Tennessee § 69-5-107 - Preliminary hearing — Notice and requisites.

§ 69-5-107. Preliminary hearing — Notice and requisites.

When a petition is filed with all the necessary allegations, is sworn to by one (1) or more petitioners, and shows that fifty-one percent (51%) in acres of the land within the bounds of the district sought to be created is owned by the petitioners, and as further required by § 69-5-103 ; when the petition is accompanied by a general plat, and a general description of the district sought to be created; when a description, by surrounding landowners, is given in the petition, of the respective tracts of land within the bounds and the names of the owners of the tracts, who are not petitioners are set out in the petition; when the petitioners ask that provision be made for funds to defray the preliminary costs and expenses up to the stage in the proceedings where the report of the commissioners for the assessment of benefits have been filed and confirmed; and when the court deems it expedient that provision should be made for such a fund, to cover the preliminary costs and expenses; then the court shall set a day for the hearing, and direct that publication for all landowners set out in the petition, who are not petitioners, be made in some newspaper published in the county in which the district is located, and if located in more than one (1) county, then in a newspaper in each county, in which the lands in the proposed district are located, the publications to be for three (3) consecutive weeks, the last publication to be at least ten (10) days before the day set for the hearing; and the publication shall notify such landowners of the pending suit, the prayer for the creation of a fund to pay the preliminary costs and expenses, the day fixed for the hearing, and notify them to appear and show cause why an assessment to create the fund should not be made. Acts 1915, ch. 63, § 1; Shan., § 3871a10; mod. Code 1932, § 4219; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 70-707; T.C.A. § 69-6-107 .