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4 <br /> DJK DRAFT <br /> 3-17-88 <br /> TEXT OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO <br /> CHAPTER 8 OF LINO LAKES CITY CHARTER <br /> r <br /> Chapter 8 of the charter of the. City of Lino Lakes is <br /> amended to read: <br /> 8 . 01 . Power to make improvements and levy assessments . <br /> The City may make any type of public improvements not <br /> forbidden by law and levy special assessments to pay all or <br /> any part of the cost of such improvements as are of a local <br /> character. The total assessments for any local .improvement <br /> may not exceed the cost of the improvement, including all <br /> costs and expenses connected therewith, with interest . No <br /> assessment shall exceed the benefits to the property. <br /> 8 .02 . Procedures. The procedures for conducting local <br /> improvement projects financed in whole or in part by special <br /> assessments against benefitted property are those provided <br /> by law and Section 8 .03 of this charter and must be followed <br /> exclusively. The term "by law" as used in this chapter <br /> means Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 429 or any successor <br /> statute providing a uniform method of constructing local <br /> improvements in cities. <br /> qS_ <br /> 8 . 03 . Protest. Subdivision 1 . Not later than 1sS'days <br /> after the conclusion of the public hearing or adjournment <br /> thereof required by law to precede the ordering of the <br /> construction of a local improvement project the owner or <br /> owners of real property included in the area proposed to be <br /> assessed for the local improvement may file a written <br /> protest with the recording officer of the City. 'The protest <br /> must be, in the form prescribed by ordinance . <br /> Subd. 2 . If a protest is filed as provided in Subdivi- <br /> sion 1 , the City Council must , by resolution adopted at its <br /> next regular meeting or at a special meeting called for that <br /> purpose after the expiration of theqs day period for filing <br /> protests, determine the validity and sufficiency of the <br /> protest . If the protest is determined to be valid and <br /> sufficient as to a single parcel of property proposed to be <br /> assessed for the local improvement and the protest contains <br /> the names of a majority of the owners of that parcel of <br /> property, the City Council may not include that parcel of <br /> property in the local improvement project when ordered for <br /> construction. If the protest is determined to be vali d <br /> s nt and contains the names of owners of a ajority by <br /> area of all parcels of property proposed to be assesse for <br /> e ocal improvement, the City Council may not order the <br />