Article 107
STREET IMPROVEMENT PROCEEDINGS
Sections:
107.01 Street improvements to accord with plans and specifications.
107.02 Assessment of cost by foot-front rule – Reductions.
107.03 Completion certificate by city engineer – Council approval and certification of assessments.
107.04 Assessment payment – Installments – Prepayment and delinquency.
107.05 Use of moneys collected – Records and accounts of payment.
107.01 Street improvements to accord with plans and specifications.
All grading, paving, macadamizing or other improvement to any street or part thereof, including curbing and draining by storm sewer or otherwise, and also including sidewalks when part of a paving improvement, shall be done in accordance with the plans and specifications as provided by the city engineer and on file in his office at the time bids are requested, and at the grade as established and shown therein. (Ord. 2705 § 1, 1969)
107.02 Assessment of cost by foot-front rule – Reductions.
The costs and expenses of any or all of the things done under MMC 107.01 shall be paid by the owners of the real estate bounding and abutting thereon, which costs and expenses upon the abutting real estate shall be assessed according to the foot-front rule. However, council may provide for an equitable reduction from the frontage of all lots at street or like intersections, or where, from the peculiar or pointed shape of the lots, an assessment for the full frontage would be inequitable. (Ord. 2705 § 2, 1969)
107.03 Completion certificate by city engineer – Council approval and certification of assessments.
The city engineer shall, upon completion of the paving, macadamizing or improvement of any street, or part thereof, submit to council the date of the completion of the work, along with the assessments for the costs of such work indicating for each assessment the city lot number, owner, the total frontage assessed and the amount therefor. Council shall, after approving such assessments, certify same to the city treasurer for collection. (Ord. 2705 § 3, 1969)
107.04 Assessment payment – Installments – Prepayment and delinquency.
(A) The payment of assessments, with interest from the proper date, shall be paid in all cases at the office of the city treasurer. The city treasurer shall give notice to the owners of the property affected when payment shall become due, which shall be 30 days after the date of mailing such assessment. Council shall have the authority, when it deems necessary, and after application of the property owner affected, to provide that the assessments may be paid in not more than 10 equal installments, the last thereof not to be more than 10 years after the completion of the work on an improvement for which the assessment is made, and that the installment shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum commencing 30 days after the date of the notice of the assessment or at the time the installment payments are approved, whichever shall first occur.
(B) If any of the installments shall remain unpaid for two months after the same become due and payable, the whole of the assessment remaining unpaid shall be due and payable. Any person upon whom an assessment has been made may pay all or as many as he chooses of such installments before the same are due. The due date of any assessment or the due date of any payment due on any assessment shall not be extended without the approval of council or a committee designated by council. In case assessments are not fully paid within six months of the time prescribed, they shall be certified to the city solicitor who shall file liens therefor in the office of the prothonotary of Crawford County as provided by law. (Ord. 2705 § 4, 1969)
107.05 Use of moneys collected – Records and accounts of payment.
The moneys collected from assessments shall be applied and are hereby appropriated solely to the payment of the cost and expense of the grading, paving, macadamizing or other improvements for any streets, and to the payment of any bonds which may be issued therefor and interest thereon. The city treasurer shall keep in proper books or book separate accounts of all moneys paid and received by him from owners or property against which assessments for such improvements have been made, showing the payments made by each and the balance due. (Ord. 2705 § 5, 1969)