Title 14, Local Government

It shall be no objection to any suit brought for the purpose of collecting delinquent municipal improvement district assessments that the lands of two (2) or more owners are joined in the same proceeding, and these suits may be brought against one (1) or more owners.

Under this subchapter, if the decree is in favor of the municipal board of improvement and for the condemnation of the land, it shall be for the penalty and costs of suit, as well as for the amount of the assessment.

(1) As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Real property” shall have the same meaning and significance as are attached to these words in statutes providing for the collection of state, county, and city revenue.(2) “Blocks, lots, or parcels of land” shall …

(a) (1) All municipal improvement districts created after June 9, 1949, shall be governed by the provisions of §§ 14-88-401, 14-88-404, 14-90-102, 14-90-801, 14-90-802, 14-90-901 — 14-90-915, 14-90-1002, 14-90-1107, 14-90-1301, 14-90-1303(a)-(b), 14-90-1405, and 14-90-1406.(2) (A…

All municipal improvement districts organized prior to July 1, 1952, in compliance with the statutes which, prior to the enactment of Acts 1949, No. 195, regulated the organization of these districts are declared to be legally organized, all their proceedings under the provisions…

(a) In a suit to collect delinquent municipal improvement district assessments brought in the name of the board of improvement, the chancery court shall order, in its decree of condemnation, that if the sum adjudged shall not be paid within ten (10) days, the property shall be so…

(a) All sales under this subchapter shall be for cash and to the highest legal bidder. (b) If the sales are not completed on the first day, the commissioner shall continue the sales from day to day until completed. (c) In other respects, these sales shall be governed by the rules…

(a) An amount bid at the sale of lands under this subchapter equal to the assessment, penalty, and costs shall be paid at the time of the sale, and the residue of the purchase money shall be paid into the chancery court. (b) Within twenty (20) days after the period of redemption …

Upon a sale under this subchapter, the commissioner shall execute to the purchaser a certificate of purchase, in which shall be stated the whole sum paid by the purchaser.

In making sales under this subchapter, if any bidder to whom any parcel of land shall be sold shall fail to pay his bid, the commissioner shall at once offer it again, and the bid of the delinquent bidder shall not be taken again at a sale.

Should any of the lands fail to be sold under this subchapter for any reason, the chancery court may, from time to time, order them to be offered again for sale.

(a) Municipal improvement districts may purchase lands sold under foreclosure decrees when there are no other bids equal to the delinquent installments, penalties, and costs. (b) In the absence of bids, the commissioner making the sale, without bidding on the part of the district…

For a sale of property under this subchapter, no allowance to the commissioner for his services shall exceed five dollars ($5.00) for each lot, block, or part of a block of land sold and certificate made by him.

If any appeal is taken from any decree ordering the sale of property to collect delinquent municipal improvement district assessments, the Supreme Court shall advance the cause on its docket and shall hear and decide the cause at as early a day as practicable.

No appeal shall be prosecuted from any decree after the expiration of the twenty (20) days granted in § 14-90-1203 for filing the transcript in the clerk's office of the Supreme Court.

(a) In an appeal under this subchapter, the transcript shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court within twenty (20) days after the rendering of the decree appealed from. (b) In taking an appeal, the appellant shall only include in the transcript so much of th…

In an appeal under this subchapter, the Supreme Court shall either affirm or reverse the decree appealed from, shall render such a decree as should have been rendered by the lower court, or shall remand the cause to the inferior court without delay.

(1) The owner or person having an interest in any real property sold for delinquent assessment installments due municipal improvement districts shall have the right to redeem the property by paying to the purchaser or his assignee the sale price plus interest from the date of sal…

(a) (1) If the owner of property sold to collect delinquent municipal improvement district assessments shall come into court at any time within the period allowed for redemption and shall waive his right of redemption, the court shall order the purchaser to pay the amount that ma…

(a) (1) If any lands sold under this act shall not be redeemed within the time allowed in it, the court in which the suit is brought for the condemnation thereof shall direct a commissioner to execute a deed to the purchaser or his assignee, which may be in the following words: “…

This subchapter is intended to supplement existing laws relative to foreclosure of assessment liens in municipal improvement districts.

This subchapter is to be cumulative and shall repeal only those statutes in direct conflict with it.

If any assessment, or annual installment thereof, levied by a municipal improvement district shall not be paid within the time provided by the city ordinance approving the assessment, the county tax collector shall add thereto a penalty of ten percent (10%) and shall at once retu…

(a) (1) When the suit with the delinquent list is filed with the county tax collector under this subchapter, the delinquent list of property shall be copied into a permanent record of delinquent lands.(2) The collector shall receive, as part of his costs, the sum of ten cents (10…

(a) Under this subchapter, the chancery court shall have the jurisdiction of suits brought to collect delinquent installments. (b) (1) The court shall enter a decree against the lots, blocks, or parcels of land for the amount of the delinquent installments, together with penalty,…

(a) Under this subchapter, proceedings shall in nature be in rem, and insofar as the rights of the purchaser are concerned, it shall be immaterial that the ownership of the lots, blocks, or parcels of land is incorrectly alleged in the proceedings. (b) The decree shall be enforce…

In proceedings under this subchapter, all of the delinquent property in a municipal improvement district may and should be included in one (1) suit, and the suit may cover more than one (1) past due installment.

(a) (1) The warning order or notice of the pendency of a suit under this subchapter shall be given by publication weekly for two (2) weeks before judgment is entered for the sale of the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way in some newspape…

(a) (1) Under this subchapter, a suit shall stand for trial at the first term of court, or adjourned day of court, after the complaint is filed, if the four (4) weeks shall expire either before the first day of the term or during the term of court to which the suits are brought, …

At a sale under the provisions of this subchapter, if there be no purchaser offering as much as the total tax or assessment, plus penalty, interest, and all costs and attorney fees allowed, the property shall be sold to the plaintiff.

Any person, firm, or corporation having an interest in any property sold under the provisions of this subchapter may redeem it as required by law. However, the chancery clerk, in writing up the certificate of redemption, shall not charge and receive more than fifty cents (50¢) fo…

As soon as a municipal board of improvement shall have formed a plan and shall have ascertained the cost of the improvement, it shall report this plan to the city or town council. The council shall appoint three (3) electors of the city or town who shall constitute a board of ass…

Each of the assessors for a municipal improvement district shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, take oath that he will well and truly assess, to the best of his knowledge and ability, the value of all the benefits to be received by each landowner by reason of …

(a) The members of a municipal improvement board of assessment shall receive such compensation as the board of improvement shall determine. (b) The compensation shall be paid out of the funds collected by taxation of the local improvements or out of the proceeds of the money borr…

The descriptions of lands in an improvement district in any incorporated town or city of the first or second class which are based upon a plat, of a part or the whole, of the municipality, which has been filed in the office of the municipal clerk and is not in conflict with a dul…

If any railroad company owning or operating a line of railway in this state shall occupy any street which is in an improvement district by having laid within it its railway tracks and by using the street as a right-of-way, then the railway tracks and right-of-way shall be subject…

(a) The property of public school districts shall be subject to assessment for local improvements beneficial to them. (b) The president or secretary of the district may sign the petition for the making of the improvements, when authorized by the board of directors.

(a) (1) The assessors for a municipal improvement district shall at once proceed to inscribe in a book to be used for that purpose the description of each of the lots, blocks, or parcels of land and railroad tracks and rights-of-way. The assessors shall assess the value of the be…

Immediately on the filing of an assessment by the assessors of a municipal improvement district, the city clerk shall insert in some newspaper the following notice: “The assessment of local Improvement District No. . . . . . . (giving the number of the district) was filed in my o…

(a) If, in the construction of sidewalks or making of other improvements, any owner of taxable property in a municipal improvement district shall be found to have improved his own property in such a manner that his improvement may be profitably made a part of the general improvem…

(a) Anyone whose real estate is embraced in a municipal improvement district assessment may file, within ten (10) days from the giving of the notice, with the city clerk in writing, his notice of appeal from the action of the board of assessors in making the assessment of his pro…

(a) The city council shall enter on its minutes the result of its finding on any appeal of a municipal improvement district assessment and shall cause a copy of its finding to be certified to the board of assessors. (b) The board shall make its assessment conform thereto if any c…

(a) (1) The assessors of municipal improvement districts or their successors in office, or a majority of them, may file with the recorder or city clerk their certificate correcting erroneous descriptions of the lots, blocks, and parcels of land and railroad tracks and rights-of-w…

(a) (1) The commissioners of a municipal improvement district may require the assessors to revise their assessment only one (1) time per annum, increasing or diminishing the assessment against particular pieces of property as justice may require.(2) However, the total amount of b…

A municipal improvement district assessment may be annually readjusted according to additional improvements placed upon the lands and railroad tracks and rights-of-way when a succession of collections is necessary to pay for the improvements.

(a) (1) (A) Wherever lands, or other real property, in an improvement district in cities and towns have been assessed for such an unreasonable or excessive amount that the taxes or assessments against the property and which have accumulated against the property are as much or mor…