Title 11

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 of the deed book and page where recorded and shall pay to said probate judge a fee of $1.00. S…

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…

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 the probate judge shall not be li…

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 for in this section and Section 11-48-8 in the office of the city or town engineer or other officer de…

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. (Acts 1939, No. 204, p. 354; Code 1940, T. 37…

(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, executing its negotiable note therefor, which…

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…

Bonds issued under the provisions of this article shall be subject to the provisions of existing law relating to the issuance of municipal bonds. (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…

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 and with such material …

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 said municipality or by posting fo…

(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, all persons whose property may be affected by the proposed improvement may appear in person or by attorney or by petition and object or prote…

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 include the expense…

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…

(a) Each city in this state having a population of 6,000 or more inhabitants, according to the most recent federal census or any official census taken pursuant to Sections 11-47-90 through 11-47-95 shall have the same powers with respect to the construction of public 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 enacted to is…

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 against the properties specially…

When an assessment for public improvements is levied against a tract of land owned by tenants in common, the governing body of any municipality may, upon petition of an owner or owners of said tract of land, split or divide the original assessment against the same and may apporti…

When assessments are made for public improvements against property owned by tenants in common and one or more of the tenants in common to the property assessed desires that said assessments be paid, he may file a petition with the governing body of such municipality praying that …

The governing body of any municipality may divide such assessment proportionately among the tenants in common and allow any tenant in common to pay and discharge his proportionate share of such assessment, and the lien on his undivided interest shall be discharged upon payment in…

In all cases where assessments may be split or divided as authorized in this article, notice to owners of the property covered by such assessments or to their agents shall be given, either in person or by mail, where such owners or agents and their addresses are known or by publi…

The owner of any portion of said tract of land may, after said tract and the original assessments have been divided, appeal from the resolution, judgment or order of the governing body levying said assessment in the same manner and under the same conditions as appeals are taken f…

The governing body of a municipality may, at any time before judgment entered in the circuit court, correct errors in the description of ownership of property against which an assessment has been made for public improvements and may, whenever in its judgment the assessment is in …

When any assessment is split or divided or errors corrected in the description of ownerships or assessments reduced, settled, or compromised or any adjustment made or act done as authorized by this article, no lien on the property affected by the assessment under existing laws sh…