(A) Before ordering any public improvement, when any part of the expense is to be defrayed by special assessment, and before confirming the assessment roll, the Village Council shall set a date for the review of the necessity for the proposed improvement and assessment and shall cause a notice to be given to each owner of an interest in the property to be assessed, whose name(s) appear upon the last local tax assessment records, by first-class mail addressed to the owner(s) at the address shown on the tax records, at least ten days before the date of the hearing, and shall cause a notice to be published once, not less than ten days prior to the date set for the review, in a newspaper of general circulation in the village. Any person objecting to the proposed improvement and the assessment against lands owned by him or her may file objections thereto, in writing, with the Village Clerk.
(B) Notice of public hearing shall be issued after the Village Council adopts Standard Resolution No.3, which shall be in the following form:
"WHEREAS, the Village Council has ordered the Assessor to prepare a Special Assessment Roll for the purpose of defraying the special assessment district's share of the cost of the following described public improvement:
AND WHEREAS, the Assessor has prepared said Special Assessment Roll and has reported the same to the Village Council with his/her certificate attached thereto.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that:
1) Said Special Assessment Roll shall be filed in the Office of the Village Clerk.
2) The Village Council and the Village Assessor shall meet at the Village Municipal Building on ________, 20__, at ____ o'clock P.M. for the purpose of hearing any person objecting to the necessity for improvement and the assessment against lands owned by such person.
3) The Village Clerk is hereby ordered to cause notice of the hearing of necessity and to review the Special Assessment Roll to be published in the newspaper of general circulation in the Village at least once, not less than ten (10) full days prior to the date set for the hearing of necessity and for reviewing said Special Assessment Roll, and shall cause a notice to be given to each owner of an interest in property to be assessed whose name appears upon the last local tax assessment records by first class mail to such owner at the address shown on the tax records, at least ten (10) days before such hearing.
4) The notice of the hearing of necessity and review of the Special Assessment Roll shall be in substantially the following form:
MEETING TO REVIEW THE NECESSITY FOR ________ AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ROLL NUMBER __ AND TO HEAR OBJECTIONS TO THE NECESSITY OF THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT AND SAID SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS ASSESSED AGAINST SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NUMBER __ THE VILLAGE OF HOMER, MICHIGAN:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Village Council will meet at the Village Municipal Building on the ____ day of ________ , 20__ at __ o'clock P.M. for the purpose of reviewing the necessity for ________ and said Special Assessment Roll Number __ and of hearing any and all objections to the necessity of the public improvement and said special assessments made in the matter of construction of the following described improvement:
The Assessment Roll is on file in the Office of the Village Clerk for public examination. The special assessments therein contained have been assessed according to the law against the parcels of land constituting Special Assessment District Number __ which district is described as follows:
The above assessment and all proceedings upon which they are based shall not be contestable, unless suit to contest the validity thereof is instituted within thirty (30) days after the date of confirmation of said Special Assessment Roll Number __."
(Prior Code, § 442.08)