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TN Code § 69-5-128 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-128. Special Assessment — Collection by Other Counties

 However, if the district sought to be created embraces lands lying in more than one (1) county, the clerk of the county in which the petition was filed, and the matter is pending, will make out the assessment list or book for the entire district, and shall then copy so much of the assessment roll or book, as contains the assessments on lands in any county other than the county where the petition was filed, and the matter is pending, and certify under seal that it is a correct copy of that part or portion of such roll or book, and transmit or deliver it to the trustee of such other county, and take a receipt for the same, and collect the same, and pay over the amount collected to the clerk of the county where the petition was filed and the matter is pending.
TN Code § 69-5-129 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-129. Special Assessment Constitutes Lien

 The assessment so made shall be a lien upon the respective tracts of land upon which it is assessed, and this lien shall be enforced in the same manner as provided for the enforcement of liens in §§ 69-5-819 — 69-5-823.
TN Code § 69-5-130 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-130. Special Assessments — Bonds of County Trustee and County Clerk — Procedure Not to Delay Other Proceedings

 The county trustee, or trustees, before receiving the assessment roll, or book, and proceeding to the collection of the assessments, and the county clerk, before receiving the funds from the trustee or trustees, shall, respectively, enter into a bond in double the amount that will come into their hands, respectively, payable to the state of Tennessee, and conditioned for the faithful paying over and accounting for the funds arising from the assessment; provided, that this proceeding to create a fund for the payment of the cost and expenses shall not interfere with or delay the other proceedings.
TN Code § 69-5-131 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-131. Payment of Preliminary Expenses — Methods of Refunding

 The preliminary expenses of such district, ditch, drain, or watercourse improvement, not including contracts for construction, may be paid by order of the county legislative body of the county in which the lands lie of such improvement district out of the general county fund, and, if so paid, to be refunded to the county out of assessments collected from the lands of such improvement district when so collected, and if not so repaid, for any reason, then to be adjudged against and collected out of the bond of the petitioners required by § 69-5-103, and thus repaid to the county.
TN Code § 69-5-132 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-132. Preliminary Expenses — Contribution by County

 The county legislative body has the right to contribute, out of the general county fund, such amount as it sees fit to be used in the payment of such preliminary expenses, without requiring the same to be paid back or refunded to the county; and where any county has previously, by order of the county legislative body, advanced or paid any of the preliminary expenses, the county legislative body may, if it sees fit, by proper order donate the amount, or any part thereof, and not require the amount so donated or contributed to be paid back or refunded to the county.
TN Code § 69-5-133 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-133. Expense Fund May Be Required, or Judgment Rendered on Bond

 If the county legislative body does not see fit to order such preliminary expenses so paid, and the parties to whom such expenses may be owing are not willing to agree to wait until a fund for their payment can be provided by special assessments upon such district, then the county court by proper order shall require the petitioner or petitioners to pay to the county clerk a fund sufficient to pay such preliminary expenses, and the bond required of petitioners by § 69-5-103 shall be liable for such preliminary expenses, and judgment on the bond may be rendered at any time by the county court to the end such fund for expenses be provided, just as courts render judgments on cost bonds, and one such judgment shall not prevent other judgments on the same bond, so the sum of the judgments does not exceed the penalty of the bond.
TN Code § 69-5-134 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-134. Expense Fund Paid From Time to Time

 Such fund for expenses may be paid in from time to time, under the orders of the court, as may be needed.
TN Code § 69-5-135 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-135. Payment of Expense Fund to Be Refunded Out of District Funds

 All sums so paid by the petitioners or their sureties on their bonds shall be refunded and repaid to the person or persons so paying them out of the funds of such improvement district when such funds have been realized under this chapter.
TN Code § 69-5-136 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-136. Establishment or Refusal of District

 The 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 proceed to 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. If the court finds that such levee or drainage or improvement district would not be for the public benefit or utility, or conducive to the public health or welfare, it shall dismiss the proceedings; but if the court finds such improvement conducive to the public health or welfare, or to the public benefit or utility, it shall determine and adjudge the necessity for the improvement of such district, and if no claim for damages has been filed, as provided in § 69-5-201, the court may, if deemed advisable, locate and establish the district, or may refuse to establish the same, as the court may deem best.
TN Code § 69-5-137 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-137. Survey After District Established — Estimate of Costs — Report of Engineer — Replacement of Engineer

 After the district is established by the county court, and all damages paid or secured as provided in part 2 of this chapter, if the county court is of 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 the purpose, to make a further and more complete survey and estimates of such 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 improvement will be upon each tract of land, as nearly as practicable, giving definite estimates as to cost and character of work, and dividing the work into convenient sections for making contracts, and giving such other particulars as the court may see fit to direct. The report of such engineer shall be made and filed with the county clerk without unreasonable delay. If such engineer fails to act with reasonable promptness, the court may remove the engineer and appoint another in the engineer's stead.
TN Code § 69-5-138 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-138. Notice of Hearing on Establishment of District

  Publication in a newspaper published in the county where the petition is filed and proceeding is pending, for two (2) consecutive weeks, of the time and place set for the hearing of the petition to establish such district, shall be sufficient notice to the persons concerned as owners, lienholders, encumbrancers, mortgagees, occupants, or in any way, whether residents or nonresidents of the state, the last publication to be at least ten (10) days before the date set for such hearing. Such notice by publication shall have the same force and effect upon those concerned who are not petitioners, and who are residents of the state, as well as nonresidents, for all purposes of the proceeding, as process would have duly issued from the court and served personally upon them by an officer. Such publication notice need not give the names of the persons thus 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 the hearing. If the proposed district is to embrace lands in more than one (1) county, if established, such publication shall be made in one (1) newspaper published in each of the counties.   Subsection (a) is not intended to repeal any portion of this chapter, and shall not be so construed, but is intended to furnish an additional method of proceeding to bring the parties concerned before the court in proceedings seeking to establish drainage, or drainage and levee, districts, and to give petitioners the option of whether they will proceed under such other provisions of this chapter or under subsection (a) in giving notice to the parties concerned of such hearing, and in bringing them before the court.
TN Code § 69-5-139 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-139. Petitioners' Names May Be Signed by Attorney or Agent

 It shall be a sufficient signing, in the sense of this chapter, of the names of petitioners to the petitions provided for in this part, if their names are signed by their attorney at law or by an agent authorized so to do.
TN Code § 69-5-140 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-140. Drainage Record Book

 In any county where a district is sought to be established, the county clerk shall provide a book to be known as the “drainage record,” to be paid for by the county, and the clerk shall keep in the drainage record book a full and complete record of all proceedings in each case arising under this chapter, including all orders made by the county court, and certified from the circuit court, and a copy of the original petition shall be enrolled in the drainage record, all bonds required to be given. All orders and judgments of the county court touching any matter of the district may be entered upon the drainage record book, without being entered upon the regular minute book, but it shall be sufficient if such orders or judgments are entered either upon the drainage record or the regular minute book of the court.
TN Code § 69-5-141 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-141. Fees of Clerk

 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 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 or proceeding.
TN Code § 69-5-142 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-142. Compensation Fixed by County Court

 If there are any services required of any person under this chapter, and the rate of pay for those services is not provided for by this chapter, then the county courts shall fix the amount or rate of pay in such cases.
TN Code § 69-5-143 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-143. Reelfoot Lake and Big Hatchie River Excepted

 This chapter is not intended to apply to Reelfoot Lake or Big Hatchie River and the waters of such lake or river, or to authorize their draining, and this chapter shall not be construed in any way to authorize the draining of such lake or river or its bottom lands; provided, that dredge boats may be permitted to excavate as far north as, but no farther than, what is known as “Three Bridges” in the fifth civil district of Obion County and the fourth civil district of Lake County.
TN Code § 69-5-144 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-144. Authority to Cooperate With Other Agencies

 Any drainage district or districts, in addition to the authority that it now has, shall also be authorized to cooperate and contract with persons, firms, associations, partnerships and private corporations, and with other watershed districts, drainage districts, conservation districts, levee districts, counties, cities, quasi- municipalities, utility districts, and other similar corporations or agencies of this state, and with any such districts or agencies organized for similar purposes in any adjoining state, and with other local, state, and federal agencies, including, but not limited to, the Tennessee department of agriculture, the department of environment and conservation, Tennessee Valley authority, corps of army engineers, the secretary of defense, United States department of agriculture, or any other federal agency; to enter into cooperative contracts and agreements with any such districts, corporations or agencies; and to exercise all the powers and receive all benefits relating to watershed districts prescribed in 83 P.L. 566, 68 Stat. 666, or any other act of congress.
TN Code § 69-5-145 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 1 - Establishment and General Provisions|§ 69-5-145. Abolishment of Drainage Districts — Separate Account for District Funds

  Any drainage district created pursuant to this chapter may be abolished by resolution of the county legislative body at any time the district has completed the projects for which such district was created. Any funds of the district necessary to fund the obligations of the district, to maintain such projects or to pay any indebtedness incurred pursuant to this chapter or otherwise shall be placed in a separate account by the county and shall remain in such account until expended to pay such maintenance, obligations or indebtedness. Any other funds remaining in the accounts of the district shall be transferred to the county general fund to be appropriated by the county legislative body.   This section applies to all drainage districts created prior to or after April 22, 1997, pursuant to this chapter or any other public or private act.
TN Code § 69-5-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-201. Claims Must Be Filed or Waived — Guardian or Conservator

 Any person claiming damages as compensation for the construction of a levee, ditch, drain, or watercourse improvement shall file the 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 such claim at the time specified shall be held to have waived such rights; provided, that if such person be an infant and without regular guardian, or an infant or person adjudicated incompetent and such guardian or conservator has not been notified of the proceeding as provided for notice, and the facts are made to appear by affidavit, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for such person, who may file such claim for damages, if deemed proper, for the person within the time above allowed or within three (3) days after being so appointed.
TN Code § 69-5-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-202. District Not to Be Established Until Assessment of Damages — Viewers — Duty of Engineer

 If any claims for damages have been filed, the 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 such 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 county court shall accompany the viewers and furnish such information as may be called for by them concerning the survey of the improvement.
TN Code § 69-5-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-203. Damages Fixed by Viewers — Report

 The viewers appointed to assess damages, after being duly sworn to act impartially and faithfully to the best of their ability, 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 the proposed improvement.
TN Code § 69-5-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-204. Report to Be Promptly Filed — Substitute Viewers

 The report of the viewers shall be filed as soon as practicable. If any one of them fails or refuses to act, for any reason, or does not proceed to act with promptness, the court may appoint another as a viewer in that viewer's place.
TN Code § 69-5-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-205. Method of Estimating Damages

 In estimating 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 owner by reason of the proposed improvement may be taken into consideration in estimating the incidental damages.
TN Code § 69-5-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-206. Damages to Be Considered Before Establishing District — Damage Awards

 After the filing of the report of the viewers, the court shall consider the amount of damages awarded in deciding whether such levee or drainage district should be established, and 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, welfare, benefit, or utility, then the court shall locate and establish such drainage or levee district by proper judgment to be entered of record, and the court shall thereupon proceed to determine the amount of damages sustained by each claimant, and may hear evidence in respect to damages, and may increase or diminish the amount awarded by the viewers, as may seem just and right.
TN Code § 69-5-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-207. Damages to Be Paid or Secured by Parties Benefited by Such District

 After the amount of damages due any claimant or claimants has been finally ascertained and fixed by the county court, the court shall require the amount of all such damages to be paid, in the first instance, by the parties benefited by the levee or drainage district, or be secured, to be paid upon such terms and conditions as the county court may deem just and proper.
TN Code § 69-5-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-208. Entry of Condemnation Order

 After damages have been paid, or secured as provided in § 69-5-207, the county court shall enter a proper order of condemnation showing all such lands are appropriated and belong to such drainage or levee district for all its necessary purposes.
TN Code § 69-5-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 2 - Damages|§ 69-5-209. Power of Condemnation — Extent of Appropriation

 In establishing any such district, all necessary lands may be appropriated as provided in this chapter, and a right-of-way as much as two hundred feet (200') wide may be so appropriated, if deemed necessary, for the situs and location of any ditch or drain, or for the location of a new route or channel for any natural watercourse for the whole way or parts of the way of its course. The natural bed of any watercourse in such district may, insofar as it may be utilized and necessary, be so appropriated to the end that such bed or channel may be cleaned out, deepened, or widened; but the provision in this section as to the width of such right-of-way shall not prevent the county court from ordering appropriated such other lands as may be deemed necessary for the purposes of such improvement district under this chapter.
TN Code § 69-5-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-301. Commissioners — Appointment — Qualifications

 When the district, or other improvement provided for, has been located and established as provided for in part 1 of this chapter, the county court shall appoint three (3) or five (5) commissioners as may be determined by the county court, 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 levee or drainage district, and not interested in the district, or in a like question, nor related to any party whose land is affected thereby.
TN Code § 69-5-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees|Chapter 5 - Drainage and Levee Districts|Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments|§ 69-5-302. Oath — Classification of Tracts

 The commissioners shall, as soon as practicable after their appointment, and after being duly sworn to perform their duty faithfully and impartially to the best of their ability, inspect and classify all the lands benefited by the location and construction of such drainage or levee district in a graduated scale of benefits, naming the tract or tracts of each owner and so classifying the same, each tract to be numbered according to the benefit received, as provided in § 69-5-305, by the proposed improvement.