243.551. County commission to appoint three viewers, qualifications, duties--report, procedure--readjustment of benefits limited to once a year--payment may be by installments.

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243.551. County commission to appoint three viewers, qualifications, duties--report, procedure--readjustment of benefits limited to once a year--payment may be by installments.

County commission to appoint three viewers, qualifications,duties--report, procedure--readjustment of benefits limited toonce a year--payment may be by installments.

243.551. Thereupon the county commission shall appointthree viewers, possessing the qualifications of viewers appointedunder section 243.050 to make such readjustment of assessments inthe manner provided in section 243.050 and the viewers shall maketheir report, and the same proceedings shall be had thereon, asnearly as may be, as are herein provided for the assessment ofbenefits accruing for original construction; provided, that inmaking the readjustment of the assessment of benefits, theviewers shall not be limited to the aggregate amount of theoriginal or any readjustment of the assessment of benefits andmay assess the amount of benefits that will accrue from carryingout and putting into effect any supplemental plan forreclamation. After the making of such readjustment, thelimitation of twenty percent of the annual maintenance tax whichmay be levied shall apply to the amount of benefits asreadjusted, and the limitation of the tax which may be levied forpayment of the costs of the completion of the proposed works andimprovements shown in any supplemental plan for reclamation shallapply to the amount of the benefits as readjusted. There shallbe no such readjustment of benefits more often than once in ayear. The list of lands, and other property, with the readjustedassessed benefits and the order of the county commission, shallbe filed in the office of the county recorder. The petition forreassessment of benefits may request that the cost of theimprovement be payable in more than one installment and if thecounty commission agrees in its order of assessment, theassessment shall be payable in the number of installments, notexceeding fifteen, so found to be desired, which installmentsshall be equal, and each tract of land in the district shall becharged with interest which shall be apportioned against thelands in the district by the same rule of apportionment as theprincipal assessment.