§ 181-1. Petitions for improvements.

When a petition subscribed by the owners of sixty per cent of the front footage of property abutting upon a street, alley, easement, or other public improvement, or the owners of seventy-five per cent of the area to be assessed for such improvement, is regularly presented to city council, the total cost of such improvement, including the cost of intersections, regardless of the limitations of Sections 180 and 181 of this Charter or of general law, and without reference to the value of the lands of those who subscribe to such petition, may be assessed and collected in equal annual installments, proportioned to the whole assessment, in a manner which may be fixed by city council. When the lot or land of one who did not subscribe to the petition is assessed, such assessment shall not exceed thirty-three and one-third per cent of the actual value including improvements thereon, as enhanced by the improvement for which the assessment is levied, such value to be determined as of the date of the assessing ordinance.

(Adopted 5-7-63.)