§ 156-31 — Payment in installments

North Carolina § 156-31

• Jurisdiction: North Carolina
• Ch. 156: Drainage
• Art. 1: Jurisdiction in Clerk of Superior Court
• Subch. I: DRAINAGE BY INDIVIDUAL OWNERS

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The amount to be recovered from any person as compensation for digging or cutting the drainway after the amount shall be definitely determined as herein provided for, shall be payable in five equal annual installments, the first payable one year from the filing of the report of the viewers with the clerk of the superior court, and one payment on the same day of each year thereafter until the full amount be paid. The amount to be recovered from the person, firm, or corporation cutting or digging the drainway, on account of any damages in excess of benefits to the lands of any landowner, shall be payable in one installment which shall be due and payable one year from the filing of the report of the viewers with the clerk of the superior court.

Legislative History

(1917, c. 273, s. 6; C. S., s. 5289.)