Title 6, Local Government—provisions Applicable to Special Purpose Districts and Other Political Subdivisions

Only the owner of real property may request by petition the governing body to create a district consisting of such real property and to impose assessments therein to defray the cost of improvements. The petition must: (1) be signed by owners of all real property within the propos…

(A) The governing body, by resolution, shall describe the proposed district and the improvement plan; the projected time schedule for the accomplishment of the improvement plan; the estimated cost; and the amount of the cost to be derived from assessments or from bonds or other o…

(A) Notice of a public hearing must be published: (1) once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the relevant incorporated municipality; or (2) once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the relevant co…

The improvements are to be or become the property of the municipality, county, State, special purpose district, school district, or other public or quasi-public entity and may at any time be removed, altered, changed, or added to, as the governing body may in its discretion deter…

(A) Not less than seven days after the public hearing, the governing body may proceed to create the district by enactment of an ordinance. The ordinance may provide for the creation of the district as originally proposed or with such changes and modifications as the governing bod…

(A) In the event all or any part of improvements and facilities within the district are to be financed by assessments on property therein, the governing body shall prepare an assessment roll in which there shall be entered the names of the owners whose properties are to be assess…

The governing body may abolish the district if there are no outstanding bonds or other obligations secured by assessments. The governing body must first conduct a public hearing. Notice of the hearing must appear in a newspaper of general circulation in the district two weeks bef…

As used in this chapter: (1) "Assessment" means a charge against the real property belonging to an owner within an improvement district created pursuant to this chapter. The assessment must be made upon real property located within the district, other than property constituting i…

A county or municipality, only with the approval of the owners of all real property situated within a proposed district, as further provided in Section 6-35-118, may exercise the powers and provisions of this chapter.

Nothing contained in this chapter may be construed to limit or restrict the existing powers of an owner, county, municipality, or local school board. The authorization contained in this chapter is in addition to their powers and is provided as an additional means for the provisio…

(A)(1) An assessment may be imposed and collected by the governing body only upon compliance with the procedures set forth in this chapter. (2) The amount of the assessment must be based on actual costs of the improvements or reasonable estimates of those costs, to include, but n…

The government entity is authorized to acquire, own, construct, establish, install, enlarge, improve, and expand any improvement and to finance the acquisition, construction, establishment, installation, enlargement, improvement, expansion, in whole or in part, by the imposition …

Bonds issued by the county or municipality pursuant to this chapter do not count for the purposes of calculating the bond-borrowing limit pursuant to Article X of the Constitution of this State.

The owner may include within a proposed district improvements that have been constructed or are under construction at the time of the establishment of the district.

The owner or developer of the real property in a residential improvement district must disclose to prospective purchasers of residential real property in the improvement district that the property is subject to an assessment under the provisions of this chapter and the maximum an…