Florida Statutes

§ 157.17 — Assessment to maintain drains

Florida § 157.17

JurisdictionFlorida

TitleXI

Ch. 157DRAINAGE BY COUNTIES

This text of Florida § 157.17 (Assessment to maintain drains) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Florida primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Fla. Stat. § 157.17 (2026).

Text

Whenever any public drain or auxiliaries thereto shall have been constructed by the board of county commissioners of any county under any law now in force, or that may hereafter be in force, the said board of county commissioners may assess against the lands benefited by said drain or auxiliaries thereto the necessary cost of the maintenance and repair of said drain or auxiliaries thereto.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Legislative History

s. 3, ch. 5378, 1905; RGS 1754; CGL 2805.

Nearby Sections

15

§ 157.01

Public ditch, drain or canal

§ 157.02

Action on petition by county commissioners

§ 157.03

Commissioners to appoint committee; report of plans and estimate; letting contract; right-of-way for drains

§ 157.04

Bond required before letting contract

§ 157.05

Work done under supervision of committee; when completed, report to commissioners; payments

§ 157.06

Committee to view land before letting contract; assessment; hearing complaints; collection of tax

§ 157.07

Where cost of construction exceeds estimated cost commissioners to assess difference

§ 157.08

Assessments; validation

§ 157.09

Compensation of committee

§ 157.10

Application to lateral ditches

§ 157.11

Lateral drains may be established; commissioners may enlarge district or widen any drain; cost; proviso

§ 157.12

Duty of bond trustees to borrow money to pay interest on bonds until collection of first assessment; may issue notes; notes and bonds lien against lands; committee may issue notes

§ 157.13

Use of surplus of bond proceeds

§ 157.14

Owner may pay whole tax in one sum; county commissioners may make new assessments where former assessments found illegal; time in which assessments may be questioned in collateral proceedings

§ 157.15

County commissioners may issue bonds to pay scrip; decrease of assessment

View on official source ↗

Cite This Page — Counsel Stack

Bluebook (online)

Florida § 157.17, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/fl/157.17.