The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-01-20
Chapter XIV

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LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS.
SECTION 1913. IMPROVEMENTS, THE COST
OF WHICH MAY BE BETRAYED BY ASSESSMENT.
The City is hereby authorized to light grade pave,
re-pave curb, gutter WALL bridge gravel macadamize
sprinkle, plank sweep, and maintain any street avenue
alley or Highways to construct and maintain sanitary
and storm sewers; to grade improve, protect and
men any public park square, grounds to construct,
improve and ornament any public parkways and grass
pats to plant and protect shade ornamental trees
along its streets and avenues to construct lay relay
and repair sidewalks retaining walls CUTTERS sewers
and DRAINS in over under any street. alley high
way; to abate nuisances; to drain marshes, swamps
and low grounds within the City when they constitute
nuisance; and the whole any part of the expense
of any such Improvement shall be, subject to the pro-
visions hereinafter contained, betrayed by
men upon real estate benefited thereby in proportion
to such benefits without regard to cash valuation to be
determined and levied in the hereinafter pro-
vided.
SECTION 1874 EXPENSES OF PERMANENT
IMPROVEMENTS HOW PAID.
(a) The cost of any improvement mentioned in
Section 1913 shall be betrayed and paid out of the
appropriate general fund of the City, from funds
raised by taxation received from other
payable to such funds, except hereinafter pro-
vided and that portion which is to be paid by an
assessment upon the property to be bented thereby
to be levied in the manner and extent prescribed
in Section 1872 of this chapter further provided that
the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of
crosswalks, public grounds and public parks,
and the cost of improving and ornamenting public
grounds, squares and parks and the curbng, gutter
ing, paving, re-paving, matchmaking and grading
of the occupied by street intersections and the
intersection of the alleys with the Streets and the
construction of all main trunk sanitary storm
sewers, and further Improvement and repair of the
the cost of all grading for Streets alleys and
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and all excavating and relling for lines and
repairing of all sewers curbs cutters, walls, bridges,
sidewalks avenues and streets shall be paid out of
the appropriate general fund of the City without
levy of any kind upon abutting property property
benefited thereby.
(b) Whenever trunk sanitary sewer serves the
purpose of lateral sewer, and permission to connect
to said trunk is granted to the property
benefited thereby, assessment upon the abutting
property shall be made based upon the cost of the
installation of lateral answering the same
purpose.
SECTION 125. PAYMENT FOR IMPROVEMENT
ON UNASSSESSABLE PROPERTY The cost of as
sessable improvements benefting property owned by
the City, public property or property exempt from
for local improvements shall be paid out
of the appropriate general fund of the City.
SECTION 1875. TWO OR MORE IMPROVE
MENTS AT THE SAME TIME Two or more of said
improvements upon one more streets avenues may
be made at the time, under one order, and may
IN that case be included In one contract.
SECTION 127. SEWER AND WATER PIPES
MAY BE INCLUDED IN ONE CONTRACT. The
Council may when any contract is let for improving
any street. alley highway within the city, include
such contract the laying of sewer water pipes.
SECTION 1913. APPORTIONMENT OF EXPENSE
WHERE TWO IMPROVEMENTS ARE MADE AT
THE SAME TIME. If two more improvements are
included in contract the expense of each improve
ment may be separately apportioned and one-half of
the expense of each improvement shall be assessed
upon the lots and parcels of land benefited by such
improvements, otherwise provided, in pro-
portion to such benefits but such two improve
ments may be included in assessment proceeding.
PROCEDURE FOR MAKING ASSESSMENT
SECTION 129. APPLICATIONS AND PETI-
TONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS. All applications or
propositions for any improvement authorized by this
Charter shall be made to emanate from the Council
If majority of the of the property abutting
on any proposed Improvement shall petition therefor
in writing, the Council may plans and specifca-
tons for such Improvement to be made and filed in the
Office of the City Clerk, and shall when such plans and
specifications filed before further proceedings
TAKEN give notice of the time and place when and
where the Council will meet and hear reasons for and
against such improvement, which notice shall be pub
lished at least in the official paper the last publ
cation of which shall be at least days prior to the
time of such meeting The said notice shall contain
brief description of the Improvement and the several
tracts of land to be affected thereby provided that the