(A) Any and all property owners or other persons interested in real estate proposed to be improved in the Town of Clayton desiring to contest any proposed assessment or public improvement in the town, as provided for by the statutes, ordinances and resolutions in the cases, may appear before the Town Board of Trustees at the time and place fixed for that purpose in person or by Attorney or agent and may present any legal or competent evidence in opposition to the proposed assessment or public improvement.
(B) The Board of Trustees shall require any and all witnesses offered on behalf of property owners to be sworn by the Town Clerk-Treasurer, and shall accept any and all legal and competent evidence offered by property owners in opposition to any proposed assessment or public improvement.
(C) The Town of Clayton may rebut or qualify any facts established by any evidence offered.
(D) Any property owner of the town or any other person interested, may introduce in evidence the depositions of witnesses who cannot be obtained to personally testify and who reside beyond the Town of Clayton upon complying with the state laws regulating the taking of depositions.
(E) In the event of the parties desiring to take depositions, notice shall be given in conformity with the laws of the state, and the Town Clerk-Treasurer shall be authorized to issue any and all commissions under the seal of the town, or the taking of the depositions and the same shall be returned to the Town Clerk-Treasurer.
(Ord. 69, passed 1- -1914)