14-392 Streets; improvements; assessment of cost.
14-392. Streets; improvements; assessment of cost.For the purpose of covering in whole or in part the costs of any of the improvements and costs incident thereto, authorized in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127, including grading done in combination with any other improvements, the city is empowered to assess the property within the improvement district or the property benefited by change of grade or grading when not made in combination with other improvements, to the full extent of the special benefits thereby conferred upon the respective lots, tracts, and parcels of land, or if the city council shall find that there are common benefits enjoyed by the public at large without reference to the ownership of property abutting or adjacent to the improvement or improvements, or that there is a common benefit to the property embraced within the district or districts, the city is empowered to assess the costs of such improvement or improvements against all the property included in such district or districts, according to such rules as the city council sitting as a board of equalization, shall adopt for the distribution or adjustment of the costs of the improvement or improvements. All such assessments shall be equalized, levied, and collected as provided by law for the equalization, levying, and collection of special assessments. SourceLaws 1959, c. 36, § 9, p. 199; Laws 1969, c. 60, § 5, p. 367.