CHAPTER IX: PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS

SECTION 36 PROCEDURE

(1) The procedure for making, altering, vacating, or abandoning a public improvement shall be governed by general ordinance or, to the extent not so governed, by the applicable state law. Action on any proposed public improvement, except a curb or sidewalk, or except an improvement unanimously declared by the council to be needed at once because of an emergency, shall be suspended for six months upon a remonstrance thereto by the owners of two-thirds of the land to be specially assessed for the improvement. The number of owners necessary to suspend the action, without considering the amount of land owned, shall be prescribed by general ordinance. A second such remonstrance suspends the action only with the consent of the council.

(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 37 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS

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

SECTION 38 BIDS

Contracts for public improvements to be made by a private contractor shall be governed by rules prescribed by general ordinance.