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17.040.040(a)(2)(ii)—17.04.050(b)
2. Refer the proposed district to the city manager, who shall prepare an improvement plan for the district that includes final boundaries for the district, the design of the proposed improvement, a cost estimate for the improvement, the percentage of the improvement cost to be assessed against properties in the district, a method for allocating the assessed cost of the improvement among the properties in the district, the time period over which assessments will be financed, and a preliminary assessment roll for the district. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.050(c)—17.04.070(a)
d. If the owners of 100 percent of the real property in the proposed district waive in writing the notice, protest period and public hearing required under this section, the question of creating the district may be submitted to the council without such notice, protest period or public hearing. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
c. If record owners of property that would bear one-half or more of the cost of the improvement object in writing to the increased cost, the city will not contract to construct the improvement. The council either may levy assessments in the district in an amount sufficient to recover costs incurred for preliminary design and engineering services, or determine that the city shall assume such costs. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.070(b)—17.04.090
d. The council shall fix a time to hear objections to the assessment roll. Not less than fifteen days before the hearing, the city clerk shall send notice of the hearing and assessment roll by certified mail to each record owner of an assessed property, and publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.080 Certification of assessment roll. After the hearing the council shall correct any errors or inequalities in the assessment roll. If an assessment is increased, a new hearing shall be set and notice published, except that a new hearing and notice is not required if all record owners of property subject to the increased assessment consent in writing to the increase. Objection to the increased assessment shall be limited to record owners of properties whose assessments were increased. When the assessment roll is corrected, the council shall confirm the assessment roll by resolution. The city clerk shall record the resolution and confirmed assessment roll with the district recorder. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
b. Within 30 days after fixing the time when payment of the assessments is due, the finance director shall mail a statement to the record owner of each assessed property identifying the property and stating the assessment amount, the payment due date and the amount of the penalty on a delinquent payment. Within five days after mailing the statements, the finance director shall publish notice of mailing the statements in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.100—17.04.120
3. Upon receiving connection fee payments, the city shall allocate such payments to each property assessed in the district in proportion to the amount originally assessed against the property, either by adjusting the original assessment amount or disbursing a payment to the record owner at the time of disbursement. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.110 Assessments to be liens. Assessments are liens upon the property assessed and are prior and paramount to all liens except those having priority under State law. They shall be enforced in the same manner as property tax liens. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
b. Payments on the initial assessment are credited to the property upon reassessment. The reassessment becomes a charge upon the property notwithstanding failure to comply with any provision of the assessment procedure. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.130—17.04.150(b)
b. If no objection is filed or appeal taken within the time provided in this section, the assessment procedure shall be considered regular and valid in all respects. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
3. Certificates of purchase when property has been sold under execution or at tax sale for failure to pay the assessments. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.150(c)—17.04.180
c. Before the council may issue special assessment bonds, it shall establish a guarantee fund and appropriate to the fund annually a sum adequate to cover a deficiency in meeting payments of principal and interest on bonds if the reason for the deficiency is nonpayment of assessments when due. Money received from actions taken against property for nonpayment of assessments shall be credited to the guarantee fund. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
b. Before the council acts on a resolution under subsection (a) of this section, the city clerk shall mail notice of the resolution to each current record owner of property listed on the preliminary assessment roll that the city will not contract for construction of the improvement in the district unless the resolution is adopted. The notice also shall include an updated copy of the preliminary assessment roll. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.170 Water and sewer connections required. The owner of property in a water or sewer special assessment district that contains an occupied building shall connect to the improvement constructed in the district within one year after the date that the resolution confirming the assessment roll for the district becomes final. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
b. The assessment for road improvements against a corner lot shall be based only on the longer of the lot’s road frontages. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).
17.04.190—17.04.190(e)(2)
2. The death of both the deferred assessment applicant and the applicant’s surviving spouse, if any. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012). 170
c. A property on which an "in lieu of assessment" for water or sewer service has been levied in accordance with subsection (a) of this section nonetheless may be included in special assessment district for the same service in the future date, and will be assessed in that district. An amount not exceeding the lesser of (i) the amount of "in lieu of assessment" paid for the property and (ii) the amount of the assessment levied on the property in the future special assessment district shall be a credit against the amount of the assessment levied on the property in the future special assessment district. (Ord. 12-15 §1, 2012).