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TEXT OF PROPOSED .AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 8 OF LINO LAKES CITY CHARTER (Retyped with changes ) Chapter 8 of the charter of the City of Lino Lakes is amended to read : 8 . 01 . Power to make improvements and levy assessments . The City may make any type of public improvements not for- bidden by law and levy special assessments to pay all or any part of the cost of such improvments as are of a local character. The total assessments for any local improvement may not exceed the cost of the improvement , including all, costs and expenses connected therewith , with interest . No assessment shall exceed the benefits to the property . (The above reads the same as original draft ) . 8 . 02 Procedures . The procedures for conducting local improvement; projects financed in whole or in part by special assessments against benefitted property are those provided by law and Section 8 . 03 of this charter and must be followed exclusively. The term "by law" as used in this chapter means Minn.esota. Statutes , Chapter 429 or any successor statute providing a uniform method of constructing local. improvements in cities . (The above reads the same as o.riginal.. draft ) . 8 . 03 . Protest . Subdivision 1 . Not later than 45 days after the conclusion of the public hearing or adjournment. thereof required by law to precede the ordering of the construction of a local improvement project the owner or owners of real property included in the area proposed to be assessed for the local improvement may file a written protest: with the recording officer of the City. The protest must he in the form prescribed by ordinance . ( Line 1 changed to 45 days ) . Subd . 2 . If a protest is filed as provided in Subdivi- sion 1 , the City Council must , by resolution adopted at, its next regular meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose after the expiration of the 45 day period for filing protests , determine the validity and sufficiency of the protest . If the protest is determined to be valid and sufficient as to a single parcel of property proposed to be assessed for the local improvement, and the protest contains the names of a majority of the owners of that parcel of property, the City Council may not include that, parcel of property in the local improvement project -.hen ordered for construction . If the protest is determined to be valid and sufficient: and contains the names of owners of a majority by area of all parcels of property proposed to be assessed for the local improvement, the City Council may not order the