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RELEVANT LINKS: <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.021, subd. <br />1(15). Minn. Stat. § 429.031, <br />subd. 3. <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.021, subd. <br />1(16). <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.021, subd. <br />1(17). <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.021, subd. <br />1(18). <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.021, subd. <br />1(19). <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.021, subd. <br />1(20). <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.031, subd. <br />3. <br />Minn. Stat. § 459.14. <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.031, subd. <br />3. <br />Minn. Stat. § 429.011, subd. <br />16. <br />• Fire protection systems: Construction in existing buildings upon <br />petition of owners. A petition for a fire protection system, on public or <br />private property, must meet unique statutory requirements. <br />• Highway sound barriers: Acquisition, construction, reconstruction, <br />improvement, alteration, extension, and maintenance of highway sound <br />barriers. <br />• Gas and electric distribution facilities: Improvement, construction, <br />reconstruction, extension, and maintenance of gas and electric <br />distribution facilities owned by a municipal gas or electric utility. <br />• Markers relating to 911 services: Purchase, installation, and <br />maintenance of signs, posts, and other address markers related to the <br />operation of enhanced 911 services. <br />• Internet access: Improvements, construction, extension, and <br />maintenance of facilities for Internet access, and other communication <br />purposes, if the council finds that the facilities: <br />o Are necessary to make Internet access (or other communications <br />services) available that are not and will not be available through <br />other providers or the private market in the reasonably foreseeable <br />future. <br />o Provide services that will not compete with service provided by <br />private entities. <br />• Burying overhead utility lines within the public right-of-way: Cities <br />can only finance the burying of overhead utility lines with special <br />assessments in response to a petition from all the abutting landowners. In <br />addition, burying the lines in the public right of way must exceed the <br />utility's design and construction standards, or those set by law, tariff, or <br />franchise. In that situation all or a portion of the costs associated with <br />burying the lines, or altering a new or existing distribution system, can <br />be specially assessed as agreed to with an electric utility, <br />telecommunications carrier, or cable system. <br />• Parking facilities: Acquisition and construction. <br />• On -site water contaminant systems: Installation of publicly or <br />privately owned pipes, wells, and other devices and equipment in or <br />outside a building for the primary purpose of eliminating water <br />contamination caused by lead or other toxic or health threatening <br />substances in the water. A petition for an on -site water contaminant <br />system must meet unique statutory requirements. <br />League of Minnesota Cities Information Memo: 9/22/2011 <br />Special Assessment Guide Page 9 <br />