The owners, whether named in the assessment or not, and all other persons directly interested in any work or improvement provided for in this ordinance, or in the assessment, feeling aggrieved by any act or determination of the Board of Public Works in relation thereto, or having or making any objection to the fairness, correctness or legality of the assessment, or other act, determination or proceeding of the Board of Public Works or of the Council or other officer of the City, shall, within thirty (30) days after the date of the recording of the report, diagram and assessment of the Board of Public Works, as provided in the preceding section, appeal to the Council, as provided in this section, by briefly stating their objections in writing, and filing the same with the Clerk of said Council. Notice of the time and place of the hearing thereof, which time and place shall be fixed by the Council, briefly referring to the work or improvement and to the appeal and to the acts, determinations or proceedings objected to or complained of, shall be published for five (5) days in a daily newspaper, published and circulated in the City. Upon such appeal and hearing the Council may remedy and correct any error or informality in the proceedings and revise and correct any of the acts or determinations of the Board of Public Works relative to said work; may confirm, amend, set aside, alter, modify, change or correct the assessment in such manner as to it shall seem just, and may instruct and direct the Board of Public Works to correct its report assessment and diagram to conform to the decisions of said Council in relation thereto, at its option. All the decisions and determinations of said Council, upon notice and hearing as aforesaid, shall be final and conclusive upon all persons entitled to appeal under the provisions of this section, as to all errors, informalities and irregularities which said Council might have remedied and avoided, and no assessment shall be held invalid except upon appeal to the said Council, as provided in this section, for any error, informality or other defect in any proceedings prior to the assessment, or in the assessment itself, where the Ordinance of Intention of the Council to order the work to be done, for which the assessment is made, has been actually published as required by this ordinance before the passage of the ordinance ordering the work to be done.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.