§ 153A-192. Hearing on preliminary resolution; assessment resolution.
§ 153A‑192. Hearing on preliminary resolution; assessment resolution.
At the public hearing, the board of commissioners shall hear allinterested persons who appear with respect to any matter covered by thepreliminary assessment resolution. At or after the hearing, the board may adopta final assessment resolution directing that the project or portions thereof beundertaken. The final assessment resolution shall describe the project ingeneral terms (which may be by reference to projects described in the preliminaryresolution) and shall set forth the following:
(1) The basis on which the special assessments will be made,together with a general description of the boundaries of the areas benefited ifthe basis of assessment is either area or valuation;
(2) The percentage of the cost of the work that is to bespecially assessed; and
(3) The terms of payment, including the conditions, if any,under which assessments are to be held in abeyance.
Thepercentage of cost to be assessed may not be different from the percentageproposed in the preliminary assessment resolution, nor may the projectauthorized be greater in scope than the project described in that resolution.If the board decides that a different percentage of the cost should be assessedthan that proposed in the preliminary assessment resolution, or that theproject should be greater in scope than that described in that resolution, itshall adopt and advertise a new preliminary assessment resolution as providedin this Article. (1963, c. 985, s.1; 1965, c. 714; 1973, c. 822, s. 1.)