Tennessee § 69-6-103 - Organization of district — Petition — Copies — Certification — Filing.
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§ 69-6-103. Organization of district — Petition — Copies — Certification — Filing.
Before any watershed district is organized, a petition shall be filed in the office of the state soil conservation committee, signed by not less than twenty percent (20%) of the landowners of the real property, and representing twenty-five percent (25%) of the acreage within the proposed district, as shown by a verified enumeration of the landowners taken by a landowner of the proposed district to be selected by the first ten (10) signers of the petition. In the event the proposed district embraces land in more than one (1) county, the enumeration shall be separated as to counties. A verified copy of the enumeration shall be filed with the county clerk of each county in which any portion of the proposed district is located. A duplicate copy of the petition, containing the text of the petition in full, shall be filed with the county clerk of each county where any part of the proposed district lies. There shall be filed with the state soil conservation committee, as an exhibit to the petition, a certification as to the number of landowners within the proposed district, that the petition is signed by not less than twenty percent (20%) of such landowners, and that the signers of the petition represent twenty-five percent (25%) of the acreage within the proposed district. The certification as to each respective county shall be signed by the county clerk, or the county assessor of property of such county. Acts 1955, ch. 112, §§ 3, 5; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A., §§ 70-1803, 70-1805; impl. am. Acts 1984, ch. 687, § 3; T.C.A., § 69-7-105 ; T.C.A. § 69-7-102 . Compiler's Notes. Acts 2008, ch. 971, § 1 provided that the code commission is directed to change all references to “tax assessor”, wherever such references appear in title 69, chapter 6, part 1, to “assessor of property”, as such sections are amended or volumes are replaced. See § 1-1-116 .
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