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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

requirements hereunder the Council may direct the
construction of said work without compliance with said
legal requirements and may assess the cost thereof in
accordance herewith as though all legal requirements had
been complied with; and said construction and assessments
are hereby declared to legal and valid as in this section
provided.

—21.115. Assessment., delinquent, payments

In the event that provisions shall be made for the
payment of the assessments aforesaid in installments,
upon a failure to pay any one or more of said
installments when the same shall become due the whole
amount therefor of such assessment shall immediately
become due and payable. All assessments levied hereunder
whenever the same shall become overdue according to the
terms of the ordinance providing therefor, or by reason
of the non-payment of any installment thereof, may be
collected by action in equity to be brought in the county
in which the land so assessed is situated or in the same
manner as general taxes due said town are now or may
hereafter be collected under the provisions of this
charter and any sale made for the non-payment of such
assessment and any deed made pursuant to such sale shall
be entitled to all the presumptions as to validity that
now or may hereafter be attached to sales and deeds made
for default in payment of general taxes due said town;
and when any real property assesses as herein provided
for shall become liable to sale for any other assessment
of tax whatsoever, then the assessment levied under this
section shall become immediately due and payable and the
property against which they are levied may be sold
therefor together with accrued interest thereon and costs
to day of sale. If any sale made hereunder shall be set
aside or failure to comply with the terms hereof, that
fact shall not bar the right of said city to collect said
assessment and enforce the lien thereof by equitable suit
as aforesaid.

-21.116. Borrowing Power

To carry out the provisions of this section, the
said Council is hereby given power and authority, in
addition to such power and authority as is conferred
elsewhere in this charter, to borrow such additional sums
from time to time as may be needed to make such
improvements, including the proportionate share thereof,
if any, to be assessed against the town in accordance
with this section, and to issue certificates of
indebtedness as evidence thereof.

All sums so borrowed shall be kept in a separate
account to be known as the "Special Improvement Fund" and