§ 18-3. Employment of helpers to inspect work performed by special assessment; compensation of same; cost of same to be paid from special assessment funds; certificate of total cost of special assessment projects and collection of same.

1.

The commissioner of public works, or the city engineer, may employ such help as he may deem necessary to secure the proper inspection and examination of all work in progress under his supervision where such work is to be paid for in whole or in part by local assessment.

2.

An adequate number of inspectors, as determined by the commissioner of public works or the city engineer, may be employed or otherwise retained and shall be paid wages and benefits as authorized by the board of estimate or shall be paid pursuant to terms of professional services contract or contracts as authorized by the board of estimate.

3.

The expense of such inspection and all other expenses incurred by the city through any department or officer in the making of any such improvement shall be certified to the comptroller by the head of the department in which they were incurred and shall be added to and assessed and collected as part of the cost of the work or improvement to which they are incident and to be paid out of the moneys received on account of such improvement.

4.

Upon the completion of any such improvement the commissioner of public works, if the work of the improvement was performed under his supervision, or the city engineer, if such work was performed under such city engineer's supervision, shall certify that fact to the comptroller and the common council, and the comptroller shall thereupon certify the total cost thereof, including all expenses incidental thereto and connected therewith as herein provided, to the assessors and common council who shall thereupon forthwith proceed to cause the same, or any deficiency in the amount theretofore assessed for the same, to be assessed, levied upon and collected from the property liable to taxation therefor in the form and manner provided by law, or in case the amount of the assessment therefor shall exceed the total cost of the improvement, then that the surplus be rebated to the person entitled thereto.

(N.Y. Laws 1905, Ch. 684, § 3; N.Y. Laws 1916, Ch. 415, § 1; N.Y. Laws 1920, Ch. 359, § 1; L.L. No. 1-1928, § 3; L.L. No. 14-1987, § 1)