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.
Structure 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
§ 69-5-302. Oath — Classification of Tracts
§ 69-5-303. Compensation of Viewers, Commissioners, and Helpers
§ 69-5-304. Apportionment of Costs — Report
§ 69-5-305. Scale and Classification as Basis of Assessment
§ 69-5-306. Division Into Tracts and Classification of Subdivisions
§ 69-5-307. Description of Land — Objection to Assessment and Apportionment — Notice
§ 69-5-309. Objections to Apportionment and Assessments — Hearings
§ 69-5-310. Additional Assessments
§ 69-5-311. New Report May Be Ordered and New Commissioners Appointed
§ 69-5-312. Levy Upon Lands of Benefited Owners — Ratio — Funds Kept Separate — Disbursement