Florida Statute 157.20 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 157
DRAINAGE BY COUNTIES

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F.S. 157.20

157.20 Appointment of committee to view work and make assessments; report to commissioners; form of assessment.—Whenever it shall become necessary to raise money for any of the purposes set out in ss. 157.07 and 157.19 the board of county commissioners shall appoint three competent and disinterested persons who are citizens of the county who shall view the work and all lands benefited by said drain or auxiliaries thereto, both those lands lying immediately along said drain or auxiliaries and those adjacent thereto, and shall assess against each parcel of land according and in proportion as each shall be benefited, its proportionate share of such additional cost of such drain or auxiliary above the estimated cost thereof, which said assessment shall be reported to the county commissioners at a regular meeting of said board, which said assessment shall show each parcel of land so assessed, the amount of said assessment and the names of the several owners, unless the said owners by diligent inquiry cannot be ascertained, when the names shall be given as unknown.

History.—s. 6, ch. 5378, 1905; RGS 1757; CGL 2808.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 157.20

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 157.20

Total Results: 3

Gallardo v. Gallardo

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1991-12-24

Citation: 593 So. 2d 522, 1991 WL 272735

Snippet: extended visitation, the wife was to pay the husband $157.20 in child support. 4) The court awarded the wife

Holbein v. Rigot

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1971-02-24

Citation: 245 So. 2d 57, 44 A.L.R. 3d 951

Snippet: C. 150, 156; Brady v. Daly, 175 U.S. 148, 154, 157, 20 S.Ct. 62, 44 L.Ed. 109; Raulin v. Fischer, [1911]

Richardson v. South Florida Mortgage Co.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1931-07-01

Citation: 136 So. 393, 102 Fla. 313

Snippet: substitution of one formal party for another. 47 C. J. 157; 20 Stand. Ency. Proceeding 964; Hamburg v. Liverpool