35-00 Proposed Second Amended Charter

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ARTICLE XVI. IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS . SECTION 1. LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. - Council may provide for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance, by contract or directly by the employment of labor, of ail things in the nature of locai improvements, and to provide for the payment of any part of the cost of any such improvement by levying and collecting special assessments upon abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited property. The amount assessed against the property specially benefited to pay for such local improvements shall not exceed the amount of benefits accruing to such property. Any cost for such improvement in excess of any sum assessed therefor shall be paid by the City. SECTION 2. METHODS. OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENT. Special assessments upon property deemed benefited by a public improvement, shall be by any one of the following methods: (a) By a percentage of the tax vaiue of the property assessed; (b) In proportion to the benefits which may result from the improvements; (c) By the foot frontage of the property bounding and abutting upon the improvement. SECTION 3. PKELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS. When it is deemed necessary to make a public improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessment, Council shall declare the necessity thereof by resolution, and such resolution shall include the method of assessment, the mode of payment, and the number of annuai installments. Such resolution shail thereupon be certified to the Director of Finance, who shall thereupon proceed to make an assessment report, in accordance with the method of assessment provided in the resolution, which report shall be filed .with Council, and shall show the lots and lands assessed, and the amount of the assessment as to each. Such special assessment shall be 39