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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
Charter oj the City oj Lake City
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not exceeding either the actual cost of the work or
the estimated special assessment stated in the 46/257
ordinance providing for the work. Any person
desiring to contest in any way the validity of any
such special assessment or lien, shall within thirty
days after the publication of the resolution fixing
the special assessment, institute suit to have the
enforcement thereof enjoined or its invalidity
legally declared, and no person not so instituting
such suit shall thereafter be heard to question the
validity thereof or to defend against the enforce­
ment of the lien upon the grounds of its validity.
Any such special assessment paid within thirty
days after the publication of such resolution shall
be accepted without interest, and such assessments
not so paid within said time, shall bear interest
from the date of publication of such resolution at
rate of one per cent, per month. The Mayor and
City Council may, by ordinance provide for the pay­
ment of such special assessments in installments,
and for the collection by enforcement of the liens
by attorney or attorneys after any payments has
not been made in compliance with the provisions
of such ordinance. The liens for the amounts
of such special assessments may be enforced by
bill in equity, and any number of liens arising
under the provisions of one ordinance may be
enforced in and by one proceeding in equity. The
city shall have and collect a lien upon any proper­
ties affected by such special assessments for rea­
sonable attorney’s fees for the collection of unpaid
special assessments after the collection thereof
shall have been entrusted to an attorney by resolu­
tion of the City Council.

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