Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Chapter 12.20 ASSESSMENTS FOR SIDEWALK AND CURB CONSTRUCTION
12.20.020 Notice to property owner.
Whenever the council shall order any sidewalk or curb
constructed and after making such order, it shall be the duty of the clerk to
give written notice to the owner or agent of such property in front of which lot
or parcel of land the council orders sidewalk or curb to be constructed, which
written notice must be posted in front of the city hall for one week, and also
by mailing a copy of such notice to every person or agent of such person having
property in front of which such sidewalk or curb is to be constructed, at his
last known address, the mailing to be done on the same day as notice is first
posted; that the service of such notice to construct such sidewalk or curb so
ordered shall be deemed completed upon the date of first application of mailing
of such notice and if the owner or agent of such lot or parcel of land shall
fail or neglect for a period of thirty days after the date of service of such
notice to cause such sidewalk or curb to be constructed, the council shall
construct or cause to be constructed such sidewalk or curb, and the cost thereof
shall be assessed against the property in front of which the same are
constructed, and such assessment shall be a lien against the property to which
it is assessed.
The notice to be posted and mailed shall be in substantially
the following form:
Notice of Sidewalk and Curb Construction
Office of the City Clerk
Columbia Falls, Montana
Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of
Columbia Falls, Montana, at its regular meeting on _______________,
A.D.19_____
The name of the streets along which said sidewalk and curb is
ordered constructed appears upon the minutes of the Council meeting of above
date to which reference is hereby made.
All walks and curbs remaining unbuilt at the expiration of
thirty (30) days will be built by the City and all costs assessed as a special
tax to the abutting property in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance
No._____.
First Publication; _______________, 19_____.
_________________________, City Clerk.
(Ord. 87 § 2, 1927)