Section 468.209. Entry of order — effect.

  If the board, after consideration of the subject matter, including all objections filed to the adoption of the plan and all claims for damages, shall find that the district will be benefited by adoption of the plan or the purposes for which the district was established is furthered by the plan, they shall enter an order approving and adopting the final plan. The order shall have the effect of:

  1.  Altering the boundaries of the district to conform to the changes effected by the plan adopted.

  2.  Canceling all existing awards for damages for property not appropriated for right-of-way or construction and rendered unnecessary by the plan so adopted.

  3.  Canceling all awards previously made for damages other than for right-of-way or construction but reinstating the claims for such damages which said claims may be amended by the claimants within ten days thereafter.

  4.  Canceling all unpaid assessments for benefits on lands excluded from the district by adoption of the plan. The assessments so canceled shall become part of the costs of the improvement.

  5.  Establishing as benefited thereby the lands added to the district by adoption of the plan and rendering same subject to classification and assessment.

  6.  Whenever a plan has been adopted as contemplated by this section, modification and changes can be made therein without further notice or hearing, provided the same do not increase or decrease the estimated cost of the plan to the district by more than twenty-five percent.

[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §455.209; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.210]

89 Acts, ch 126, §2

2015 Acts, ch 30, §146

Unnumbered paragraph 1 amended