20-18 Enact Chapter 141 Special Assessments to Reflect 3rd Amended Charter

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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 assess- ment, the mode of payment, and the number of annual installments. Such resolu- tion shall thereupon be certified to the Director of Finance, who shall thereupon proceed to make an assessment report, in accordance with the method of as- sessment 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 payable in such number of annual in- stallments and at such times as the legislative authority prescribes, provided that the number of annual installments of any assessment shall not exceed the maxi- mum maturity for which bonds may lawfully be issued in anticipation thereof. If no period of such maximum maturity is specified then the period for which such assessments shall be levied shall not be less than one year, but may not exceed the estimated life of the usefulness of the improvement as certified by the Direc- tor of Finance. 141.04. NOTICES SERVED Upon the filing of such report the Director of Finance shall cause written notice to be served upon the owner of each lot or parcel of land assessed, or upon the persons in whose name the same may be assessed for taxation upon the tax du- plicate, said notice to be served as is provided for service of summons in civil actions; and as to all nonresidents and persons who cannot be found, publication of such notice shall be as prescribed in Chapter 107. Said notice shall contain a statement of the character of the proposed improvement, the fact that the as- sessment report has been filed with Council, the rate of such assessments, the number of installments, and shall set a time and place when complaints and claims will be heard before the Board of Revision of Assessments. 141.05. PLANS OF PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS. At the time of the passage of the resolution provided in Section 141.03 there shall be on file in the office of the Director of Public Works, plans, specifica- tions, estimates and profiles of the proposed improvement showing the proposed grade of the street and improvement after completion, with reference to the property abutting thereon, which plans, specifications, estimates and profiles shall be open to the inspection of all persons interested. 141.06. BOARD OF REVISION OF ASSESSMENTS. The Board of Revision of Assessments established by Section 131.02 shall hear all claims and objections as to the character of all improvements to be paid for in part or in whole by special assessments, the necessity therefor, and the equity of the assessments as provided in the assessment report. A majority of those consti- tuting the Board of Revision of Assessments shall determine all complaints and objections submitted to it, and as to each improvement the Board shall, after such hearing, amend, equalize and adjust the assessment report, and shall report its findings as to the necessity for the improvements and any amendments it di- rects in the assessments, to Council. 141.07. CLAIMS. An owner of a lot or of land bounding and abutting upon a proposed improve- ment claiming that he or she will sustain damage by reason of the improvement shall present such claim to the Board of Revision of Assessments within two