268.260 Plan for reclamation -- Board appoints appraisers -- Duties -- Oath -- Election of chairman. (1) The report of the chief engineer shall be known as the "plan for reclamation." When it is filed, the board shall meet and receive and adopt it, with any modifications determined upon. After the plan has been adopted, the board shall refer the proceeding to a board of appraisers, to then be appointed by the board of drainage commissioners, consisting of three (3) resident freeholders of any county in which the district is located who are in no way interested in the proceedings and not of kin within the second degree of consanguinity to any person owning land in the proposed district. They shall appraise the property, assessing benefits and damages based on the doing of the work as described and set forth in the plan for reclamation approved by the board. The secretary of the board shall transmit to the appraisers a certified copy of the plan for reclamation which has been approved by the board. (2) Each appraiser, at a meeting to be held as soon as possible thereafter, shall take and subscribe to an oath that he will faithfully and impartially discharge his duties and make a true report of the work done by him. The appraisers shall, at the same meeting, organize by electing a chairman. Effective: January 2, 1978 History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 236, effective January 2, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2380b-15.