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030 <br />CITY OF LINO LAKES <br />COUNTY OF ANOKA <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br />ORDINANCE NO. 03 - 89 <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 8 OF THE LINO LAKES CITY <br />CHARTER. <br />The City Council of Lino Lakes does hereby amend Chapter 8 of <br />the Lino Lakes City Charter to read as follows: <br />8.01. Power to Make Improvements and Levy Assessments. <br />The City may make any type of public improvement 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 e)2ceed the cost of the improvement, including all <br />costs and expenses connected therewith, with interest. A <br />special assessment may not exceed the special benefits to the <br />property assessed. <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 by <br />law and Section 8.03 of this charter and must be followed <br />exclusively. The term "by law" as used in this chapter means <br />Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 429 or any successor statute <br />providing a uniform method of-constructing and financing <br />local improvements in cities. <br />8.03. Protest. Subdivision 1. Not later than 45 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 protest <br />with the recording officer of the City. The protest must be <br />in the form prescribed by ordinance. <br />Subd. 2. If a protest is filed as provided in <br />Subdivision 1, the City Council must, by resolution adopted <br />at its next regular meeting or at a special meeting called <br />for that purpose after the expiration of the 45 day period <br />for filing protests, determine the validity and sufficiency <br />of the 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 owners of that parcel of property, the City <br />Council must not include that parcel of property in the local <br />improvement .project when ordered for construction. If the <br />protest is determined to be valid and sufficient and contains <br />the naives of- owners of a majority by area of all parcels of <br />