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

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shall be in the manner provided by general laws for the appropriation of proper- ty to assess the amount of damage in each particular case. When Council deter- mines to assess the damages after the completion of the improvement, for which a claim for damages has been filed as provided in Section 141.07, the Director of Law shall, within 10 days after the completion of such improvement make written application as provided in this section in the case of the ascertainment of damages before the improvement was made, and the same proceedings shall be had. No person who claims damages arising from any cause shall commence a suit therefor against the City until he or she shall have filed a claim for such damages with the Director of Finance and 60 days shall have elapsed thereafter, to enable the City to take such steps as it may deem proper to settle or adjust the claim; but this provision shall not apply to an application for an injunction or other proceeding to which it may be necessary for such applicant to resort in case of urgent necessity. 141.10. WORK TO BE DONE. When Council shall have passed an ordinance directing an improvement to be made, to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments, the Director of Public Works shall, as provided by ordinance, either directly by the employment of labor, or by entering into a contract therefor as provided by law, cause the improvement to be made. 141.11. LANDS UNALLOTTED OR NOT ON DUPLICATE When special assessments are levied by the percentage of tax value of the prop- erty assessed or by the foot frontage of the property bounding and abutting upon the improvement, and there are lands subject to such assessment which are not assessed for taxation, the Director of Finance shall fix, for the purpose of such assessment, the value of such lots as they stand and of such lands at such depths as the Director of Finance considers a fair average of the depth of lots in the neighborhood, so that it will be a fair average of the assessed value of other lots in the neighborhood , and where lands are not subdivided into lots, but are as- sessed for taxation, the Director of Finance shall fix the value and the depth in the same manner; but the above rule shall not apply in making a special assess- ment according to benefits. 141.12. INTEREST ON ASSESSMENT BONDS. When bonds or notes are issued in anticipation of the collection of assessments, the interest thereon shall be treated as part of the cost of the improvement for which assessments may be made. 141.13. LIMITATION ON ASSESSMENTS Council shall limit all assessments to the special benefits conferred upon the property assessed, and in no case shall there be levied on any lot or parcel of land any assessments for any or all purposes within a period of five years, in ex- cess of 33 and one third percent of the actual value thereof after the improve- ment is made. Assessments levied for the construction of main sewers shall not exceed the sum that, in the opinion of Council, would be required to construct an ordinary street sewer or drain of sufficient capacity to drain or sewer the lots or lands to be assessed for such improvement, nor shall any lots or lands be as- sessed that do not need local drainage, or which are provided therewith. 141.14. CITY'S PORTION OF COST.