PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS
Article 13.--PARKS, PARKWAYS, BOULEVARDS AND PLAYGROUNDS
13-1327.Assessments for change of grade.
Whenever the board of park commissioners of any city shall by resolution
declare and order that the whole or any part of the cost of changing the
grade of any street, avenue, parkway, or boulevard, or the cost of widening
or extending any parkway or boulevard, ought to be paid by the levy of
special assessments, upon real estate situated in any one or more park
districts, it shall order such resolution entered upon its journal, and
forthwith appoint three freeholders, residents of such city, as assessors,
who shall qualify by taking an oath to faithfully, honestly and impartially
discharge their duties as such assessors, and it shall thereupon become
their duty, upon actual view and investigation, to assess the lands which
will, in their opinion, to any extent be specially benefited by such
improvement, the proportion of the estimated cost thereof which each lot,
piece or parcel of land so benefited ought justly to be charged, and make
report forthwith to such board of park commissioners, containing an
accurate description of each tract of land deemed to be specially benefited
and the name of the owner, if known, the actual value of each of said
tracts, exclusive of improvements thereon and without the proposed
improvements, and what part or amount of the total estimated cost should be
assessed and charged against the same on account of benefits, if such
improvement be made.
History: L. 1907, ch. 115, § 28; March 4; R.S. 1923, § 13-1327.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS
Article 13.--PARKS, PARKWAYS, BOULEVARDS AND PLAYGROUNDS
13-1327.Assessments for change of grade.
Whenever the board of park commissioners of any city shall by resolution
declare and order that the whole or any part of the cost of changing the
grade of any street, avenue, parkway, or boulevard, or the cost of widening
or extending any parkway or boulevard, ought to be paid by the levy of
special assessments, upon real estate situated in any one or more park
districts, it shall order such resolution entered upon its journal, and
forthwith appoint three freeholders, residents of such city, as assessors,
who shall qualify by taking an oath to faithfully, honestly and impartially
discharge their duties as such assessors, and it shall thereupon become
their duty, upon actual view and investigation, to assess the lands which
will, in their opinion, to any extent be specially benefited by such
improvement, the proportion of the estimated cost thereof which each lot,
piece or parcel of land so benefited ought justly to be charged, and make
report forthwith to such board of park commissioners, containing an
accurate description of each tract of land deemed to be specially benefited
and the name of the owner, if known, the actual value of each of said
tracts, exclusive of improvements thereon and without the proposed
improvements, and what part or amount of the total estimated cost should be
assessed and charged against the same on account of benefits, if such
improvement be made.
History: L. 1907, ch. 115, § 28; March 4; R.S. 1923, § 13-1327.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS
Article 13.--PARKS, PARKWAYS, BOULEVARDS AND PLAYGROUNDS
13-1327.Assessments for change of grade.
Whenever the board of park commissioners of any city shall by resolution
declare and order that the whole or any part of the cost of changing the
grade of any street, avenue, parkway, or boulevard, or the cost of widening
or extending any parkway or boulevard, ought to be paid by the levy of
special assessments, upon real estate situated in any one or more park
districts, it shall order such resolution entered upon its journal, and
forthwith appoint three freeholders, residents of such city, as assessors,
who shall qualify by taking an oath to faithfully, honestly and impartially
discharge their duties as such assessors, and it shall thereupon become
their duty, upon actual view and investigation, to assess the lands which
will, in their opinion, to any extent be specially benefited by such
improvement, the proportion of the estimated cost thereof which each lot,
piece or parcel of land so benefited ought justly to be charged, and make
report forthwith to such board of park commissioners, containing an
accurate description of each tract of land deemed to be specially benefited
and the name of the owner, if known, the actual value of each of said
tracts, exclusive of improvements thereon and without the proposed
improvements, and what part or amount of the total estimated cost should be
assessed and charged against the same on account of benefits, if such
improvement be made.
History: L. 1907, ch. 115, § 28; March 4; R.S. 1923, § 13-1327.
