§ 40-22-01 — Power of municipalities to defray expense of improvements by special assessments

assessments.
Any municipality, upon complying with the provisions of this chapter, may defray the
expense of any or all of the following types of improvements by special assessments:
1. The construction of a water supply system, or a sewerage system, or both, or any part
thereof, or any improvement thereto or extension or replacement thereof, including the
construction and erection of wells, intakes, pumping stations, settling basins, filtration
plants, standpipes, water towers, reservoirs, water mains, sanitary and storm sewer
mains and outlets, facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewage and other
municipal, industrial, and domestic wastes, and all other appurtenances, contrivances,
and structures used or useful for a complete water supply and sewerage system.
2. The improvement of the municipal street system and any part thereof, including any
one or more of the processes of acquisition, opening, widening, grading, graveling,
paving, repaving, surfacing with tar, asphalt, bituminous, or other appropriate material,
resurfacing, resealing, and repairing of any street, highway, avenue, alley, or public
place within the municipality, and the construction and reconstruction of overhead
pedestrian bridges, pedestrian tunnels, storm sewers, curbs and gutters, sidewalks,
and service connections for water and other utilities, and the installation, operation,
and maintenance of streetlights and all types of decorative streetlighting, including but
not restricted to Christmas streetlighting decorations.
3. The improvement of boulevards and other public places by the planting of trees, the
construction of grass plots and the sowing of grass seed therein, and the maintenance
and preservation of such improvements by the watering of such trees and grass, the
cutting of such grass, and the trimming of such trees, or otherwise in any manner
which may appear necessary and proper to the governing body of the municipality.
4. The acquiring of the necessary land and easements and the construction of the
necessary works, within and without the municipality, for flood protection of properties
within the municipality.
5. The acquiring or leasing of the necessary property and easements and the
construction of parking lots, ramps, garages, and other facilities for motor vehicles.
In planning an improvement project of a type specified in any one of the foregoing subsections,
the governing body may include in such plans any and all items of work and materials which in
its judgment are necessary or reasonably incidental to the completion of an improvement project
of such type.