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Draft 7/30/92 <br /> <br /> CHAPTER 8 <br /> <br /> PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS <br /> <br /> Section 8.01. Power to Make Improvements and Levy Assess- <br />ments. The city may make any type of local improvement not <br />forbidden by law and levy special assessments to pay all or part <br />of the cost of such local improvements. The total of the assess- <br />ments for any local improvement may not exceed the cost of the <br />local improvement, plus all costs and expenses connected therewith, <br />including interest. No assessment shall exceed the benefit to the <br />property assessed as measured by the increase in the market value <br />of the property assessed as a result of the local improvement. <br /> <br /> Section 8.02. Effective Charter Provisions. Local improve- <br />ments shall be carried out exclusively under the provisions of this <br />chapter of the City code. <br /> <br /> section 8.03. Assessments for Services. The council may <br />provide by ordinance that the cost of the city services to streets, <br />sidewalks, or other public or private property may be assessed <br />against property benefited and may be collected in the same manner <br />as special assessments. Such costs shall not be deemed to be <br />"special assessments" for the purpose set forth in Section 8.03 of <br />this chapter. <br /> <br /> 8.04. Local Improvement Procedure. When the City undertakes <br />any local improvement to which the state local improvement code <br />applies, it shall comply with the provisions of that law, except <br />as modified below. The Council may by ordinance prescribe the <br />procedure to be followed in making any other local improvement and <br /> <br /> <br />