§ 14-121-901 — Board

For the purpose of keeping a small cash fund on hand with which to clean out the public drains of this state, the county judge, county clerk, and sheriff of each county of this state wherein are located any public drains shall be and compose a board, of which the county judge shall be president and the county clerk shall be secretary, whose duty it shall be to ascertain the amount necessary to keep each public drain in their respective counties clean for the next ensuing year and certify the amount to the several quorum courts of the counties at the regular sessions of the courts for the levying of other taxes. It shall then be the duty of the levying court to levy the amount so certified as other taxes are levied, which amount so levied shall be by the county clerk extended as taxes against the lands assessed for the construction of each public drain in the same proportion as the land was originally assessed for the construction of the ditch, and when extended the amount shall be a lien upon the land. The land shall be subject to sale for the nonpayment of the incidental ditch tax and be sold in default of the payment of the tax as in cases of other delinquent taxes.

Legislative History

Acts 1907, No. 314, § 1, p. 746; C. & M. Dig., § 3657; Pope's Dig., § 4508; A.S.A. 1947, § 21-401.