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2015 Tennessee Code
Title 54 - Highways, Bridges And Ferries
Chapter 12 - Road Improvement Districts
Part 1 - Establishment
- § 54-12-101 - Power to establish road improvement districts.
- § 54-12-102 - Body exercising jurisdiction of former monthly county court.
- § 54-12-103 - Petition for road improvement district.
- § 54-12-104 - Bond for costs and expenses -- Increase in penalty or security.
- § 54-12-105 - Road improvement district confined to boundaries of county.
- § 54-12-106 - Petitioners may employ counsel in preliminary matters -- Compensation for services, fixing.
- § 54-12-107 - Committee for petitioners in preliminary matters in establishing district -- Compensation.
- § 54-12-108 - Contents of petition -- Hearing -- Publication for landowner defendants.
- § 54-12-109 - Objections, filing -- Assessment for preliminary costs and expenses -- Decree.
- § 54-12-110 - Appeal from decision.
- § 54-12-111 - Collection dates fixed upon assessment being made -- Assessment list certified to trustee to collect -- Compensation.
- § 54-12-112 - Lien for assessment -- Enforcement.
- § 54-12-113 - Bonds of trustee and clerk.
- § 54-12-114 - Proceeding for cost and expense fund not to delay other proceedings -- Sixty percent acreage provision.
- § 54-12-115 - Preliminary expenses may be paid by order of county legislative body -- Refund out of assessments or bonds of petitioners.
- § 54-12-116 - Contributions or donations of preliminary expenses or parts of expenses without requiring refund.
- § 54-12-117 - Petitioners required to pay preliminary expenses -- Judgment on their bond.
- § 54-12-118 - Fund for expenses may be paid as needed.
- § 54-12-119 - Refund to petitioners and their sureties paying preliminary expenses.
- § 54-12-120 - Engineer.
- § 54-12-121 - Compensation of engineers.
- § 54-12-122 - Engineer to survey and locate roads and improvements.
- § 54-12-123 - Engineer's return -- Contents.
- § 54-12-124 - Recalling engineer and appointing another.
- § 54-12-125 - Survey and location of roads along general course of present roads -- Exception.
- § 54-12-126 - Engineer to submit itemized expense account or do work for stipulated sum.
- § 54-12-127 - Expediency of plan -- Determination by court -- Submission of second plan.
- § 54-12-128 - Summons or writ issued -- Served upon whom.
- § 54-12-129 - Service of writ -- Acknowledgement.
- § 54-12-130 - Publication for nonresidents, or those whose names or residences are unknown.
- § 54-12-131 - Writ or publication need not state contents of petition or its prayer.
- § 54-12-132 - Adjournment until notice given -- Jurisdiction not lost -- Appearance without formal answer.
- § 54-12-133 - Claim for damages to be filed -- Guardian or conservator ad litem appointed for persons under disability.
- § 54-12-134 - Sufficiency of petition determined -- Amendment of petition -- District allowed or refused -- If no claim for damages, district located and established.
- § 54-12-135 - Further examination and report by engineer ordered -- Hearing continued until filing of report.
- § 54-12-136 - Claims for damages prevent establishment of district until viewers appointed -- Qualifications -- Engineer to accompany viewers and give them information.
- § 54-12-137 - Viewers upon being sworn to view premises, fix damages and report.
- § 54-12-138 - Report of viewers to be filed promptly -- Others appointed upon failure to act.
- § 54-12-139 - Value of land -- Incidental benefits considered in estimating incidental damages.
- § 54-12-140 - Damages awarded considered in establishing district -- Location and establishment -- Damages determined.
- § 54-12-141 - Appeal from decision establishing district or allowing damages -- Appeal bond.
- § 54-12-142 - Appeal from order establishing or refusing to establish district, and penalty of appeal bond -- Damages on appeal bond.
- § 54-12-143 - Appeal bond signed for all petitioner appellants by a designated petitioner -- Surety on bond required -- Pauper's oath not allowed.
- § 54-12-144 - Appeal from award of damages will not prevent appropriation and condemnation of land, if petitioners give bond.
- § 54-12-145 - Appeal heard de novo by circuit court that enters no judgment but enters amount fixed -- Clerk certifies to monthly county court.
- § 54-12-146 - Circuit court order entered -- Certified to monthly county court.
- § 54-12-147 - Appellants as plaintiffs in circuit court -- Consolidation of damage cases -- One transcript in several appeals.
- § 54-12-148 - Costs in discretion of circuit court.
- § 54-12-149 - Trial with or without a jury in circuit court.
- § 54-12-150 - Damages fixed shall be paid or secured -- Manner of payment.
- § 54-12-151 - Condemnation after damages are paid or secured.
- § 54-12-152 - Appropriation of right-of-way, and of other necessary lands.
- § 54-12-153 - Engineer or another appointee directed to make more complete survey and estimate of cost of improvement.
- § 54-12-154 - Publication -- Requisites -- Effect.
- § 54-12-155 - Intent of ยง 54-12-154.
- § 54-12-156 - Road improvement record book -- Maintenance by county clerk -- Contents -- Entries made in regular minute book.
- § 54-12-157 - Fees of county clerk -- Allowance for extra services.
- § 54-12-158 - Compensation and expenses of viewers, commissioners, and of helpers.
- § 54-12-159 - Compensation to be fixed by monthly county court where no provision made.
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