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If the Finance Committee shall determine that the collection of any special assessment or part or installment thereof, at the time and in the manner provided by law, would, by reason of age, indigency or any other factor affecting ability to pay, tend to cause the property owner to become a public charge or would otherwise work undue hardship upon the property owner and shall further determine that to grant relief from the collection of such special assessment would be in the best interest of the City of Flint, said Finance Committee may recommend to the City Council that relief be granted, consistent with the provisions of § 18-10.
(Ord. 1054, passed 12-29-1952)
The City Council of the City of Flint may order the payment of any special assessment or installment thereof from funds available for that purpose. Provided; however, that no such payment shall be authorized unless the property owner, together with his spouse, if any, shall execute a notice, secured by a real estate mortgage to the City of Flint, to secure the eventual repayment of such funds to the City of Flint in full. Such note and mortgage shall be a first mortgage upon the real estate pledged, except in those instances where the balance due upon the first mortgage is sufficiently low in the opinion of the Special Assessment Relief Board, the Finance Committee and the City Council, that the taking of a second mortgage, together with a note, will be adequate protection to the City of Flint to secure the eventual repayment aforesaid and may bear interest at a rate to be determined by the City Council not to exceed 4% per annum, shall be payable in such number of years as the City Council may determine, but in any event shall be due and payable in full upon the death of the mortgagors or the sale of the property, shall provide that failure to pay other taxes upon the mortgaged property may be grounds for acceleration of the due date of said note and mortgage and shall require the mortgagor to keep buildings insured in companies and in an amount acceptable to the City of Flint.
(Ord. 1054, passed 12-29-1952; Ord. 1223, passed 9-13-1954)
A Board of Special Assessors, composed of Assessor, Treasurer and Chief Administrator is hereby created. It shall be the duty of the Board of Special Assessors to make special assessments authorized by the Charter of the City of Flint whenever any such special assessments are directed to be made by the City Council. No compensation in addition to their regular salaries shall be paid to the members of the Board of Special Assessors for any services performed as members of such Board.
(Ord. 2542, passed 1-26-1976)
The City Council shall have the power to provide for the payment of all or any part of the cost of any public improvement and all expenses incident to the proceedings for the making of such public improvement and the special assessment therefor, and also for the repair or reconstruction of any public improvement by levying and collecting a special assessment upon the property deemed specially benefitted by such public improvement, or by the repair or reconstruction of any public improvement. Such special assessment may be payable in yearly installments during a period not exceeding ten years.
(Ord. 2542, passed 1-26-1976)
When the City Council shall in its discretion determine to make any public improvement or to repair or reconstruct any public improvement and defray the whole or any part of the cost thereof by a special assessment on the property deemed specially benefitted thereby, they shall so declare by resolution, stating the nature of the improvement and what part or portion of the cost thereof shall be paid by special assessment on the property deemed specifically benefitted thereby, and what part, if any, shall be paid from the general fund of the City or other sources, and shall designate the district or lands upon which the special assessment shall be levied.
(Ord. 2542, passed 1-26-1976)
Before ordering any public improvement to be made, any part of the cost of which is to be defrayed by a special assessment to be levied upon the property deemed specially benefitted thereby, the City Council shall cause estimates of the cost thereof to be made and shall also, if deemed advisable, cause to be made plans of the work to be done and a plat of the locality to be improved, give notice thereof and of the proposed improvement, the district to be assessed and the time and place when the City Council will meet and consider any objections thereto, by publication of such notice, once in a newspaper published and circulated in the City of Flint at least ten (10) days prior to such hearing.
After receipt of such cost estimates, plans and plat, the City Council shall set a time and place for a hearing, at which time and place it will consider any objections to said project, and notice of said hearing shall be given to each owner of or party of interest in property proposed to be specially benefitted and assessed, whose names appear upon the last local tax assessment records, by mailing by first class mail, addressed to such owner or party at the address shown on the tax records, at least ten (10) days before the date of such hearing and by publication of such notice once in a newspaper published and circulated in the City of Flint at least ten days prior to such hearing.
(Ord. 2542, passed 1-26-1976; Ord. 2761, passed 2-25-1980)
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