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CITY OF CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHARTER
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTERS 3-5: RESERVED
CHAPTER 6: ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS
CHAPTERS 7-9: RESERVED
CHAPTER 10: ANIMALS
CHAPTERS 11 - 13: RESERVED
CHAPTER 14: BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 15: BUSINESSES
CHAPTERS 16 - 17: RESERVED
CHAPTER 18: CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
CHAPTERS 19 - 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTERS 23 - 25: RESERVED
CHAPTER 26: RESERVED
CHAPTERS 27 - 29: RESERVED
CHAPTER 30: FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER 31: RESERVED
CHAPTER 32: MUNICIPAL CIVIL INFRACTIONS
CHAPTER 33: RESERVED
CHAPTER 34: OFFENSES
CHAPTERS 35 - 37: RESERVED
CHAPTER 38: PARKS AND RECREATION
CHAPTERS 39 - 41: RESERVED
CHAPTER 42: PLANNING
CHAPTERS 43 - 45: RESERVED
CHAPTER 46: SOLICITORS AND CANVASSERS
CHAPTERS 47 - 49: RESERVED
CHAPTER 50: SOLID WASTE
CHAPTER 51: RESERVED
CHAPTER 52: PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND NUISANCE ABATEMENT
CHAPTER 53: RESERVED
CHAPTER 54: SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
CHAPTERS 55 - 57: RESERVED
CHAPTER 58: STREETS, SIDEWALKS, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES
CHAPTERS 59 - 61: RESERVED
CHAPTER 62: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 63: RESERVED
CHAPTER 64: TAX EXEMPTION
CHAPTER 65: RESERVED
CHAPTER 66: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
CHAPTER 67: RESERVED
CHAPTER 68: UTILITIES
CHAPTER 69: RESERVED
CHAPTER 70: VEGETATION
CHAPTER 71: RESERVED
CHAPTER 72: MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
CHAPTER 73: RESERVED
CHAPTER 74: VEHICLES FOR HIRE
CHAPTERS 75 - 81: RESERVED
CHAPTER 82: ZONING
PARALLEL REFERENCES
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§ 54-5 DETERMINATION ON THE PROJECT; NOTICE; HEARING GENERALLY.
   (A)   After the City Manager has presented the report required in § 54-4 for making any local public improvement as requested in the resolution of the Council and the Council has reviewed the report, a resolution may be passed tentatively determining the necessity of the improvement, setting forth the nature thereof, prescribing what part or proportion of the cost of such improvement shall be paid by special assessment upon the property especially benefitted and what part, if any, shall be paid by the city at large, designating the limits of the special assessment district to be affected, designating whether to be assessed according to frontage or other benefits, placing the complete information on file in the office of the Clerk where the information may be found for examination, and directing the Clerk to give notice of public hearing on the proposed improvement, at which time and place opportunity will be given interested persons to be heard.
   (B)   The notice of public hearing shall be given by 1 publication in a newspaper published or circulated within the city and by first class mail addressed to each owner of or person in interest in property to be assessed as shown by the last general tax assessment roll of the city. The publication and mailing shall be made at least 10 full days prior to the date of the hearing. The hearing required by this section may be held at any regular, adjourned or special meeting of the Council.
   (C)    The notice of hearing shall include a statement that appearance and protest at the hearing is required in order to appeal the amount of the special assessment to the state tax tribunal and shall describe the manner in which an appearance and protest shall be made.
   (D)   An owner or party in interest or his agent may appear in person at the hearing to protest the special assessment or shall be permitted to file his appearance or protest by letter and his personal appearance shall not be required.
   (E)   The City Council shall maintain a record of parties who appear to protest at the hearing. If the hearing is terminated or adjourned for the day before a party has been heard, a party whose appearance was recorded is considered to have protested the special assessment in person.
(1993 Code, § 54-5)
§ 54-6 HEARING ON NEED.
   At the public hearing on the proposed improvement, all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard, after which the Council may modify the scope of the local public improvement in such a manner as they shall deem to be in the best interest of the city as a whole, provided that if the amount of work is increased or additions are made to the district, then another hearing shall be held pursuant to notice prescribed in § 54-5. If the determination of the Council shall be to proceed with the improvement, a resolution shall be passed approving the necessary profiles, plans, specifications, assessment district and detailed estimates of cost, determining the probable useful life of the improvement, and directing the Assessor to prepare a special assessment roll in accordance with the Council's determination and to report the special assessment roll to the Council for confirmation. If, prior to the adoption of the resolution to proceed with the making of the public improvement, written objections thereto have been filed by the owners of property in the district which, according to the City Manager's report, will be required to bear more than 50% of the cost thereof or by a majority of the owners of property to be assessed, no resolution determining to proceed with the improvement shall be adopted while such objections remain, except by the affirmative vote of 5 members of the Council.
(1993 Code, § 54-6)
§ 54-7 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ROLL.
   The Assessor shall make a special assessment roll of all lots and parcels of land within the designated district benefitted by the proposed improvement and assess to each lot or parcel of land the proportionate amount benefitted thereby. The amount spread in each case shall be based upon the detailed estimate of the City Manager as approved by the Council.
(1993 Code, § 54-7)
§ 54-7.5 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ROLL; HAZARDS AND NUISANCES.
   Pursuant to the provisions of § 2.1(B)(1) of the Charter, the assessor shall make a special assessment roll of all lots and parcels of land within the City upon which hazards and nuisances were found to have existed and for which the City incurred costs associated with altering, repairing, tearing down, abating or removing the hazards and nuisances. The assessment roll shall be prepared annually and shall list for each lot and parcel the amount of such cost that has remained unpaid for at least 30 days.
(Ord. 2010-03, passed 8-9-2010)
§ 54-8 FILING ASSESSMENT ROLL.
   When the Assessor shall have completed the assessment roll as required in § 54-7, he shall file the assessment roll with the Clerk for presentation to the Council for review and certification by it.
(1993 Code, § 54-8)
§ 54-9 MEETING TO REVIEW SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ROLL; OBJECTIONS.
   Upon receipt of the special assessment roll as required in this chapter, the Council, by resolution, shall accept such assessment roll and order it to be filed in the office of the Clerk for public examination, shall fix the time and place the Council will meet to review such special assessment roll and direct the Clerk to give notice of a public hearing for the purpose of affording an opportunity for interested persons to be heard. Such notice shall be given by 1 publication in a newspaper published or circulated within the city and by first class mail addressed to each owner of or person in interest in property to be assessed as shown by the last general tax assessment roll of the city. The publication and mailing are to be made at least 10 full days prior to the date of the hearing. Such notice shall meet all requirements of § 54-5. The hearing required by this section may be held at any regular, adjourned or special meeting of the Council. At this meeting, all interested persons or parties shall present in writing their objections, if any, to the assessments against them. The Assessor shall be present at every meeting of the Council at which a special assessment is to be reviewed.
(1993 Code, § 54-9)
§ 54-10 CHANGES AND CORRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT ROLL.
   The Council shall meet at the time and place designated for the review of the special assessment roll prepared as required in this chapter, and at such meeting or a proper adjournment thereof shall consider all objections to the special assessment roll submitted in writing. The Council may correct the roll as to any special assessment or description of any lot or parcel of land or other errors appearing therein or it may, by resolution, annul such assessment roll and direct that new proceedings be instituted. The same proceedings shall be followed in making a new roll as in the making of the original roll. If, after hearing all objections and making a record of such changes as the Council deems justified the Council determines that it is satisfied with the special assessment roll and that assessments are in proportion to benefits received, it shall thereupon pass a resolution reciting such determinations, confirming such roll, placing it on file in the office of the Clerk and directing the Clerk to attach his warrant to a certified copy thereof within 10 days and commanding the Assessor to spread and the Treasurer to collect the various sums and amounts appearing thereon as directed by the Council. Such roll shall have the date of confirmation endorsed thereon and shall from that date be final and conclusive for the purpose of the improvement to which it applies, subject only to adjustment to conform to the actual cost of the improvement, as provided in § 54-14.
(1993 Code, § 54-10)
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