Section 8. Filing of suit for collection of taxes. 
Be it further enacted, that the City Council shall have the power, and is hereby given authority to file bills in the chancery court in the name of the City for the collections of assessments and levies made for payment for improvements or service in the City, such as paving, sidewalks, curbing, guttering, sewers, and other improvements, or services for which assessments may be made under the Charter, or by any other legislative acts, and the cost which is made a charge on property, the suits commenced by such bills to be conducted as other suits in chancery for the enforcement of like liens and under the rules of law and practice provided for the same; provided, that the bills shall not be objectionable because the owner of different parcels or lots of land are made parties thereto, it being the intention that all persons in the same assessment and levy for improving any portion of the City as aforesaid, and on whose property the assessment or levy is a lien, shall be made parties defendant to one (1) bill. (As amended by Priv. Acts 1995, ch. 55, sec. 2 and Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)