Title 11 — Title 11

The municipality, in ordering any local improvement the cost of which or any part thereof is to be assessed against any property in accordance with the provisions of this article, may provide that the same shall be paid in cash within 30 days after the final assessment, provided …

Any Class 2 municipality, in ordering any local improvement the cost of which or any part thereof is to be assessed against any property in accordance with the provisions of this section, may provide that the same shall be paid in cash within 30 days after the final assessment, p…

Assessment, Installment, or Interest - Notice. If the property owner who has not elected to pay installments fails to pay his assessments within 30 days or, having elected to pay in installments, fails to pay the first installment in 30 days from the date of the assessment or mak…

Improvement, Ordering Preparation of Plans, Specifications, Etc., Thereof, Etc. (a) When the council of any city or town shall determine to open, widen, extend, construct, or improve any street, alley, avenue, sidewalk, highway, or other public place or to make any other public i…

Assessment, Installment or Interest — Payment of Assessment Prior to Sale. Any property owner, notwithstanding his default, may pay the assessment with interest and all costs if tendered before a sale of the property. History: (Code 1907, §1403; Code 1923, §2218; Acts 1927, No. 6…

Assessment, Installment or Interest — Costs of Notice and Sale Charged Against Land, Etc. The cost of such notice and sale shall constitute a charge against the property to be sold and shall be retained out of the proceeds of the sale. History: (Code 1907, §1404; Code 1923, §2219…

Assessment, Installment or Interest - Execution, Etc., of Deed to Purchaser at Sale; Disposition of Surplus from Sale; Purchase of Property by Municipality. The officer making such sale shall execute a deed to the purchaser, which shall convey all the right, title, and interest w…

Assessment, Installment, or Interest - Effect of Error or Defect in Notice or Sale. No mistake in the notice of sale in the description of the property or in the name of the owner shall vitiate the assessment or the lien and if, for any reason, the sale made by the city or town i…

Any real property heretofore or hereafter sold for the satisfaction of a local improvement assessment lien imposed thereon by the governing body of a municipality may be redeemed by the former owner, or his assigns, or other person authorized to redeem property sold for taxes by …

The fixed two year period of redemption allowed by Section 11-48-54 for the redemption of any property heretofore or hereafter sold for the satisfaction of any assessment lien may be extended to a date 60 days after the date of the certificate of warning to redeem provided for in…

of Local Improvement Assessment Sale Deed; Contents of Certificate. At any time after a local improvement assessment sale deed has been recorded in the office of the probate judge of the county in which the property therein described lies and after expiration of the fixed two-yea…

Upon Property Described in Deed by Probate Judge; Entry of Certificate on Record of Deed, Etc. At the time of application for entry of such certificate of warning to redeem, the applicant shall deliver to the probate judge three correct copies of said deed with a notation thereon…

Redemption may be effected after expiration of the fixed two-year period of redemption allowed or provided by Section 11-48-54 and before the extended period of redemption has expired in the same manner and at the same redemption price as is provided in Section 11-48-54; provided…

Errors in Performance of Duties. The duties imposed upon the probate judge in Sections 11-48-54 through 11-48-58 may be performed in his name and stead by any person or persons thereunto authorized by him. The faithful performance of such duties may be compelled by mandamus, but …

Engineer for Public Inspection; Establishment of Date for Hearing of Objections as to Improvements. Such details, drawings, plans, specifications, surveys, and estimates shall, when completed, be placed on file not later than two weeks prior to the date of the meeting provided fo…

Sections 11-48-54 through 11-48-58 shall not apply to unimproved real estate that has been heretofore purchased by any municipality at a municipal assessment sale and by said municipality sold to a third party prior to March 16, 1939. History: (Acts 1939, No. 204, p. 354; Code 19…

Work to Pay for Cost of Improvement. (a) For the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of any improvement made under the provisions of this article, the governing body of any municipality may: (1) Borrow money temporarily on the faith and credit of the municipality, executin…

If bonds have not been issued during the progress of the work as authorized by Section 11-48-61, the municipality may, after completion of the work, sell and issue bonds not exceeding an amount sufficient to pay the then outstanding principal of and interest on any temporary loan…

Generally. Bonds issued under the provisions of this article shall be subject to the provisions of existing law relating to the issuance of municipal bonds. History: (Code 1907, §1410; Code 1923, §2225; Acts 1927, No. 639, p. 753; Code 1940, T. 37, §572.)

Whenever in the judgment of the municipality it may be necessary or expedient for the carrying out and full exercise of the powers granted by this article, such municipality may acquire by purchase or condemnation the necessary lands or rights or easements or interests therein, t…

Repair Sidewalks, Etc. Nothing in this article shall be so construed as to take from any city or town or in any manner affect the power and authority to compel the property owners, by penal ordinance or otherwise, to repair the sidewalks in front of their property in such manner …

Owners of Ordinance or Resolution. Said ordinance or resolution must be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in said city or town, and, if no newspaper is published therein, it may be published either in a newspaper of general circulation in…

Modification, Rescission, Etc., of Ordinance or Resolution; Actions Ratified and Confirmed Where Prior to Ordinance, Resolution or Hearing. (a) At the meeting, to be held as provided for as specified in Section 11-48-6, or at a place and time to which the same may be adjourned, a…

When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) STREET IMPROVEMENTS. Filling, grading, leveling, graveling, slagging, cherting, macadamizing, paving, draining, or other…

Assessment of Cost Thereof Against Property Benefited, Etc., Outside Corporate Limits Generally; Requirement as to Consent of Property Owners, Etc. (a) Each city in this state having a population of 6,000 or more inhabitants, according to the most recent federal census or any off…

Improvements. Each such city shall have the same power to issue its general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities to pay the cost of public improvements constructed in the police jurisdiction of such city that it may have under any law now existing or hereafter…

to Pay Cost of Improvements. Each such city shall also have the power to finance the construction of public improvements in the police jurisdiction of such city by the issuance of its bonds payable solely out of the proceeds from assessments then made or to be thereafter made aga…

Thereof by Council. The council may pay out of the general funds of the city or town or any special fund that may be provided for the purpose such portion of the cost of the proposed improvement as it may deem proper. The cost of any improvement contemplated by this article shall…