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

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The City shall pay such part of the cost and expense of improvements for which such special assessments are levied, as Council deems just, which part shall not be less than one 50th of all such cost and expense; and in addition thereto the City shall pay the cost of intersections; and Council may provide for the pay- ment of the City's portion of all such improvements by the issuance of bonds or notes therefor, and may levy taxes, in addition to all other taxes authorized by law, to pay such bonds or notes and the interest authorized by law. Council may provide for the transferring to the General Fund of such portion of the proceeds of special assessments or of the proceeds of bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of special assessments, and of the proceeds of bonds or notes issued or taxes levied to provide funds for the payment of the City's share of the cost of improvements, as is equal to the estimated cost of the engineering and inspec- tion done or to be done directly by the City in connection with said improve- ment. 1EINFIrRato wMal1910 WIM111910113 tJ 110IN 01u I_WIWI Council may provide in whole or in part the cost of replacing any improvement existing in a street at the time of the adoption of this chapter by levying special assessments as provided in this chapter, but any assessment for such replace- ment in less than 20 years from date of a prior assessment for the improvement to be replaced shall be limited to a sum not in excess of 33 and one third percent of the cost of such improvement. 141.16. SUBSEQUENT IMPROVEMENTS. Every ordinance providing for an improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments shall contain an estimate by the Director of Public Works of the life of the proposed improvement. Any assessment thereafter made for re- placing such improvement within such period of estimated life shall be limited to a sum not in excess of 33 and one third percent of the cost of such replace- ment. Assessments for replacements at or after the expiration of such estimated period of life shall be subject to no limitation except as provided for assessments for original improvements. iUflffiAL1 1177" 4Jifll `►Ir1►RMONT.Y.YOf.ITAIOUINM 101110 11EYItll.S Upon the completion of any improvement, the Director of Finance shall rebate to the then owner of the property which shall have been assessed. 141.18. SEWER AND WATER CONNECTIONS. The Director of Public Works may compel the making of sewer and water con- nections whenever, in view of contemplated street improvements or as a sanitary regulation, sewer or water connections should in the Director's judgment be constructed. The Director shall cause written notice of the Director's determina- tion thereof to be given to the owner of each lot or parcel of land to which such connections are to be made, which notice shall state the number and character of connections required. Such notice shall be served by a person designated by the Director of Public Works, in the manner provided for the service of summons in civil actions. Nonresidents of the City, or persons who cannot be found, may be served by one publication of notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the City, which notice shall state the time within which such connection shall be constructed; and if they be not constructed within the said time, the work may be done by the City and the cost thereof, together with a penalty of five percent (5