Title 15, Title 15 — Cities And Towns

Definitions. (a) As used in this chapter: (i) "Conventional gutters" means curb and gutter or combined sidewalk, curb and gutter; (ii) "Drains" or "drainage" means all surface sewers, drains, cross street valley gutters and all kinds of draining other than sanitary sewers or conv…

General grant of authority; nonapplicability of other provisions; restriction; nonexclusivity. (a) Any city or town may provide for the making and maintenance of local improvements and levy and collect special assessments on the property specially benefited to pay all or part of …

General powers and duties. The governing body of any city or town, when considered expedient, may order any improvement or improvements, and determine its character, kind and extent. If the improvement is to be paving, it shall designate the kinds of pavement to be used. It shall…

Powers incidental to streets. (a) The governing body of any city or town may: (i) Design, establish, vacate, widen, extend and open streets or parts thereof; (ii) Appropriate private property for the purpose; (iii) Establish or alter the grade of any street, within the corporate …

Finality of actions; construction of provisions. (a) The action and decision of the governing body on any matters passed upon by it in relation to any subject covered in this chapter is final and conclusive in the absence of fraud. (b) This chapter shall be liberally construed fo…

Generally; ordinance or resolution required. (a) If any city or town makes local improvements or establishes or alters the grade of any street at the cost and expense, in whole or in part, of property specially benefited thereby, the proceedings shall be as provided in this chapt…

Initiative resolution; contents; acceptable bids; notice to be published and mailed; caption. (a) Any improvement may be initiated directly by the governing body by resolution declaring its intention to make improvements. The resolution shall specify with convenient certainty the…

Protest petitions; requirements for abandonment; initiative petitions. At any time within fifteen (15) days from the publication of the resolution of intention, the owners of property situated within the proposed assessment district may file with the city clerk their written obje…

Authority to act and assess; deletions or modifications. (a) Upon passage and publication of the resolution of intention the governing body has jurisdiction and the right to pass any and all ordinances and resolutions, to do any and all acts necessary to prosecute the improvement…

Streets; improving intervening parts; objection thereto. If the improvement proposed is to a street, either by grading or regrading, paving or repaving, macadamizing or remacadamizing, graveling or regraveling, constructing crosswalks, gutters, curbs or providing for surface drai…

Ordinance ordering improvement; contents. (a) Upon the hearing of the resolution of intention, if the governing body decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall pass an ordinance, which shall recite: (i) The passage of the resolution of intention; (ii) The date of the heari…

General requirements; cooperation with federal government. (a) Immediately upon the passage of the ordinance, the city engineer shall prepare and file with the city clerk, plans and specifications which shall show in detail the work to be done, the quantities of material to be ha…

Call for bids; contents; procedure for awarding and executing contracts. (a) The notice and call for bids as provided in W.S. 15-6-301 shall contain in substance the following: (i) The streets or parts thereof to be improved if the improvements are to be street improvements; (ii)…

How grades established or altered; cost. If the notice provided for in W.S. 15-6-202, is in whole or in part to establish or alter a grade, the governing body, after the expiration of giving the notice as provided in W.S. 15-6-202, may establish it by ordinance or resolution. The…

Assessments; when levied; what to be included generally. If the contract or contracts for any improvements have been awarded, or the city or town has determined to construct the improvements by the use of its own equipment, labor and materials, or any of them, or avail itself of …

Assessments; included costs. (a) If any authorized local improvement is ordered, there shall be included in the cost and expense thereof to be assessed against the property specially benefited and included in the district created to pay all or any part thereof, the cost of: (i) T…

Assessments; property included in district; methods of computation; combining improvements; ordinances and resolutions. (a) The assessment district shall include all the property benefited by the improvement or improvements as determined by the governing body, including municipal…

Assessments; roll; preparation and filing; hearing; notice; action by governing body; objections; amendments; certification. (a) When an assessment roll for local improvements has been prepared, it shall be filed with the clerk of the city or town. The governing body shall then f…

Lien created; priority; filing. (a) The charge on the respective lots, tracts, parcels of land and other property for the purpose of special assessments, to pay the cost and expense in whole or in part of any improvement authorized in this chapter, when assessed and the assessmen…

Assessments; review of decisions. The decision of the governing body may be appealed to the district court by filing a written notice of appeal within fifteen (15) days from the date of the governing body's decision.

Assessments; when proceedings conclusive; when sale enjoinable. (a) When any assessment roll for local improvements has been confirmed by the governing body, the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings relating to the improvement and to the assessment, including t…

Assessments; when paid; interest; penalty; collection and enforcement of liens generally. The city or town, in the ordinance confirming the assessment roll, shall prescribe the time within which the assessment or installments thereof shall be paid and shall provide for the paymen…

Assessments; sale of property for delinquency; generally. (a) If an assessment or any installment thereof is delinquent, the city or town, by general ordinance, may provide for the sale of property described in the local assessment roll for: (i) The amount of the delinquent asses…

Assessments; sale of property; statement returned. Within fifteen (15) days after the completion of the sale of all property described in the assessment rolls and authorized to be sold, the treasurer shall return to the comptroller, or other officer by whom the warrant was issued…

Assessments; sale of property; certificates; private purchaser; contents; city or town; sale. (a) After receiving the amount of the assessment, penalty, interest, costs and charges, the treasurer shall make out a certificate, dated on the day of sale, stating (when known) the nam…

Assessments; fund created; use. All monies collected by the treasurer upon any assessments under this chapter shall be kept as a separate fund to be known as "local improvement fund, district no. ....," or by any other appropriate designation approved by the governing body. The f…

Assessments; liability of treasurer for error. If the treasurer receives any monies for assessments, giving a receipt therefor, for any property and afterward returns it as unpaid, or receives any money after making the return, and the property is sold for assessment which has be…

Assessments; record of payment or redemption. If the amount of any assessment, with interest, penalty, costs and charges accrued thereon is paid to the treasurer before the sale of any property, he shall mark it paid with the date of payment on the assessment roll. If any propert…

Assessments; property held in trust; creation and discharge thereof. If any property is bid in by or stricken off to any city or town under any proceeding of this chapter, the property shall be held in trust by the city or town for the fund of the improvement district for which t…

Assessments; property held in trust; sale thereof; procedure; notice. (a) Any city or town, at any time after the period of redemption has expired and deeds have been issued to the city or town by virtue of any proceedings under this chapter, may sell any such property at public …

Assessments; redemption of sold property; procedure; notice; deed; results therefrom. (a) Any property sold for an assessment is subject to redemption by the former owner, or his grantee, mortgagee, heir or other representative at any time within two (2) years from the date of th…

Assessments; foreclosure action for delinquency. Any city or town may proceed with the collection or enforcement of any delinquent assessment or delinquent installment in an action brought in its own name in the district court in the county in which the city or town is located. I…

Assessments; enforcement of installment liens. If the assessment upon property is payable in installments, the enforcement of the lien of any installment by any method authorized in this chapter does not prevent the enforcement of the lien of any subsequent installment when it be…

Assessments; certificates of delinquency; issuance, sale; evidence therefrom; restriction. (a) Any city or town, by ordinance, may provide for the issuance of certificates of delinquency for any delinquent assessment or installment and any penalty and interest thereon to date of …

Assessments; omitted property; when assessed; resolution; notice and hearing; results therefrom. (a) If for any reason property otherwise subject to assessment has been omitted from the assessment roll, the governing body, upon its own motion or upon the application of the owner …

Assessments; fees. The city or town treasurer shall charge fifty cents ($.50) for the issuance of each certificate of sale and each certificate of delinquency and one dollar ($1.00) for each deed.

Assessments; purchaser's lien; interest. The purchaser at any sale authorized in this chapter acquires a lien on the property bid in by him for the amount paid plus all taxes and delinquent assessments, or delinquency and all interest, penalties, costs and charges he paid thereon…

Assessments; general tax certificates subject thereto; foreclosure; interest. (a) The holder of any certificate of sale or delinquency for general taxes, before commencing any action to foreclose the lien, shall: (i) Pay in full all local assessments or installments outstanding a…

Assessments; limitation of actions. An action to collect any special assessment or installment for local improvements of any kind, or to enforce the lien of any such assessment or installment, whether brought by a city or town or by the holder of any certificate of delinquency, o…

Reassessments; when authorized or required; property included. (a) If any special assessment for local improvements is invalid in whole or in part for any reason, the governing body may reassess the assessments and enforce their collection in accordance with the provisions of law…

Reassessments; ordinance; roll; effect of contracts or irregularities; limitation; payment. (a) The governing body of any city or town shall proceed with any assessment authorized by W.S. 15-6-427 by ordinance so ordering and directing the preparation of an assessment roll. The r…

Reassessments; assessment provisions applicable. The provisions of original assessments relating to the filing of assessment rolls, the time, place, notice and conduct of hearing, the confirmation of the roll, the time when assessments become a lien upon the property assessed, th…

Reassessments or supplemental assessments; time limitations; use of fund. (a) No city or town shall proceed with any reassessment or supplemental assessment unless the ordinance ordering it is passed by the governing body within: (i) Three (3) years from the time the original ass…

Bonds; authorization; general requirements; signatures; limitation on amount. (a) The governing body of any city or town may provide by ordinance for the issuance of bonds for the payment of the whole or any portion of the cost and expense of any local improvements as provided in…

Bonds; cost assessment; payments; interest. If any city or town issues bonds to pay the cost and expense of any local improvement, the cost and expense shall be assessed against the lots, tracts and parcels of land and other property liable. The ordinance levying the assessment s…

Bonds; action for nonpayment. If the city or town fails, neglects or refuses to pay the bonds or to promptly collect any assessment when due, the owner of any bonds may proceed in his own name to collect the assessments and foreclose the lien in any court of competent jurisdictio…

Bonds; remedy for nonpayment. No holder or owner of any bond issued under this chapter has any claim against the city or town, except from the special assessment made for the improvement for which the bond was issued, or from the local improvement fund of the city or town. His re…

Bonds; payment of principal and interest; redemption call. The city or town treasurer shall pay the principal and interest on bonds issued out of the respective local improvement funds from which they are payable. If there is sufficient money in any local improvement fund over th…

Bonds; indebtedness. The indebtedness created by the issuance of any warrants or bonds provided in this chapter is not within the limitation of indebtedness of any city or town.

Bonds; revolving fund authorized; source of monies; limitation. If the governing body determines that improvements constructed in any local improvement district confer general benefits on the city or town, it may create concurrently a fund to be known as the revolving local impro…