(a) After the Board determines to make the improvements proposed, it shall adopt a resolution which shall contain:
(1) If the improvements are to be made by petition, a finding by the Board as to the sufficiency of the petition, which finding shall be final and conclusive.
(2) If the improvements are to be made without petition, a finding by the Board of such facts requiring authorization of improvements without petition.
(3) A general description of the improvements to be made, and the designation of the street or streets or parts thereof where the work is to be done.
(4) If the improvement directed to be made includes the construction of water mains or sewers, and in order to provide the mains or sewers in the street or streets to be improved, it is necessary to extend them beyond the limits of the street or streets, the resolution shall contain a provision for the necessary extension of such mains or sewers, and a further provision that the cost of such extension shall be assessed against the lots or parcels of land abutting the street or streets in which such extensions are made, but that assessments shall not be made until such time as the Board shall thereafter determine by appropriate resolution.
(5) If the improvement directed to be made is the paving of a roadway or part thereof, or the construction of sidewalks, the resolution may, but need not, contain a direction that the owner of each lot abutting the part of the street to be improved connect his lot by means of laterals with water mains, gas or sewer pipes, or any one or more thereof, located in the street adjacent to his premises in accordance with the requirements governing the laying of laterals, and that unless the owners cause laterals to be laid on or before a date specified in the resolution, the date to be not less than 30 days after the date of the resolution, the Board will cause the same to be laid.
(6) A designation of the proportion of the cost of the improvements to be assessed against abutting property, and of the number of equal annual installments in which assessments may be paid.
(b) Publication and Posting of Notice. The resolution after its passage shall be published at least once in some newspaper of general circulation in the Town which is qualified to carry legal notices, or if there be no such newspaper, the resolution shall be posted in three public places in the Town for at least five days, except that in any case where the Board directed that the notice should be served or mailed instead of being published, the resolution ordering the improvements need not be either published or posted.
(Session Laws of 1973, Chapter 386) (Ord. 2004-45, passed 4-4-2004)