The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-11-24
Chapter XIV
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS.

LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS.
SECTION 1. IMPROVEMENTS, THE COST c
WHICH MAY BE BETRAYED BY ASSESSMENT
The City is hereby authorized to light, grade, paw
repave, curb gutter, wall, bridge gravel macadamz
sprinkle, plank, sweep and maintain any street avenu
alley or highway; to construct and maintain santaI
and storm sewers to grade, improve, protect and
ment any public park square, grounds to construc
improve and ornament any public parkways and gra
plats to plant and protect shade ornamental tree
along it's streets and avenues; to construct, lay, rea
and repair sidewalks retaining walls, cutters, sewer
and drains in over, under any street, alley higl
way; to abate nuisances; to drain marshes, swamI
and low grounds within the City when they constitu
nuisance; and the whole any part of the expens
of any such Improvement shall be- subject to the pre-
visions hereinafter contained betrayed by an assess
ment upon real estate benefited thereby in proportio
to such benefits without regard to cash valuation to
determined and levied in the hereinafter pre-
vided.
SECTION g. EXPENSES OF PERMANENT I'M
HOW PAID.
(a) The cost of any improvement mentioned
Section 123 shall be betrayed and paid out of tn
appropriate general fund of the City, from fund
raised by taxation received from other source
payable to such funds except hereinafter pro
vided and that portion which is to be paid by al
assessment upon the property to be benited thereby
to be levied in the manner and extent prescribed
in Section 1872 of this chapter; further provided tina
the construction, reconstruction and maintenance O.
crosswalks, over 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, macadamizing and grading
of the space occupied by street intersections and tn
intersection of the alleys with the Streets and the
construction of all main trunk sanitary or storm
sewers, and further Improvement and repair of the
same; the cost of all grading for streets, alleys
l/cr &ofn
and all excavating and re-lling for lines anc
repairing of all sewers, curbs CUTTERS walls, bridges
sidewalks avenues and streets shall be paid out OF
the appropriate general fund of the City withoG
levy of any kind upon abutting property or property
benefited thereby.
(b) Whenever a trunk sanitary serves the
purpose of lateral sewer, and permission to connect
to said trunk sewer is granted to the property
benefited thereby, assessment upon the AUDITING
property shall be made, based upon the cost of the
installation of lateral answering the same
purpose.
SECTION 3. PAYMENT FOR IMPROVEMENT
ON UNASSSESSABLE PROPERTY. The cost of as
sessable improvements benefting property owned by
the City, public property property exempt from
assessments for local improvements shall be paid out
of the appropriate or general fund of the City.
SECTION A. TWO OR MORE IMPROVEMENTS
AT THE SAME TIME. Two or more of said
upon streets or avenues may
De made at the same tme under one order, and may
in that case be included in one contract.
SECTION 5. 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 in
such contract the laying of sewer water pipes.
SECTION 6. APPORTIONMENT OF EXPENSE
WHERE TWO IMPROVEMENTS ARE MADE AT
THE SAME TIME If two or more improvements are
included in contract the expense of each improve
ment may be separately apportioned and one-haf of
the expense of each Improvement shall be assessed
upon the lots and parcels of land benefited by such
save otherwise provided, in pro-
portion to such benefits but such two more improve
ments may be included in assessment proceeding
PROCEDURE FOR MAKING ASSESSMENT
SECTION Z. APPLICATIONS AND PETITIONS
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 AUDITING
on any proposed improvement shall petition therefor
in writing, the Council may plans and specifca-
tons for such Improvement to be made and filed the
office of the City Clerk and SHALL when such plans and
specifications filed before further proceedings
are 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
lshed at least in the official paper the last publ
cation of which shall be at least ten 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
Council by majority vote of all its members may,
without petition, in where in its judgment public
necessity requires it, plans and specifications for
such Improvement to be made and filed in the office
and cholI frivo iEo &c