§ 58-16. Assessment procedure and payments for property not subject to lien.

Should any improvement made under this chapter be justly assessable against property owned by the city, or against other property against which a lien cannot be enforced by the city, the city council shall proceed to assess the amount due therefor against the property, fairly and proportionately, as assessments are made against other property in such section, territory or street, and shall determine the final cost of the improvement proportionately, fairly and justly, as any other assessment is made, determined and apportioned, and shall enter the assessment in a separate assessment list, to be kept in the office of the city clerk (and not filed with the clerk of the circuit court), and, annually, the city council or such officers as are charged with the making of the budget for the city shall provide in the annual budget or assessment levy a sufficient sum to pay annually the amount of principal and interest maturing on the assessment; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the city from financing by any method within its power any improvements against its own property, or against any other property within the city against which a lien cannot be issued.

(Code 1982, § 2-205)