The Commission shall prescribe by ordinance the complete special assessment procedure governing the initiation of projects, preparation of plans and cost estimates, creation of districts, making and confirming of assessment rolls, correction of errors in the rolls, collection of assessments and any other matters concerning the making of improvements by the special assessment method.
Such ordinance shall be subject to the following provisions:
(1) No resolution finally determining to proceed with establishing any special assessment district for the making of any public improvement shall be passed until cost estimates have been prepared and a public hearing has been held on the advisability of so proceeding, which hearing shall be held not less than ten days after notice thereof has been published and sent by first class mail to all property owners in the proposed district as shown by the current assessment roll of the city.
(2) No special assessment roll shall be finally confirmed until after a meeting of the Commission has been held for the purpose of reviewing such roll, which meeting shall be held not less than ten days after notice thereof has been published and sent by first class mail to all property owners in the proposed district as shown by the current assessment roll of the city.
(3) No original special assessment roll shall be confirmed except by the affirmative vote of five members of the Commission if prior to such confirmation written objections to the proposed improvement have been filed by the owners of property which will be required to bear more than fifty per cent of the amount of such special assessment.
(4) No public improvement to be financed in whole or part by special assessment shall be made before the confirmation of the special assessment roll for such improvement.
Statutory reference:
Powers re: special assessments, see M.C.L.A. §§ 117.4a, 117.4b, 117.4d, 117.5