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<br /> CHARTER
<br /> CHAPTER 8. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS ,�,` t'
<br /> executed or of any bond issue to finance the improvem„�
<br /> AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS when the proceeds thereof are received by the city. No flu
<br /> defect, irregularity, or omission shall effect the validity
<br /> Sec. 8.01. Power to make improvements and levy assessments. of any special assessment levied for an improvement, except
<br /> The city shall have the power to make any and every type to the extent, if any, that such defect, irregularity, or
<br /> of public improvement not forbidden by the laws of this state omission impairs the constitutional right of each property
<br /> and to levy special assessments to pay all or any part of the owner to effective notice of and opportunity for hearing on
<br /> cost of such improvements as are of a local character. The the question whether the assessment exceeds the benefit re-
<br /> amounts assessed to benefitted property to pay for such local sulting from the improvement to the property upon which it
<br /> improvement may equal the coat of the improvement, includ-
<br /> ing all costs and expenses connected therewith, with interest, Sec. 8.04. Public works; how performed.
<br /> until paid, but shall in no case exceed the benefits to the
<br /> property. Public works, including all local improvements, may be
<br /> constructed, extended, repaired and maintained either by day
<br /> See. &02. Assessments for services. labor or by contract. The city shall require contractors to
<br /> The council may provide by ordinance that the cost of give bonds for the protection of the city and all persons
<br /> any,service to streets, sidewalks, or other public property, furnishing labor and materials, pursuant to the laws of the
<br /> or the costs of any,services to other property undertaken by state pertaining to and governing public works.
<br /> the city may;be assessed against the property benefited and CHAPTER 9. EMINENT DOMAIN
<br /> collected in..like manner as are special assessments.
<br /> Sec. 8.03. Local improvements;regulations. Sec. 9.01. Power to acquire property.
<br /> The.coulicil may prepare and adopt a comprehensive The city is hereby impowered to acquire by purchase, gift,
<br /> ordi-
<br /> nance describing'the procedure;which: shall 'be followed in devise, or condemnation, any property, corporeal or incorpo-
<br /> ! malting local improvements:artd; Ie' real, either within or without its corporate boundaries, which
<br /> gvynng assessments there-
<br /> for. Such ordinance may be amended only"by an affirmative may be needed by the city for any public use or purpose. Ease-
<br /> vote of at least five (6) members of the council. Local im- ments'for slopes,-fills, sewers, building lines, poles, wires,
<br /> provementa may also be made and assessments levied there-
<br /> pipes, and conduits for water, gas, heat, and power may be
<br /> for as prescribed by state law unless""such ordinance if au- acquired by gift, .devise,'purchase or condemnation in the
<br /> thorized by state law, provides that such manner provided by law.
<br /> proceedings shall
<br /> be taken only in accordance with provisions o1`,the ordinance. Sec. 9.02. Proceedings in acquiring property.
<br /> No defect, irregularity or omission of`.%any kind in any pro-
<br /> seeding taken in the sutl'►orizaton of:any improvements.or The`necessity for taking of any property by the city shall
<br /> the making of any contract or the levy of any assessment be determined by the council and shall be declared by a reso-
<br /> thereor, or in the giving of sity;notice•or the holding of any lution:which shall 'describe such' property as nearly as may
<br /> hearing in connection therewith, shall affectthe validity fof be.and state the use to which ;it is to be devoted. The ac-
<br /> any contract for the making of the improvement when it is
<br /> quisition of 'such property may be accomplished by legal
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