§ 69-5-301 Commissioners – Appointment – Qualifications
§ 69-5-302 Oath – Classification of tracts
§ 69-5-303 Compensation of viewers, commissioners, and helpers
§ 69-5-304 Apportionment of costs – Report
§ 69-5-305 Scale and classification as basis of assessment
§ 69-5-306 Division into tracts and classification of subdivisions
§ 69-5-307 Description of land – Objection to assessment and apportionment – Notice
§ 69-5-308 Publication
§ 69-5-309 Objections to apportionment and assessments – Hearings
§ 69-5-310 Additional assessments
§ 69-5-311 New report may be ordered and new commissioners appointed
§ 69-5-312 Levy upon lands of benefited owners – Ratio – Funds kept separate – Disbursement
§ 69-5-313 Railroads and highways
§ 69-5-314 Claims commission to compensate districts for benefits accruing to highways

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 69 > Chapter 5 > Part 3 - Commissioners; Apportionment of Assessments

  • County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105