engineer shall be made and filed with the county clerk without unreasonable delay, and if the engineer fails to act with reasonable promptness, the court may remove the engineer and appoint another.
TN Code § 54-12-154 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-154. Publication — Requisites — Effect

  Publication in a newspaper published in the county where the petition is filed and proceedings are pending, for two (2) consecutive weeks, of the time and place set for the hearing of the petition to establish the district, shall be sufficient notice to the persons concerned as owners, lienholders, encumbrancers, mortgagees, occupants, or in any other way, whether residents of the state, or nonresidents of the state, the last publication to be at least ten (10) days before the date set for the hearing.    The notice by publication shall have the same force and effect upon those concerned as mentioned in subsection (a), who are not petitioners, and who are residents of the state, as well as nonresidents, for all purposes of the proceedings, as process would have duly issued from the court and served personally upon them by an officer.   The publication notice need not give the names of the persons notified to appear, but need give only a brief statement of the purpose of the hearing, a reference to the petition on file for further information, as to the purpose of the proceeding, before what court the petition is to be heard, and the time and place of hearing; provided, that if the proposed district is to embrace lands in more than one (1) county, if established, the publication shall be made in one (1) newspaper published in each of the counties.
TN Code § 54-12-155 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-155. Intent of § 54-12-154

 Section 54-12-154 is not intended to repeal any portion of this chapter, but is intended to furnish an additional method of proceeding, to bring the parties concerned before the court in seeking to establish a road improvement district, and to leave the petitioners for the district to their option whether they will proceed under other provisions of this chapter or under § 54-12-154 in giving notice to the parties of the hearing, and in bringing them before the court.
TN Code § 54-12-156 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-156. Road Improvement Record Book — Maintenance by County Clerk — Contents — Entries Made in Regular Minute Book

  In any county where a road improvement district is sought to be established, the county clerk of the county shall provide a book to be known as the road improvement record and to be paid for by the county.   The clerk shall keep in the road improvement record a full and complete record of all proceedings in each case arising under this chapter, including all orders made by the monthly county court, and certified from the circuit court, and a copy of the original petition shall be enrolled in the book of record, and all bonds required to be given; and all orders and judgments of the monthly county court, touching any matter of the district, may be entered into the regular minute book; but it shall be sufficient if the orders or judgments are entered either upon the road improvement record or the regular minute book.
TN Code § 54-12-157 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-157. Fees of County Clerk — Allowance for Extra Services

 The fees of the county clerk in proceedings under this chapter shall be the same as for similar services now allowed by law, and in such case the monthly county court may allow the clerk an additional sum for extra services or services not covered by existing fee bills or statutes, to be fixed by the court, and paid as other costs and expenses in the case of proceeding.
TN Code § 54-12-158 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-158. Compensation and Expenses of Viewers, Commissioners, and of Helpers

  The viewers and commissioners provided for by this part and part 2 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, itemized accounts for the expenses being reported and sworn.   Other necessary help aiding the engineers, viewers, or commissioners such as chain carriers, axmen, etc., shall be paid not more than two dollars ($2.00) per day.
TN Code § 54-12-159 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 1 - Establishment|§ 54-12-159. Compensation to Be Fixed by Monthly County Court Where No Provision Made

 If any services are required of any person under this chapter, and the rate of pay is not provided within this chapter, then the monthly county court shall fix the amount, or rate of pay in those cases.
TN Code § 54-12-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-201. Appointment of Commissioners — Qualifications

 When the road improvement district has been located and established as provided for in part 1 of this chapter, the monthly county court shall appoint three (3) commissioners, one (1) of whom shall be a competent civil engineer and two (2) of whom shall be freeholders of the county not living within the road improvement district and not interested in the road improvement district, or in a like question, nor related to any party whose land is affected.
TN Code § 54-12-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-202. Oath of Commissioners — Classification of Lands on Graduated Scale of Benefits

 The commissioners shall, as soon as practicable after their appointment, and after being duly sworn to perform their duties faithfully and impartially to the best of their abilities, inspect and classify all the lands benefited by the location and construction of the drainage or levee district in a graduated scale of benefits, naming the tract or tracts of each owner and so classifying the tract or tracts, each tract to be numbered according to the benefit received, as provided in §§ 54-12-204 and 54-12-205 by the proposed improvement.
TN Code § 54-12-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts|Part 2 - Commissioners and Apportionment of Costs|§ 54-12-203. Commissioners Shall Equitably Apportion and Assess Costs — Report in Writing

 The commissioners shall make an equitable apportionment and assessment of the costs, expenses, cost of construction, fees, and damages assessed for the construction of any improvement, and make a report in writing to the monthly county court.