Tennessee · Statutes
Chapter 12
126 sections
126 sections
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-101Power to establish road improvement districts
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-102Body exercising jurisdiction of former monthly county court
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-103Petition for road improvement district
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-104Bond for costs and expenses - Increase in penalty or security
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-105Road improvement district confined to boundaries of county
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-106Petitioners may employ counsel in preliminary matters - Compensation for services, fixing
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-107Committee for petitioners in preliminary matters in establishing district - Compensation
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-108Contents of petition - Hearing - Publication for landowner defendants
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-109Objections, filing - Assessment for preliminary costs and expenses - Decree
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-110Appeal from decision
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-111Collection dates fixed upon assessment being made - Assessment list certified to trustee to collect - Compensation
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-112Lien for assessment - Enforcement
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-113Bonds of trustee and clerk
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-114Proceeding for cost and expense fund not to delay other proceedings - Sixty percent acreage provision
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-115Preliminary expenses may be paid by order of county legislative body - Refund out of assessments or bonds of petitioners
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-116Contributions or donations of preliminary expenses or parts of expenses without requiring refund
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-117Petitioners required to pay preliminary expenses - Judgment on their bond
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-118Fund for expenses may be paid as needed
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-119Refund to petitioners and their sureties paying preliminary expenses
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-120Engineer
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-121Compensation of engineers
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-122Engineer to survey and locate roads and improvements
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-123Engineer's return - Contents
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-124Recalling engineer and appointing another
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-125Survey and location of roads along general course of present roads - Exception
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-126Engineer to submit itemized expense account or do work for stipulated sum
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-127Expediency of plan - Determination by court - Submission of second plan
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-128Summons or writ issued - Served upon whom
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-129Service of writ - Acknowledgement
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-130Publication for nonresidents, or those whose names or residences are unknown
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-131Writ or publication need not state contents of petition or its prayer
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-132Adjournment until notice given - Jurisdiction not lost - Appearance without formal answer
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-133Claim for damages to be filed - Guardian or conservator ad litem appointed for persons under disability
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-134Sufficiency of petition determined - Amendment of petition - District allowed or refused - If no claim for damages, district located and established
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-135Further examination and report by engineer ordered - Hearing continued until filing of report
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-136Claims for damages prevent establishment of district until viewers appointed - Qualifications - Engineer to accompany viewers and give them information
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-137Viewers upon being sworn to view premises, fix damages and report
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-138Report of viewers to be filed promptly - Others appointed upon failure to act
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-139Value of land - Incidental benefits considered in estimating incidental damages
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-140Damages awarded considered in establishing district - Location and establishment - Damages determined
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-141Appeal from decision establishing district or allowing damages - Appeal bond
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-142Appeal from order establishing or refusing to establish district, and penalty of appeal bond - Damages on appeal bond
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-143Appeal bond signed for all petitioner appellants by a designated petitioner - Surety on bond required - Pauper's oath not allowed
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-144Appeal from award of damages will not prevent appropriation and condemnation of land, if petitioners give bond
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-145Appeal heard de novo by circuit court that enters no judgment but enters amount fixed - Clerk certifies to monthly county court
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-146Circuit court order entered - Certified to monthly county court
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-147Appellants as plaintiffs in circuit court - Consolidation of damage cases - One transcript in several appeals
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-148Costs in discretion of circuit court
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-149Trial with or without a jury in circuit court
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-150Damages fixed shall be paid or secured - Manner of payment
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-151Condemnation after damages are paid or secured
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-152Appropriation of right-of-way, and of other necessary lands
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-153Engineer or another appointee directed to make more complete survey and estimate of cost of improvement
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-154Publication - Requisites - Effect
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-155Intent of Section 54-12-154
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-156Road improvement record book - Maintenance by county clerk - Contents - Entries made in regular minute book
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-157Fees of county clerk - Allowance for extra services
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-158Compensation and expenses of viewers, commissioners, and of helpers
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-159Compensation to be fixed by monthly county court where no provision made
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-201Appointment of commissioners - Qualifications
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-202Oath of commissioners - Classification of lands on graduated scale of benefits
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-203Commissioners shall equitably apportion and assess costs - Report in writing
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-204Classification according to percentage of benefits - Remains basis unless revised
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-205Subdivision and classification of body of land in one owner
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-206Description and ownership of lands specified in reports
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-207Objections to assessment and apportionment - Filing
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-208Assessment made without notice
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-209Publication of hearing assessments and apportionments
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-210District in more than one county - Manner and times of publication
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-211Determination of all objections to report and questions of apportionment and assessments - Failure to benefit cannot be shown
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-212Additional assessments, if first insufficient
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-213New report ordered and new commissioners when report annulled or set aside
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-214Levy of assessments - Collected as other taxes - Paid out on county warrant
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-215Special assessment to pay costs and expenses
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-216Special assessment, collection - Delinquencies - Compensation of trustee
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-217Fund for payment of costs and expenses
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-218Trustee to pay collections over to county clerk who shall pay to parties entitled under orders of court
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-219Bonds required of trustee and county clerk
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-220Appeal from order fixing assessment of benefits within five days - Other provisions applicable
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-221Appellant from order fixing assessment of benefits shall give appeal bond, and not pauper's oath
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-222Appeal does not prevent collection of assessments, if appellant is indemnified by bond
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-223Indemnity bond - Execution
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-224Counsel employed for district on trial in appellate court - Payment
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-225If any assessment cannot be enforced, assessments and apportionments shall be made as if never made - Lands not assessed will be assessed - Validity not affected
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-301Directors to be appointed for district - Qualifications - Terms - Duties and powers
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-302Vacancy, filling - Removal of director - Appeal from order of removal - Appeal bond - Hearing anew in circuit court - Appointment of another
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-303Successors of directors - Appointment
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-304Organization of board - Bond of treasurer
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-305Compensation and expenses of directors
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-306Contracts for improvements not to be made until after inspection, classifications, apportionment, and assessment of benefits
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-307Publication of notice of letting work of construction or improvement
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-308Contracts for sections of work or the whole may be let to the lowest responsible bidder - Rejection of bids and readvertisement
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-309Deposit of bidders required
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-310Bond or cash deposit required of successful bidders
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-311Engineer employed to supervise construction of improvement work - Compensation - Removal, and contract with another
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-312Bond required of engineer
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-313Compensation of engineers
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-314Contractor paid on basis of eighty percent of engineer's monthly estimate of amount of work done
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-315Warrant to contractor for balance due on completion of work
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-12-316Warrants drawn as ordinary warrants, but payable only out of improvement fund, and so stated upon their face