KRS 268.260: Plan for reclamation -- Board appoints appraisers -- Duties -- Oath --

Election of chairman.

(1) The report of the chief engineer shall be known as the "plan for reclamation." When

it is filed, the board shall meet and receive and adopt it, with any m odifications

determined upon. After the plan has been adopted, the board shall refer the

proceeding to a board of appraisers, to then be appointed by the board of drainage

commissioners, consisting of three (3) resident freeholders of any county in which

the district is located who are in no way interested in the proceedings and not of kin

within the second degree of consanguinity to any person owning land in the

proposed district. They shall appraise the property, assessing benefits and damages

based on the doing of the work as described and set forth in the plan for reclamation

approved by the board. The secretary of the board shall transmit to the appraisers a

certified copy of the plan for reclamation which has been approved by the board.

(2) Each appraiser, at a meeting to be held as soon as possible thereafter, shall take and

subscribe to an oath that he will faithfully and impartially discharge his duties and

make a true report of the work done by him. The appraisers shall, at the same

meeting, organize by electing a chairman.