Article 27.--PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS; IMPROVEMENT AND SERVICE DISTRICTS
19-2774.Same; special road and street improvements; petition;
engineer's report; notice to owners; protests; special assessments; bonds.
That whenever a petition, signed by not less than majority of the owners
of land abutting upon a street, road, alley, or other public traveled way
within the improvement district or signed by the owners of all of the
property located within the district, is presented to the board of
directors praying that certain improvements, to be described in the
petition, be made and that the cost thereof be assessed as special
assessment against the properties abutting on such street, road, alley or
other public traveled way, the board of directors shall determine if the
number of signers is adequate and if found sufficient the board of
directors shall have a competent registered engineer prepare plans,
estimates and determine the estimated cost for each tract or parcel
abutting on said proposed improvement. In the execution of this section
abutting property shall be considered as reaching halfway to the next
street, or road if the tract is platted into blocks but in no case shall
the benefited property be considered as extending more than three hundred
(300) feet from the property line of the street or road to be improved. The
engineer shall file a report with the secretary of the board showing the
nature and character of the proposed work, plans and specifications, and a
list of property owners and the estimated assessment against the property
owned by each.
The secretary of the board of directors shall notify each property owner
by registered mail the amount of the proposed assessment as set out in the
engineer's report and shall also state in said notice that, except as to
improvements the petition for which is signed by the owners of all of the
property within the district, if a majority of the resident property owners
do not file protest within twenty (20) days that the board of directors
will proceed to cause said work to be done. If the board of directors
determine that insufficient protest has been filed within the protest
period they shall cause said work to be done and levy special assessment or
in their discretion or if so set out in the original petition they may
authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds of the county therefor
to be payable in equal annual installments. Such bonds shall be issued as
provided by law, but no bonds shall be issued under this provision until
thirty (30) days after the last day of the protest period and during said
thirty (30) days any person against whose property any special assessment
shall have been levied may pay the same in full and thereby discharge his
property from the lien thereof.
History: L. 1945, ch. 180, § 22; L. 1969, ch. 156, § 13; L. 1974, ch. 122, §
19; March 18.
Article 27.--PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS; IMPROVEMENT AND SERVICE DISTRICTS
19-2774.Same; special road and street improvements; petition;
engineer's report; notice to owners; protests; special assessments; bonds.
That whenever a petition, signed by not less than majority of the owners
of land abutting upon a street, road, alley, or other public traveled way
within the improvement district or signed by the owners of all of the
property located within the district, is presented to the board of
directors praying that certain improvements, to be described in the
petition, be made and that the cost thereof be assessed as special
assessment against the properties abutting on such street, road, alley or
other public traveled way, the board of directors shall determine if the
number of signers is adequate and if found sufficient the board of
directors shall have a competent registered engineer prepare plans,
estimates and determine the estimated cost for each tract or parcel
abutting on said proposed improvement. In the execution of this section
abutting property shall be considered as reaching halfway to the next
street, or road if the tract is platted into blocks but in no case shall
the benefited property be considered as extending more than three hundred
(300) feet from the property line of the street or road to be improved. The
engineer shall file a report with the secretary of the board showing the
nature and character of the proposed work, plans and specifications, and a
list of property owners and the estimated assessment against the property
owned by each.
The secretary of the board of directors shall notify each property owner
by registered mail the amount of the proposed assessment as set out in the
engineer's report and shall also state in said notice that, except as to
improvements the petition for which is signed by the owners of all of the
property within the district, if a majority of the resident property owners
do not file protest within twenty (20) days that the board of directors
will proceed to cause said work to be done. If the board of directors
determine that insufficient protest has been filed within the protest
period they shall cause said work to be done and levy special assessment or
in their discretion or if so set out in the original petition they may
authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds of the county therefor
to be payable in equal annual installments. Such bonds shall be issued as
provided by law, but no bonds shall be issued under this provision until
thirty (30) days after the last day of the protest period and during said
thirty (30) days any person against whose property any special assessment
shall have been levied may pay the same in full and thereby discharge his
property from the lien thereof.
History: L. 1945, ch. 180, § 22; L. 1969, ch. 156, § 13; L. 1974, ch. 122, §
19; March 18.
Article 27.--PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS; IMPROVEMENT AND SERVICE DISTRICTS
19-2774.Same; special road and street improvements; petition;
engineer's report; notice to owners; protests; special assessments; bonds.
That whenever a petition, signed by not less than majority of the owners
of land abutting upon a street, road, alley, or other public traveled way
within the improvement district or signed by the owners of all of the
property located within the district, is presented to the board of
directors praying that certain improvements, to be described in the
petition, be made and that the cost thereof be assessed as special
assessment against the properties abutting on such street, road, alley or
other public traveled way, the board of directors shall determine if the
number of signers is adequate and if found sufficient the board of
directors shall have a competent registered engineer prepare plans,
estimates and determine the estimated cost for each tract or parcel
abutting on said proposed improvement. In the execution of this section
abutting property shall be considered as reaching halfway to the next
street, or road if the tract is platted into blocks but in no case shall
the benefited property be considered as extending more than three hundred
(300) feet from the property line of the street or road to be improved. The
engineer shall file a report with the secretary of the board showing the
nature and character of the proposed work, plans and specifications, and a
list of property owners and the estimated assessment against the property
owned by each.
The secretary of the board of directors shall notify each property owner
by registered mail the amount of the proposed assessment as set out in the
engineer's report and shall also state in said notice that, except as to
improvements the petition for which is signed by the owners of all of the
property within the district, if a majority of the resident property owners
do not file protest within twenty (20) days that the board of directors
will proceed to cause said work to be done. If the board of directors
determine that insufficient protest has been filed within the protest
period they shall cause said work to be done and levy special assessment or
in their discretion or if so set out in the original petition they may
authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds of the county therefor
to be payable in equal annual installments. Such bonds shall be issued as
provided by law, but no bonds shall be issued under this provision until
thirty (30) days after the last day of the protest period and during said
thirty (30) days any person against whose property any special assessment
shall have been levied may pay the same in full and thereby discharge his
property from the lien thereof.
History: L. 1945, ch. 180, § 22; L. 1969, ch. 156, § 13; L. 1974, ch. 122, §
19; March 18.