§ 58-3. Resolution providing for construction of improvements; award of contracts; assessments authorized.

(a)

Whenever the city, a municipal corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state, shall determine to make or construct local improvements as defined in section 58-2, the city council may pass a resolution determining to make or construct such improvements and provide in such resolution that such local improvements shall be made wholly or in part at the cost of the property specially benefited thereby and that the city proposes to provide for the payment for such improvements by levying, assessing and collecting such assessments for any or all of the improvements authorized under section 58-2. The city may award contracts for the making or construction of such local improvements or in the alternative may direct such improvements to be made or constructed without the award of contracts and with its own equipment and personnel.

(b)

The city may assess the cost of drainage, street and sidewalk improvements against abutting property and against property which may not actually abut such sidewalk and street improvements where the owner or occupants of such nonabutting property have free access from such nonabutting property to the sidewalk or street and such nonabutting property is benefited by the street or sidewalk improvement.

(Code 1982, § 2-192)