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CHAPTER 8 411 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS Revised 10/20/93 by Jerry Linke Section 8 . 01. Power to make Improvements and Levy Assessments. The City may make any type of public improvement not forbidden by law and levy special assessments to pay all or any part of the cost of such improvements 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. Section 8. 02 . Effective Charter Provisions. All Llocal improvements (the term "local improvement" shall means a public improvement financed partly or wholly from special assessments against benefitted properties) ohall be carried out exclusively under the provisions of this Charter, or state law. Section 8 . 03 . Local Improvement Ordinances and Regulations. Within 90 days after this Charter goes into effect, The Council shall enact suitable ordinance(s) governing local improvements and special assessments. The ordinance(s) shall provide a complete working code covering the determination of assessments and assessment Districts, public hearings, appeals from a collection of assessments, penalties for delinquency in making payments, • financing of said assessments, and the certifying of unpaid assessments for collection by the proper county officer. Said ordinance(s) shall also provide for installment payments and notices to be given thereof, appellate procedure, re-assessment, if necessary, and all other matters appropriate to the subject of local improvements and assessments per provisions of this Charter and State Law. After the adoption of such ordinancc(s) providing ohall conform to the regulations as set forth in such ordinancc(s) and as otherwise contained in this Charter. Section 8 . 04 . Procedure. Subdivision 1. All improvements to be paid for by special assessments against the benefited property shall be instituted by either; (1) the petition of at least twenty five thirty-five percent in number of the benefited property owners together with a resolution adopted by an affirmative vote of the majority of all of the Council, or, (2) a resolution adopted by a four-fifths affirmative vote of all of the Council. The Council resolution shall state the nature and scope of the proposed improvement, and shall provide means to obtain a cost estimate which shall set forth the cost of the improvement both in unit price and in total thereof. Upon receipt of such estimate, the • council shall by resolution set a date for a public hearing on the proposed improvement, s-etting forth therein the- time, place and