Chapter 157 - DRAINAGE BY COUNTIES
- Section 157.01 - Public ditch, drain or canal
- Section 157.02 - Action on petition by county commissioners
- Section 157.03 - Commissioners to appoint committee; report of plans and estimate; letting contract; right-of-way for drains
- Section 157.04 - Bond required before letting contract
- Section 157.05 - Work done under supervision of committee; when completed, report to commissioners; payments
- Section 157.06 - Committee to view land before letting contract; assessment; hearing complaints; collection of tax
- Section 157.07 - Where cost of construction exceeds estimated cost commissioners to assess difference
- Section 157.08 - Assessments; validation
- Section 157.09 - Compensation of committee
- Section 157.10 - Application to lateral ditches
- Section 157.11 - Lateral drains may be established; commissioners may enlarge district or widen any drain; cost; proviso
- Section 157.12 - Duty of bond trustees to borrow money to pay interest on bonds until collection of first assessment; may issue notes; notes and bonds lien against lands; committee may issue notes
- Section 157.13 - Use of surplus of bond proceeds
- Section 157.14 - Owner may pay whole tax in one sum; county commissioners may make new assessments where former assessments found illegal; time in which assessments may be questioned in collateral proceedings
- Section 157.15 - County commissioners may issue bonds to pay scrip; decrease of assessment
- Section 157.16 - Enlarging drains and assessing cost
- Section 157.17 - Assessment to maintain drains
- Section 157.18 - Awarding contract for enlarging or repairing drains
- Section 157.19 - Where actual cost exceeds estimated cost; additional work; assessment for same
- Section 157.20 - Appointment of committee to view work and make assessments; report to commissioners; form of assessment
- Section 157.21 - Enlargement of drains; appointment of committee; report to commissioners; letting contract; contractor's bond; payments; assessment
- Section 157.22 - Repairing drains; appointment of committee; report to commissioners; contract; bond; assessment
- Section 157.23 - Objections to report of committee fixing assessments; notice; hearing; equalization; assessments; collection by tax collector
- Section 157.24 - Commissioners may issue interest-bearing scrip against land to borrow money or pay for work; lien on land assessed
- Section 157.25 - Compensation of committee; irregular assessment corrected
- Section 157.26 - Repair and maintenance of drains under supervision of county commissioners
- Section 157.27 - Proceedings for making repair to drains, etc
- Section 157.28 - Awarding contracts for repair; approval
- Section 157.29 - Levy of tax for maintaining and repairing drains; assessment and collection of tax; sale of land for unpaid taxes
- Section 157.30 - Reassessment of lands where attempt to establish ditch or canal irregular
- Section 157.31 - Notice of reassessment for drainage
- Section 157.32 - Reviewing complaints and making assessment against property benefited
- Section 157.33 - Issuance of scrip to take up former scrip or bonds
- Section 157.34 - Reassessments to have effect as original assessment
- Section 157.35 - Assessments conclusive after lapse of 6 months
- Section 157.36 - Adjustment of drainage tax liens