41-9-104. Notice of hearing; service generally; contents.
(a) On such petition being filed the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing a time and place of hearing thereon and ordering notice; thereupon the clerk of said court, for the county in which the proceedings are instituted, shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the filing of such petition to be given:
(i) By serving or causing to be served a copy of such notice on each owner of land within said proposed district, residing in any county in which any lands in said proposed district are situated, either personally or by leaving a copy thereof at his last usual place of abode, with a person of suitable age and discretion, and by registered mail to any mortgagee, mortgagees or judgment lienholder whose address is of record in the records of said liens in the county or counties in which said district is situated; and
(ii) By publishing a copy thereof at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks in some newspaper published in each county from which any part of the district is proposed to be taken. If there be no newspaper in any such county, such notice may be published in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.
(b) Such notice shall state:
(i) In what court said petition is filed;
(ii) State briefly the starting points, routes and termini of said drains, ditches and levees;
(iii) Give a general description of the proposed work;
(iv) Give the proposed boundaries of said district (or a general description of all of the lands in said proposed district);
(v) Give the name proposed for said drainage district; and
(vi) Shall also state the time and place by the court fixed, when and where the petitioners will ask a hearing on said petition.