(A) After the Village Clerk has presented the report required in § 30.05 for making any local public improvement as requested in the resolution of the Council, and the Council has reviewed the report, a resolution may be passed approving the local public improvement, setting forth the nature thereof, prescribing what part or proportion of the cost of such improvement shall be paid by special assessment upon the property specially benefitted, determination of benefits received by affected properties, and what part, if any, shall be paid by the village at-large; designating the limits of the special assessment district to be affected, designating whether property shall be assessed according to frontage or other benefits, placing the complete information on file in the office of the Clerk, where it shall be available for examination, and directing the Clerk to give notice of public hearing on the proposed improvement, at which time and place opportunity will be given interested persons to be heard.
(B) Notice shall be given by one publication in a newspaper published or circulated within the village and by first-class mail addressed to each owner of or person in interest in property to be assessed as shown by the last general tax assessment roll of the village, the publication and mailing to be made at least ten full days before the date of the hearing. The hearing required by this section may be held at any regular, adjourned, or special meeting of the Council. The notice of the hearing shall include a statement that appearance and protest at the hearing in the special assessment proceedings is required by the landowner, either orally at the hearing or in writing at or before the hearing, to preserve his or her right of appeal of the special assessment to the State Tax Tribunal.
(C) If the improvement is to be the construction of a sewer, drain or watercourse, the procedures required in Chapter 7, Section 26, of the General Law Village Act (M.C.L.A. § 67.26) shall be followed in addition to the requirements of this subchapter.
(Ord. 38, passed - -00)