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202.17 202.18 202.17: FEES AND CHARGES FOR TAX-FORFEITED LANDS RETURNED TO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP 1: When tax-forfeited land is returned to private ownership and the land is benefited by a public improvement for which special assessments were cancelled because of the forfeiture, the City may impose fees or charges for the use or availability of the improvement or for connections therewith in an amount not to exceed the amount remaining unpaid on the cancelled assessment. The City may make the fees or charges a charge against the owner, lessee, occupant or all of them and may certify unpaid fees or charges to the Ramsey County Auditor with taxes against the property for collection as other taxes are collected. (1988 Code §26.25) 202.18: IMPROVEMENTS ABANDONED: Subd. 1. Cancellation of Assessments: When a local improvement proposed to be made by the City is abandoned before it is completed to an extent sufficient to result in benefits equal to special assessments which have theretofore been levied for such improvement, the City shall notify the agency acting as collecting agent for such special assessment of such fact. Upon such notification, all installments of such assessments and interest thereon which are not already collected or in the process of collection shall be cancelled by such agency. However, nothing herein shall prevent the City from making a re-assessment of any amount not exceeding the special benefits which actually accrue from the improvement to part or all of the properties originally assessed, and nothing herein shall affect the obligations of the Municipality to provide funds sufficient to pay any bonds issued to finance the improvement and the interest thereon. Subd. 2. Notice; Refund of Assessments: a. The Council shall instruct the City Clerk to publish and mail notice as provided for in subdivision 202.10(1) of this Chapter, describing the improvement and stating that it has been abandoned and that any person who paid any special assessments levied on account of such improvement may file a claim, within six (6) months following the date of publication of the notice, for refund of such assessments paid by the Clerk, together with any interest paid thereon. Failure to give mailed notice, or any defects in the notice, shall not invalidate the proceedings. b. The City is not required to, but may, pay such claims filed after the period allowed, and it may require any claimant to furnish satisfactory evidence that claimant be paid the amounts claimed. Such claims may be paid out of monies in the fund of the improvement which was abandoned unless obligations have been issued payable therefrom or may be paid out of monies in the General Fund. 1 See also subdivision 202.16(4) of this Chapter. City of Mounds View