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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
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Charter of the City of Lake City
vide for the payment of the cost of such work by
special assessment of the cost thereof or of such 44/257
part of the cost as may be provided by ordinance,
against the property upon which such work is done,
and the city shall have a lien superior to all other
liens upon the abutting property,or upon the pro­
perty drained and filled in or cleaned up and put
into proper condition, as the case may be, for the
amounts of special assessments, together with in­
terest thereon and cost of collection thereof.
Whenever the doing of any such thing is provided
for by ordinance, the ordinance providing for the
same shall state the estimated total cost thereof
and the estimated amount per front foot of the
special assessments to be levied upon abutting
property, or the estimated cost to be specially
assessed against the property drained, filled in,
cleaned up or put into proper condition, as the
case may-be, and shall be published once each week
for four weeks, and the City Council shall meet as
soon as practicable after the expiration of said
publication, at a time named in the ordinance, and
permit any owner of or other person interested in,
any property against which it is proposed to levy
such special assessment, to present to the City
Council any objections which he may have to the
enforcement of the requirements of such ordinance
and shall have the power, if they deem justice or
right to require the same, to repeal or amend said or­
dinance; but no such amendment shall increase the
amount to be specially assessed against other prop­
erty, nor shall the assessment against any property
be in excess of the special benefits accruing to said
property by reason of such work. Any person
owning or interested in any property to be special­
ly assessed or generally taxed for said work, who

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