The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-13
CHAPTER 16.


| SECTION 143. IMPROVEMENTS THE COST OF
WHICH MAY BE DEFRAYED BY ASSESSMENT. The
City hereby authorized to light grade pave curb
gutter wall, bridge gravel, macadamize sprinkle plank
sweep or maintain any street. alley highways to
construct and maintain trunk sanitary and sewers;
to grade improve, protect and any public park,
grounds to construct improve and
public parways and pat plant and protect shade
ornamental along it's and avenues to
struct lay relay and repair sidewalks retaining walls gut
ters and drains under any street. alley
or highways to abate nusances to drain marshes
and low grounds within the City when they constitute nui
and the whole any part Of the of such
improvement shall be- subject to the provisions hereinafter
betrayed by assessment the real estate
benefited thereby, in proportion such benefits without
regard to cash valuation be determined and levied in the
SECTION 144 COST PAID BY ASSESSMENTS; EX-
CEPTON The cost of improvement mentioned in the
foregoing section shall be betrayed except hereinafter
provided as follows:
The City shall pay oneha of the expense of said improve
ment out of the appropriate general fund of the City,
and the other half of said expense of said improvements shall
be paid by upon the real benefited
thereby to be levied in the hereinafter prescribed
provided that the construction reconstruction or maine
nance OF walks public grounds and public parks
and the cost of improving and ornamenng public grounds
squares and parks and the curbng gutterng paving
macadamzng and grading of the occupied by
street intersections and the intersection of the alleys with
the Streets and the construction of all main trunk san
ary storm sewers and further improvement and repair
OF the and repairing Of all curbs CUTTERS walls
bridges sidewalks avenues alleys and streets shall be paid
out of the appropriate general fund of the city without
levy OF any kind AUDITING property property bene
flied thereby
SECTION 145. AMOUNTS AssEssABLE AGAINST
CITY, PUBLIC OR EXEMPT PROPERTY. The amounts
which would otherwise be assessabe against property be-
longing to the City public property property exempt
from assessment for local improvements shall be paid out
of the appropriate fund the general fund of the City
SECTION LAG. TWO OR MORE IMPROVEMENTS AT
THE SAME TIME Two Of said improvements
upon streets avenues may be at the
time under ORDER and that be included
in contract
SECTION 147. SEWER AND WATER PIPES MAY BE
INCLUDED IN ONE CONTRACT. The Council shall, when
contract is let for improving street. alley high
way within the City, include in such contract the laying of
water pipes to the lot ne the same
shall be paid out OF the appropriate general fund the
City.
SECTION 14s PROCEDURE WHERE TWO IMPROVE
MENTS ARE MADE AT THE SAME TIME. If two or
improvements included in contract expense
OF each Improvement may be separately apportoned
onehaf the expense of each of such improvements shall
be upon the lots and parcels OF land benefited by
such improvements otherwise provided proper
ton to such benefits but such improvements
PROCEDURE FOR MAKING ASSESSMENT.
SECTION 49, APPLICATIONS AND PETITIONS FOR
IMPROVEMENTS All applications propositions for any
Improvement authorized by this Charter be made to-
or emanae from the Council majority of the owners of
the property abuttng any proposed improvement shall
petition therefor IN writing the Council may plans
and specifications for such improvement to be made and
filed in the office of the City Clerk shall when such plans
and specifications filed before further proceedings are
TAKEN notice OF the time and place when and where tbe
Council will meet and hear for and against scb inn
provement which notice shall be published at least once
IN the official paper and the last publication shall be at
least ten days prior to the time of such meeting Said no.
tce shall contain brief description of the
and the several tracts of land be affected thereby Pro
vlded that the Council by majority its members
may without petition In where in its judgment public
necessity requires It, plans and specifications for scb
Improvement to be made and filed in the office of the Cy
Clerk and shall like notice is required in case o
petition OF majority OF the property AUDITING on
such improvement.
SECTION $50. HEARING. If upon sucb bear;no tho
Council believes said improvement necessary and
they shall order the Improvement made and
the cost thereof against the property benefited thereby