§ 468.39 — Duties — time for performance — scale of benefits

Iowa § 468.39

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XI: NATURAL RESOURCES
• Ch. 468: LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS

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At the time of appointing said commissioners, the board shall fix the time within which
said assessment, classification, and apportionment shall be made, which may be extended
for good cause shown. Within twenty days after their appointment, they shall begin to
inspect and classify all the lands within said district, or any change, extension, enlargement,
or relocation thereof in tracts of forty acres or less according to the legal or recognized
subdivisions, in a graduated scale of benefits to be numbered according to the benefit to be
received by each of such tracts from such improvement, and pursue said work continuously
until completed and, when completed, shall make a full, accurate, and detailed report thereof
and file the same with the auditor. The lands receiving the greatest benefit shall be marked
on a scale of one hundred, and those benefited in a less degree with such percentage of
one hundred as the benefits received bear in proportion thereto. They shall also make an
equitable apportionment of the costs, expenses, fees, and damages computed on the basis
of the percentages fixed.

Legislative History

[SS15, §1989-a12; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7465; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.46]