§ 36-9-17-7 — Procedure for awarding contracts; assessments

(a) Contracts for public improvements
authorized by this chapter shall be let according to the statutes
authorizing municipalities to make and finance public improvements.
(b) As soon as any contract for the construction of a public
improvement has been let, the municipal works board shall:
(1) carefully compute the entire cost of the project, including
payments made and to be made to the contractor and all incidental
costs, expenses, and damages paid and incurred according to law;
and
(2) prepare and make out an assessment roll listing the
assessments against the properties benefited.
In determining and fixing the amount of assessments, the giving of
notice of assessments, the holding of public hearings, and the making
of final determinations, subject to the right of appeal from those
determinations, the municipal works board is governed by the street
and sewer improvement statutes.
(c) Assessments made under this chapter are liens on the properties
benefited from the time of the letting of the contract and shall be
collected in the manner provided by law for the collection of Barrett
Law assessments. However, the municipal works board shall fix a
period of not more than five (5) years within which the assessments
shall be paid. Any property owner liable for an assessment may elect
to pay it in annual installments over the period of time fixed by the
municipal works board by executing a waiver in the manner provided
by the street and sewer improvement statutes.
(d) All payments of assessments and all payments made by the
municipality for public improvements under this chapter shall be made
into the general improvement fund.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation:
18-6-3-5.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.90.