§ 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 Section 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
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 54 > Chapter 12 > Part 1 - Establishment

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.