§ 8758 Land Assessment Exemption Rules

• •If building a project (like a dam or drainage system) causes flooding or blocks water flow on someone's land before the whole project is done, that land shouldn’t have to pay for the project.
• •Landowners shouldn’t be charged for a project if their land gets hurt (like flooded) because of the project before it’s even finished.
• •The law protects landowners from paying for problems caused by an unfinished project.

A town is building a new drainage system to stop flooding. While they’re still working on it, heavy rain comes, and the half-built system floods a farmer’s field.

The farmer shouldn’t have to pay for the drainage project because his land got flooded before the project was even done.