§ 181. City's portion of cost.  


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  • The city shall pay such part of the cost and expense of improvements for which special assessments are levied as the council deems just, which part shall not be less than one-fiftieth of all such cost and expense; and, in addition thereto the city shall pay the cost of intersections. The council may provide for the payment of the city's portion of all such improvements by the issuance of bonds or notes thereof, and may levy taxes, in addition to all other taxes authorized by law, to pay such bonds or notes and the interest thereon; but the above provision as to the payment by the city of not less than one-fiftieth of the cost and the cost of intersections, shall not apply to the construction or repair, in the manner hereinafter provided, of sidewalks or to the construction of sewers or water mains or the laying of sewer or water connections.

(Adopted 5-7-63.)