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§ 51-31-1. Powers of drainage districts - Each drainage district heretofore organized in this state and each...
§ 51-31-3. Definitions - The terms "benefits" and "betterments," as used in this chapter...
§ 51-31-5. General authority of drainage districts - Drainage districts may hereafter be organized in this state under...
§ 51-31-7. Exercise of authority - All drainage districts of the state heretofore organized or that...
§ 51-31-9. Selection of county drainage commissioners - In every county in this state in which there is...
§ 51-31-11. Oath and bond of drainage commissioners - Each person selected county drainage commissioner shall, before entering upon...
§ 51-31-13. Compensation of commissioners - The commissioners each shall receive per diem compensation as provided...
§ 51-31-15. Quorum - A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum, and...
§ 51-31-17. Secretary and treasurer of drainage districts - After the organization of a drainage district, the commissioners shall...
§ 51-31-19. Employment of counsel - The drainage commissioners may employ an attorney to assist in...
§ 51-31-21. Creation of drainage districts on petition - Whenever a majority of the owners of lands within a...
§ 51-31-23. Jurisdiction of organization - Where the land to be included in a proposed drainage...
§ 51-31-25. Notice of petition - Upon the petition being filed in the office of the...
§ 51-31-27. Date of hearing - The chancery court in which such petition shall be filed...
§ 51-31-29. Hearing of petitions - Upon the day set for hearing said petition or a...
§ 51-31-31. Landowners may sign petition at hearing - At the time of the hearing of the petition for...
§ 51-31-33. Commissioners to estimate cost - As soon as may be after such petition shall be...
§ 51-31-35. Proceedings on report of commissioners - The commissioners shall also find and determine whether all of...
§ 51-31-37. Disposition of report - If upon the hearing of said report and of objections...
§ 51-31-39. Form of court's order - If, after hearing all objections, if any, to the report...
§ 51-31-41. District declared organized - Upon entering such order of record upon the minutes of...
§ 51-31-43. Preliminary expenses - All moneys that have been advanced or expended in good...
§ 51-31-45. Assessment roll - As soon as practicable after the entry of the order...
§ 51-31-47. Notice of assessments - When the commissioners shall have completed their assessments of damages...
§ 51-31-49. Hearing objections - The commissioners and landowners shall appear at the time and...
§ 51-31-51. Assessments confirmed - Any party in interest may appeal to the supreme court...
§ 51-31-53. Payment of assessments - At the time of confirming the assessments of benefits and...
§ 51-31-55. Right of way agreements - The commissioners shall also, as soon as said petition to...
§ 51-31-57. Notice of appraisement by commissioners - When the commissioners shall have made their appraisement of the...
§ 51-31-59. Appraisement hearing - If on the hearing by the court or chancellor in...
§ 51-31-61. Levy to provide estimated funds - Upon the organization of said districts as herein provided, and...
§ 51-31-63. Tax levied to meet assessment - On or before the first Monday of September of each...
§ 51-31-65. Levy each year to meet bond obligations - It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors...
§ 51-31-67. Reassessments in case of underestimates - If the court, chancellor, or drainage commissioners have underestimated the...
§ 51-31-69. Sale of district bonds - In case the drainage district shall issue bonds for any...
§ 51-31-71. Contracts let to lowest bidder - After the organization of any drainage district under this chapter,...
§ 51-31-73. Commissioners to construct and maintain drains - The commissioners may, after the organization of said district, do...
§ 51-31-75. Lateral ditches to be laid out - After the construction of said system of main ditches for...
§ 51-31-77. Actual damages recoverable - In case any damages shall be allowed to any landowner...
§ 51-31-79. Jurisdiction of drainage commissioners - Where the lands of any drainage district lie in two...
§ 51-31-81. Annual reports - At the end of the fiscal year after the organization...
§ 51-31-83. Commissioners may go on lands - The commissioners, from the time such petitions to organize a...
§ 51-31-85. Ditches already constructed may be used - In laying out such proposed work and drains and ditches,...
§ 51-31-87. Compensation for use of other district drains - After the organization of any drainage district under this chapter...
§ 51-31-89. Passing railroads with canal - If in the organization of any drainage district and thereafter...
§ 51-31-91. Notice and damages - When it shall become necessary, in the course of the...
§ 51-31-93. Railroad may be assessed for benefits - If, in the organization of any drainage district under this...
§ 51-31-95. Drain may cross public road - If in the construction of such ditches the same shall...
§ 51-31-97. Landowners outside of district may use drains - If the owner or owners of any lands lying outside...
§ 51-31-99. Reassessment if estimate deficient - If, after the first assessment of benefits, which it is...
§ 51-31-101. Penalty for injuring drains - Any person who shall wrongfully or purposely fill up, cut,...
§ 51-31-103. Benefit to county farm - Where a county farm owned by any county lies within...
§ 51-31-105. Jurisdiction of suits - The proper chancery court of the county of the defendant...
§ 51-31-107. Master may hear and determine causes; report of findings to chancellor - The chancellor shall have the power to appoint a master...
§ 51-31-109. Expenses of chancellor and master taxed against district - The chancellor or any master appointed by the chancellor shall...
§ 51-31-111. Additional bond issue - The drainage commissioners of any county in which a drainage...
§ 51-31-113. Interest rate of additional bonds - The bonds, notes, or other objects of indebtedness issued under...
§ 51-31-115. Notice of issue to be published - Before the sale of any such bonds, notes, or other...
§ 51-31-117. Proceedings in rem - All proceedings under this chapter are declared to be proceedings...
§ 51-31-119. Subdrainage districts authorized - When one third of the landowners owning a majority of...
§ 51-31-121. Notice of subdistrict proceedings - Upon the filing of said report with the clerk, he...
§ 51-31-123. Creation of subdistrict - At the time so appointed by the clerk, the court...
§ 51-31-125. Subdistricts managed by drainage commissioners - When a subdrainage district has been established as hereinbefore provided,...
§ 51-31-127. Separate financial account kept for subdrainage district - The drainage commissioners and the treasurer of the main drainage...
§ 51-31-129. Collection of taxes - All taxes levied under the terms of any drainage law...
§ 51-31-131. Delinquent lands - When lands are offered for sale for unpaid drainage district...
§ 51-31-133. Tax lists - The lists of lands sold by the tax collector to...
§ 51-31-135. Record of tax sales - A list of conveyances of lands sold to drainage districts...
§ 51-31-137. Expiration of redemption period - After two years' time for redemption has expired, the drainage...
§ 51-31-139. District placed under supervisors - On petition of one third of the landowners owning one...
§ 51-31-141. Procedure for districts to come under this chapter - Any district which has heretofore been organized, including swamp land...
§ 51-31-143. Drainage law construed - This chapter shall be liberally construed to promote the ditching,...