Tennessee § 54-12-216 - Special assessment, collection — Delinquencies — Compensation of trustee.
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§ 54-12-216. Special assessment, collection — Delinquencies — Compensation of trustee.
The assessment shall be made and collected in the same manner, and the delinquencies, if any, shall be collected and enforced in the same manner as provided in §§ 54-12-412 — 54-12-421, and by law. The compensation of a trustee for collecting and paying over the assessment shall be the same as is provided by § 54-12-111; provided, that, for this special assessment, the monthly county court may fix the dates within which the assessment shall be collected, the court fixing the dates within dates the court deems reasonable for the collection of the assessments. The assessments made for this purpose shall be a lien upon the respective tracts of land in the district upon which the assessment is made, but shall be inferior to the lien of any assessment that shall hereafter be made for the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of bonds and the interest on the bonds, as provided in this chapter, and by law. Acts 1919, ch. 193, § 56; Shan. Supp., § 1682a70; Code 1932, § 2884; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-1416. Cross-References. Authority of the monthly county court, title 5. Body exercising jurisdiction of former monthly county court, § 54-12-102 . Collateral References. Prohibition to prevent collection of assessments. 115 A.L.R. 20 , 159 A.L.R. 627 . Public property, manner of enforcing special assessments against. 95 A.L.R. 689 , 150 A.L.R. 1394 . Right of one governmental unit, or officer thereof, to compensation for collecting or disbursing special assessments levied by or owed to another governmental unit. 114 A.L.R. 1098 .
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