Part 1 - Establishment
- § 54-12-101. Power to establish road improvement districts.
- § 54-12-102. Body exercising jurisdiction of former monthly county court.
- § 54-12-103. Petition for road improvement district.
- § 54-12-104. Bond for costs and expenses -- Increase in penalty or security.
- § 54-12-105. Road improvement district confined to boundaries of county.
- § 54-12-106. Petitioners may employ counsel in preliminary matters -- Compensation for services, fixing.
- § 54-12-107. Committee for petitioners in preliminary matters in establishing district -- Compensation.
- § 54-12-108. Contents of petition -- Hearing -- Publication for landowner defendants.
- § 54-12-109. Objections, filing -- Assessment for preliminary costs and expenses -- Decree.
- § 54-12-110. Appeal from decision.
- § 54-12-111. Collection dates fixed upon assessment being made -- Assessment list certified to trustee to collect -- Compensation.
- § 54-12-112. Lien for assessment -- Enforcement.
- § 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.
- § 54-12-115. Preliminary expenses may be paid by order of county legislative body -- Refund out of assessments or bonds of petitioners.
- § 54-12-116. Contributions or donations of preliminary expenses or parts of expenses without requiring refund.
- § 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.
- § 54-12-127. Expediency of plan -- Determination by court -- Submission of second plan.
- § 54-12-128. Summons or writ issued -- Served upon whom.
- § 54-12-129. Service of writ -- Acknowledgement.
- § 54-12-130. Publication for nonresidents, or those whose names or residences are unknown.
- § 54-12-131. Writ or publication need not state contents of petition or its prayer.
- § 54-12-132. Adjournment until notice given -- Jurisdiction not lost -- Appearance without formal answer.
- § 54-12-133. Claim for damages to be filed -- Guardian or conservator ad litem appointed for persons under disability.
- § 54-12-134. Sufficiency of petition determined -- Amendment of petition -- District allowed or refused -- If no claim for damages, district located and established.
- § 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.
- § 54-12-141. Appeal from decision establishing district or allowing damages -- Appeal bond.
- § 54-12-142. Appeal from order establishing or refusing to establish district, and penalty of appeal bond -- Damages on appeal bond.
- § 54-12-143. Appeal bond signed for all petitioner appellants by a designated petitioner -- Surety on bond required -- Pauper's oath not allowed.
- § 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.
- § 54-12-147. Appellants as plaintiffs in circuit court -- Consolidation of damage cases -- One transcript in several appeals.
- § 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.
- § 54-12-153. Engineer or another appointee directed to make more complete survey and estimate of cost of improvement.
- § 54-12-154. Publication -- Requisites -- Effect.
- § 54-12-155. Intent of § 54-12-154.
- § 54-12-156. Road improvement record book -- Maintenance by county clerk -- Contents -- Entries made in regular minute book.
- § 54-12-157. Fees of county clerk -- Allowance for extra services.
- § 54-12-158. Compensation and expenses of viewers, commissioners, and of helpers.
- § 54-12-159. Compensation to be fixed by monthly county court where no provision made.
