§ 61-16.1-22 — Assessment list to be published - Notice of hearing - Alteration of assessments - Confirmation of assessment list - Filing

North Dakota § 61-16.1-22

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 61: Waters
• Ch. 61-16.1: Operation of Water Resource Districts

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assessments - Confirmation of assessment list - Filing.
1. After entering an order establishing the project, the water resource board shall provide
notice of a hearing at which the board will meet to hear objections to the proposed
assessments from any interested party or agent for an interested party. The notice
must:
a. Include a copy of the order establishing the project;
b. Specify the time and place of the hearing;
c. Identify the beginning, terminus, and general course of the project as finally
determined by the engineer and the board;
d. Include the assessment list showing the percentage assessment against each
parcel of land benefited by the proposed project and the approximate assessment
in terms of money apportioned;
e. Be mailed to each affected landowner at the landowner's address as shown by
the tax rolls of the county in which the affected property is located. The board
may send the assessment list and notice by regular mail attested by an affidavit
of mailing signed by the attorney or secretary of the board; and
f. Be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the newspaper of
general circulation in the area in which the affected lands are located.
2. The date set for the hearing must be at least twenty days after the notice is mailed. At
the hearing, the board may alter the assessments as the board deems just and
necessary to correct any error in the assessment but shall make the aggregate of all
assessments equal to either the total amount required to pay the entire cost of the
work for which the assessments are made, or the part of the cost to be paid by special
assessment. An assessment may not exceed the benefit as determined by the board
to the parcel of land or political subdivision assessed. The board then shall confirm the
assessment list. The secretary shall attach to the list a certificate stating the list is
correct as confirmed by the board and shall file the list in the office of the secretary.