(A) Whenever the governing body deems it necessary to make any improvements allowed by statute which are to be funded by a levy of special assessment on the property especially benefitted, the governing body shall by ordinance create a paving, graveling or other improvement district and, after the passage, approval and publication or posting of such ordinance, shall publish notice of the creation of any such district for six days in a legal newspaper of the municipality, if a daily newspaper, or for two consecutive weeks if it is a weekly newspaper.
(B) If no legal newspaper is published in the municipality, the publication shall be in a legal newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. If the owners of the record title representing more than 50% of the front footage of the property directly abutting on the street or alley to be improved file with the Municipal Clerk within 20 days after the first publication of such notice written objections to the creation of such district, such improvement shall not be made as provided in such ordinance, but such ordinance shall be repealed. If objections are not filed against the district in the time and manner prescribed in this section, the governing body shall immediately cause such work to be done or such improvement to be made, shall contract for the work or improvement and shall levy assessments on the lots and parcels of land abutting on or adjacent to such street or alley especially benefitted in such district in proportion to such benefits to pay the cost of such improvement.
(Prior Code, § 8-314) (Ord. 96-27, passed 4-9-1996)