§ 18-18. Special assessment improvements upon petition from abutting property owners—Generally.
Latest version.
The owners of at least one-third of the total number of front feet lineal measurement
or at least one-third in number of the owners of property on the street or part thereof
upon which it is proposed to make the improvement of sprinkling, watering, flushing
or cleaning or constructing or reconstructing sidewalks or constructing a sewer may
petition or consent to the making of any such improvement. Also, at least two-thirds
of the total number of the owners of property on a street without a concrete base
or part thereof may petition or consent that the street or part thereof be regraded
and/or be overlaid with a hot-mix asphalt. Such petition or consent must be in writing,
signed, executed and acknowledged and proved in like manner as a deed to be recorded.
It shall be filed with the city clerk and shall be thereupon referred by the common
council to the assessors for examination and certification. If after examination the
assessors, or a majority of them, shall report and certify to the common council that
the number of property owners required have executed such petition or consent and
the common council shall determine to make such improvement, thereupon the same notices
shall be served and the same steps and proceedings be had and taken as in the case
of a like improvement initiated by the common council without petition or consent
of property owners. The certificate of the assessors shall be endorsed upon the petition
or consent and shall be presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated.
