§ 32-2. Council authority.

(a)

The village council shall have the power to assess and reassess the cost, or any portion thereof, of any local public improvement to the property especially benefited by resolution in the manner provided in this chapter.

(b)

The village council, in order to ascertain whether or not a reasonable number of property owners to be assessed desire any particular improvements to be made, may request and receive a petition therefor, or may receive such a petition voluntarily presented by property owners whose aggregate property in the proposed district was assessed for not less than 51 percent of the total assessed value of the privately owned real property located therein, as shown by the last preceding general tax records of the village. Such petition shall contain a brief description of the property owned by the respective signatories thereof and if it shall appear that the petition is signed by at least 51 percent, the clerk shall certify such petition to the village council. The petition shall be addressed to the village council and filed with the clerk and shall in no event be considered directory but as advisory only.

(Ord. No. 98, § 2, 6-5-1979)