KRS 268.360: Copies of assessment record filed with clerk -- Clerk's notice --

Determination of objection -- Final order.

(1) As soon as the drainage assessment record is completed, the board shall deliver the

copies to and file them with the county clerk in which county the district is

organized. The clerk shall receive them, and, beginning within five (5) days, publish

notice of such filing pursuant to KRS Chapter 424. The notice shall be in

substantially the following form:

"State of Kentucky.

"County of .....

"In the matter of the .... (drainage), (levee), (reclamation) District. Notice is hereby

given to all persons interested that the board of drainage commissioners of .... County did

on the .... day of ...., 19.., file in my office .... copies of the drainage assessment record for

the above district in which they show the aggregate costs of the improvements to be made

according to the plan for reclamation, also the aggregate of all benefits to property and the

minimum district assessment and the apportionme nt thereof to each piece of property,

together with the total of such assessments which are to be paid for each separate piece of

property.

"All persons interested are hereby notified that they may inspect this record at any

time, and are given until .... to file written objections to these final assessments.

"Unless you file objections thereto by that date, it will be taken for granted that the

assessments are correct, and correctly apportioned to each separate piece of property, and

they will be confirmed, and become the fixed assessments upon each piece of property.

"Given under my hand as county clerk on this the .... day of ...., 19...

. ............................. Clerk."

(2) If objections are fil ed, they shall be determined by the county judge/executive in a

summary way. If errors are found, they shall be by proper orders corrected. The

order of the county judge/executive shall direct the clerk to show such corrections

on all the copies of the ass essment record in red ink. When all errors in the

assessment are ordered corrected by the county judge/executive, he shall approve

the assessment record.

(3) The final order of approval and confirmation by the county judge/executive shall be

final and conc lusive upon all property within the district. The assessment record,

when corrected by the clerk under orders of the county judge/executive, shall be

endorsed by the county judge/executive as the assessment record of the district, and

thereafter no questio n may be raised concerning the correctness of any assessment

shown in the record.

(4) One (1) of the several copies of the assessment record, properly corrected and

endorsed by the county judge/executive, shall remain in the office of the county

clerk. The remaining copies shall be certified and delivered by the clerk to the

secretary of the board of the county in which the district was organized.