88.890. Sidewalk improvement--assessments (cities, 30,000 or less).
Sidewalk improvement--assessments (cities, 30,000 or less).
88.890. The cost of any of the work or improvementscontemplated in sections 88.863 to 88.913 that are made and doneeither by contract or by the city engineer or other proper personacting for the city as above provided in section 88.883 (exceptthe cost of condemnation and removal of sidewalks, which shall bepaid by the city) shall be levied as a special assessment againstthe lot, tract or parcel of ground along and in front of whichsaid improvement is made; and the cost of the approaches, asdefined in section 88.867, shall be levied as a specialassessment against the corner lots which said approaches abut andconnect with. And said assessment shall be levied by ordinance,in which ordinance shall be set out separately the number andtitle of the ordinance under authority of which the work will bedone, a separate description of each lot, tract or parcel ofground assessed, the name of the owner thereof, the number offront feet therein abutting on said improvement, the separateitems of cost of said improvement and the total amount thereof;and said assessment ordinance shall further provide for themaking out of tax bills by the city engineer, or other properperson therein designated, in evidence of said assessments,payable to the contractor doing the work, and for the delivery ofsaid tax bills in payment for said work, or if the work was doneby the city engineer or other person acting for the city asprovided in sections 88.863 to 88.887, the tax bills shall bemade payable to such engineer or other person and for and to theuse of the city, and shall be collected the same as other taxbills.
(RSMo 1939 § 7546)Prior revisions: 1929 § 7392; 1919 § 8800; 1909 § 9656