Whenever the Common Council shall have proceeded to improve any street or part of street, within the corporate limits of the City of Union, and shall have assessed the cost of the improvement to the property benefitted thereby or liable therefore, it shall be lawful for the owner of the property so assessed for the improvement in the sum of $25 or more, at any time within ten days after notice of the assessment is first published, to file with the City Recorder a written application to pay the assessments in installments. The application shall state that the applicant and property owner does hereby waive all irregularities or defects, jurisdictional or otherwise, in the proceedings to improve the street for which the assessment is levied and in the apportionment of the cost thereof. The application shall contain a provision that the applicant and property owner agree to pay the assessment in ten annual installments with interest at the same rate on all of the unpaid assessments as that expressed in the bonds issued to pay for the improvements but not exceeding 6%. The application shall also contain a statement by lots, blocks or other convenient description of the property of the applicant assessed for the improvement. No application shall be received and filed by the Recorder if the amount of the assessment, together with any previous unpaid assessments for street improvements assessed against the same property, shall equal or exceed the valuation of the property as shown by the last tax roll of the county in which it is situated. The Council shall select a competent person to inspect the improvement under the direction of the Street Commissioner; provided, that application for the bonding shall be received by the City Recorder in cases where the amount of the assessment, together with unpaid previous assessments for street improvements against the property, shall exceed the valuation of the property as shown by the last tax roll of the county, if the owner shall, before making the application pay in cash into the Treasury of the city, the excess of unpaid assessments over the valuation as shown by the last tax roll.
(Ord. 218, passed 5-19-1941)