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Tit. XV. Ch. 2. LEVEES, DRAINS AND WATERCOURSES. §§ 4880-al-4886.
SEC. 4880-al. Time bonds or proceeds available.
1 The bonds issued under the provisions of the preceding section,
2 or the proceeds thereof, shall be available for use of the district, at a
3 date not later than ninety days after the actual commencement of the
4 work, as provided in sections forty-eight hundred forty-three of this
5 supplement and forty-eight hundred seventy-nine of the compiled code.
[39 G. A., ch. 124, § 2.]
SEC. 4882. Supervising engineer—contractor—how paid.
1 At the time of establishing the levee or drainage district the
2 boards of supervisors shall appoint a competent engineer to have
3 charge of the construction of the work, and they shall fix his com-
4 pensation therefor, and he shall, before entering upon and taking
5 charge of said work, give bond to the counties for the use and benefit
6 of the levee or drainage district, approved by the boards of supervisors
7 in such sum as they may direct, conditioned for the faithful discharge
8 of his duties. The engineer in charge of the work shall furnish the
9 contractor monthly estimates of the amount of work done on each
10 section and the amount due from each county, a duplicate of which
11 shall be filed with the auditor of each of the several counties. Upon
12 the filing of such statement each auditor shall draw a warrant or de-
13 liver to him improvement certificates, or drainage bonds, as the case
14 may be, in favor of the contractor for eighty per centum of the amount
15 due from his respective county. When said improvement is completed
16 to the satisfaction of the engineer in charge and accepted by the boards
17 of supervisors, the engineer shall certify such fact to the several county
18 auditors and each county auditor shall draw a warrant in favor of
19 the contractor, or deliver to him improvement certificates, or drainage
20 bonds, as the case may be, for the balance due from his respective
21 county.
[S., '13, § 1989-a34; 39 G. A., ch. 116, § 2.]
SEC. 4886. Cities and towns may be included—benefits assessed
—notice—objections—appeal.
1 The board of supervisors shall have the same power, right and
2 authority to establish a levee or drainage district that includes the
3 whole or any part of any incorporated town or city, including cities
4 acting under special charters, as they have to establish districts as
5 hereinbefore provided, and they shall have the same power, right and
6 authority with respect to the assessment of damages and benefits
7 within such towns or cities as they have in other cases provided for in
8 this chapter, and like notice to such city or town with respect to the
9 establishment of such district and the apportionment and assessment
10 of damages and benefits shall be given as is required by this chapter
11 to be given to owners of property damaged or benefited by the estab-
12 lishment or construction of such improvement. Whenever the streets,
13 alleys, public ways or parks of any incorporated town or city, or city
14 acting under special charter, so included within a levee or drainage
15 district, will be beneficially affected by the construction of any im-
16 provement or improvements in such district, it shall be the duty of the
17 commissioners appointed to classify and assess benefits to determine
18 and return in their report the amount of benefit to such streets, alleys,
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