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SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 8 RECOMMENDED BY THE CHARIER COMtv1ISSION Section 8.01. Power to Make .Improvements. Subdivision 1. Power, The City may make any type of public improvements not forbidden by law. Subd. 2. Local nature of improvements. All public improvements funded in part through either general revenue or special assessments shall be primarily designed to give a direct benefit to property currently occupied by residents or businesses in the City. Public improvements primarily designed to open up new areas of the City for development may not be funded in part through general revenue or through special assessments (except as provided in Section 8.04, Subd. 3 below). Section 8.02. Relation to State Law. Except as otherwise specified in this Charter, the City shall follow the procedures set forth in state law relating to local improvements and special assessments. Section 8.03. Power to Impose Special Assessments. Subdivision 1. Need a special benefit. The City may impose special assessments to pay for all or a part of the cost of the public improvements when the public improvement provides a special benefit to adjacent or nearby properties, except as provided in Subd. 2 below. Subd. 2. Street maintenance. The City shall not impose special assessments for maintenance of its streets. Maintenance includes overlays, sealcoating, :and other improvements to care for the street surface between the date the street was constructed and the date the street will be reconstructed. Subd. 3. Sanitary sewer connections. When public improvements include sanitary sewers, the City shall not require an adjacent or nearby property to connect to those sewers if the property is served by a properly working private sewage disposal system (e.g., a septic system). The property may be required to connect to the sanitazy sewer system when either the private sewage disposal system fails, or the property is conveyed to a new owner, whichever occurs first. Subd. 4. Uniformity and maximum. Special assessments shall be imposed uniformly on similar properties. The special assessment on each property shall not exceed the benefit to that property.