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ARTICLE VIII: SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
SECTION 8.01 GENERAL POWER.
   The City Council shall have the power to determine the necessity of any local or public improvement with or without a petition therefrom and to determine that the whole or any part of the expense thereof shall be defrayed by special assessment upon the property especially benefitted, provided that all special assessments levied shall be in proportion to the benefits derived from the improvement.
SECTION 8.02 PROCEDURE.
   The City Council shall prescribe by ordinance the complete special assessment procedure concerning the initiation of projects, plans and specifications, estimates of costs, notice of hearings, making and confirming assessment rolls, and the correction of errors therein, collection of special assessments, and any other matters concerning the making of improvements by the special assessment method, subject to the provisions of this Charter. Notice of hearings shall be given by first class mail to all affected property owners. When the City may, by law, participate in intergovernmental improvements, the cost of which may be defrayed in whole or in part by special assessment, the procedure therefore shall be as provided by the law permitting such participation. If such procedure is not so provided, the procedure established by and under authority of this section shall govern.
(Amendment adopted by electorate, 11-4-14)
SECTION 8.03 OBJECTION TO IMPROVEMENT.
   If, at or prior to final confirmation of any special assessment, more than 50% of the number of owners of privately owned real property to be assessed for any improvement, or in case of paving or similar improvements, the owners of more than 50% of the frontage to be assessed for any such improvement, shall object in writing to the proposed improvement, the improvement shall not be made by proceedings authorized by this Charter without a unanimous vote of all seven members of the City Council, provided that this section shall not apply to sidewalk construction.
SECTION 8.04 INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS.
   The City Council may provide for the payment of special assessments in annual installments, not to exceed 30 in number, the first installment being due upon confirmation of the assessment roll and the deferred installments being due annually thereafter, or in the discretion of the Council, may be spread upon and made a part of each annual city tax roll thereafter until all are paid. Interest may be charged upon deferred installments at a rate not to exceed 6% per year payable annually. Under any installment plan adopted, the whole or any deferred installments with accrued interest to date of payment may be paid in advance of the due dates established.
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