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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

ordinance and to pay the cost of all such work and assess
said cost, or any part thereof, but not less than 25 per
cent, against the abutting property as hereinafter
provided in this section.

—21.112. Specifications, hearing

Before entering upon the construction of any work or
improvement specified herein, the Council shall, by
ordinance, designate the location, extent and kind of
work or improvement proposed to be done or made, the kind
of materials to be used, the estimated cost of the
improvement and the real property which will be specially
benefitted thereby and which it is proposed to assess, to
pay all or any part of the cost thereof, and shall fix a
time and place when and where the owner or owners of the
property to be so assessed therefor can be heard in
reference thereto. Notice of such hearing, embodying the
substance of said ordinance, shall be served upon the
owners of said properties by mailing a copy thereof to
their last known post office address of record and by
publishing said notice two times in some newspaper of
general circulation in said town, the last publication to
be not less than three days before said hearing.

24.113. Costs

A.    Computation

If after the hearing the Council shall be of the
opinion that the public health, safety or comfort
requires the work or improvements proposed to be done or
made, they shall provide by ordinance for the same and
may charge the expense thereof, or any part of such
expense, but not less than 25 per cent, against the
property which they shall find to the specially benefited
thereby according to the lineal frontage of said
property; and the Council shall include as a part of the
cost of said work to be assessed against the benefited
property the cost of said work embraced in street
intersections.

B.     Unusual Expenses

In any case when such an improvement results in
excessive costs on account of unusual excavation or
unusual fill or the construction of a drain, culvert or
bridge at an expense entirely out of proportion to the
improvements being constructed, the Mayor and Common
Council of Riverdale may be ordinance exclude from the
total costs of such improvements to be assessed upon
abutting land the cost or any portion thereof of such
excavation, fill, drain, culvert or bridge and to pay the
amount of the costs so excluded out of any fund properly