Before ordering any work done or improvement made or acquisition which is authorized by this article, the Council shall pass an ordinance declaring its intention so to do which ordinance shall be referred to herein as the Ordinance of Intention. It shall be sufficient for said ordinance to briefly describe the work or improvement or acquisition in general terms, referring to the maps, plans, profiles and specifications therefor on file in the office of the City Engineer for further particulars, which said maps, plans, profiles and specifications shall govern and control for all details and description. For a description of the extent of the District proposed to be assessed, reference may be made to the Assessment District Map on file in the office of the City Clerk. Unless the hearing of objections shall not be required, as hereinafter provided, said ordinance shall fix a day, hour and place when and where all protests against the proposed work or improvements or acquisition, extent of the proposed Assessment District, manner of making the assessment, and the estimated assessment against any of the lots or parcels of land in said District, will be heard by the Council, which time shall be not less than fifteen (15) days nor more than sixty (60) days from the date of the passage of said ordinance. Said ordinance shall state that the improvement or acquisition therein contemplated is to be performed under the provisions of this article.
The hearing of objections shall not be required if the Council, when considering passage of the Ordinance of Intention, finds and determines by a four-fifths vote of all members thereof that all of the owners of lots or lands liable to be assessed, or their agents, who shall make oath that they are such agents, have signed and filed a petition waiving said hearing with the Clerk on or before the fifth day prior to the day that the resolution of intention is to be considered for passage declaring that they do not have any objections to the proposed work or work and acquisition, to any proposed change in contour or grade of land or streets, to the extent of the District to be assessed, to the manner of making the assessment or to the estimated assessment against any of the lots or parcels of land in said District, or any other objections, and requesting that the hearing of objections shall not be required.
Upon the adoption of said Ordinance of Intention the Clerk shall cause the same to be published once in a daily newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City. Such publication shall be made not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the public hearing as stated in said ordinance. If the hearing of objections is not required, the publication shall be within ten days after the date of the passage of said ordinance.
When serial bonds are to be issued to represent the costs and expenses of the proposed work, improvement or acquisition, a declaration to this effect shall be made in the Ordinance of Intention specifying the term and rate of interest which the bonds shall bear. The Ordinance of Intention shall also contain a statement of the estimated cost of the proposed improvement and the cost of proposed acquisition. In the event the Council elects to purchase the warrant, assessment and diagram, as hereinafter provided, a statement to this effect shall be contained therein.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 126,186.