Complaints against values fixed or assessments; notice of hearing; failure to appear; confirmation or modification of report; right of appeal to circuit court.

Memphis Charter, art. 54, § 552

in effect

Sec. 552. - Complaints against values fixed or assessments; notice of hearing; failure to appear; confirmation or modification of report; right of appeal to circuit court. Within ten days after the filing of said engineer's estimate of the cost of assessment, the governing authority of said municipality, shall by proper resolution, fix a time and place not less than twenty days from the date of said resolution, for the hearing of complaints against the value fixed for property to be taken as damages to property or the assessment to be made upon any property. Due notice of said hearing shall be given by at least six publications made in some newspaper in said municipality, which said notice shall set out the estimated cost of said improvements and the fact that the detail estimate and the assessment against each piece of property has been filed, and notifying the property holders to appear and make their protest at the time and place appointed and setting out the metes and bounds of said improvement district and the nature and character of said improvement. Any person objecting to the fixed value upon his property as [or] the amount ascertained as the damages thereto or the assessment thereon shall file his objections in writing on or before the time fixed for said hearing, and appear in person or by attorney at said hearing and present his objections. Any person failing to appear shall be considered as accepting the amounts fixed in the reports as the values of their property, the damages to or the assessments thereon. The governing authorities of the municipality shall hear all complaints made and confirm or modify the reports in accordance therewith. Any person dissatisfied with the award of the governing authority of said municipality shall, within ten days file a certiorari to the circuit court of the County in which said municipality is situated, for the purpose of reviewing said holding; and unless said certiorari is filed, the finding of the governing authority shall be final both as to value of the property taken and the damages thereto and as to the maximum amount of the assessment to be borne by said property. (Priv. Acts 1923, ch. 426, § 5)

Source: City of Memphis, Code of Ordinances and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tn/memphis/codes/charter?nodeId=PTICHRELA_ART54STIMUNDIPLNOFRFO_S552COAGVAFIASNOHEFAAPCOMORERIAPCICOFetched: 10/28/2026