Loading...
Whenever the City Council has acquired jurisdiction to order two or more improvements, as provided for herein, it may, instead of adopting a separate ordinance ordering the work to be done for each proceeding, including any number of proceedings in one ordinance directing such work to be done; provided, however, that such ordinance shall include a reference to each Ordinance of Intention, its number, and the name of each such district as designated in the respective Ordinance of Intention.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.
Amended by: Ord. No. 86,792.
Notwithstanding the validity of any penalty of 10 per cent of the amount payable and delinquent on any assessment or installment, heretofore or hereafter added thereto for delinquency as provided in this chapter, the City Engineer of the City shall have authority prior to sale of the property for delinquency and upon the payment of the balance due and payable on the assessment or installment without such penalty, to waive the payment of and to cancel such penalty under the following conditions:
The said City Engineer shall be reasonably satisfied from investigation of the facts that error or delay in the work of City employees in connection with the computation, entering, posting or copying the records or accounts, or the preparation or mailing of bills or invoices was direct and principal cause for failure of the property owner or agent to receive the property owner’s or agent’s correct bill or invoice in reasonable time and that if such bill or invoice had been so received the owner or agent would have paid the necessary amounts before delinquency.
Whenever a penalty is waived and cancelled as herein authorized a statement thereof and of circumstances warranting the same shall be kept in the office of the Bureau of Engineering, and the fact of cancellation, with a reference to the statement, shall be marked on the records of the assessment or of the bill or invoice for payment for the delinquency of which the penalty was added.
After the thirtieth of June each year the said City Engineer shall certify to the Board of Public Works the total number and amount of such waived and cancelled penalties during the fiscal year ending on that date; that each waiver and cancellation has been investigated and is authorized by this section; and, particularly, the option that the penalty in each case was added for a delinquency which resulted directly and principally from error or delay in the work of City employee.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.
Amended by: Ord. No. 108,312; Ord. No. 149,941,* Eff. 8-15-77.
The City Council hereby declares that it is its intention in adopting this procedural chapter to exercise and make use of the power and authority granted and conferred upon it by the City Charter and declare that this procedure shall be additional or alternative to any procedure established by State law. The election of the City Council to proceed under the provisions of this chapter shall be expressed in the Ordinance of Intention of the improvement to be made.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.
Except in the description in the Ordinance of Intention and in the Notices of Improvement, the District and which is to be assessed to pay for the costs of such work or improvement may be described generally by a designation or designations adopted in the report of the Board of Public Works, which designation shall thereafter be approved in the Ordinance of Intention.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.