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TN Code § 69-5-828 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-828. Attorney's Fee Fixed and Charged on Land

 In proceedings in chancery court pursuant to this part, the attorney or solicitor employed and attending to the suit shall be allowed as a fee ten percent (10%) of the amount found due as an assessment or assessments on each tract of land decreed sold, which fee shall be charged up in the decree as part of the judgment for which the land is to be sold.
TN Code § 69-5-829 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-829. Decree Upon Redemption — Writ of Possession

 When such lands are redeemed, and this fact is made satisfactorily to appear to the chancery court, the court shall enter a decree in the cause, adjudging the land so redeemed and declaring it to be the property of the owner so redeeming, or of the owner's heirs or assigns, if redeemed by the owner's heirs or assigns; and if necessary may award a writ of possession to put the person so redeeming in possession of the land.
TN Code § 69-5-830 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-830. Redemption After Restoration of Competency

 Infants and persons adjudicated incompetent have the further period of one (1) year after the restoration of competency in which to redeem their lands sold under §§ 69-5-819 — 69-5-829 and other sections of this chapter, under like terms as to amounts to be paid, in redemption, as provided in this part.
TN Code § 69-5-831 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-831. Proceedings in Accordance With Chancery Procedure

 All proceedings referred to in part 4 of this chapter and authorized to correct errors, or to prorate assessments, when parts of any tract of land have been sold at voluntary sale as provided in § 69-5-815, or when any of the lands encumbered with such assessments have been sold, for the collection of the assessments, as the result of the proceedings authorized by this part, whether in the county court or the chancery court, shall be conducted according to the rules of chancery proceedings.
TN Code § 69-5-832 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-832. Assessments Collectible Out of Assessed Lands Only

 The assessments shall, if not paid by the owners of the land assessed, be collected only out of the land so assessed for improvement purposes, and shall not be collected, by distress warrant or otherwise, out of any other property, real or personal, of the owners of the land so assessed.
TN Code § 69-5-833 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-833. Excessive Assessments of Acreage — Correction

 When it appears that any tract of land within any drainage district has been assessed with fifteen percent (15%) or more excess acreage, the owner of any such tract of land may by bill filed against the district and directors have the mistake corrected and the assessment changed, and the chancery court shall in the decree correcting the mistake determine whether it is necessary for the district to levy a special assessment to meet the deficiency caused by the correction of the mistake. If a special assessment is needed, the chancery court shall determine its amount, and the directors are authorized to, and shall, as soon as any such cause is determined, proceed to levy such special assessment, and it shall be spread upon the tax books and collected as other assessments.
TN Code § 69-5-834 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-834. Fiscal Agent — Purchase by District of Lands Sold for Delinquency

 To assist in the keeping of the tax books, the collection of taxes, the remitting of funds to pay maturing bonds and coupons, and to be of such other service in the general management of the affairs of the district as may be determined, the board of drainage directors has authority to appoint a fiscal agent of such district. Any drainage district may purchase any lands sold within the district to pay the delinquent assessment on the lands, if the board of directors deems it advisable to do so, and the board of directors may sell such land so bought and make a good deed to the land.
TN Code § 69-5-835 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-835. County Trustee's Compensation

 For collecting and paying out the assessments under this chapter, the county trustee shall receive as compensation two percent (2%) on all amounts paid out by the trustee, and for any certified statements furnished by the trustee, the same fees per one hundred (100) words as are allowed clerks of courts for certified copies of records.
TN Code § 69-5-836 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 8 - Levy and Collection of Assessments|§ 69-5-836. Bond of County Trustee

 The bonds of the county trustee binding the trustee to account for state and county taxes shall be liable for assessments collected under this chapter.
TN Code § 69-5-901 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-901. County May Issue and Sell Drainage Bonds

 If the county legislative body determines that the estimated cost of reclamation and improvement of the district of land or levee or drainage district is greater than should be levied in a single year upon the lands benefited, it may fix the amount that shall be levied and collected each year, and may issue drainage bonds of the county, bearing interest payable semiannually, and may devote such bonds at par, with accrued interest, to the payment of the expenses and work as it progresses, or may sell the bonds at not less than par, with accrued interest, and devote the proceeds to such payment, and if, in the sale of the bonds, a premium is received, such premium shall be credited to the drainage fund. If the cost of such work exceeds the estimate, a new apportionment of the assessment may be made and levied and other bonds issued and sold in like manner, but in no case shall the bonds run longer than twenty (20) years.
TN Code § 69-5-902 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-902. Payment of Assessments Before Issuance of Bonds

 Any property owner may pay the full amount of the benefit assessed against that person's property before the bonds are issued and receive a receipt in full for that amount. Such payment shall be made to the county trustee; it is the duty of the county clerk to certify to the trustee the amount of any such assessment when requested to do so, and the trustee shall enter the amount upon the assessment lists in the trustee's hands in a separate place provided for the assessment, and shall furnish the clerk with duplicate receipts given for all assessments so paid in full, one (1) of which the clerk shall deliver to the county mayor. The trustee shall also give a receipt to the property owner so paying in full.
TN Code § 69-5-903 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-903. Terms of Bonds — Signing — District to Be Indicated

 The terms and times of payment of the bonds so issued shall be fixed by the board of directors of the improvement district, and such bonds shall be signed by the county mayor and countersigned by the clerk of the county, each of the officers signing officially, and shall be verified either by the county seal or seal of the county clerk. Such bonds shall be issued for the benefit of the district numbered on the bonds, and each district shall be numbered by the county court and recorded by the county clerk in the drainage record, the record showing specifically the lands embraced in that district and upon which the assessment has not been previously paid in full.
TN Code § 69-5-904 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-904. Bonds a Charge on Land in District Only

 Each bond shall show expressly upon its face that it is to be paid only by assessments levied and collected on the lands within the district so designated and numbered, and for the benefit of which district such bond is issued. No assessment shall be levied or collected for the payment of such bond or bonds, or the interest on the bond or bonds, on any property, real or personal, outside the district so numbered, designated, and benefited.
TN Code § 69-5-905 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-905. Denominations of Bonds

 The bonds shall be in denominations of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00).
TN Code § 69-5-906 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-906. Multi-County Districts — Issuance and Payment of Bonds

 When a district lies in more than one (1) county, the county court of each county shall so determine whether bonds shall be issued to meet the expenses, of the improvement so far as the lands of the district lie in that county; and, if so issued, the bonds shall be signed by the county mayor of such county, and countersigned by the county clerk, and verified by the county seal or seal of the county clerk, and shall be payable only out of the assessments levied for such improvement on the lands in such county, as provided by this part when such district is wholly in one (1) county.
TN Code § 69-5-907 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-907. Payment in Installments — Bond to Secure Installments

 In the sale of drainage bonds, the directors of the district, if in their judgment it is expedient, may contract with the purchasers of the bonds that the payment for the bonds may be made in such installments as may be agreed upon between them and the purchasers of the bonds; provided, that the payments of the installments agreed upon, as they mature, are amply secured by safe and solvent bond, made in double the amount of the entire deferred installments, payable to the state of Tennessee, for the use and benefit of the district and those entitled, and conditioned for the faithful payment of the installments, such bond to be approved by the unanimous vote of the board of directors of the district before the bond is accepted. The bond and a copy of the resolution of the board of directors approving them shall, on the order of the county court, be spread of record on the drainage record book, and the approval of the board of directors noted on the bond by the secretary of the board writing the word “approval” and signing “board of directors” by the secretary as secretary, or other equivalent words.
TN Code § 69-5-908 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-908. Bond of County Trustee

 Whenever bonds of such districts are issued and sold under this chapter, or long-time warrants, as provided for by § 69-5-909, are issued and sold, then the county trustee, before receiving such money, shall give bond, to be approved as the trustee's other bonds are approved in double the amount of the money to go into the trustee's hands from the sale of such bonds, or warrants, payable to the state, and conditioned that the trustee faithfully account for all such money; and if the trustee fails to execute such bond, it shall be a misdemeanor in office, for which the trustee may be removed from office; and such bond shall be recorded in the drainage record book, and the original filed with and preserved by the county clerk.
TN Code § 69-5-909 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-909. Warrants Issued Instead of Bonds

 If the board of directors of any improvement district deems best, instead of issuing bonds, it may direct that warrants shall be issued or drawn on such district, or on the county trustee, by the county mayor, to be paid out of the funds of such district only, and at such times as the assessments may be due, or as may be deemed best, the time of the maturity of assessments as fixed being considered, such warrants to be issued or drawn for all lawful demands on such district, and to bear interest at not more than six percent (6%) per annum.
TN Code § 69-5-910 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-910. Surplus Funds From Sale of Bonds or Warrants

 When, in the making of any improvement in a district, bonds or warrants of such districts are sold for the purpose of providing funds for such improvement, any money is left from the proceeds of the sale after the improvement has been paid for, then in such cases the board of directors of such drainage district or drainage and levee district, with the approval of the county court of the county having jurisdiction of the cause, has the power to dispose of such surplus money by using such surplus funds for improving, if needed, the main improvement of the district, or for opening, making or improving such lateral drains or ditches in the district as may be deemed best, or such surplus funds and money may be used in paying all or in part any assessment made on the lands of the district and not yet collected, in which event such particular assessment, or part thereof, need not be collected. Alternately, such surplus of funds may be used in purchasing and retiring any of the bonds or warrants issued; provided, that they can be bought at not above par with any accrued interest on the bonds or warrants. The board of directors with the approval of the county court has the power to dispose of such surplus funds in any of the methods above set out that they and the court may deem best for such district, the court to concur, by its order or decree, in such disposition.
TN Code § 69-5-911 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-911. Prepayment of Deferred Installments

 Any landowner owning land, upon which there now exists special assessments levied by any drainage district organized under the laws of this state, has the option, upon any date upon which the landowner pays such special assessments, to pay all or any part of the unmatured amount assessed against the tract or tracts of land owned by the landowner; provided, that no rebate or reduction shall be made for unearned interest upon such assessments.
TN Code § 69-5-912 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-912. Payment of Assessments With Bonds or Coupons

 The bonds and/or interest coupons of the drainage district levying the assessment may be lawfully tendered to the trustee of the county in which the land lies by the person desiring to make such payments, and it is the duty of such trustee, to whom tender is made, to receive such bonds or coupons, or both, regardless of the date of maturity of such bonds or coupons, or both; to receive such bonds or coupons, or both, without deduction for maintenance, at par or face value, excluding interest upon past due coupons. Such payment, when so made, shall be as valid and complete a payment as though payment of such assessments had been made in cash. The trustee to whom payment is made may, at the trustee's option, require the commissions due and owing to the trustee by virtue of the trustee's collection of such assessments to be paid in cash instead of by bonds; but, where collection is made by a county trustee, other than by the trustee of the county where the district originates, then only one (1) trustee's fee can be collected and that fee must be paid to the trustee collecting the assessment. In cases where the coupons or bonds, or both, tendered by such person desiring to pay such taxes shall exceed in amount the assessments against such tract of land that the landowner is desirous of paying, the county trustee shall take into possession all of the coupons or bonds, or both, so tendered and, after computing the difference between the balance upon all such coupons or bonds, or both, and the assessment that it is proposed to pay, shall issue to the party paying such assessment a transferable credit memorandum, which credit memorandum may be used by such landowner or such landowner's assigns, in payment of any other drainage assessment due to the district in which payment is made.
TN Code § 69-5-913 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-913. Cancellation of Bonds Given to Pay Assessments — Interest Coupons — Suits to Collect Taxes

  Upon receipt of such coupons or bonds, or both, it is the duty of the county trustee to cancel them as now provided by law and to provide a record of such cancellation. If bonds tendered for payment contain interest coupons falling due beyond the date of maturity of the assessments that it is proposed to pay, then and in that event the county trustee shall not be required to receive such interest coupons in payment of these taxes. This does not apply, however, where both the assessment and coupons are past due; in this case, any past due coupons can be used to pay any or all assessments regardless of their due date.   Sections 69-5-911 — 69-5-914 do not apply where suits have been brought to collect taxes that are delinquent unless and until the costs and attorney's fees, if any, are paid into court or any other office where the case or cases are pending; such collection made with coupons or bonds, or both, must in turn be accepted by the county trustee in full settlement of the tax paid.
TN Code § 69-5-914 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-914. Multi-County Districts — Payment by Bond or Coupon

 Where a drainage district is situated in more than one (1) county, it is the duty of the trustee of any county in which such district lies to accept coupons or bonds, or both, issued by such district in settlement of assessments levied against lands embraced in that portion of the district located in the trustee's county. It is lawful for any coupons or bonds, or both, so accepted in payment of assessments to be used by the trustee of any county in making a full settlement with the trustee of the county in which the district originated, such accounting in coupons or bonds, or both, to be considered and handled in all respects as a cash transaction.
TN Code § 69-5-915 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-915. Single County Districts — Monthly Settlements by Trustees

 The county trustee of any county in which a drainage district has been organized under the laws of this state shall make monthly settlement with the county mayor of the county in which the district was organized, showing the drainage assessments collected during the month, giving date collected, tract number, name of owner, for what years assessments are paid, amount of assessments, interest and penalty, amount paid in cash, amount paid in bonds, coupons, or credit memorandums, and amount of credit memorandums issued during the month and still outstanding and to whom issued. The settlement shall also show what bonds, coupons or credit memorandums were received during the month in settlement of assessments and the date same were cancelled by the trustee. The settlement shall be filed with the county mayor as provided in this section, together with all cancelled bonds, coupons and credit memorandums, taking the county mayor's receipt for the settlement and, when approved by the county mayor, shall be copied on the drainage record book in the county clerk's office.
TN Code § 69-5-916 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-916. Multi-County Districts — Monthly Settlements by Trustees

 Where a drainage district is situated in more than one (1) county, it is the duty of the trustee of any county in which such district lies to make monthly settlement with the county mayor of the county in which the district was organized, as provided by § 69-5-915; provided, that all cash collections shall be paid to the trustee of the county in which the district was organized to be placed to the credit of the drainage district as now provided by law.
TN Code § 69-5-917 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-917. Disposition of Receipts — Maintenance or Administration Certificates

 After each monthly settlement has been filed and approved as provided in §§ 69-5-915 and 69-5-916, the board of directors of the drainage district shall ascertain what part or portion of the money, bonds, coupons, or credit memorandums were received for the preceding month, or prior to that time, on the maintenance or administration assessments, or both, and when so ascertained it shall certify the amount thereof to the county mayor, and the county legislative body is hereby given jurisdiction and authority, upon application of the board of directors, to make such disposition thereof as may seem just and equitable for the benefit and protection of the district and bondholders. The county legislative body may authorize the directors to issue and sell transferable maintenance or administration certificates, or both, against that portion or part of the bonds, coupons or credit memorandums belonging to the maintenance or administration fund as so ascertained by the directors and reported to the county mayor. The certificates, when so authorized, issued and sold, may be tendered to the trustee in settlement of drainage assessments of the district, and it is the duty of the trustee, to whom tender is made, to receive such certificates at face value in the same manner as now provided by law for paying assessments with coupons or bonds, or both.
TN Code § 69-5-918 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 9 - Bond Issues and Warrants|§ 69-5-918. Lien of Maintenance or Administration Certificates

 The maintenance or administration certificates, or both, when issued as provided in this part, shall constitute the same lien on the lands in the district, upon which assessments remain unpaid, as the unpaid coupons and bonds, and may be enforced in the same manner as now provided by law for enforcement of the lien of the coupons or bonds, or both.