KRS 268.480: Owners may maintain improvements -- Credit slip for work done -- Terms

-- Use.

(1) Owners in a district may be employed on maintenance work and their work credited

against their maintenance assessments, within the discretion of the board or the

drainage commissioners. In part or full payment for the work, printed credit slips

shall be issued by the president of the board, the drainage commissioner and the

treasurer of the district, each slip showing to whom issued, the date and hours of

work, whether d ay labor, teams or otherwise, materials supplied, location of work

and any other information the board considers proper. Before becoming valid, the

credit slips shall be approved by the board and made a part of its records. Rates of

pay shall not be greater than current for similar work in the locality. The work shall

be distributed among the landowners as equitably as is economically possible, but

economy shall be the first consideration, and only satisfactory workers shall be

employed.

(2) At least twenty (20) days before the maintenance assessments are due all credit slips

shall be sent to the treasurer and proper deductions made for them from the

maintenance assessments. The board shall report to the sheriff the deductions to be

made, and a copy of the report shall be retained in the minutes. The board may

authorize the treasurer to receive money payments to make up the balance due on

maintenance assessments. The sheriff shall collect the remainder of the assessments

in the regular way. The board may, at its discretion, permit transfer of credit slips

from one (1) owner to another, and the use of credit slips in other than the year in

which the work was done. Otherwise the credit slips shall be valid only in the year

in which the work is done. Credit slip s shall not be used in payment of other than

maintenance assessments.