Title 15, Title 15 — Cities And Towns

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…

Bonds; transfer to and between funds. The city or town shall withdraw annually from the revolving fund and deposit in the local improvement district fund sufficient money to meet the difference between the principal amount of assessments due that year and the amount of assessment…

Payment of assessments; redemption from liability; notice; bonds; use of sums. The owner of any lot, tract or parcel of land or other property charged with any assessments may redeem it from all or any portion of the liability for the contract price of the improvement by paying t…

Payment of assessments; installment collection. Unless the assessment against any parcel is paid within thirty (30) days after the notice, or the thirty (30) day period has been waived by the legal owners of record of all of the property assessed in the district, the assessment s…

Assessments and contracts; when valid and enforceable. (a) If the governing body has made any contract for any local improvement or makes any assessment against property within any local improvement district and has in making the contract or assessment acted in good faith and wit…

Right of paying joint owner to contribution; lien created. If any local assessment or installment thereof is paid, or any certificate of sale redeemed, or any judgment paid by any joint owner of any property assessed for any local improvement, the joint owner, after demand and re…

When paid assessment recoverable. If any person through error or inadvertence pays any local assessment, or installment thereof, upon the lands of another, the payor, after demand and refusal, by an action in the district court, may recover from the owner of the lands the amount …

Correction of mistakes; payment of contractor. (a) The governing body, by any subsequent proceedings, shall correct any mistakes, errors or irregularities in any of the proceedings mentioned in this chapter. (b) After any local improvements have been commenced, the city or town e…

Governing body; hearing continuance; jurisdiction retained. (a) The governing body may continue the hearing upon any petition, resolution or remonstrance provided for in this chapter and shall retain jurisdiction until it is fully disposed of. (b) The governing body does not lose…

Extra work; performance; cost; payment. Extra work in connection with any local improvements not particularly provided for in the plans, specifications, estimates, bids and contracts shall be performed by the contractor at the direction of the city engineer at a cost of labor and…

Property description; proportional payment; notice to purchasers. It is sufficient in any case to describe the lot or piece of ground as it is platted or recorded, or described in any official record, although it belongs to several persons. The owner of any part may pay his propo…

Work on railways and streets along railways. (a) All railway and street railway companies shall make or reconstruct all or those portions of all paving, graveling or macadamizing between the rails of their tracks and one (1) foot outside thereof at their own expense as the city o…

Contracts for construction. Any first class city or any town having a population of four thousand (4,000) or more may provide by ordinance for letting to the lowest responsible bidder for any period not exceeding one (1) year, as prescribed by the ordinance, a contract for the co…

Assessment; costs included; property affected. The total cost of all sidewalks constructed by the city contractor under this article, which includes that of the sidewalk proper as well as that of any notice, curbing, grading, handrailing, private crossing and all other necessary …

Assessment; when payable; warrants; collection; interest; treasurer's duties. (a) All costs and expenses of building any sidewalk under this article shall be defrayed by special assessment payable in installments and extending over a period of four (4) years. The governing body m…

Other provisions applicable. Any city or town authorized by this article may proceed in the matter of sidewalk construction either under this article or under the provisions of law already in force in regard to sidewalk construction, or partly under the provisions of this article…

Authorization; installation and maintenance costs. The governing body of any city or town having a population of more than eight thousand (8,000) may create lighting districts in the business portions thereof embracing any street or avenue or portion thereof and abutting property…

Assessments; proportion; limitation. (a) The entire cost of erecting and maintaining the posts shall be borne by the owners of property which abuts upon a street or avenue within the district. Each parcel of land so abutting shall be assessed in the proportion which the street fr…

Creation; contents of resolution; notice; hearing; installation and maintenance of posts. (a) If the governing body desires to create a special lighting district, it shall propose a resolution designating the number of the district and describing its boundaries. The resolution sh…

Creation; assessment; contents; notice, hearing and objections; final resolution. (a) The governing body shall estimate the cost of erecting and furnishing the posts and on or before the first Monday in November of each year adopt a resolution levying and assessing all of the pro…

Manner of maintaining and paying. The lighting system in each district shall be maintained at the expense of the city or town by contract in the manner in which the governing body provides, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the fund which the governing body designates.

Lien; creation; enforcement; when vitiated. (a) Any special assessment levied together with all costs and penalties constitute a lien upon the property assessed from the date of the final passage of the resolution levying the assessment. The lien may be enforced as provided by la…