(A) If the owners of record representing more than 60% of the front footage of the directly abutting property subject to assessment for sidewalk improvements petition the City Council to make such improvements, the City Council shall proceed as though such construction had been ordered by it. Upon the petition of any freeholder who is an abutting owner in fee simple of property subject to assessment for sidewalk improvements, the City Council may order permanent sidewalks built in accordance with this chapter upon the freeholder’s making, executing and delivering to the city an agreement to the effect that the petitioning freeholder will pay the engineering service fee; all other incidental construction costs, until paid, shall be a perpetual lien upon the real estate along which the freeholder desires such sidewalk to be constructed and the petitioner gives and grants to the city the right to assess and levy the costs of such construction against the freeholder’s real estate abutting the sidewalk improvement and promises to pay such costs with interest. The total cost of such improvement shall be levied, allocated, financed and specially assessed as provided by law.
(B) In the event the property owner is a nonresident of the county in which the property lies, the city shall, before levying any special assessment against such property, send to the last known address of the nonresident property owner by certified mail, return receipt requested, a copy of any notice required by law to be published. The last known address shall be that address listed on the current tax rolls at the time such required notice was first published.
(Prior Code, § 5-306)