Section 15-1959. Corrections and revisions of assessments, determinations of drainage enhancements and apportionment of costs  


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  • 1. In the  event  that  obvious  errors  or  discrepancies  should  be
      discovered  in any assessment, determination of drainage enhancements or
      general or special apportionments of cost, the  department  may  correct
      the same by filing corrected copies of the statement of such assessment,
      determination or apportionments and following the procedure specified in
      title 19 of this article.
        2.  Should  such  corrections  be made, the county legislative body is
      empowered to levy additional sums  on  or  to  give  credit  to  certain
      parcels  to  the end that the amount collected from each parcel shall be
      what it should have  been  had  an  error  not  been  made.  The  county
      legislative  body  is  also  empowered to apply to the department for an
      adjustment of assessments among the various parts into which an original
      parcel may have subdivided.
        3. The department shall file and record its findings in such cases  as
      amendments  to  the  original  or  corrected assessments, and shall give
      notice to the parties affected, but need hold no hearing thereon  unless
      such  hearing  be  demanded  by  a  party affected within ten days after
      notice is given.
        4.  None  of  the  above  proceedings  shall  be  held  to  reopen   a
      determination  of enhancements or an apportionment of cost, except as to
      the particular matter involved. Should the department at any  time  find
      that  a  former  assessment, determination or apportionment appears with
      the lapse of time or in the light of new  knowledge  and  experience  to
      have  become inequitable, it may so declare by written order and proceed
      to review the whole matter by following the full procedure laid down  in
      whichever  one  of  the  following  sections  is appropriate:   15-1919,
      15-1925, 15-1937 or 15-1939.