CHAPTER 9
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS

Section 9.1 Improvements.

The procedure for making, altering, vacating, or abandoning a public improvement shall:

9.1.1 Be governed by general ordinance or, to the extent not so governed, by applicable state law. Proposed action on a public improvement that is not declared by two-thirds of the councilors to be needed at once shall be suspended for six months upon remonstrances by owners of land to be specifically assessed for the improvement. The number of owners necessary to suspend the action shall be prescribed by general ordinance. A second such remonstrance suspends the action only with the consent of council.

9.1.2 In this section “owner” means the record holder of legal title or, as to land being purchased under a land-sale contract that is recorded or verified in writing by the record holder of legal title, the purchaser.

Section 9.2 Special Assessments.

The procedure for fixing, levying, collecting and enforcing the payment of special assessment for local public improvements or any other services to be charged against real property shall be governed by general ordinance.