35-00 Proposed Second Amended Charter

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acts of the City or its agents. The Board of Revision of Assessments shall report to Council all such claims for damages filed with it. SECTION 8. FINAL ASSESSMENT. When the Board of Revision of Assessment shall have made its final report to Council as to any improvement, if Council decides to proceed with the improvement an ordinance for the purpose shall be passed. Such ordinance shall set forth specifically the lots and lands to be assessed for the improvement, shall contain a statement of the general nature of the improvement, the character of the materials which may be bid upon therefor, the mode of payment therefor, a reference to the resolution theretofore passed for such improvement with date of its passage, and a statement of the intentio.n of Council to proceed therewith in accordance with such resolution and in accordance with the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles provided for such improvement. In setting forth specifically the lots and lands abutting upon the improvement and to be assessed therefor, it shall be sufficient to describe them as all the lots and lands abutting and abounding upon such improvement between and including the terminal of the improvement, and in describing those which do not so abut it shall be sufficient to describe the lots by their appropriate lot mm:tbers, and the lands by metes and bounds, and this rule of description shall apply in all proceedings in which lots and lands are to be charged with special assessment. Special assessments shall be payable by the owners of the property assessed at the time stipulated in the ordinance, and shall be a lien from the date of the assessment, upon the respective lots and parcels of land assessed, enforceable in the manner provided by general law. SECTION 9. DAMAGES ASSESSED. At the time of the passage of the ordinance determining to proceed with the improvement as 42