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§ 4880. LEVEES, DRAINS AND WATERCOURSES. Tit. XV, Ch. 2.
37 drainage district, each county auditor of said counties shall cause the
38 owners of the lands in his county, as shown by the transfer books in
39 the auditor's office, and also the person in actual occupancy of said
40 lots or lands, in the district recommended by the commissioners, and
41 also each lienholder or incumbrancer, as shown by the county records
42 in his county of any land through or abutting upon which the proposed
43 improvement extends, to be notified of the time and place where the
44 boards of the several counties will meet in joint session for the con-
45 sideration of said petition and return. Such notice shall be the same
46 and served in the same time and manner as provided in this chapter
47 when the levee or drainage district is wholly within one county. When
48 the boards of supervisors are of unequal number, each member of the
49 board of the smallest number of members shall cast a full vote, and
50 each member of any larger board shall cast such fractional part of a
51 full vote as may be determined by making the smallest number of
52 the membership of any board the numerator and the number of the
53 membership of any such larger board entitled to vote the denominator
54. of such fraction, so as to equalize the voting power of each board.
[S., '13, § 1989-829 ; 39 G. A., ch. 150, § 1.]
SEC. 4880. Assessments of costs and damages—improvement certificates—bonds.
1 If the boards of supervisors, acting jointly, shall establish the
2 levee or drainage district, they shall appoint a commission, one of
3 whom shall be selected from each county, and in addition thereto a
4 competent engineer, each of whom shall have the same qualifications
5 as provided where the district is wholly within one county; and said
6 commission shall within twenty days go upon and view the premises
7 and begin the work of classifying the same as hereinbefore provided
8 where the district is wholly within one county, and in addition thereto
9 shall make an equitable apportionment of the costs, expenses, costs of
10 construction, fees and damages assessed for the construction of such
11 improvement or of the repairing or reopening the same, and make
12 report thereof as provided where the improvement is wholly within
13 one county, except a copy of said report shall be filed with each of the
14 several county auditors. Immediately upon the filing of such report
15 the several county auditors, acting jointly, shall cause notice to be
16 served of the time when and the place where the boards of super-
17 visors will meet and consider such report, which notice shall be the
18 same and served in the same time and manner, and all proceedings
19 thereon shall be the same as provided where the district is wholly
20 within one county, publication thereof to be made in each of said
21 counties, except that the objections not filed prior to the day of the
22 hearing shall be filed with the boards of supervisors at the place where
23 the hearing is to be held, and except after the amount to be assessed
24 and levied against the several parcels or tracts of land shall have been
25 apportioned and finally determined, the several boards of supervisors,
26 acting separately, and within their own counties, shall proceed to levy
27 and collect the taxes thus apportioned in the same manner as provided
28 where the district is wholly within one county, and they may issue
29 improvement certificates or may sell bonds for the full amount of the
30 benefits apportioned to such county.
[S., '13, § 1989-a32; 37 G. A., ch. 344, § 7; 39 G. A., ch. 257,
§1.]