Tennessee § 69-5-1103 - Engineer, viewers, commissioners, and directors.
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§ 69-5-1103. Engineer, viewers, commissioners, and directors.
The court in which the petition is filed has full power and authority to appoint the engineer, viewers to assess damages, commissioners to make assessments and apportion the same on the lands affected, and directors, just as if such district lay wholly in one (1) county, and as provided in parts 1-7 of this chapter, when such district lies entirely in one (1) county. The viewers and commissioners shall make their reports to the court where the petition was filed and only to that court. The county mayor of the county where such petition is filed shall be, ex officio, chair of such board of directors. The viewers and commissioners may be resident citizens of any one (1) or more of the counties having lands embraced in such district, but with all the other qualifications set out in parts 2 and 3 of this chapter. Acts 1915, ch. 61, § 2; Shan., § 3871a163; Code 1932, § 4399; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 70-1508; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2; T.C.A. § 69-6-1103 . Compiler's Notes. Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2, directed the code commission to change all references from “county executive” to “county mayor” and to include all such changes in supplements and replacement volumes for the Tennessee Code Annotated.
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