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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="26-507" title_number="26" title_name="Public Drainage Associations" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Board of Viewers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>At the earliest feasible date, the board of viewers shall submit three copies of a written report to the county commissioners or county council and to the State Soil Conservation Committee in the Department of Agriculture.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The report shall state:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>whether the proposed drainage project:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is feasible;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>will benefit the public or promote the public health, safety, or welfare; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>will benefit the land to be affected by the drainage project sufficiently to warrant the probable expenditure;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the name of each person entitled to damages and the amount of the damages;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the name of each person entitled to compensation for a drainage project adopted under § 26–505 of this subtitle and the amount of the compensation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the amount determined under § 26–504(a)(1) of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the amount for which each landowner shall be assessed as a share of the total cost of the drainage project and its proportion of the whole.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The board of viewers shall file with the report three copies of maps and profiles that show:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the location of the proposed drainage project on a map, drawing, or aerial photograph to a suitable scale;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a general delineation of the boundary of the area affected, with the general location in the county indicated;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a general delineation of the boundaries of each landowner’s tract, with an estimate of the acreage that each tract contains; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the dimensions and profiles of the proposed drainage project.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
