A. When the assessment roll has been filed, the governing body shall set a time for holding a hearing on any complaints or objections that may be made concerning the apportionment as to any of the lots or tracts of land.
B. Notice of the hearing shall be published in five (5) consecutive issues of a daily newspaper, or two (2) consecutive issues of a weekly newspaper, which is of general circulation in the municipality. The date fixed for the hearing shall be not less than five (5) nor more than ten (10) days from the date of the last publication.
Not less than ten (10) days before the hearing, the municipal clerk shall also notify each listed owner of property chargeable with the cost of the improvement at his address, as shown by the current year's tax rolls in the county treasurer's office, or as shown by certificate of a bonded abstractor, in the following manner:
1. By mailing a postal card directly to the owner, notifying him of the facts contained in subsection C of this section, and referring him to the newspaper and issues thereof in which the notice is or will be published; or
2. In lieu of mailing the postal card, by mailing to each of the listed owners a copy of the newspaper publication, which mailing shall be not less than ten (10) days before the first hearing.
If several tracts appear to be owned by the same person, all may be included in the same notification.
C. The notice by publication and by mail shall state:
1. That the assessment roll is on file in the municipal clerk's office;
2. The date the assessment roll was filed; and
3. The time and place that the governing body will hear and consider any objections.
D. Proof of the notification given shall be made by certificate of the clerk which shall be filed in his office. However, the failure of any one or more of the listed owners to receive the notification shall not invalidate any of the proceedings hereunder.
Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-214, eff. July 1, 1978.
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