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HOMS RILE CFIAIITER—CITY,OF LITCHFIF.T,T) 20 population in the city and may make varied regulations for the diff ere t districts thereof; Iand may ;include jprovisions for platting and development of new areas, for the planning and location of public works of art, public buildings. parks, ptaygronnds; bridges, transporta- tion lines and other•public facilities and for the laying out, grading, and improving the 'streets, streams and public places, as well as.Rog all:.other matters which may seem essential to such plan. Sec. 80I. Enforcement of the city plan. The city council shall have all necessary power to compel complete adherence by all persona to the plan adopted and till officers are charged with the duty (4 r reporting to the city council all departures' from the city plan which .fix come to their attention. Sec. 802. Power to make improvements and levy assessments. The j City of Litchfield shalt have the power to make any and every type ^ e of public improvement not forbidden by the laws of this state, and to Tevy special assessments for all such as are of a local character. 'The amounts assessed to benefited property to. pay for loca l'improvements` may equal he cost of the improvement with interest until paid, but _ shall in no case exceed the value`of the benefits received by such property r 44 - s Sec. 803. Localimprovements regulations. After this charter takes -effect local improvements shall continue for the time being to be made as `far as possible according 1 to the charter provisions and laws pre- viously applicable thereto. As soon as possible, however, the council shalt prepare and adopt a complete ordinance covering every type of pablic improvement, and when- this ordinance takes effect it shall t•;M r' - supplant other provisions of law or charter upon the same subject It may be amended from time to time as other ordinances, It shall classify public improvements into three groups, as follows: first, those which shall be constructed or provided entirely from the -general revenues of the city; second, those which shall be constructed or provided partly from general`revenues and partly from special assess- ments; and third,those which shall be constructed or provided entirely by special assessments. The 'second class may be further subdivided. The ordinance shall provide a.complete working code, covering petitions of resident'property owners, the determination of assessments and ,x assessment::districts, public bearings, appeals from assessments and the.trial thereof, reassessments; the spreading of the assessments over- .a period of not to exceed ten years, the collection of assessments along with other':taxes or otherwise, penalties for delinquency in makin,, payments,.and all`other''matters appropriate to the subject of local Improvements:and.assessments.' After the passage of such ordinance, all resolutions Providing for public improvements shall conform to the Sec. 804. Public works; how performed. Public works including regulations laid down In such ordinance.