41-9-303. Order for hearing on petition; notice generally.
(a) On such petition being filed, the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing the time and place for a hearing thereon, and ordering notice; thereupon the clerk of said court shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the filing of said petition to be given:
(i) By posting notice thereof in at least five (5) public places in said proposed new district, and in at least five (5) public places in the remainder of the district proposed to be divided;
(ii) By serving or causing to be served a copy of such notice on each owner of land within said district, proposed to be divided, either personally or by registered mail to his last known address at least twenty (20) days prior to the hearing; and by serving in like manner a similar notice on each of the commissioners of the drainage district proposed to be divided; and
(iii) By publishing a notice thereof at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which any part of the district is located. If there be no newspaper in any such county, such notice shall be published in a newspaper published in the adjoining county nearest the land in said district.
(b) Such notice shall state:
(i) In what court said petition is filed;
(ii) A brief description of any proposed new work, with the starting points, routes and termini of new drains and ditches;
(iii) The boundaries of the proposed district;
(iv) The name proposed for such district;
(v) The proposed apportionment of the existing indebtedness as between the remaining portion of the original district and said proposed new district;
(vi) The time and place as fixed by the court for the hearing on said petition.
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