2021 Tennessee Code
Part 1 - Establishment
§ 54-12-117. Petitioners Required to Pay Preliminary Expenses — Judgment on Their Bond

If the county legislative body should not see fit to order the preliminary expenses be paid, and the parties to whom the expenses are owing are not willing to agree to wait until a fund for their payment can be provided by special assessments upon the district, then the county legislative body, by proper order, shall require the petitioner to pay to the county clerk a fund sufficient to pay the preliminary expenses, and the bond required of petitioners by this part shall be liable for the preliminary expenses, and judgment on the bonds may be rendered at any time by the county legislative body to the end the fund for expenses be provided, just as the county legislative body renders judgment on cost bonds, and one (1) judgment shall not prevent other judgments on the same bond, so the sum of the judgments does not exceed the penalty of the bond.

Structure 2021 Tennessee Code

2021 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

§ 54-12-105. Road Improvement District Confined to Boundaries of County

§ 54-12-111. Collection Dates Fixed Upon Assessment Being Made — Assessment List Certified to Trustee to Collect — Compensation

§ 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

§ 54-12-117. 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

§ 54-12-129. Service of Writ — Acknowledgement

§ 54-12-131. Writ or Publication Need Not State Contents of Petition or Its Prayer

§ 54-12-133. Claim for Damages to Be Filed — Guardian or Conservator Ad Litem Appointed for Persons Under Disability

§ 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

§ 54-12-144. 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

§ 54-12-148. 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

§ 54-12-155. Intent of § 54-12-154

§ 54-12-157. Fees of County Clerk — Allowance for Extra Services

§ 54-12-159. Compensation to Be Fixed by Monthly County Court Where No Provision Made