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When the Council shall have passed an ordinance directing that an improvement be made, to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments, the Mayor shall through the appropriate department or office, either directly by the employment of labor or by entering into a contract therefor, as may be determined by the Council, cause the improvement to be made.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
When special assessments are levied by the percentage of tax value of the property assessed or by the foot frontage of the property bounding and abutting upon the improvement, and there are lands subject to such assessment which are not assessed for taxation, the Director of Finance shall fix, for the purpose of such assessments, the value of such lots as they stand and of such lands at such depths as the Director of Finance considers a fair average of the depth of lots in the neighborhood, so that it will be a fair average of the assessed value of other lots in the neighborhood. Where lands are not subdivided into lots, but are assessed for taxation, the Director of Finance shall fix the value and the depth in the same manner; but the above rule shall not apply in making a special assessment according to benefits.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Council shall limit all assessments to the special benefits conferred upon the property assessed, and in no case shall there be levied on any lot or parcel of land any assessments for any or all purposes within a period of five years in excess of thirty-three and one- third percent (33-1/3%) of the actual value thereof after the improvement is made. Assessments levied for the construction of main sewers shall not exceed that sum that, in the opinion of the Council, would be required to construct an ordinary street sewer or drain of sufficient capacity to drain or sewer the lots or lands to be assessed for such improvement, nor shall any lots or lands be assessed that do not need local drainage, or which are provided therewith.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The City shall pay such part of the cost and expense of improvements for which special assessments are levied as the Council deems just, which part shall not be less than one-fiftieth (1/50) of all such cost and expense; and in addition thereto the City shall pay the cost of intersections. The Council may provide for the payment of the City’s portion of all such improvements by the issuance of bonds or notes therefor and may levy taxes, in addition to all other taxes authorized by law, to pay such bonds or notes and the interest thereon.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Council may provide in whole or in part the cost of replacing any existing local improvement by levying special assessments as hereinbefore provided, but any assessment for such replacement in less than fifteen years from the date of a prior assessment for the improvement to be replaced shall be limited to a sum not in excess of fifty percent of the cost of such replacement.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
Every ordinance providing for an improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments shall contain an estimate of the life of the proposed improvement by the appropriate department or office under the direction of the Mayor. Any assessment thereafter made for replacing such improvement within such estimated period of life shall be limited to a sum not in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the cost of such replacement. Assessments for replacements at or after the expiration of such estimated period of life shall be subject to no limitation except as provided for assessments for original improvements.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
Upon the completion of any improvement the Director of Finance shall rebate to the then owner of the property which shall have been assessed to pay for such improvement any surplus or excess remaining unexpended for the purpose for which such assessment was made, and in the event of there being a deficit in the fund provided for the making of any such improvement the Director of Finance shall report to the Council a supplementary assessment within the limitation hereinbefore provided, which supplementary assessment shall be made by ordinance of the Council and certified for collection as is provided in the case of original assessments.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Mayor, or Director or head of an appropriate department or office under the direction of the Mayor, shall have authority to compel the making of sewer, water, and gas and other connections whenever in view of contemplated street improvements or as a sanitary regulation, such connections should in his judgment be constructed. Written notice of such determination shall be given to the owner or each lot or parcel of land to which connections are to be made, which notice shall state the number and character of connections required. Such notice shall be served by a person, designated by the Mayor or by the director or head of an appropriate department or office under the direction of the Mayor, in the manner provided for the service of summons in civil actions. Nonresidents of the City, or persons who cannot be found, may be served by one publication of such notice in the newspaper of general circulation in the City. The notice shall state the time within which such connections shall be constructed and, if they be not constructed, within said time, the work may be done by the City and the cost thereof, together with a penalty of five percent (5%), assessed against the lots and lands for which the connections are made. Said assessments shall be certified and collected in the same manner as other assessments for street improvements.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
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