[CC 1975 §68.700]
When the Board shall deem it necessary to pave, macadamize,
gutter, curb, grade, or otherwise improve the roadway of any street
or avenue for a distance of not more than twelve hundred (1200) feet
and so as to connect at both ends with similar improvements, either
on the same street or avenue, or other streets or avenues, or on the
same street or avenue and another street or avenue, the Board shall
declare the necessity of such work, by resolution.
[CC 1975 §68.710]
The resolution so adopted shall contain a statement that any
person desiring to do so may appear before the Board, at a time specified
in the resolution, and be heard on the question of the necessity of
making of the improvement.
[CC 1975 §68.720]
The Board shall cause the resolution to be published in some
newspaper published in the City, and the publication shall run for
seven (7) consecutive insertions in a daily paper or for two (2) consecutive
insertions in a weekly paper.
[CC 1975 §68.730]
If any person shall appear at the time specified, he/she shall
be heard by the Board, and the Board shall, by resolution, declare
the result of the hearing to be a reaffirmance of the necessity for
the making of the improvement, or the contrary, as the Board may then
decide; and if no one appears, or if, after a hearing, the Board reaffirms
the necessity of making the improvement, the work shall proceed.
[CC 1975 §68.740]
The cost of making the improvement shall be defrayed by the levy of a special assessment upon all lots and pieces of ground fronting or abutting upon the street or avenue improved, and apportioned as provided in Section 535.040 of this Chapter.
[CC 1975 §68.750]
All lands, lots, and public parks, owned by the City or County,
and all other public lands, and public cemeteries (but not cemetery
lots), owned by public, private or municipal corporations, shall be
liable for their proportionate part of the cost of the improvement
work done, and tax bills shall be issued against such property as
against other property. The owner of such property shall, out of its
General Revenue Funds, pay the tax bills so issued, and if not paid,
the owner of the bills may sue thereon and recover a general judgment
against the City, County, or other public corporation against whose
property the bill or bills have been issued. Railroad right-of-way
may be assessed for improvements in the same manner as other properties,
and tax bills issued therefor shall be collected in the same manner
as provided herein for collection of bills issued against public property.
