M.S. § 429.021, as it may be amended from time to time, authorizes cities to install, replace, extend, and maintain street lights and street lighting systems and special lighting systems. The City Council has determined that, in order to promote the general health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the city, it is in the best interest of the citizens that the city operate and maintain a city street lighting utility system and has further determined that the operation and maintenance of such utility benefits each and every property within the city. The City Council has therefore determined that it is fair, appropriate, and reasonable that the costs of such operation and maintenance be paid on a fair and reasonable basis by all of the property in the city so benefitted and the cost should be charged and collected from all such benefitted property, except for those exempted in subsection 830.03, Subd. 4.
(Ord. 2013-05, passed 12-11-2013)