(A) Property owner or occupant. The Council may place the primary responsibility upon the property owner or occupant to do the work authorized herein themselves, except in the case of street sprinkling or other dust treatment, alley repair, tree trimming, care and removal or the operation of a street lighting system, upon notice before the work is undertaken.
(B) Service cost assessments. As authorized under § 8.05 of the Charter, the Council may provide by ordinance that the cost of city services to streets, sidewalks or other public or private property may be assessed against property benefitted and may be collected in the same manner as special assessments. The costs shall not be deemed to be “special assessments” for the purposes set forth in § 8.03 of the Charter. The city services shall include, but not be limited to, the cost of snow, ice or rubbish removal from sidewalks, weed elimination from streets or private property, removal or elimination of public health or safety hazards from private property, installation or repair of water service lines, street sprinkling or other dust treatment of streets, the trimming and care of trees and the removal of unsound trees from any street, the treatment and removal of insect infested or diseased trees on private property, the repair of sidewalks and alleys or the operation of a street lighting system.
(C) Procedure for assessment. Any special assessment levied under division (B) above shall be payable in single installment or by up to ten equal annual installments as the Council may provide. With this exception, §§ 37.061, 37.062 and 37.067 of this chapter shall apply to assessments made under this section. However, nothing shall prevent the property owner or other person served to pay the city directly the charges when due prior to the assessment herein being authorized and certified.
(D) Issuance of obligations. After a contract for any of the work enumerated in division (B) above has been let or the work commenced, the Council may issue obligations to defray the expenses of any such work financed, in whole or in part, by special charges and assessments imposed upon benefitted property under this section. Sections 37.085 through 37.093 of this chapter shall apply to such obligations with the following modifications:
(1) The obligations shall be payable not more than two years from the date of issuance;
(2) The amount of such obligations issued at one time shall not exceed the cost of the work during the ensuing six months as estimated by the Council; and
(3) A separate improvement fund shall be set up for each of the enumerated services referred to in division (B) above and financed under this section. Proceeds of special charges as well as special assessments and taxes shall be credited to such improvement fund. Any balance of the proceeds of any obligations remaining therein may be used to pay the cost, in whole or in part, of any other improvement instituted pursuant to this chapter or may be transferred to the fund established under § 37.004 of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 202.14)