19-27,182. Same; work on improvements authorized; special assessments. The governing body of the county is hereby authorized to make, or cause to be made, works or improvements which confer a special benefit upon property within a definable area of the county and may levy and collect special assessments upon property in the area deemed by the governing body to be benefited by such improvement for the special benefits conferred upon such property by any such work or improvement and to provide for the payment of all or any part of the cost of the work or improvement out of the proceeds of such special assessments as hereinafter provided. Such work or improvements may include, but not be limited to:

(a) Acquisition of property or interest in property when necessary for any of the purposes authorized by this act;

(b) opening, constructing, widening and extending streets and otherwise improving paving and other surfacing, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, crosswalks, driveway entrances and structures, including traffic control devices, drainage works incidental thereto and service connections from sewer, water, gas and other utility mains, conduits or pipes necessarily lying within curb lines;

(c) improving storm water and sanitary sewer systems and appurtenances thereto;

(d) improving street lights and street lighting systems;

(e) improving waterworks systems;

(f) improving parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities;

(g) improving any street or other facility by landscaping, planting of trees, shrubs and other perennial plants;

(h) improving dikes, levees and other flood control works, gates, lift stations, bridges and streets appurtenant thereto;

(i) improving vehicle and pedestrian bridges, overpasses and tunnels, including the construction and improvement of roadways, ramps and other structures necessary to the intersections of streets with state or federal highways;

(j) improving retaining walls and area walls on public ways or land abutting thereon; and

(k) improving property for off-street parking facilities, including construction and equipment of buildings thereon for such purpose.

History: L. 1991, ch. 51, § 2; April 25.