CHAPTER IX
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS

   Section 1.   CONDEMNATION. Any necessity of taking property for the City by condemnation shall be determined by the Council and declared by a Resolution of the Council describing the property and stating the uses to which it shall be devoted. Taking of property for the City by condemnation shall be in accordance with provisions of the Oregon Constitution and Oregon Law.

   Section 2.   IMPROVEMENTS. The procedure for making, altering, repairing, vacating or abandoning a public improvement shall be governed by general ordinance or, to the extent not so governed, by the applicable general laws of the State. Action on any proposed public improvement, except a sidewalk or other improvement unanimously declared by the Council to be needed at once because of an emergency, shall be suspended for six months upon a remonstrance thereto by the owners of the land to be specially assessed therefor. The number of owners necessary to suspend the action will be determined by ordinance. In this Section, "owner" shall mean the record holder of legal title, or where land is being purchased under a recorded land sale contract verified to the Recorder in writing by the record holder of legal title to the land, the purchaser shall be deemed the "owner".

   Section 3.   SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. The procedure for levying, collecting and enforcing the payment of special assessments for public improvements or other services to be charged against real property shall be governed by general ordinances.

   Section 4.   BIDS. Public contracting shall be done in compliance with the provisions of Oregon's Public Contracting Code, the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and with all local contracting rules established by the City.

   Section 5.   MUNICIPAL SEWER SYSTEM. The City shall continue to own and operate a municipal sewer system and in addition to the other methods provided by Charter, the Council may, when in its discretion it is deemed advisable, provide by Ordinance for the construction or reconstruction either by contract or City construction method or the combination of both and for the maintenance, extension, operation or enlargement of sewers, sewer systems, pumping stations, sewage treatment or disposal plant, together with all appurtenances necessary, useful or convenient for the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage and for such purposes may acquire by gift, purchase, grant or condemnation, the necessary lands and rights of way therefor, either within or without the corporate limits of the City of Canby, all or any part of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the facilities. The City Council may construct or reconstruct that part of the foregoing facilities consisting of a treatment plant, outfall sewers, trunk sewers, main sewers and pumping plants as an entire unit or as separate units in order to continue to provide the City of Canby with a basic sanitary sewage system; and the Council may provide that the same or that part so constructed will be paid for by all of the residents of the City or property owners therein regardless of whether their property is to be actually connected with or presently served by said systems or units.