Whenever it has determined by ordinance that it is necessary to construct, enlarge, or improve a system of storm or sanitary sewerage for the municipal corporation or any part thereof, including sewage disposal works, treatment plants, and sewage pumping stations, or a water supply system for the City of Maumee or any part thereof including mains, dams, reservoirs, wells, intakes, purification works, and pumping stations, and that any such improvement shall be constructed, enlarged, or improved, may levy upon property to be benefited in Maumee an assessment upon the benefited lots and lands within the corporation or such part thereof, apportioned according to benefits or to the tax valuation or partly by one method and partly by the other, as the legislative authority determines for the purpose of paying the costs of general and detailed plans, specifications, estimates, preparation of the tentative assessment, financing, and legal services incident to the preparation of such plans, and a plan for financing the proposed improvements.
Whenever it has determined by ordinance to construct sidewalks, curbs, or gutters and levy an assessment therefor, city council may require the construction or repair of sidewalks, curbs, or gutters within the municipal corporation by the owners of lots or lands abutting thereon, and upon the failure of such owners to construct or repair such sidewalks, curbs, or gutters within the time prescribed in the resolution, may cause such sidewalks, curbs, or gutters to be constructed or repaired and may assess the total cost thereof against the lots or lands abutting thereon.
The entire cost may be assessed for sprinkling, sweeping, cleaning, removing snow from and treating the surface of municipal streets, alleys, and public ways.
City Council shall limit all other assessments to the special benefits conferred upon the property assessed, and in no case shall there be levied on any lot or parcel of land any assessments for any or all purposes within a period of five (5) years in excess of thirty-three and one-third per cent (33-1/3%) of the actual value thereof after the improvement is made.
(Ord. 007-2023. Passed 2-6-23.)