(a) Before the adoption of such resolution or ordinance of necessity or convenience, Council shall cause notice to be given to owners of abutting property that such resolution or ordinance will be considered before adoption at a public meeting of Council at a time and place named in the notice and all persons or corporations shall at that meeting, or an adjournment thereof, be given an opportunity to protest or be heard concerning the adoption or rejection of the resolution or ordinance. Such notice to owners of property abutting on the portion of the street, alley, public way or easement to be improved may be by personal service on owners at least ten days before the meeting. In lieu of personal service of such notice, notice may be given, and shall be deemed to have been served on all such owners of abutting property, by publication once a week for three successive weeks before such meeting in some newspaper of general circulation, but not necessarily published, in the City.
(b) A certificate of publication of the notice, made by the newspaper publisher, and a copy of the notice shall be made a part of the minutes of Council and spread on its records of the meeting described in the notice. The service of the notice upon all persons, firms, or corporations owning any interest in any property abutting upon any portion of the street, alley, public way or easement to be improved shall conclusively be deemed to have been given when such newspaper publication shall have been completed.
(1978 Code Sec. 25-18.)